Penbroke

Family: England · Role: herald · First appears: Henry VI 25

Life events

c. 1436 · Penbroke delivered Humphrey Duke of Gloucester's battle challenge to the besieging duke.(Henry VI 25)
- With: Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
- “there came to the duke an herald called Penbroke, belonging to duke of Glocester, who declared to the duke of Burgognie, that the protector of England his maister (if God would send him wind & weather) would giue him battell”
c. 1436 · Penbroke received a cup and one hundred guildens as reward for delivering the challenge.(Henry VI 25 · 📍 Calis)
- “After the herald had receiued this answer, he was highlie chéered, and had a cup and an hundred guildens to him giuen in reward, and so he returned to Calis.”

sworn: Humphrey Duke of Gloucester (Penbroke is identified as a herald belonging to the duke of Gloucester.) “Whilest these things were adooing, there came to the duke an herald called Penbroke, belonging to duke of Glocester, who declared to the duke of Burgognie, that the protector of England his maister (if God would send him wind & weather) would giue him battell, either there, or in anie other place within his owne countrie, where he would appoint, and that with spéed, if God vouchsafed him wind and weather.”

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