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Richard Beard (courtier)

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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]

References

  1. ^ p.619, David Starkey, Six Queens