Ambrose de Loré

Also known as: Ambrose de Lore / lord Ambrose de Lore / lord de Lore / sir Ambrose de Lore · Family: France · Role: commander · First appears: Henry VI 19

Life events

c. 1431 · The English assault failed; Matthew Gough and Ambrose de Loré were captured, and Willoughby raised the siege.(Henry VI 19 · 📍 Beaumont)
- With: Robert Willoughby, Lord Willoughby Matthew Gough
- “so that the Englishmen being taken out of order, were compelled to flée, of whome Matthew Gough and diuerse other were taken prisoners. And yet of the other part manie were slaine, and a great number taken: amongst whom was the lord de Lore, who (for all that the Frenchmen could doo) was kept, and not deliuered. The lord Willoughbie hearing of this mishap, raised his siege, and departed verie sore displeased in his mind, but could not remedie it.”

Henry VI 19

sworn: Charles VII “Whereof Charles the French king being aduertised, sent with all spéed the lord Ambrose de Lore, with manie noble men to the succours of them within the towne, wherof the same lord Ambrose was capteine:”
enemies with Robert Willoughby, Lord Willoughby “For Robert lord Willoughbie, and Matthew Gough, a valiant Welshman, with fiftéene hundred Englishmen, laid siege to a towne in Aniou called saint Seuerine. Whereof Charles the French king being aduertised, sent with all spéed the lord Ambrose de Lore, with manie noble men to the succours of them within the towne”
enemies with Matthew Gough “For Robert lord Willoughbie, and Matthew Gough, a valiant Welshman, with fiftéene hundred Englishmen, laid siege to a towne in Aniou called saint Seuerine. Whereof Charles the French king being aduertised, sent with all spéed the lord Ambrose de Lore, with manie noble men to the succours of them within the towne”

Henry VI 20

enemies with Robert Willoughby, Lord Willoughby “where the lord Ambrose de Lore, being capteine, issued out and fought with the Englishmen so egerlie, that he droue them backe an arrow shoot by fine force: but the earle so incouraged his men, that they gaue a fresh onset vpon the Frenchmen, and followed it so fiercelie, that they slue a great number of them, and droue the residue into the towne.”

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