Prince Maurice’s Regiment of Horse
- Service History
  - 1642
  - 1643
  - 1644
  - 1645
  - 1646
- Notes
- Flags
- Notable Officers
  - Prince Maurice
  - Captain Richard Atkyns
- Strength
- See Also
- Links

Prince Maurice’s Regiment of Horse

Active	1642-46
Country	England
Allegiance	Royalist
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Horse
Colonel	Prince Maurice
Area Raised
Flag Colour	Red
Flag Design	Unknown
Field Armies	Oxford

Royalist regiment of horse commanded by Prince Maurice, younger brother of Prince Rupert

Service History

1642

September: Battle of Powick Bridge
October: Battle of Edgehill
December: Quartered at Faringdon

1643

January: Standoff at Cirencester
February: Storm of Cirencester
April: Taking of Evesham
April: Skirmish at Little Dean
April: Skirmish at Upton Bridge
April: Battle of Ripple Field
April: Battle of Caversham Bridge
June: Skirmish at Chewton Mendip
June: Skirmish at Glastonbury and Somerton
July: Skirmish at Bradford on Avon
July: Battle of Lansdown
July: Battle of Roundway Down
July: Storm of Bristol
August: Skirmish at Torrington?
August: Taking of Appledore?
September: Siege of Barnstaple
September: Siege of Exeter
September: First Battle of Newbury
October to December: Siege of Plymouth

1644

March: Battle of Cheriton (under Maj. Robert Legge)
April to June: Siege of Lyme Regis?
June: Battle of Tipton Green
June: Battle of Cropredy Bridge
August: Battle of Lostwithiel
October: Second Battle of Newbury
November: Relief of Donnington

1645

January: Repulsed from Abingdon?
February: Relief of Chester
April: Skirmish at Sherborne Field?
April: Relief of Beeston Castle
May: Siege of Hawkesley House?
May: Stormed at Evesham (det)
May: Storm of Leicester
June: Battle of Naseby
July: Skirmish at Alcester?
August: Storm of Huntingdon
September: Battle of Rowton Heath

1646

January: Skirmish at Tutbury
March: Battle of Stow on the Wold

Notes

A history of the regiment by Bob Giglio is shown at the old ECWSA website via the Wayback Machine

Flags

Symonds noted red flags for this regiment, but did not mention any designs.

Notable Officers

Prince Maurice

Captain Richard Atkyns

Richard Atkyns was at first a Captain in Lord Chandos’ Regiment of Horse but soon transferred Prince Maurice’s Regiment He wrote a lively account of his part in the 1643 campaigns with Maurice.

Strength

October 1642: 4 troops at Edgehill
March 1644: At least 300 men in 7 troops at Cheriton
May 1645: 150 horse at Leicester¹⁾

Links

¹⁾ British Library Harleian Ms 911

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