Earl of Suffolk
Family: England · Role: earl · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 21, part 1/2
In 1381, the Earl of Suffolk and Earl of Northampton and Sir Reginald Cobham were among the Englishmen who retreated to the king’s main army after seeing how an encounter was carried out. At Rotherhithe, he was among the crowd gathered to see and speak to King Richard; when the king and his lords saw the crowd, the king was advised not to land and returned by barge toward the Tower.
Relationship record
Life events
- 1381 · King Richard met the assembled crowd by barge but, advised not to land, returned to the Tower.(Book 2, Chapter 4, part 1/2 · 📍 Rotherhithe)
- With: King Richard Earl of Salisbury (Richard rebellion) Earl of Warwick
- “When the king and his lords saw this crowd of people, and the wildness of their manner, there was not one among them so bold and determined but felt alarmed: the king was advised by his barons not to land, but to have his barge rowed up and down the river.”
Book 1, Chapter 21, part 1/2
- allies with Earl of Northampton “when the Englishmen, among whom were the Earl of Suffolk, the Earl of Northampton, Sir Reginald Cobham, and many others, saw the manner in which it was done, they retreated to the main army of the king”
- allies with Sir Reginald Cobham “when the Englishmen, among whom were the Earl of Suffolk, the Earl of Northampton, Sir Reginald Cobham, and many others, saw the manner in which it was done, they retreated to the main army of the king”
Book 2, Chapter 4, part 1/2
- with King Richard (The Earl of Suffolk attended the king on his barge.) “He rowed down the Thames toward Rotherhithe, a manor belonging to the crown, where were upward of ten thousand men, who had come from Blackheath to see the king and to speak to him.”
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