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John Speed: Works & Art

John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union…

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John Speed topic overview

The analysis highlights Works and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around John Speed.

Related topics
211
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
220
Extracted relationships
303
Concept neighborhoods
54
Bridge connections
220

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Works · 137 topics
Patronage · 20 topics
Interpretations · 16 topics
Monument and epitaph · 10 topics
Persistence · 9 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Family and early life · 7 topics
Miscellanea · 3 topics
Family · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Born
1551 or 1552 Farndon, Cheshire, England
Died
1629 (aged 76–77) St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Cripplegate, London, England
Fields
Cartography, history

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Family and early life

Patronage

Works

Family

Monument and epitaph

Interpretations

Persistence

Miscellanea

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How John Speed connects Entity context

The extracted context around John Speed shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, John Speed → Anglicarum Scriptores, Antiquaries, Arms, Authorized Version, Bedam, Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, Britain, British, Brute, But, Camden's Britannia, Christ, Chronicles, Clarenceux King, Cum Privilegio, Editions, Elizabethan College, England, English, English Bible Another extracted example is John Speed → Admired Theatre, Alexander Gill, Ancient Writings, At, British Empire, But, Chapter, Charters, Company, Company's, Customs House, Degory Wheare, English, Expedition, Fenchurch Street, For, Great Britain, He, His, Historians. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

John Speed

Top relations

related to history · 69
John Speed → Anglicarum Scriptores, Antiquaries, Arms, Authorized Version, Bedam, Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, Britain, British, Brute, But, Camden's Britannia, Christ, Chronicles, Clarenceux King, Cum Privilegio, Editions, Elizabethan College, England, English, English Bible
related to Career · 45
John Speed → Admired Theatre, Alexander Gill, Ancient Writings, At, British Empire, But, Chapter, Charters, Company, Company's, Customs House, Degory Wheare, English, Expedition, Fenchurch Street, For, Great Britain, He, His, Historians
related to Biblical genealogies · 39
John Speed → Adam, Authorised Version, Blessed Virgin Mary, Blessings, Broughton, Broughton's, Canaan, Children, Concent, Eden, Eve, For, Garden, God, Hugh Broughton, In, In October, It, Jodocus Hondius, John Lightfoot
related to Family · 37
John Speed → Abingdon, Although, Bartholomew Warner, Benjamin Wesley, Benjamin Wyatt Greenfield, Christ Church, Edward Blackmore, Esq, Fellow, He, Joan, John, John Hayley, Lloyd, London, LondonAnne Speed, LondonSarah Speed, Margaret, Mayor, Merchant Taylor
related to Family and early life · 29
John Speed → According, April, By, Cheshire, Christchurch, City, Company, Elizabeth Cheynye, Farndon, From, He, His, It, January, John's, London, Merchant Taylors, Merchant Taylors' Company, Merchant Taylors' School, Most
related to Monumental brass · 21
John Speed → Anthony Munday's, Burrell Collection, Constance, Glasgow, Granger, He, If, In, It, Lady Burrell, London, Newcourt, On, Sir William Burrell, Smith, Speed's, St Giles, Stow's Survey, Strype, Susanna
related to John Speed and William Shakespeare · 20
John Speed → Britain, Catholic, Church-History, Cripplegate, Elizabethan, He, Henry V's, In, Jesuit Robert Persons, King Henry, Lollard, Oldcastle, Persons, Sir John Oldcastle, Speed, St Giles, The, The Three Conversions, Thomas Fuller, William Shakespeare
related to External links · 17
John Speed → Antique Maps, April, Archived, Cambridge University Library, Empire, Great Britaine, Information, John Ogilby, John Speed Online, Los Angeles, Occidental College, Speed, Speed's, Stanford University, The Theatre, Wayback Machine, Zoomable
related to Wall monument · 15
John Speed → Although, Chancel, Chronologer, Cripplegate, Historiographer John Speed, John Speede, John Thomas Smith, London Blitz, Merchant Taylors' Company, Monument, Richard Newcourt, South-side, St Giles, The, Wife
related to Death · 8
John Speed → According, Fore Street, Fuller, He, Josias Shute, July, London's St Giles-without-Cripplegate, See Monument

Important terminology

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Important terminology

speed john london maps speed's work edition great history william first james genealogies st england 1611 britain english king merchant

John Speed relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 303 structured relationships around John Speed. Examples in this analysis include John Speed → Born → 1551 or 1552 Farndon, Cheshire, England and John Speed → Died → 1629 (aged 76–77) St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Cripplegate, London, England. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
John SpeedBorn1551 or 1552 Farndon, Cheshire, England1.00infobox
John SpeedDied1629 (aged 76–77) St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Cripplegate, London, England1.00infobox
John SpeedFieldsCartography, history1.00infobox
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesThe Puritan0.60section
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesHugh Broughton0.60section
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesOld Testament0.60section
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesConcent0.60section
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesScripture0.60section
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesJodocus Hondius0.60section
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesMr0.60section
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesBroughton0.60section
John Speedrelated to Biblical genealogiesJohn Lightfoot0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around John Speed bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Speed, William and St. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • John Speed
    • Speed
    • William
    • St
    • Merchant
    • London
    • Monument
    • College
    • Died
    • Speed's
    • Maps
    • Sir
    • Famous
  • john speed
    • Speed
    • William
    • St
    • Merchant
    • London
    • Monument
    • Work
    • College
    • Died
    • Speed's
    • Maps
    • Sir
  • king james i and vi
    • James
    • King
    • Together
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    • Genealogies
    • Work
    • Maps
    • History
    • College
    • Sir
    • Edition
    • British
  • john norden
    • Speed
    • William
    • St
    • Merchant
    • London
    • Monument
    • College
    • Died
    • Speed's
    • Maps
    • Sir
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  • king james bible
    • James
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    • Together
    • First
    • Genealogies
    • Work
    • Maps
    • History
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    • Sir
    • Edition
    • British
  • london
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    • Great
    • Britaine
    • Text
    • Speed
    • Monument
    • Famous
    • Died
    • Empire
    • Theatre
    • World
  • merchant taylors' school, london
    • Merchant
    • Edition
    • Great
    • Britaine
    • Text
    • Speed
    • St
    • Oxford
    • Monument
    • College
    • Famous
    • Britain
  • st john's college, oxford
    • Oxford
    • College
    • St
    • John
    • Christ
    • Together
    • Died
    • King
    • Merchant
    • World
    • Speed
    • Wales

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For John Speed, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects John Speed with Works. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
John SpeedWorks · splits 83 ⟂ 138
John SpeedPatronage · splits 200 ⟂ 21
John SpeedInterpretations · splits 204 ⟂ 17
John SpeedMonument and epitaph · splits 210 ⟂ 11
John SpeedPersistence · splits 211 ⟂ 10
John SpeedOverview · splits 212 ⟂ 9
John SpeedFamily and early life · splits 213 ⟂ 8
John SpeedMiscellanea · splits 217 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

John Speed

Nodes221
Edges220
Triples303
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00905
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around John Speed to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — John Speed · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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