Bodringham

Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Edward IV 34

Life events

• 1473 · Edward IV ordered Bodringham to besiege the Mount and take or kill Oxford.(Richard III 15 · 📍 saint Michaels mount)
  • With: Edward IV John de Vere, Earl of Oxford
  • “Wherefore king Edward gaue in charge to Bodringham, ruler or shiriffe of Cornewall to assemble such power as he could; and besieging the mount, he should either take or kill the earle of Oxford.”
• 1473 · Bodringham besieged the Mount but allowed Oxford to resupply it.(Richard III 15 · 📍 saint Michaels mount)
  • With: John de Vere, Earl of Oxford
  • “The which the shiriffe did accordinglie, but that so feintlie and fauourablie, as he permitted the earle of Oxford (now in distresse) to reuittell the mount, knowing that there was no waie to expell the earle from thence but by famine.”
• c. 1475 · Edward IV knighted his eldest son and numerous nobles and officials.(Edward IV 34 · 📍 saint Edwards chamber)
  • With: Edward V Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset Richard Grey Edward Woodville Vaughan Brian Litilton Brian Stapleton Kneuit Pilkinton Ludlow Charleton
  • “In this yeare were inhanced to the honour of knighthood, after the custome of England, in the time of peace the kings eldest son Edward prince of Wales, duke of Cornewall, and earle of Chester, his second sonne the duke of Yorke, and with them the earle of Lincolnes sonne and heire, the duke of Suffolke, the lord Thomas Greie, the quéenes sonne, and Richard his brother, the earle of Shrewesburie, the earle of Wilshire, master Edward Wooduile, the lord Neuill, the lord Barkleis sonne and heire, the lord Audelies sonne and heire, the lord saint Amand, the lord Stanleis sonne and heire, the lord Suttons sonne and heire, the lord Hastings sonne and heire, the lord Ferrers of Charleis sonne and heire, master Herbert brother to the earle of Penbroke, master Vaughan Brian chiefe iudge, Litilton one of the iudges of the common plées, master Bodringham, master Brian Stapleton, Kneuit, Pilkinton, Ludlow, Charleton &c.”

Edward IV 34

• sworn: Edward IV “master Bodringham”

Richard III 15

• sworn: Edward IV “Wherefore king Edward gaue in charge to Bodringham, ruler or shiriffe of Cornewall to assemble such power as he could; and besieging the mount, he should either take or kill the earle of Oxford.”
• enemies with John de Vere, Earl of Oxford “Wherefore king Edward gaue in charge to Bodringham, ruler or shiriffe of Cornewall to assemble such power as he could; and besieging the mount, he should either take or kill the earle of Oxford.”

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