Sir Richard Waldegrave (/ˈwɔːlɡreɪv/; c. 1338 – 2 May 1410) was an English knight and Member of Parliament, who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from November 1381 to February 1382.
His father was Sir Richard Waldegrave, a Lincolnshire landowner who held the manor of Brant Broughton, and had represented the county during the parliament of 1335.
When William de Bohun died that same year, Richard continued to serve his son Humphrey, 7th earl of Hereford.
Between 18 November 1381 and 25 February 1382, he served as Speaker of the House of Commons, during the first session of parliament held after the Peasants' Revolt.
During his speakership parliament was chiefly occupied with the revocation of the charters granted to the villeins by Richard during Wat Tyler's rebellion.
During the summer of 1385, he accompanied king Richard on his disastrous campaign against Scotland, commanding a retinue of seven men-at-arms and eighteen archers.
Sir Richard was obviously not viewed with hostility by the Lords Appellant when they seized control of the government in 1388, since he was appointed to the commissions designed to rectify the abuses of the royal administration.
[1] When Richard II destroyed the Lords Appellant in 1397 and initiated a period of autocratic rule, Waldegrave served in the parliament that condemned the earl of Arundel, banished archbishop Thomas and heard the news of Gloucester's murder.