Sir John Salisbury

Sir John Salisbury, one of the knights of the chamber of King Richard II, was buried in St John the Baptist's chapel in Westminster Abbey in 1388, but has no monument or gravestone.

He was condemned to death in the Merciless Parliament, with other knights including Sir James Berners who is also buried in the chapel, accused of treason. They are said to have taken advantage of the king's youth to turn him against his proper counsellors. 

The Westminster Chronicle records "Because he had been appealed of treason committed both within the realm and outside it John Salisbury was taken through the city from the Tower of London to Tyburn and hanged. He was buried at Westminster near James Berners in the above-mentioned chapel" (ie. St John the Baptist).

Further reading

• The Westminster Chronicle 1381-1394, edited and translated by L.C. Hector and Barbara Harvey, 1982.