Edward Darlingrug

Also known as: sir Edward Darlingrug · Role: lord warden of London · First appears: Richard II 56

Life events

1392 · Richard II seized London’s liberties and appointed Edward Darlingrug as lord warden.(Richard II 56 · 📍 London)
- With: Richard II
- “The liberties of the citie were seized into the kings hands, and the authoritie of the maior vtterlie ceassed, the king appointing a warden to gouerne the citie, named sir Edward Darlingrug knight, that should both rule the citie, and see that euerie man had iustice ministred, as the case required.”
1392 · Edward Darlingrug was discharged, and Baldwine Radington became lord warden.(Richard II 56 · 📍 London)
- With: Baldwine Radington
- “This sir Edward Darlingrug began to gouerne the citie of London by the name of lord warden, the one and twentith of Iune, on which day the king entered into the 16 yeare of his reigne: by reason it was thought that the said sir Edward Darlingrug was ouerfauourable to the citizens, he continued in his office but till the first of Iulie, and being then discharged, one sir Baldwine Radington, a right circumspect and discréet knight, was put in that roome”

sworn: Richard II “the king appointing a warden to gouerne the citie, named sir Edward Darlingrug knight, that should both rule the citie, and see that euerie man had iustice ministred, as the case required.”

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