The Royalist Army
The Royalist Army is organised into five infantry tercios and a cavalry regiment. Each tercio consists of several regiments of foot. The army is commmanded by the Lord General - appointed by the King to command his field army. On field you will see the army command - the Lord General and his staff - send commands via runners to each tercio commander who order their troops accordingly. On occasion King Charles I commanded the army himself and at some re-enactments you may see the Royal Standard indicating the King is present. The following list shows the Regiments in each tercio.
Cavalry
The Dragoons
- Prince Maurice's Regiment of Dragoones Devon, Cornwall, West Midlands, Warwickshire, Tyne and Wear and Scottish Borders
- Colonel Richard Bagot's Regiment of Foote (Birmingham, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and West Sussex)
- The Earl of Northampton's Regiment of Foote
- Colonel Sir John Owen's Regiment of Foote North Wales
The Oxford Army
- The King's Lifeguard of Foote (Kent, Oxfordshire, Birmingham, South Wales, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Sth Yorkshire, Lincolnshire)
- Hastings Artillery Company
- Sir Richard Molyneux's Company of Foote (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and Gwent)
- Prince Rupert's Blew Regiment of Foote (Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Greater London, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk and Surrey)
- Sir Henry Vaughan's Company (Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Clwyd, Dyfed, Gwent, Gwynedd, Mid Glamorgan, Powys, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan)
- Earl Rivers’ Regiment of Foote (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Dyfed, Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, Powys, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan)
Lord Hopton's Tertio
- Sir Vincent Corbet's Coy
- Sir William Godolphin’s Regiment of Foote ( Cornwall, Dorset, Devon, Hampshire, West Sussex, Surrey, Derbyshire, Notts, Cheshire, Manchester, Mersyside, South Yorks)
- Sir Bevill Grenvile's Regiment of Foote
- Colonel Stephen Hawkins' Regiment of Foote
- Sir Marmaduke Rawdon's Regiment of Foote
- Sir Nicholas Slanning's Regiment of Foote
- Sergeant Major General Henry Tillier’s Regiment of Foote (Bristol, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan)
The Marquess of Newcastle's Nothern Army
- Colonel Charles Gerard’s Regiment of Foote
- Sir Gilbert Hoghton's Companie (Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Wiltshire
- Sir George Lisle’s Regiment of Foote
- Marquess of Newcastle's Regiment of Foote (East Riding of Yorkshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Somerset, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Dyfed, Powys, Ayrshire, Berwickshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Kirkudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Peeblesshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, West Lothian and Wigtownshire)