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1459 In England
Events from the year 1459 in England. Incumbents * Monarch – Henry VI * Lord Chancellor – William Waynflete * Lord Privy Seal – Lawrence Booth Events * 23 September – Wars of the Roses: at the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force. * 12 October – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrian victory at the Battle of Ludford Bridge. Following the battle, the Duke of York flees to Ireland. * 10 November – Parliament of Devils, held at Coventry, condemns Yorkists as traitors. Births * Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy of Ireland to Henry VII (died 1521) Deaths * James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (born c. 1398) (killed in battle) * John Fastolf, soldier (born 1380) * Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, nobleman (born 1405) * Walter Devereux, prominent Yorkist (born 1411 Year 1411 (Roman numerals, MCDXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1459
Year 1459 ( MCDLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 18 – The Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem is founded by Pope Pius II, to defend the island of Lemnos. * September 23 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Blore Heath in England – Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, defeat a Lancastrian force. * October 12 – Wars of the Roses: With a royal force advancing on his fortress at Ludlow, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, flees to Ireland, while his ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (Warwick the Kingmaker, eldest son of the Earl of Salisbury) goes to Calais. Date unknown * The Wallachian town of Bucharest is first mentioned. * The city of Jodhpur, in western India, is founded by Rao Jodha of Marwar. * Richard, Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland.''The Oxford Illustrated History of Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed by Coventry City Council. Historic counties of England, Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, Coventry had a population of 345,328 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 12th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of Green belt (United Kingdom), green belt known as the Meriden Gap, and the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester. The city is part of a larger conurbation known as the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area, which in 2021 had a population of 389,603. Coventry is east-south-east of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1411 In England
Events from the 1410s in England. Incumbents *Monarch – Henry IV (to 20 March 1413), then Henry V Events * 1410 ** Owain Glyndŵr continues his rebellion against England, although a costly English raid into rebel-held Shropshire is believed to have led to the capture of a number of rebel leaders. * 1411 ** 30 November – Henry IV dismisses Henry, Prince of Wales and his allies from the royal council. * 1412 ** May – England allies with the Armagnac party in return for help in regaining control of Aquitaine. ** Owain Glyndŵr cuts through the King's men and captures, later ransoming, a leading Welsh supporter of King Henry's, Dafydd Gam, in an ambush in Brecon. However, this is the last time that Owain is seen by his enemies. * 1413 ** 21 March – Henry V becomes King following the death of his father Henry IV in the "Jerusalem" chamber of Westminster Abbey. ** 9 April – coronation of King Henry V at Westminster Abbey in a snowstorm. ** December – body of Richard II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Devereux (1411–1459)
Sir Walter Devereux (1411 – 22 April 1459) of Bodenham and Weobley was a loyal supporter of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York during the Wars of the Roses. He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1449 to 1451. Family Walter Devereux was born in 1411 in Bodenham, Herefordshire to a senior Walter Devereux and his wife Elizabeth Bromwich,Charles Mosley (editor). ''Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition.'' Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. Volume 1, pages1378-80Evelyn Philip Shirley. Stemmata Shirleiana. (Westminster: Nichols and Sons, 1873). page 103 to 104 daughter of the Lord Justice of Ireland, Thomas Bromwich. By his grandmother, Agnes Crophull, he was a nephew of Sir Thomas Parr (d.1464), great-grandfather of Catherine Parr, queen consort to King Henry VIII.Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. Walter Devereux married Elizabeth Merbury in 1427. She was a daughter of Sir John Merbury, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1405 In England
Events from the 1400s in England. Incumbents *Monarch – Henry IV Events * 1400 ** January – Henry IV quells the Epiphany Rising and executes the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury and the Baron le Despencer for their attempt to have Richard II restored as King. ** 14 February – death of the deposed Richard II in Pontefract Castle. His body is displayed in old St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 17 February before initial burial in Kings Langley Church on 6 March. ** February – Henry Percy (Hotspur) leads English incursions into Scotland. ** 23 May – Newcastle upon Tyne is granted a new royal charter, creating it a county corporate. ** 25 July – English invasion of Scotland (1400): Henry IV leads his army north from a muster at York. ** Mid-August – the English army camp at Leith near Edinburgh but fail to besiege Edinburgh Castle. ** 16 September – Owain Glyndŵr is proclaimed Prince of Wales by his followers and begins attacking English strongholds in nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley
Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, titular King of Mann, KG (c. 1405 – 11 or 20 February 1459), of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire, was a Privy Councillor, Comptroller of the Royal Household, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland (1431–36), Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, Constable & Justice of Chester, Chamberlain of North Wales, Lord Chamberlain (1455), and from 15 January 1456 was summoned by Writ to Parliament as Lord Stanley. Life Stanley was the son of Sir John Stanley, of Liverpool, Lathom, and Knowsley (in Huyton), Lancashire, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Harington (or Haverington) of Farleton (in Melling), Lancashire. He represented Lancashire in the House of Commons in 1427, 1433, 1439, 1442, 1447, 1449, 1450, 1453, 1455. In 1424 he was attacked in his father's tower at Liverpool by Sir Richard Molyneaux, who was arrested. His family had long associations with the governance of Ireland, his grandfather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1380 In England
