Richard Ratcliffe
Also known as: Ratcliffe / sir Richard Ratcliffe · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Richard II 40
Life events
- c. 1388 · Richard II ordered Thomas Molineux, Ralph Vernon, and Richard Ratcliffe to raise and lead an army.(Richard II 40)
- With: Richard II Thomas Molineux Ralph Vernon
- “Moreuer, the king sent to sir Rafe Vernon, & sir Richard Ratcliffe, willing them to assist the other. And so thus they set forward with the number of fiue thousand men.”
Richard II 40
- sworn: Richard II “Moreuer, the king sent to sir Rafe Vernon, & sir Richard Ratcliffe, willing them to assist the other.”
- allies with Thomas Molineux “But the duke of Ireland hauing with him Molineux, Vernon, and Ratcliffe, rode forward in statelie and glorious araie, with an armie (as ye haue heard) of fiue thousand men, supposing that none durst come foorth to withstand him.”
- allies with Ralph Vernon “But the duke of Ireland hauing with him Molineux, Vernon, and Ratcliffe, rode forward in statelie and glorious araie, with an armie (as ye haue heard) of fiue thousand men, supposing that none durst come foorth to withstand him.”
Henry VI 20
- sworn: John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford “The duke of Bedford herewith gathered an armie of six thousand men, whereof were capteins; Robert lord Willoughbie, sir Andrew Ogard chamberlaine to the duke, sir Iohn Saluaine bailiffe of Rone, sir Iohn Montgomerie bailiffe of Caux, sir Philip Hall bailiffe of Vernoill, sir Richard Ratcliffe deputie of Calis, sir Rafe Neuill, sir Rafe Standish, sir Iohn Hanford, sir Richard Euthin, sir Richard Harington bailiffe of Eureux, sir William Fulthorpe, sir Thomas Griffin of Ireland, Dauid Hall, Thomas Stranguish, Leonard Ormstone esquiers, and Thomas Gerard.”
Richard III 3
- rivals with James Tyrrell “which longing for no mo parteners of the princes fauour; and namelie, not for him, whose pride they wist would beare no péere, kept him by secret drifts out of all secret trust”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.