Reginald Bray

Also known as: Reginald Braie / Reginald Breie · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: servant and conspirator · First appears: Richard III 9

Life events

c. 1483 · Margaret Beaufort appointed Reginald Bray chief solicitor and secret procuror of the conspiracy.(Richard III 9)
- With: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond
- “So the ladie Margaret countesse of Richmond, brought into a good hope of the preferment of hir sonne, made Reginald Braie hir most faithfull seruant, chiefe sollicitor and priuie procuror of this conspiracie;”
c. 1483 · Reginald Bray recruited several nobles and gentlemen into the conspiracy after securing their oaths of secrecy.(Richard III 9)
- With: Giles Daubney John Cheney Richard Gilford Thomas Rame
- “This Reginald Braie within few daies brought vnto his lure (first of all taking of euerie person a solemne oth to be true and secret) sir Giles Daubneie, sir Iohn Cheinie knight, Richard Gilford, and Thomas Rame esquiers, and diuers other.”
c. 1485 · Henry VII received promised Welsh military support and funding, then prepared to advance toward Wales.(Richard III 18 · 📍 Wales)
- With: Henry VII Rhys ap Thomas John Savage
- “Rice ap Thomas, a man of no lesse valiantnesse than actiuitie, and Iohn Sauage an approoued capteine, would with all their power be partaker of his quarell. And that Reginald Breie had collected and gotten togither no small summe of monie for the paiment of the wages to the souldiers and men of warre: admonishing him also to make quicke expedition, and to take his course directlie into Wales. The earle of Richmond, bicause he would no longer linger and wearie his fréends, liuing continuallie betwéene hope and feare, determined in all conuenient hast to set forward”

Richard III 9

employer: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond “made Reginald Braie hir most faithfull seruant, chiefe sollicitor and priuie procuror of this conspiracie”
allies with Giles Daubney “This Reginald Braie within few daies brought vnto his lure (first of all taking of euerie person a solemne oth to be true and secret) sir Giles Daubneie, sir Iohn Cheinie knight, Richard Gilford, and Thomas Rame esquiers”
allies with John Cheney “This Reginald Braie within few daies brought vnto his lure (first of all taking of euerie person a solemne oth to be true and secret) sir Giles Daubneie, sir Iohn Cheinie knight, Richard Gilford, and Thomas Rame esquiers”
allies with Richard Gilford “This Reginald Braie within few daies brought vnto his lure (first of all taking of euerie person a solemne oth to be true and secret) sir Giles Daubneie, sir Iohn Cheinie knight, Richard Gilford, and Thomas Rame esquiers”
allies with Thomas Rame “This Reginald Braie within few daies brought vnto his lure (first of all taking of euerie person a solemne oth to be true and secret) sir Giles Daubneie, sir Iohn Cheinie knight, Richard Gilford, and Thomas Rame esquiers”
enemies with Richard III “aiding and setting foorth the inuented conspiracie against king Richard. So the ladie Margaret countesse of Richmond, brought into a good hope of the preferment of hir sonne, made Reginald Braie hir most faithfull seruant, chiefe sollicitor and priuie procuror of this conspiracie”

Richard III 18

allies with Henry VII “And that Reginald Breie had collected and gotten togither no small summe of monie for the paiment of the wages to the souldiers and men of warre; admonishing him also to make quicke expedition, and to take his course directlie into Wales.”

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