Robert de Umphraville, Earl of Angus

Also known as: Robert earle of Angus · Family: Scotland · Role: earl · First appears: Henry IV 10

Life events

• 1402 · Henry Percy, Hotspur and George Dunbar defeated Archibald Douglas and captured several Scottish earls.(Henry IV 10 · 📍 Homildon)
  • With: Archibald Douglas, Earl of Douglas Hotspur George Dunbar, Earl of March Murdac Stewart, Earl of Fife Thomas Dunbar, Earl of Moray
  • “For at a place called Homildon, they were so fiercelie assailed by the Englishmen, vnder the leading of the lord Persie; surnamed Henrie Hotspur, and George earle of March, that with violence of the English shot they were quite vanquished and put to flight, on the Rood daie in haruest, with a great slaughter made by the Englishmen. ... and of prisoners among other were these, Mordacke earle of Fife, son to the gouernour Archembald earle Dowglas, which in the fight lost one of his eies, Thomas erle of Murrey, Robert earle of Angus”

Henry IV 10

• with Hotspur (interaction) “and of prisoners among other were these, Mordacke earle of Fife, son to the gouernour Archembald earle Dowglas, which in the fight lost one of his eies, Thomas erle of Murrey, Robert earle of Angus, and (as some writers haue) the earles of Atholl & Menteith, with fiue hundred other of meaner degrées.”

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