Humphrey Banaster

Also known as: Humfreie Banaster · Family: Buckingham faction · Role: servant · First appears: Richard III 10

Life events

c. 1483 · Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham fled and hid at Humphrey Banaster's house.(Richard III 10 · 📍 Shrewesburie)
- With: Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
- “The duke (being thus left almost post alone) was of necessitie compelled to flie, and in flight was with this sudden fortune maruellouslie dismaid: and being vnpurneied what counsell he should take, and what waie he should follow, like a man in despaire, not knowing what to doo, of verie trust & confidence conueied himselfe into the house of Humfreie Banaster his seruant beside Shrewesburie”
c. 1483 · Humphrey Banaster betrayed Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, who was apprehended by John Mitton.(Richard III 11 · 📍 Shrewesburie)
- With: Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham John Mitton
- “Humfreie Banaster [...] he bewraied his guest and maister to Iohn Mitton then shiriffe of Shropshire; which suddenlie with a strong power of men in harnesse apprehended the duke”
c. 1483 · Richard III denied Humphrey Banaster the promised thousand-pound reward.(Richard III 11)
- With: Richard III
- “And as for his thousand pounds, K. Richard gaue him not one farthing”

employer: Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham “like a man in despaire, not knowing what to doo, of verie trust & confidence conueied himselfe into the house of Humfreie Banaster his seruant beside Shrewesburie, whome he had tenderlie brought vp, and whome he aboue all men loued, fauoured and trusted”

with Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (Humphrey Banaster betrayed his guest and master, the Duke of Buckingham.) “Humfreie Banaster (were it more for feare of life and losse of goods, or allured & prouoked by auaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewraied his guest and maister to Iohn Mitton then shiriffe of Shropshire”
servant: Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham “Humfreie Banaster (were it more for feare of life and losse of goods, or allured & prouoked by auaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewraied his guest and maister to Iohn Mitton then shiriffe of Shropshire”
enemies with Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham “Humfreie Banaster (were it more for feare of life and losse of goods, or allured & prouoked by auaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewraied his guest and maister to Iohn Mitton then shiriffe of Shropshire; which suddenlie with a strong power of men in harnesse apprehended the duke”
with Richard III (Richard denied Banaster the promised reward for betraying Buckingham.) “And as for his thousand pounds, K. Richard gaue him not one farthing, saieng that he which would be vntrue to so good a maister, would be false to all other”

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