Earl of Arundel
Family: England · Role: earl · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 53
In Book 1, Chapter 53, King Edward divided the English army into three battalions, placing the Earl of Arundel in the second alongside Earl of Northampton. Their battalion numbered about eight hundred men-at-arms and twelve hundred archers. In Chapter 55, Arundel and Northampton commanded that division and positioned themselves to support Prince of Wales if necessary.
In Chapter 64, King Edward sent Arundel, Northampton, and Lord Reginald Cobham as envoys to Flanders. They persuaded its leading men and corporations to favor Earl Lewis of Flanders marrying the English king’s daughter rather than the Duke of Brabant’s daughter.
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- King of England divided the army into three battalions and assigned their commanders.(Book 1, Chapter 53)
- With: King Edward Prince of Wales Earl of Warwick Earl of Oxford Sir Godfrey de Harcourt Lord Reginald Cobham Lord Thomas Holland Lord Stafford Lord Manley Lord Delaware Sir John Chandos Lord Bartholomew Burgherst Lord Robert Neville Lord Thomas Clifford Lord Bourchier Lord Latimer Earl of Northampton Lord Ross Lord Willoughby Lord Basset Lord St. Albans Sir Lewis Tufton Lord Multon Lord Loccels
- “The king afterwards ordered, through his constable and his two marshals that the army should be divided into three battalions. In the first he placed the young Prince of Wales, and with him the Earls of Warwick and Oxford, Sir Godfrey de Harcourt, the Lord Reginald Cobham, Lord Thomas Holland, Lord Stafford, Lord Manley, the Lord Delaware, Sir John Chandos, Lord Bartholomew Burgherst, Lord Robert Neville, Lord Thomas Clifford, the Lord Bourchier, the Lord Latimer, and many other knights and squires whom I cannot name. There might be in this first division about eight hundred men at arms, two thousand archers, and a thousand Welshmen. They advanced in regular order to their ground, each lord under his banner and pennon, and in the centre of his men. In the second battalion were the Earl of Northampton, the Earl of Arundel, the Lords Ross, Willoughby, Basset, St. Albans, Sir Lewis Tufton, Lord Multon, the Lord Loccels, and many others; amounting in all to about eight hundred men at arms and twelve hundred archers. The third battalion was commanded by the king, and was composed of about seven hundred men at arms and two thousand archers.”
- English envoys persuaded Flemish leaders to favor Earl Lewis’s marriage to the English king’s daughter.(Book 1, Chapter 64 · 📍 Flanders)
- With: Earl of Northampton Lord Reginald Cobham Earl Lewis of Flanders
- “they were more desirous their lord should marry a daughter of the King of England, than the daughter of the Duke of Brabant”
Book 1, Chapter 53
- with King Edward (The king's army was divided into battalions; this passage places him in the second.) “In the second battalion were the Earl of Northampton, the Earl of Arundel, the Lords Ross, Willoughby, Basset, St. Albans, Sir Lewis Tufton, Lord Multon, the Lord Loccels, and many others; amounting in all to about eight hundred men at arms and twelve hundred archers.”
Book 1, Chapter 55, part 1/2
- allies with Earl of Northampton “The Earls of Northampton and Arundel, who commanded the second division, had posted themselves in good order on his wing to succor the prince, if necessary.”
Book 1, Chapter 64
- with Earl Lewis of Flanders (He was one of the English envoys who urged the Earl to marry the English king's daughter.) “As soon as the King of England was informed of this, he sent the Earls of Northampton and Arundel, and Lord Reginald Cobham, into Flanders; who managed matters so well with the leading men in the place, and with the corporations, that they were more desirous their lord should marry a daughter of the King of England, than the daughter of the Duke of Brabant: they very affectionately entreated their lord so to do, and supported it by many strong and good arguments (which would be too tedious to detail here), insomuch that those of the Duke of Brabant’s party could say nothing to the contrary.”
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