Richard Gifford

Family: Barons · Role: knight · First appears: King John 27

Life events

c. 1215 · King John sent Robert Charnie, Richard Gifford, and Thomas de Lincoln to imprisonment at Nottingham.(King John 27 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: King John Robert Charnie Thomas de Lincoln
- “But Robert Charnie, Richard Gifford, and Thomas de Lincolne were sent to Notingham, and so other were sent to other places.”
c. 1381 · Richard II ordered commissioners to restore customary services owed to the abbat and convent of S. Albons.(Richard II 20 · 📍 Buckingham and Hertford)
- With: Richard II John Ludowicke John Westwicombe John Kenting Richard Perers Walter Saunford Thomas Eidon William Eccleshall
- “the king directed his letters vnto certeine commissioners, as to Iohn Ludowicke, Iohn Westwicombe, Iohn Kenting, Richard Perers, Walter Saunford, Richard Gifford, Thomas Eidon, and William Eccleshall, commanding them to cause proclamation to be made in all such townes and places as were thought necessarie, through the whole countries of Buckingham and Hertford, that all and euerie person and persons that ought and had beene accustomed to doo or yeeld anie manner of seruices, customes, or duties, whether they were bondmen or free, vnto the said abbat and couent of S. Albons, should doo and yéeld the same seruices, customes, and duties”

enemies with King John “But Robert Charnie, Richard Gifford, and Thomas de Lincolne were sent to Notingham, and so other were sent to other places.”

sworn: Richard II “the king directed his letters vnto certeine commissioners, as to Iohn Ludowicke, Iohn Westwicombe, Iohn Kenting, Richard Perers, Walter Saunford, Richard Gifford, Thomas Eidon, and William Eccleshall, commanding them to cause proclamation to be made in all such townes and places as were thought necessarie”

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