Bevil Grenville

Bevil Grenville (23. března 1594 – 5. července 1643) byl English Cavalier general during the Anglická občanská válka who was killed at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1643.

Biography

Bevil Grenville se narodil ve Withiel, Cornwall, England dne 23. března 1594 vnuk Richard Grenville. Poté, co získal vzdělání v Oxfordu, sloužil jako poslanec za Cornwall v letech 1621 až 1625 a poslanec za Launceston v letech 1625 až 1629 a 1640 až 1642. Zatímco zpočátku stál na straně John Eliot a Parliamentarian opposition to King Charles I of England in the Parliament, he later loyally served King Charles during the Bishops' Wars and become the most generally loved man in Cornwall. At the start of the English Civil War in 1642, he side with King Charles, serving under Ralph Hopton and distinguishing himself at the 1643 Battle of Stratton. In 1643, he fought at the Battle of Lansdowne in Somerset, and he received a blow to the head from a poleaxe as he led the Cornish assault on Lansdown Hill, dying of his wounds at Cold Ashton.

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