Holinshed's Chronicles

Roger Smart

Also known as: Rogert Smart · Family: Unknown · Role: messenger · First appears: Henry IV 3

Life events

  • c. 1399 · William Bagot's bill revealed Richard's secret malice against the exiled Henry IV.(Henry IV 3)
    • With: William Bagot Richard II Henry IV Piers Buckton
    • “There was also conteined in that bill, what secret malice king Richard had conceiued against the duke of Hereford being in exile, whereof the same Bagot had sent intelligence vnto the duke into France, by one Rogert Smart, who certified it to him by Piers Buckton, and others, to the intent he should the better haue regard to himselfe.”

Henry IV 3

  • with Henry IV (Smart conveyed Bagot's intelligence to Henry IV.) “whereof the same Bagot had sent intelligence vnto the duke into France, by one Rogert Smart, who certified it to him by Piers Buckton, and others”
  • with Piers Buckton (Piers Buckton served as the intermediary for the intelligence.) “Whereof the same Bagot had sent intelligence vnto the duke into France, by one Rogert Smart, who certified it to him by Piers Buckton, and others, to the intent he should the better haue regard to himselfe.”

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