Henry FitzHugh

Also known as: Henrie, sonne to the lord Fitz Hugh / lord Henrie Fitzhugh · Family: England · Role: lord · First appears: Henry IV 18

Life events

• c. 1405 · Royal forces confronted the rebels in the forest of Galtree, with standards pitched against each other.(Henry IV 18 · 📍 forrest of Galtree)
  • With: John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland Ralph Eure Robert Umfreville Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal
  • “made forward against the rebels, and comming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree, caused their standards to be pitched downe in like sort as the archbishop had pitched his, ouer against them”
• 1418 · Henry V appointed Henry Fitz Hugh captain of the captured castle.(Henry V 17 · 📍 Faleis)
  • With: Henry V
  • “Capteine there, by the king, was appointed sir Henrie Fitz Hugh.”
• c. 1469 · The rebels recruited Henry FitzHugh and Henry Neville as captains.(Edward IV 8)
  • With: Henry Neville
  • “The rebels being nothing dismaied with the death of their capteine, but rather the more bent on misch éefe, by faire meanes and craftie persuasions got to them Henrie, sonne to the lord Fitz Hugh, and sir Henrie Neuill sonne and heire to the lord Latimer”

Henry IV 18

• allies with John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford “and together with those which were appointed to attend on the said lord Iohn to defend the borders against the Scots, as the lord Henrie Fitzhugh, the lord Rafe Eeuers, the lord Robert Umfreuill, & others, made forward against the rebels”
• allies with Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland “Also Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland, that was not farre off, togither with the lord Iohn of Lancaster the kings sonne, being informed of this rebellious attempt, assembled togither such power as they might make, and together with those which were appointed to attend on the said lord Iohn to defend the borders against the Scots, as the lord Henrie Fitzhugh, the lord Rafe Eeuers, the lord Robert Umfreuill, & others, made forward against the rebels”
• allies with Ralph Eure “together with those which were appointed to attend on the said lord Iohn to defend the borders against the Scots, as the lord Henrie Fitzhugh, the lord Rafe Eeuers, the lord Robert Umfreuill, & others, made forward against the rebels”
• allies with Robert Umfreville “together with those which were appointed to attend on the said lord Iohn to defend the borders against the Scots, as the lord Henrie Fitzhugh, the lord Rafe Eeuers, the lord Robert Umfreuill, & others, made forward against the rebels”
• enemies with Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York “made forward against the rebels, and comming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree, caused their standards to be pitched downe in like sort as the archbishop had pitched his, ouer against them”

Henry V 17

• sworn: Henry V “Capteine there, by the king, was appointed sir Henrie Fitz Hugh.”

Edward IV 8

• elder kin: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “The rebels being nothing dismaied with the death of their capteine, but rather the more bent on misch éefe, by faire meanes and craftie persuasions got to them Henrie, sonne to the lord Fitz Hugh, and sir Henrie Neuill sonne and heire to the lord Latimer, the one being nephue and the other cousine germane to the erle of Warwike.”
• with John Conyers (John Conyers was their governor.) “Although these yoong gentlemen bare the names of capteins, yet they had a gouernour that was sir Iohn Coniers, a man of such courage & valiantnesse, as few are to be found in his daies within the north parts.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.