Gilbert Talbot

Also known as: sir Gilbert Talbot · Family: England · Role: captain · First appears: Henry V 16

Life events

• c. 1417 · Henry V appointed Gilbert Umphraville, Gilbert Talbot, and John Popham to offices at Caen.(Henry V 16 · 📍 Caen)
  • With: Henry V Gilbert Umfreville, Earl of Angus John Popham
  • “When the king had set Caen in good order, he left there for capteins, the one of the towne, the other of the castell, sir Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Kime or Angus, & sir Gilbert Talbot, and made bailiffe there sir Iohn Popham, and so departed from Caen the first of October”
• c. 1485 · Gilbert Talbot joined Henry VII with two thousand soldiers.(Richard III 19 · 📍 Newport)
  • With: Henry VII
  • “In the euening the same daie came to him sir Gilbert Talbot, with the whole power of the yoong earle of Shrewesburie then being in ward, which were accounted to the number of two thousand men”
• c. 1485 · Henry VII organizes his army under commanders, with Thomas Stanley and his brothers supporting the battle.(Richard III 21)
  • With: Henry VII John de Vere, Earl of Oxford John Savage Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke William Stanley
  • “He made his fore-ward somewhat single and slender, according to the small number of his people. In the front he placed the archers, of whome he made capteine Iohn earle of Oxenford. To the right wing of the battell he appointed sir Gilbert Talbot to be the leader. To the left wing, he assigned sir Iohn Sauage who had brought thither with him a crue of right able personages, clad in white coats and hoods, which mustered in the eies of their aduersaries right brimlie. The earle of Richmond himselfe, with aid of the lord Stanleie, gouerned the battell, accompanied with the earle of Penbroke, hauing a good companie of horssemen, and a small number of footmen. For all his whole number excéeded not fiue thousand men, beside the power of the Stanleies, wherof thrée thousand were in the field, vnder the standard of sir William Stanleie.”

Henry V 16

• sworn: Henry V “When the king had set Caen in good order, he left there for capteins, the one of the towne, the other of the castell, sir Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Kime or Angus, & sir Gilbert Talbot, and made bailiffe there sir Iohn Popham, and so departed from Caen the first of October,”

Richard III 19

• allies with Henry VII (Gilbert Talbot joined Henry VII with a military force.) “In the euening the same daie came to him sir Gilbert Talbot, with the whole power of the yoong earle of Shrewesburie then being in ward, which were accounted to the number of two thousand men.”

Richard III 21

• allies with Henry VII “To the right wing of the battell he appointed sir Gilbert Talbot to be the leader.”

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

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