Thomas Beaumont
Also known as: Thomas lord Beaumont · Family: England · Role: constable of Dover and lord warden of the Cinque Ports · First appears: Richard II 57
Life events
- 1393 · Thomas Percy became lord steward, Thomas Beaumont constable of Dover, and William Scrope vicechamberlain.(Richard II 57 · 📍 Douer castell)
- With: Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester William Scrope
- “in whose roome the lord Thomas Persie that before was vicechamberlaine was created lord steward; and the lord Thomas Beaumont was made constable of Douer, and lord warden of the cinque ports: and the lord William Scroope was made vicechamberlaine”
- 1436 · Thomas Beaumont was defeated and captured while scouting the French army.(Henry VI 24 · 📍 Paris)
- “Thomas lord Beaumont, who of late was come to Paris with eight hundred men, issued foorth with six hundred souldiers, intending to view the dooings and number of the French armie; but suddenlie compassed about, within a small space was discomfited and taken, with him fourescore prisoners, beside two hundred slaine in the field, the remnant chased to the verie gates of the citie.”
- c. 1484 · John de Vere, Thomas Beaumont, and Thomas Clifford were brought as prisoners before Edward IV.(Richard III 16)
- With: John de Vere, Earl of Oxford Edward IV Thomas Clifford
- “After all things were thus quieted, the earle, the lord Beaumont, two brothers of the said earle, and Thomas Clifford, were brought vp as prisoners vnto king Edward.”
Richard II 57
- sworn: Richard II “and the lord Thomas Beaumont was made constable of Douer, and lord warden of the cinque ports”
Henry VI 24
- enemies with Arthur de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond (Beaumont was defeated and captured during the French campaign commanded by Arthur's forces.) “Thomas lord Beaumont, who of late was come to Paris with eight hundred men, issued foorth with six hundred souldiers, intending to view the dooings and number of the French armie; but suddenlie compassed about, within a small space was discomfited and taken, with him fourescore prisoners, beside two hundred slaine in the field, the remnant chased to the verie gates of the citie.”
Richard III 16
- enemies with Edward IV “After all things were thus quieted, the earle, the lord Beaumont, two brothers of the said earle, and Thomas Clifford, were brought vp as prisoners vnto king Edward”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.