Gilbert Umfreville, Earl of Angus

Also known as: Gilbert Umfreuile / Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus / Gilbert Umfreville / Gilbert Umphraville, Earl of Angus / sir Gilbert Umfreuile / sir Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Kime or Angus · Family: England · Role: earl · First appears: Henry IV 25

Life events

• 1411 · Gilbert Umfreville refused to execute prisoners, preserving their lives for ransom under the law of arms.(Henry IV 25)
  • With: John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy
  • “but the said earle of Angus answered for himselfe, and the residue of the Englishmen, that they would rather die all in the place, than suffer their prisoners to be vsed otherwise than as men of war ought to be, that is, to haue their liues saued, and to be ransomed according as the law of armes required, and by that meanes they were preserued.”
• 1412 · Henry IV sent an English force to aid John the Fearless against his French opponents.(Henry IV 25)
  • With: Henry IV John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy Thomas FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel Robert Umfreville John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham John Grey William Porter
  • “sent to the duke of Burgognie, Thomas earle of Arundell, Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus (commonlie called the earle of Kime) sir Robert Umfreuill, vncle to the same Gilbert, sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham, sir Iohn Greie, and William Porter, with twelue hundred archers.”
• c. 1417 · Henry V appointed Gilbert Umphraville, Gilbert Talbot, and John Popham to offices at Caen.(Henry V 16 · 📍 Caen)
  • With: Henry V Gilbert Talbot John Popham
  • “When the king had set Caen in good order, he left there for capteins, the one of the towne, the other of the castell, sir Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Kime or Angus, & sir Gilbert Talbot, and made bailiffe there sir Iohn Popham, and so departed from Caen the first of October”
• 1419 · Henry V agreed to receive twelve French representatives under safe conduct and instructed Gilbert Umfreville to announce it.(Henry V 21 · 📍 Rone)
  • With: Henry V
  • “who after good aduisement and deliberation taken, willed sir Gilbert to aduertise them, that he was content to heare twelue of them, which should be safelie conueied into his presence.”
• 1419 · Gilbert Umfreville received the twelve French representatives and escorted them from Rone to Henry V's lodging.(Henry V 21 · 📍 Rone)
  • “foure knights, foure learned men, and foure sage burgesses, all clothed in blacke, came foorth of the citie, and were receiued at the port saint Hilarie by sir Gilbert Umfreuile, accompanied with diuerse gentlemen and yeomen of the kings houshold, commonlie called yeomen of the crowne, by whome they were conueied to the kings lodging”
• c. 1419 · Gilbert Umfreville was appointed captain of Gourneie.(Henry V 25 · 📍 Gourneie)
  • “Of Gourneie, was sir Gilbert Umfreuile made capteine”