Richard Beard (courtier)
Richard Beard (fl. 1540) was a sixteenth-century English courtier.
Beard was a member of the Privy Chamber of Henry VIII of England. He was one of the envoys, along with Nicholas Wotton, who was involved in negotiating a marriage between his monarch and his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.[1]
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- ^ p.619, David Starkey, Six Queens
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- 16th-century English diplomats
- English courtiers
- Court of Henry VIII
- English diplomat stubs