Robert Willoughby, Lord Willoughby

Also known as: Robert lord Willoughbie / lord Willoughbie · Family: England · 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: Matthew Gough Ambrose de Loré
- “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.”
1433 · The French defenders surrendered S. Valerie after a three-week siege.(Henry VI 20 · 📍 S. Valerie)
- “This siege continued the space of thrée wéeks; at the end whereof the Frenchmen within yéelded the towne, and departed with their horsse and harnesse onelie to them saued.”
1433 · Robert Willoughby and Thomas Kiriell defeated the French forces in Laonnois.(Henry VI 20 · 📍 Laonnois)
- With: Thomas Kyriell
- “But after long fight, the Frenchmen were ouerthrowne, and of them left dead in the field an hundred and sixtie horssemen, beside prisoners, which after vpon vrgent cause were all killed.”

allies 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.”
enemies with Ambrose de Loré “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”

sworn: John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford “The duke of Bedford herewith gathered an armie of six thousand men, whereof were capteins; Robert lord Willoughbie, sir Andrew Ogard chamberlaine to the duke, sir Iohn Saluaine bailiffe of Rone, sir Iohn Montgomerie bailiffe of Caux, sir Philip Hall bailiffe of Vernoill, sir Richard Ratcliffe deputie of Calis, sir Rafe Neuill, sir Rafe Standish, sir Iohn Hanford, sir Richard Euthin, sir Richard Harington bailiffe of Eureux, sir William Fulthorpe, sir Thomas Griffin of Ireland, Dauid Hall, Thomas Stranguish, Leonard Ormstone esquiers, and Thomas Gerard.”
enemies with Ambrose de Loré “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.”
allies with Thomas Kyriell “the duke of Bedford sent the lord Willoughbie, and sir Thomas Kiriell, with a conuenient number of souldiers”

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