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Colonel Ferdinando Stanhope’s Regiment of Horse

Active1643 to 1645
CountryEngland
AllegianceRoyalist
ConflictsFirst Civil War
TypeHorse
ColonelFerdinando Stanhope
John Barnard
Area RaisedDerbyshire
Flag Colour
Flag Design
Field ArmiesLoughborough 1643-5

Later Colonel John Barnard’s Regiment of Horse

Royalist regiment of horse serving with Lord Loughborough’s forces in the First Civil War

Service History

1643

1644

1645

Notes

The regiment was based on a troop of horse that Ferdinando Stanhope led north from Oxford in March 1643, it may have included troops raised by his father, the Earl of Chesterfield, who had just surrendered at Lichfield.. Stanhope led the regiment in the Midlands but was killed in a skirmish near Nottingham in December 1644. The horse then appear to have joined Stanhope’s old regiment of foot in Herefordshire under Col. Barnard. In July 1645 Barnard was besieged at Canon Frome in Herefordshire by the Scots army. During the siege General Laurence Crawford was killed, which so enraged the Scots that they massacred most of the garrison of seventy when they successfully stormed it.

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Coats and Flags

Notable Officers

Colonel Ferdinando Stanhope

Ferdinando Stanhope

Colonel John Barnard

Strength

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