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Sir John Langstrother (died 1471) was
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,
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of the
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in England, and Preceptor of Balsall. A son of Thomas Langstrother of Crosswaite, he was by 1463 a councillor of the Yorkist king
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. He was an administrator of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem and on 9 March 1469 was unanimously chosen as Prior of England, the Order's chief officer in the kingdom. Following the defeat of Edward's supporters by the
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on 26 July 1469 at the
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he was appointed
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by the short-lived regime of the
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and Warwick, but was dismissed by Edward when he regained power in mid-September. He was reinstated in October 1470 as Treasurer and
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after the temporary re-accession of Henry VI, who had been restored with the help of Clarence and Warwick. Langstrother's tenures as Lord High Treasurer and Warden of the Mint occurred during the
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and the Great Slump in England. After the Yorkist victory at the
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on 4 May 1471, where he had shared command of the Lancastrian centre, he sought
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in
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but was taken out and executed in Tewkesbury town centre two days later. He was buried in the Order's hospital of St John at
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.


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* Bedford, William Kirkpatrick Riland, 1826–1905; Holbeche, Richard, b.185
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''The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; being a history of the English Hospitallers of St. John, their rise and progress'' (1902) London F.E. Robinson and co 15th century in England People of the Wars of the Roses 15th-century English people Lord High Treasurers of England People executed under the Yorkists Priors of Saint John of Jerusalem in England Year of birth unknown 1471 deaths {{England-politician-stub