Events from the 1380s in England. Incumbents *Monarch – Richard II Events * 1380 ** 16 January – Parliament declares Richard II of age to rule. ** 13 March – The town of Winchelsea in East Sussex is attacked and burned by an expeditionary force from France for a second time."Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p27 ** February – John de Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham, is licensed to begin the 5-year fortification of Cooling Castle on the south side of the Thames Estuary; it is the earliest English castle designed for the use of gunpowder weapons by its defenders. ** July to September – Hundred Years' War: The King's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, raids France; the French burn Portsmouth. ** November – the second of a series of three poll taxes designed to help pay for the war against France. ** John Wycliff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fastolf
Sir John Fastolf (6 November 1380 – 5 November 1459) was a late medieval English landowner and knight who fought in the Hundred Years' War. He has enjoyed a more lasting reputation as the prototype, in some part, of Shakespeare's character Sir John Falstaff. Many historians argue, however, that he deserves to be famous in his own right, not only as a soldier, but as a patron of literature, a writer on strategy and perhaps as an early industrialist. Lineage and family Coming from a minor gentry family in Norfolk, John Fastolf was born on 6 November 1380 at the manor house of Caister Hall, a family possession which he later turned into Caister Castle, but of which little now remains aside from the water-filled moat. The son of Sir John Fastolf (died 1383) and Mary Park (died 2 May 1406), he belonged to an ancient Norfolk family originally seated at Great Yarmouth, where it is recorded from the thirteenth century. Notable members of the family in earlier generations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1398 In England
Events from the 1390s in England. Incumbents * Monarch – Richard II (to 30 September 1399), then Henry IV Events * 1390 ** Parliament passes a statute forbidding retainers to wear livery whilst off-duty: ** Statute of Provisors prohibits clergy from accepting benefices from the Pope. ** September – the future King Henry IV of England) supports the Teutonic Knights at the siege of Vilnius in the Lithuanian Civil War. ** John Gower's poem '' Confessio Amantis'' is completed. * 1391 ** Parliament re-asserts royal prerogatives. * 1392 ** King Richard II retakes control of London. ** Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester created Lieutenant of Ireland but forbidden to actually travel there. ** Penistone Grammar School, which will in the late 20th century become one of the first community comprehensive schools in England, is founded near Barnsley. * 1393 **Hundred Years' War: Peace negotiations between England and France at Calais. ** Rebellion in northern England protes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley
James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398 – 23 September 1459) of Heleigh Castle was an English peer. James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, son of Elizabeth Stafford and her husband John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, was a distinguished veteran of the Hundred Years' War. In the opening phase of the Wars of the Roses he raised troops from his estates in Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire and commanded the Lancastrian force that moved to block the Yorkist Earl of Salisbury's route to Ludlow where he intended linking up with the rest of the Yorkist army. The two forces clashed in the Battle of Blore Heath on 23 September 1459 and Audley was killed by Sir Roger Kynaston of Stocks near Ellesmere (Kynaston incorporated emblems of the Audley coat-of-arms into his own). Audley's Cross still stands on the battlefield marking the spot where he died. Audley was buried in Darley Abbey, north of Derby, about away from Blore Heath. The Abbey no longer stands, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1521 In England
Events from the 1520s in England. Incumbents * Monarch – Henry VIII * Regent – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (starting 31 May, until 16 July 1520) * Parliament – Black (starting 15 April, until 13 August 1523), Reformation (starting 3 November 1529) Events * 1520 ** 26–31 May – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor visits King Henry VIII at Dover and Canterbury. ** 7–24 June – King Henry VIII and King Francis I of France meet at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. * 1521 ** 17 May – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. ** 25 September – secret Treaty of Bruges signed by Emperor Charles V and Cardinal Wolsey agreeing to declare war on France in 1523. ** 11 October – Pope Leo X bestows Henry VIII with the title ''Defender of the Faith'' for his work ''Assertio Septem Sacramentorum'' (''The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments'') attacking the teachings of Martin Luther. * 1522 ** Late May – England presents an ultimatum to France and Scotlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Poynings
Sir Edward Poynings Knight of the Garter, KG (1459 – 22 October 1521) was an English soldier, administrator and diplomat, and Lord Deputy of Ireland under King Henry VII of England. Early life Edward Poynings was the only son of Robert Poynings, Sir Robert Poynings (c.1419–1461) and Elizabeth Paston (1429?–1487/8), the only daughter of Paston Letters#Chronology, William Paston (1378–1444). He was likely born at his father's house in Southwark, afterwards the Crosskeys tavern, and then the Queen's Head. His father had been carver and sword-bearer to Jack Cade, and was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans on 17 February 1461. His mother, who married Robert Poynings in December 1459, inherited her husband's property in Kent in spite of opposition from her brother-in-law, Edward Poynings, master of Arundel College. Before 1472 she married a second husband, Sir George Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, by whom she had a son, Matthew, and a daughter. She died in 1487, ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
