Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York

Also known as: Archbishop of York / Richard Scroope archbishop of Yorke / Richard Scroope, Archbishop of York / archbishop of Yorke · Family: Church · Role: archbishop · First appears: Richard II 80

In c. 1399, Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, assisted Henry IV as he was led to the king’s seat and enthroned with public rejoicing, “with great reuerence” setting him there.

By c. 1405, Scrope had joined a conspiracy against Henry IV and, after men gathered to support him at York, publicly announced his armed rising by posting its articles in the city streets and monastery gates. The articles had been devised with the advice of Hotspur and Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, while Scrope acted with Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal and was allied with Hastings, Fauconbridge, and Berdolfe. At the forest of Galtree, his force faced the royal forces of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, Henry FitzHugh, Ralph Eure, and Robert Umfreville, whose standards were pitched against his. Richard Scrope was the brother of William Scrope, Lord Treasurer of England.

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Life events

• c. 1399 · Henry IV was led to the king’s seat and enthroned with public rejoicing.(Richard II 80)
  • With: Henry IV Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • “led him vnto the kings seate, the archbishop of Yorke assisting him, and with great reuerence set him therein”
• c. 1405 · Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, joined a conspiracy against Henry IV.(Henry IV 18)
  • With: Henry IV
  • “there was a conspiracie put in practise against him at home by the earle of Northumberland, who had conspired with Richard Scroope archbishop of Yorke.”
• c. 1405 · Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, publicly launched an armed rising against Henry IV.(Henry IV 18 · 📍 Yorke)
  • With: Henry IV
  • “The archbishop not meaning to staie after he saw himselfe accompanied with a great number of men, that came flocking to Yorke to take his part in this quarrell, foorthwith discouered his enterprise, causing the articles aforesaid to be set vp in the publike stréets of the citie of Yorke, and vpon the gates of the monasteries, that ech man might vnderstand the cause that mooued him to rise in armes against the king”
• c. 1405 · Royal forces confronted the rebels in the forest of Galtree, with standards pitched against each other.(Henry IV 18 · 📍 forrest of Galtree)
  • With: John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland Henry FitzHugh Ralph Eure Robert Umfreville Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal
  • “made forward against the rebels, and comming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree, caused their standards to be pitched downe in like sort as the archbishop had pitched his, ouer against them”