Henry Scrope, Baron Scrope of Masham

Also known as: Henrie lord Scroope of Masham · Family: England · Role: lord treasurer · First appears: Henry V 5

Life events

c. 1415 · Henry V discovered a conspiracy against his life and arrested the three conspirators.(Henry V 5)
- With: Henry V Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge Thomas Grey
- “he was crediblie informed, that Richard earle of Cambridge brother to Edward duke of Yorke, and Henrie lord Scroope of Masham lord treasuror, with Thomas Graie a knight of Northumberland, being confederat togither, had conspired his death: wherefore he caused them to be apprehended”
c. 1415 · The prisoners confessed accepting French money to betray or murder Henry V.(Henry V 5)
- With: Henry V Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge Thomas Grey
- “These prisoners vpon their examination, confessed, that for a great summe of monie which they had receiued of the French king, they intended verelie either to haue deliuered the king aliue into the hands of his enimies, or else to haue murthered him before he should arriue in the duchie of Normandie”
c. 1415 · Henry V ordered the three conspirators to execution.(Henry V 5)
- With: Henry V Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge Thomas Grey
- “And so immediatlie they were had to execution”

patron: Henry V “The said lord Scroope was in such fauour with the king, that he admitted him sometime to be his bedfellow, in whose fidelitie the king reposed such trust”
sworn: Henry V “Henrie lord Scroope of Masham lord treasuror”
enemies with Henry V “Richard earle of Cambridge brother to Edward duke of Yorke, and Henrie lord Scroope of Masham lord treasuror, with Thomas Graie a knight of Northumberland, being confederat togither, had conspired his death”
allies with Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge “Richard earle of Cambridge brother to Edward duke of Yorke, and Henrie lord Scroope of Masham lord treasuror, with Thomas Graie a knight of Northumberland, being confederat togither, had conspired his death”
allies with Thomas Grey “Richard earle of Cambridge brother to Edward duke of Yorke, and Henrie lord Scroope of Masham lord treasuror, with Thomas Graie a knight of Northumberland, being confederat togither, had conspired his death”

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