Robert Welles

Also known as: sir Robert Welles · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: captain · First appears: Edward IV 9

Life events

• c. 1469 · Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick raised an army and appointed Robert Welles its captain.(Edward IV 9 · 📍 Lincolneshire)
  • With: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
  • “where the earle procured a new armie to be raised in Lincolneshire, and made capteine thereof sir Robert Welles, sonne to Richard lord Welles, a man of great experience in warre.”
• 1470 · Robert Welles was captured after leading his defeated army against Edward IV.(Edward IV 9 · 📍 Losecote field)
  • With: Edward IV Thomas de Land
  • “The battell was sore fought on both sides, and manie a man slaine; till sir Robert, perceiuing his people at point to flie, was busilie in hand to exhort them to tarie, and in the meane time compassed about with enimies was there taken, & with him sir Thomas de Land knight, and manie more.”
• 1470 · Edward IV ordered Robert Welles and others executed after the victory.(Edward IV 9 · 📍 Losecote field)
  • With: Edward IV
  • “The king reioising at this victorie, caused sir Robert Welles, and diu erse other to be put to execution in the same place.”

Edward IV 9

• parent: Richard Welles, Lord Welles “where the earle procured a new armie to be raised in Lincolneshire, and made capteine thereof sir Robert Welles, sonne to Richard lord Welles, a man of great experience in warre.”
• enemies with Edward IV “The king reioising at this victorie, caused sir Robert Welles, and diuerse other to be put to execution in the same place.”
• allies with Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “At Westminster, the king, the duke, and the earle, had long communication togither for to haue come to an agreement: but they fell at such great words vpon rehersall of old matters, that in great furie without any conclusion they departed, the king to Canturburie, and the duke and the earle to Warwike, where the earle procured a new armie to be raised in Lincolneshire, and made capteine thereof sir Robert Welles, sonne to Richard lord Welles, a man of great experience in warre.”
• allies with Thomas de Land “till sir Robert, perceiuing his people at point to flie, was busilie in hand to exhort them to tarie, and in the meane time compassed about with enimies was there taken, & with him sir Thomas de Land knight, and manie more.”

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