Richard Grenville
✓ Source-basedstableEnglish politician, soldier and explorer (1542-1591)
Historical FiguresLived 1542 to 1591 · aged 49
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Sir Richard Grenville, also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon.
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Richard Grenville, portrait in Heroologia Anglica, London, 1620, inscribed: Rihardus Grenvilus Neptuni proles qui magni Martis alumnus Grenvilius patrias sanguine tinxit aquas ("Richard Grenville, a scion of Neptune, nourished by Mars,... stained the waters with his blood"
Grenville's defence of the Revenge at the Battle of Flores in 1591
Arms of Richard Grenville (1542-1591) (Gules, three clarions or) impaling St Ledger (Azure fretty argent, a chief or), arms of his wife Mary St Ledger. Kilkhampton Church
Grenville commanding his men to 'fight on!', illustration by H. J. Ford, 1899In their orbit 4
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About this person
Sir Richard Grenville, also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequently participated in the plantations of Ireland specifically the Munster plantations, the English colonisation of the Americas and the repulse of the Spanish Armada.
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Lived 1542 to 1591 · aged 49
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