Lord Byron’s Regiment of Horse
Active | 1642-1646 |
Country | England |
Allegiance | Royalist |
Conflicts | First Civil War |
Type | Horse |
Colonel | Lord Byron |
Area Raised | |
Flag Colour | Unknown |
Flag Design | Unknown |
Field Armies | Oxford 1642-3 |
Byron 1643-6 |
Regiment of horse led by Lord Byron, ancestor of the poet, serving with the Oxford army then in Byron’s independent command based on Chester
Service History
1642
- August: Skirmish at Brackley
- September: Fracas at Osney Bridge
- September: Skirmish at Stow on the Wold?
- October: Battle of Edgehill
- December: Quartered at Burford
1643
- January: Skirmish at Burford
- February: Storm of Cirencester
- May: Skirmish at Bicester (det)
- July: Battle of Roundway Down
- July: Storm of Bristol
- August to September: Siege of Gloucester
- September: Battle of Aldbourne Chase
- September: First Battle of Newbury
- October: Standoff at Aylesbury?
- December: Second Battle of Middlewich
1644
- January: Siege of Nantwich
- January: Battle of Nantwich
- May: Storm of Stockport
- May: Storm of Bolton
- June: Siege of Liverpool
- July: Battle of Marston Moor
- August: Battle of Ormskirk?
- September: Skirmish at Montgomery
- September: Battle of Montgomery
- October to November 1645: Besieged in Beeston Castle (det)
1645
- January to February: Besieged in Chester
- March: Besieged in Northop (det)
- March to September: Besieged in Chester
- September: Battle of Rowton Heath
- September to February 1646: Besieged in Chester
- November: Battle of Denbigh Green
1646
- February: Surrender of Chester
- March: Battle of Stow on the Wold
- April to June: Besieged in Caernarvon Castle
- August to November: Besieged in Conway Castle
- November: Surrender of Conway Castle
Notes
Flags
Notable Officers
Lord Byron
Strength
- Edgehill: 6 troops