Earl of Caernarvon’s Regiment of Horse
- Service History
  - 1642
  - 1643
  - 1644
  - 1645
  - 1646
- Notes
- Flags
- Notable Officers
  - Earl of Caernarvon
  - Richard Neville
- Strength
- See Also
- Links

Earl of Caernarvon’s Regiment of Horse

Flag Illustration	¹⁾
Active	1642-1646
Country	England
Allegiance	Royalist
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Horse
Colonel	Earl of Caernarvon
	Richard Neville
Area Raised
Flag Colour	Red
Flag Design	See below
Field Armies	Oxford 1642-5
	Goring 1645
	Hopton 1646

Later Colonel Richard Neville’s Regiment of Horse

Royalist regiment of horse serving with the Oxford Army and in the West Country

Service History

1642

August: Battle of Southam
October: Battle of Edgehill
December: Relief of Banbury?
December: Quartered at Eynsham?

1643

January: Standoff at Cirencester?
February: Storm of Cirencester
March: Skirmish at Chesham?
April: Battle of Caversham Bridge
June: Skirmish at Chewton Mendip
July: Battle of Lansdown
July: Skirmish at Rowde Ford
July: Battle of Roundway Down
July: Storm of Bristol
August: Taking of Dorchester
August: Taking of Weymouth and Portland
September: Battle of Aldbourne Chase
September: First Battle of Newbury, Caernarvon killed

1644

March: Battle of Cheriton
June: Battle of Cropredy Bridge
August: Storm of Boconnoc House
August: Battle of Lostwithiel
October: Second Battle of Newbury
November: Relief of Donnington

1645

April: Skirmish at Bampton in the Bush
July: Battle of Langport

1646

February: Battle of Torrington
March: Surrender at Truro

Notes

Flags

Symonds noted the regiment carrying 5 red colours in April 1644 while under Neville.

According to Blount:

The Earle of Carnarvan was thus mordacious in his devise, wherein he had a Lyon depainted, and 6 dogs bayting or baying at him, one of the 6 was bigger than the other 5, from whose mouth issued a little scroul, wherein was written KIMBOLTON, and from the mouths of the other 5, in a like scroul was written, PYM, PYM &c. The Lyon seemed to utter this motto, QUOSQ; TANDEM ABUTERIS PATIENTIA NOSTRA ? By the Lyon was intended the King, the rest needs no interpretation.²⁾. Illustration 1 above is an artist's interpretation of this written description, with the red field as noted by Symonds in 1644.

It should seem the Earle of Carnarvan did stomack the 5 Members; For he had a second Devise, wherein was represented 5 hands reaching at a Crown; and an armed hand with a sword issuing out of a cloud defending it, with this motto, REDDITE CAESARI³⁾.

Sir Charles Lucas commanded a troop of the regiment in 1642 and according to Blount: The Lord Lucas bore a Crown onely for figure, with DEI GRATIA inscribed, however this might relate to his own regiment, Sir Charles Lucas’ Regiment of Horse, or horse raised in 1648.

Notable Officers