Robert Knolles

Also known as: sir Robert Knolles / sir Robert Knols · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Richard II 9

Life events

• 1380 · Robert Knolles accompanied the duke of Brittany to Britaine with English armed men and archers.(Richard II 9 · 📍 Britaine)
  • “wherevpon he tooke the sea, and sailing foorth, arriued in Britaine, hauing with him sir Robert Knolles, and a certeine number of Englishmen both armed men and archers”
• c. 1381 · Robert Knolles led armed citizens to protect Richard II from the rebels.(Richard II 16 · 📍 London)
  • With: Richard II
  • “and by chance there came vnto them sir Robert Knolles, whom all of them requested that he would be their leader, least comming out of arraie and order, they might the sooner be broken, who willinglie led one part of them, and certeine other knights led other of them, clad in faire bright armour vnto the kings presence.”
• c. 1381 · Robert Knolles surrounded the rebels, but Richard II ordered their release and return home.(Richard II 16)
  • With: Richard II
  • “Then the king of his accustomed clemencie, being pricked with pitie, would not that the wretches should die, but spared them being a rash and foolish multitude, and commanded them euerie man to get him home to his owne house”
• c. 1400 · Henry IV sent Thomas Percy to aid Robert Knolles against wavering Gascoignes.(Henry IV 8 · 📍 Guien)
  • With: Henry IV Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
  • “King Henrie being aduertised of the Frenchmens couert meanings, and also of the wauering minds of the Gascoignes, sent Thomas Persie earle of Worcester with two hundred men of armes, and four hundred archers into Guien, to aid and assist sir Robert Knols, his lieutenant there.”
• c. 1407 · Robert Knolles died at his manor in Norffolke.(Henry IV 22 · 📍 Norffolke)
  • “About the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, that ancient warriour and worthie knight sir Robert Knols departed this life”
• c. 1407 · Robert Knolles resigned Aquitaine’s governorship, and Thomas Belfort assumed the office.(Henry IV 22 · 📍 Aquitaine)
  • With: Thomas Belfort
  • “For not long before his deceasse, he being gouernour of Aquitaine, incumbred with age, resigned his office vnto sir Thomas Belfort, a right valiant capteine”

Richard II 9

• allies with Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester “The duke being thus earnestlie desired to returne home, by the aduise of the king of England and his councell, granted to their request that had so instantlie required him, both by letters and sufficient messengers: wherevpon he tooke the sea, and sailing foorth, arriued in Britaine, hauing with him sir Robert Knolles, and a certeine number of Englishmen both armed men and archers (as before yee haue heard.)”

Richard II 16

• sworn: Richard II “and by chance there came vnto them sir Robert Knolles, whom all of them requested that he would be their leader, least comming out of arraie and order, they might the sooner be broken, who willinglie led one part of them, and certeine other knights led other of them, clad in faire bright armour vnto the kings presence.”

Henry IV 8

• sworn: Henry IV “King Henrie being aduertised of the Frenchmens couert meanings, and also of the wauering minds of the Gascoignes, sent Thomas Persie earle of Worcester with two hundred men of armes, and four hundred archers into Guien, to aid and assist sir Robert Knols, his lieutenant there.”

Henry IV 22

• married with Constance (wife of Robert Knolles) “was buried in the church of White friers in Fleetstreet by the ladie Constance his wife”
• with Thomas Belfort (Robert Knolles transferred the governorship of Aquitaine to Thomas Belfort.) “he being gouernour of Aquitaine, incumbred with age, resigned his office vnto sir Thomas Belfort”

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