JANEKYN is the blond young man who is apprenticed to Dame Alys's fourth husband. He accompanies Alys on her visits and shopping expeditions around the city, and these excursions make her husband intensely jealous, WBP 303-306. Alys lies brazenly to her husband, and she calls Janekyn and her niece to witness that her lies are truth, WBP 379-383. [Alisoun3: Jankyn2]
Janekyn is a variant of Jankyn, a diminution of the name John. It appears in final rhyming position, WBP 303, and in medial position, WBP 383.