Robert Briquet

Also known as: sir Robert Briquet · Family: England · Role: ambassador · First appears: Richard II 54

Life events

• 1392 · Richard II's envoys were dispatched to negotiate peace with the French king.(Richard II 54)
  • With: Richard II Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester Lewis Clifford
  • “about Candlemasse, the lord Thomas Persie, sir Lewes Clifford, and sir Robert Briquet, with diuerse other in their companie, were sent ouer to the French king”
• 1392 · Richard II's envoys presented his desire for commissioners to negotiate and conclude peace articles.(Richard II 54 · 📍 Paris)
  • With: Richard II Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester Lewis Clifford
  • “comming to Paris, found him lodgd in his house of Loure, where they declared to him the good affection of the king their maister toward peace. And the better to bring it to passe, they shewed that king Richards desire was to haue some place and time appointed for commissioners to méet, with authoritie to treat and conclude vpon articles, as should be thought expedient.”
• 1392 · The French king agreed to meet Richard II and his uncles at Amiens for peace negotiations.(Richard II 54 · 📍 Amiens)
  • With: Richard II Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester Lewis Clifford
  • “for answer, concluded with them, that he himselfe, with his vncles and other of his councell, would be at Amiens by the middest of March next insuing, there to abide the king of Englands comming, and his vncles, if it should please them thither to come.”
• c. 1392 · Robert Briquet became a member of Richard II's privy chamber.(Richard II 55)
  • With: Richard II
  • “and was now one of king Richards priuie chamber.”

Richard II 54

• sworn: Richard II “and so about Candlemasse, the lord Thomas Persie, sir Lewes Clifford, and sir Robert Briquet, with diuerse other in their companie, were sent ouer to the French king, and comming to Paris, found him lodgd in his house of Loure, where they declared to him the good affection of the king their maister toward peace. And the better to bring it to passe, they shewed that king Richards desire was to haue some place and time appointed for commissioners to méet, with authoritie to treat and conclude vpon articles, as should be thought expedient.”

Richard II 55

• sworn: Richard II “for that being a Frenchman borne, he had euer serued the Nauarrois or Englishmen, and was now one of king Richards priuie chamber.”

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