Earl of Salisbury (Richard rebellion)

Family: England · Role: attendant to the king · First appears: Book 2, Chapter 3

Life events

1381 · King Richard met the assembled crowd by barge but, advised not to land, returned to the Tower.(Book 2, Chapter 4, part 1/2 · 📍 Rotherhithe)
- With: King Richard Earl of Warwick Earl of Suffolk
- “When the king and his lords saw this crowd of people, and the wildness of their manner, there was not one among them so bold and determined but felt alarmed: the king was advised by his barons not to land, but to have his barge rowed up and down the river.”
1381 · King Richard’s advisers urged him to appease the rebels by granting their demands rather than attack them.(Book 2, Chapter 4, part 1/2 · 📍 Tower of London)
- With: King Richard
- “But nothing was done, for they were too much afraid of the commonalty of London; and the advisers of the king, the Earl of Salisbury and others, said to him, ‘Sir, if you can appease them by fair words, it will be so much the better, and good-humoredly grant them what they ask: for, should we begin what we cannot go through, we shall never be able to recover it: it will be all over with us and our heirs, and England will be a desert.’”

with King Richard (The Earl of Salisbury attended the king.) “Her son Richard was this day in the Tower of London: thither the princess came, and found the king attended by the Earl of Salisbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Robert de Namur, the Lord de Gommegines, and several more, who had kept near his person from suspicions of his subjects who were thus assembling without knowing what they wanted.”

with King Richard (The Earl of Salisbury accompanied the king on his barge.) “He rowed down the Thames toward Rotherhithe, a manor belonging to the crown, where were upward of ten thousand men, who had come from Blackheath to see the king and to speak to him.”

Extracted from the original text of The Boy's Froissart. Made with Rho MD.