Sir Henry le Scrope, Knight, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham

1373 - 1415  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Henry le Scrope
  Title	Sir
  Suffix	Knight, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham
  Alt Birth	~ 1370  [1]
  Birth	0___ 1373	Masham, Yorkshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alt Birth	~ 1386  [3, 4]
  Occupation	Treasurer of England for King Henry V  [1]
  Death	5 Aug 1415  [3]
  	was executed (be-headed) for his part in the Southampton Plot.
  Person ID	I46017	The Hennessee Family
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	Sir Stephen le Scrope, Knight, 2nd Baron Scrope of Masham,   b. 1345-1351, Masham, Yorkshire, England d. 25 Jan 1404, Masham, Yorkshire, England (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Lady Margery Welles, Baroness of Masham   d. 29 May 1422
  Marriage	Bef 15 Dec 1376	North Elmsall, Yorkshire, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F16830	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham KG (c.1370 – 5 August 1415), a favourite of King Henry V, was beheaded on 5 August 1415 for his involvement in the Southampton Plot. Family Henry Scrope, born about 1370,[1] was the eldest son and heir of Stephen Scrope (c.1345 – 25 January 1406), 2nd Baron Scrope of Masham, and Margery Welles, widow of John de Huntingfield.[2] He had four brothers, and one sister:[3] Sir Geoffrey Scrope Stephen Scrope, Archdeacon of Richmond, Chancellor of Cambridge John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham William Scrope, Archdeacon of Durham Maud Scrope, who married Baldwin Freville Career In 1390 Scrope accompanied John Beaufort, half-brother of the future King Henry IV, on the Barbary Crusade to Mahdia, but otherwise little is known of his early life.[4] An annuity granted to him by King Richard II was continued by Henry IV after Richard's deposition, and in 1403 Scrope was styled 'king's knight', and fought on Henry IV's side at the Battle of Shrewsbury.[5] His uncle, Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, was executed on 8 June 1405 for taking part in the Northern Rising against the King;[6] however Henry Scrope was not involved in his uncle's failed rebellion, and was serving the King in Wales when he inherited his father's title and lands in 1406.[7] In 1408 he accompanied Henry IV's daughter, Philippa, to Denmark for her marriage,[8] and in 1409 went to Paris on a diplomatic mission with Henry IV's half-brother, Henry Beaufort.[9] According to Tait, it was during this period that Scrope came to enjoy the friendship and confidence of the future Henry V, by whose influence he was appointed Treasurer of England in 1410, and made a Knight of the Garter in the same year.[10] Henry V succeeded his father in 1413, and in 1413 Scrope was sent on several diplomatic missions.[11] In 1414 he accompanied Bishop Henry Chichele to Burgundy to negotiate an alliance.[12] Southampton Plot In 1415 Henry V determined to invade France, and in February 1415 Scrope attended a council meeting held for the purpose of planning the forthcoming expedition. However, on 27 May 1415 Scrope was absent from the council meeting for no apparent reason.[13] On 31 July Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March informed King Henry that he had just become aware of a plot to murder Henry and put himself on the throne. Mortimer was the great-grandson of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III, and his claim to the throne was thus superior to that of Henry V and his father, Henry IV, who derived their claim from Henry IV's father, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, third surviving son of Edward III. Moreover, Edmund Mortimer's father, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, had been widely considered heir presumptive to King Richard II, who had no issue, and Edmund Mortimer himself had been heir presumptive to Richard II while a young child.[14] The three ringleaders of the plot were Edmund Mortimer's brother-in-law, Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Sir Thomas Grey, whose son, Thomas, had been betrothed in 1412 to Cambridge's only daughter, Isabel[15] and Scrope himself. Richard, Scrope, and Grey were promptly arrested. The trial took place in Southampton, on the site now occupied by the Red Lion Inn. Grey was beheaded on 2 August 1415. The most degrading punishment was reserved for Scrope, perhaps because he had been a royal favourite. Prior to his execution, Scrope was dragged across Southampton from the Watergate to the north gate, where he and Cambridge were beheaded on 5 August 1415. Scrope's head was sent to York, to be put on a spike on Micklegate Bar. Scrope's involvement in the conspiracy surprised contemporaries, and continues to puzzle historians. Ian Mortimer claims Scrope had merely insinuated himself into the confidence of Cambridge and Grey in order to betray the conspiracy, just as Edward, Duke of York had done with the Epiphany Rising in 1400, but was forestalled by Edmund Mortimer's revelation of the conspiracy to the King on 31 July.[16] Pugh, however, finds Scrope's exculpatory statements at trial unconvincing, and states that Scrope never pretended that he had intended to inform the King of the conspiracy.[17] Pugh also contends that "there was no plot in 1415 to assassinate Henry V and his three brothers and that heinous charge, by far the most sensational in the indictment, was fabricated to ensure that Cambridge, Gray and Scrope did not escape the death penalty as a well-deserved punishment for the various other offences that they undoubtedly had committed".