Richard Herbert

Also known as: sir Richard Herbert · Family: Herbert · Role: knight · First appears: Edward IV 8

Life events

c. 1469 · John Clapham’s force routed the Welsh army, killing more than five thousand.(Edward IV 8 · 📍 Hedgecote)
- With: John Clapham William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
- “The Welshmen, thinking that the earle of Warwike had come on them with all his puissance, suddenlie as men amazed, fled: the northerne men them pursued, and slue without mercie, so that there died of the Welshmen that daie, aboue fiue thousand, besides them that fled and were taken.”
c. 1469 · William Herbert and Richard Herbert were captured and beheaded with other gentlemen.(Edward IV 8 · 📍 Banberie)
- With: William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
- “The earle of Penbroke, and his brother sir Richard Herbert, with diuerse gentlemen, were taken and brought to Banberie, where the earle with his brother, and other gentlemen, to the number of ten, that were likewise taken, lost their heads.”

siblings with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke “accompanied with his brother sir Richard Herbert, a valiant knight, and aboue six or seauen thousand Welshmen, well furnished, marched forward to incounter with the northerne men.”
allies with Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Devonshire “wherevpon the lord Stafford, and sir Richard Herbert, with two thousand well horsed Welshmen, rode foorth afore the maine armie, to sée the demeanour of the northerne men”

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