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Sir Richard Grenville (avec diverses transcriptions, parmi lesquelles Greynvile, Greeneville, Greenfield, etc. ; prononcer à la française [grɑ̃vil], le nom étant d'origine anglo-normande), né le 6 juin 1542 au château de Clifton House, dans le Devon, dans le sud-ouest de l' Angleterre – mort au combat le 10 septembre 1591 était un ...
Grenville, Sir Richard (1541–91) English naval commander and hero. He commanded the fleet that carried Sir Walter Raleighs colonists to Roanoke, Virginia, in 1585. His adventurous career ended when he was fatally wounded and his ship, Revenge, captured in a 15-hour battle off the Azores (1591). *Grenville, Sir Richard* (1542–91).
Richard Grenville died at sea of his wounds on 2 September 1591. His son Bernard did not receive the administration of his estate until February 1593; there may have been some difficulty about verifying his death, or a dispute over his inheritance. Bernard died in 1636, and at the end of the nineteenth century there were four Cornish families ...
Sir Richard Grenville (15 June 1542 – 10 September 1591) (alias Greynvile, Greeneville, Greenfield etc.) was an English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, Sheriff of Cork '69-'70, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1576–77, Colonizer, and explorer. He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World, and also participated in the fight ...
Battle of Flores, (30-31 August 1591). The battle between Spain and England off Flores Island in the Azores was a Spanish victory, showing the resurgence of Spain’s naval power after the debacle of the 1588 armada. For the English, the heroic fight put up by Richard Grenville ’s Revenge became a national legend, commemorated in Tennyson ...
16 de jun. de 2020 · published on 16 June 2020. Download Full Size Image. A 20th century CE painting by Charles Dixon showing the battle in the Azores of 1591 CE when a Spanish fleet battled with the English galleon 'Revenge' captained by Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591 CE). Grenville died of his wounds from the battle and the 'Revenge' was captured.
Sir Richard was born in Kilkhampton, north Cornwall, in 1600. He was the younger brother of Sir Bevil Grenville, another famous army leader. At the age of 20, Sir Richard went abroad to be a soldier. After returning, he became Member of Parliament for Fowey in 1628. In the same year, he married Mary Howard and they later had two children ...
