Sir John Berkeley’s Regiment of Horse

Royalist regiment of horse serving throughout the First Civil War in the West Country

• January: Battle of Braddock Down?
• January: Skirmish at Kingsbridge
• February: Skirmish at Chagford and Okehampton
• February: Battle of Modbury
• April: Battle of Beacon Hill
• April: Battle of Sourton Down
• May: Battle of Stratton?
• June: Taking of Taunton
• June to September: Siege of Exeter
• July: Battle of Lansdown??
• July: Skirmish at Topsham

• March: Storm of Hemioch Castle?
• April to June: Siege of Lyme Regis?
• August: Battle of Lostwithiel
• September: Skirmish on Hatherleigh Moor?
• September to January 1646: Siege of Plymouth

• April to May: Siege of Taunton
• July: Battle of Langport (det)
• October to April 1646: Besieged at Exeter

• May to June: Besieged at Oxford

According to Blount: Sir John Berkley depainted in his Devise, a Parergon or Landskip of a pleasant Country enrich'd with fair Houses, Cornfields &c. And the Motto interrogatorily BARBARUS HAS SEGETES? accounting (as it should seem) the Parliament forces no better then Barbarians. =====Notable Officers===== ====Sir John Berkeley==== Sir John Berkeley =====Strength===== =====See Also====== ===== Links =====