[18] The Southampton Plot is dramatized in Shakespeare's Henry V, and in the anonymous play, The History of Sir John Oldcastle. Marriages Scrope married firstly, before 5 February 1398, Philippe Bryan (d. 19 November 1406), the widow of Sir John Devereux (d. 13 November 1396), and daughter and co-heiress of Guy de Bryan, 1st Baron Bryan.[19] He married secondly, by licence dated 6 September 1410, Lady Joan Holland (d.1434), the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, and Alice FitzAlan, and widow firstly of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and secondly, William Willoughby, 5th Lord Willoughby. Joan's paternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, and Joan of Kent, mother of King Richard II by her second marriage to Edward, the Black Prince. Joan's father was thus a halfbrother of King Richard II. Joan was the sister of Eleanor Holland, Countess of March, mother of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, who was the focus of the Southampton Plot.[20] After Scrope's death. Joan married fourthly, Henry Bromflete, Baron Vescy. Scrope had no issue by either of his wives, and was succeeded by his brother, John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham, who did not recover the forfeited Scrope lands until 1442.[21] Footnotes Jump up ^ Pugh 1988, p. 19; Tait dates Scrope's birth to c.1376, as does Vale, while Richardson dates it to c.1378. Jump up ^ Cokayne 1949, p. 563. Jump up ^ Richardson IV 2011, pp. 9–11. Jump up ^ Tait 1897, p. 139; Tyerman 1988, p. 279. Jump up ^ Vale 2004. Jump up ^ Pugh 1988, pp. 18–20. Jump up ^ Vale 2004. Jump up ^ Vale 2004. Jump up ^ Tait 1897, p. 139. Jump up ^ Tait 1897, p. 139. Jump up ^ Vale 2004. Jump up ^ Tait 1897, p. 139. Jump up ^ Vale 2004. Jump up ^ Cokayne 1932, p. 448; Richardson III 2011, pp. 193–6. Jump up ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 401; Pugh 1988, p. 104. Jump up ^ Mortimer (2009). Jump up ^ Pugh 1988, p. 130. Jump up ^ Pugh 1988, p. xii. Jump up ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 10. Jump up ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 496–500; Richardson III 2011, p. 195. Jump up ^ Vale 2004. References Cokayne, George Edward (1932). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday. VIII. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 445–53. Cokayne, George Edward (1949). The Complete Peerage, edited by Geoffrey H. White. XI. London: St. Catherine Press. Griffiths, R. A. (2004). Mortimer, Edmund (V), fifth earl of March and seventh earl of Ulster (1301-1425). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 2 October 2012. (subscription required) Mortimer, Ian (2009). 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN 978-0-224-07992-1. Pugh, T.B. (1988). Henry V and the Southampton Plot of 1415. Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-86299-541-8 Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966381 Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 144996639X Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1460992709 Tait, James (1897). Scrope, Henry le (1376?-1415). 51. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1890. pp. 139–140. Tyerman, Christopher (1988). England and the Crusades 1095-1588. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Vale, Brigette (2004). Scrope, Henry, third Baron Scrope of Masham (c.1376–1415). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 16 October 2012. Works related to Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham at Wikisource: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 51 Further reading Barker, Juliet (2006). Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle. United Kingdom: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-11918-2. Curry, Anne (2005). Agincourt: A New History. United Kingdom: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-2828-4. * [1] Henry SCROPE (3° B. Scrope of Masham) Born: 1373, Masham, Yorkshire, England Died: 5 Aug 1415 Notes: Knight of the Garter. The third member of the family to be executed on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt. He had fought for Henry IV at Shrewsbury in 1403. Received many honours from Henry V and created Lord Treasurer in 1410, married Joan, widow of the Duke of York in 1411, when he possibly changed his allegiance. He was charged with being involved in the Earl of Cambridge's plot. He admitted knowledge of it all, but said that he had been gathering evidence for the King and had been about to make a full disclosure. He was executed in a brutal fashion outside the City of Southampton and his head sent north to be placed on a spike over Micklegate Bar in York, and there left to rot, his dismembered body was despatched to various parts of the country. Shakespeare describes him as being 'The Bedfellow of Henry V and had obviously been a trusted confidant. Henry was beside himself with fury at this betrayal. Father: Stephen SCROPE (2° B. Scrope of Masham) Mother: Margery De WELLES (B. Scrope of Masham) Married 1: Phillipa De BRYAN (B. Scrope of Masham) 11 Jul 1398, Masham, Yorkshire, England Married 2: Joan HOLLAND (D. York) (b. ABT 1380 - d. 12 Apr 1434) (dau. of Thomas Holland, 2º E. Kent and Alice Fitzalan) (m.2 Henry Bromflete - m.3 Edmund Plantagenet - m.4 William Willoughby) * [2]

  
  

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