George Umfreville

Also known as: George Umfreuile · Family: England · Role: soldier · First appears: Henry V 20

Life events

c. 1418 · English forces defeated over eight hundred Frenchmen, killing their captain and taking many prisoners.(Henry V 20 · 📍 the Stroo)
- With: Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick John Bromley
- “the féeld did fall to our Englishmen, and the Frenchmen wearen put to flizt, and thear wearen yslaine aboue two hundred Frenchmen, and as manie ytaken prisoners, and their capteine who was ycalled the lord of Estrisles was thear also yslaine,”

sworn: Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick “that my lord the earle of Warwike did send out my cosin sir Iohn Bromley and my cosin George Umfreuile with an hundred archers”
cousins with Richard Braie “my cosin George Umfreuile”
allies with John Bromley “my lord the earle of Warwike did send out my cosin sir Iohn Bromley and my cosin George Umfreuile with an hundred archers, and about two hundred soldiers a strett, to kéepe at a little castell called the Stroo néere to Cawdebeke, where they wearen met with aboue eight hundred Frenchmen & the fraie betwéene them long yfought”
allies with Walter Audeley “thear wearen yslaine of our Englishmen my said cosin George Umfreuile and about twentie mo: on whose solles Iesus haue mercie, and thear wearen hurt in the face my said cosin sir Iohn Bromley & my cosin Walter Audeley sore wounded”

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