The King’s Lifeguard Regiment of Horse

Flag Illustration	1)
Active	1642-1646
Country	England
Allegiance	Royalist
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Horse
Colonel	King Charles I
Area Raised
Flag Colour	Red
Flag Design	Known
Field Armies	Oxford 1642-1646

The King’s Lifeguard Regiment of Horse, serving with the Oxford Army throughout the First Civil War

• May: Raised in Yorkshire
• July: First Siege of Hull
• August: Repulsed from Coventry
• October: Battle of Edgehill
• December: Quartered at Oxford

• August to September: Siege of Gloucester
• September: First Battle of Newbury

• June: Battle of Cropredy Bridge
• August: Battle of Lostwithiel
• October: Second Battle of Newbury
• November: Relief of Donnington Castle

• March: Skirmish at Kidlington
• May: Storm of Leicester
• June: Battle of Naseby
• August: Storm of Huntingdon
• September: Battle of Rowton Heath
• November to May 1646: Besieged at Newark

• May: Surrender of Newark

The cornet illustrated above was taken by the Earl of Essex's army sometime between 1642 and 1644. It is not definitely identified as that of the King's Lifeguard, but this appears probable based on its extra wide gold fringing, crown and royal cypher.

King Charles I

Lord Bernard Stewart