View source for Richard Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Bolton

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''Richard Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Bolton''' (31 May 1394<ref>{{cite book|last=Kirby|date=1987|first=J.L.|title=Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 18: Henry IV, 1399–1405|publisher=HMSO|place=London|pages=308–324, entries 929–32|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol18/pp308-324}}</ref> – 29 August 1420) was a member of the fifteenth-century [[English peerage]] in [[Yorkshire]].
The only son and heir of [[Roger Scrope, 2nd Baron Scrope of Bolton]] (d. 1403), and Margaretha Tiptoft (alias de Tibetot) (1366–1431), co-heiress of the [[Baron Tibetot|Barony of Tibetot]]. From the death of his father, Richard Scrope was in the [[ward (law)|ward]] of [[Catherine of Valois|Queen Katherine]], who had the keeping of both his estates and also his marriage. This the queen arranged by the end of 1413 to Margaret, daughter of [[Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland]] (d. 1425) and his first wife [[Margaret de Stafford|Margaret]], the daughter of [[Hugh Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford]].<ref name="auto">Cokayne, G.E., ''The complete peerage of England and Wales'' (Vol. XI, London, 1949), 542.</ref>
Richard Scrope fought in the major theatres of [[Henry V of England|Henry V]]'s [[Hundred Years' War|French campaign]], bringing fifteen [[men-at-arms]] and forty-five [[archers]] to the [[Battle of Agincourt]] and commanding a naval section at the [[Siege of Harfleur]] composed of [[barges]] and [[balinger]]s.<ref name="auto"/> His last years were spent defending the north-east coast of England against the threat of Scottish sea attacks; in 1418 he was based in [[Kingston upon Hull]] with 120 men-at-arms and 240 archers.<ref>Allmand, C., ''Henry V'' (Berkeley, 1992), 229.</ref>
He died in [[Rouen]] on 29 August 1420; his widow survived until 1463.<ref>Cokayne, G.E., ''The complete peerage of England and Wales'' (Vol. XI, London, 1949), 543.</ref> Following Scrope's death, due to his marriage with a Neville, his estates became the subject of a bitter feud between his [[executor]], [[Marmaduke Lumley]], and [[Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury]].<ref>Jacob, E.F., ''The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485'' (Oxford, 1969), 328.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{s-start}}
{{s-reg|en}}
{{s-bef | before=[[Roger Scrope, 2nd Baron Scrope of Bolton|Roger Scrope]]}}
{{s-ttl | title=[[Baron Scrope of Bolton]] | years=1403–1420}}
{{s-aft | after=[[Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton|Henry Scrope]]}}
{{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scrope of Bolton, Richard Scrope, 3rd Baron}}
[[Category:1394 births]]
[[Category:1420 deaths]]
[[Category:15th-century English people]]
[[Category:15th-century English soldiers]]
[[Category:People of the Hundred Years' War]]
[[Category:Scrope family|Richard]]
[[Category:Barons Scrope of Bolton|3]]