Robert Umfreville

Also known as: lord Robert Umfreuill / sir Robert Umfreuill · Family: England · Role: lord · First appears: Henry IV 18

Life events

• c. 1405 · Royal forces confronted the rebels in the forest of Galtree, with standards pitched against each other.(Henry IV 18 · 📍 forrest of Galtree)
  • With: John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland Henry FitzHugh Ralph Eure Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal
  • “made forward against the rebels, and comming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree, caused their standards to be pitched downe in like sort as the archbishop had pitched his, ouer against them”
• 1412 · Henry IV sent an English force to aid John the Fearless against his French opponents.(Henry IV 25)
  • With: Henry IV John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy Thomas FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel Gilbert Umfreville, Earl of Angus John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham John Grey William Porter
  • “sent to the duke of Burgognie, Thomas earle of Arundell, Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus (commonlie called the earle of Kime) sir Robert Umfreuill, vncle to the same Gilbert, sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham, sir Iohn Greie, and William Porter, with twelue hundred archers.”

Henry IV 18

• allies with John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford “and together with those which were appointed to attend on the said lord Iohn to defend the borders against the Scots, as the lord Henrie Fitzhugh, the lord Rafe Eeuers, the lord Robert Umfreuill, & others, made forward against the rebels”
• allies with Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland “Also Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland, that was not farre off, togither with the lord Iohn of Lancaster the kings sonne, being informed of this rebellious attempt, assembled togither such power as they might make, and together with those which were appointed to attend on the said lord Iohn to defend the borders against the Scots, as the lord Henrie Fitzhugh, the lord Rafe Eeuers, the lord Robert Umfreuill, & others, made forward against the rebels”
• allies with Henry FitzHugh “together with those which were appointed to attend on the said lord Iohn to defend the borders against the Scots, as the lord Henrie Fitzhugh, the lord Rafe Eeuers, the lord Robert Umfreuill, & others, made forward against the rebels”
• allies with Ralph Eure “together with those which were appointed to attend on the said lord Iohn to defend the borders against the Scots, as the lord Henrie Fitzhugh, the lord Rafe Eeuers, the lord Robert Umfreuill, & others, made forward against the rebels”
• enemies with Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York “made forward against the rebels, and comming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree, caused their standards to be pitched downe in like sort as the archbishop had pitched his, ouer against them”

Henry IV 25

• younger kin: Gilbert Umfreville, Earl of Angus “sir Robert Umfreuill, vncle to the same Gilbert”
• sworn: Henry IV “sent to the duke of Burgognie, Thomas earle of Arundell, Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus (commonlie called the earle of Kime) sir Robert Umfreuill, vncle to the same Gilbert, sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham, sir Iohn Greie, and William Porter, with twelue hundred archers”
• allies with John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy “where they found the duke of Burgognie, of whom they were ioifullie receiued, & from thence he appointed them to go vnto Peron”

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