Edward Balerige

Family: England · Role: governor of London · First appears: Richard II 57

Life events

• 1392 · Richard II stripped London of its privileges and appointed Edward Balerige governor.(Richard II 57 · 📍 London)
  • With: Richard II
  • “Now the king, after rehearsall made of their new offenses & faults, discharged the maior, the two shiriffes, and the rest of his officers of their offices, and sent the maior and the two shiriffes to certeine places of custodie as his prisoners, defeating the citie of London of the honour of all their priuileges; in so much that a citizen or fréeman should haue no more prerogatiue than a forrener or stranger. He appointed also the lord Edward Balerige to be gouernor therof”

Richard II 57

• sworn: Richard II “He appointed also the lord Edward Balerige to be gouernor therof, to kéepe and see kept the kings lawes and his liege people within London in due order”

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