Holinshed's Chronicles

Hugh Spenser

Also known as: sir Hugh Spenser · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Richard II 52

Life events

  • c. 1390 · Hugh Spenser won the jousts prize for the best performer of the inner part.(Richard II 52)
    • With: Richard II
    • “That daie the prise was giuen to the erle of Osteruant, for the best dooer of the vtter part: and of the inner part, to a knight of England called sir Hugh Spenser.”

Richard II 52

  • sworn: Richard II (Hugh Spenser received the prize at the king's tournament.) “On the mondaie, the king himselfe, with dukes, earls, lords, and knights, came to the iusts, he being cheefe of the inner part. That daie the prise was giuen to the erle of Osteruant, for the best dooer of the vtter part: and of the inner part, to a knight of England called sir Hugh Spenser.”

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