William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers (21 December 1468 – 14 April 1524), also known as William Conyers of Hornby, was an English baron and aristocrat.

Personal life

Conyers was the second, but only surviving son of Sir John Conyers, Jr. (d.1469) of Hornby, Yorkshire, and Lady Alice Neville, daughter of

William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent William Neville, Earl of Kent Knight of the Garter, KG (c. 14059 January 1463) and ''jure uxoris'' 6th Baron Fauconberg, was an English nobleman and soldier. He fought during the latter part of the Hundred Years' War, and during the English dyna ...

. His father, having been killed in battle when he was under a year old, Conyers thus succeeded to the family estates on the death of his grandfather, Sir John Conyers, on 14 March 1489/90. He extensively rebuilt Hornby Castle in

Swaledale Swaledale is a valley in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the Yorkshire Dales, which are part of the Pennines, and within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is named after the River Swale, which runs through it. Swaledale is the mo ...

, Yorkshire, which Conyers had inherited. His first wife was Mary Scrope, the daughter of Sir John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, and Elizabeth St John, and the half-cousin of King

Henry VII of England Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509), also known as Henry Tudor, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor. Henr ...

, through her maternal grandmother,

Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso Margaret Beauchamp ( – before 3 June 1482) was the oldest daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Bletsoe, and his second wife, Edith Stourton. She was the maternal grandmother of Henry VII. Biography Margaret Beauchamp, born about 1410, was th ...

. His second wife was Lady Anne Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland, and Isabel Booth. Another wife, though where she fits is unknown, was apparently Maud Percy, youngest daughter of the 5th Earl of Northumberland He served the King on several military expeditions to Scotland, and also fought at the

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in 1513.

Titles

Conyers was created Baron Conyers on 17 October 1509. He was succeeded by Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baron Conyers, one of his sons by Lady Anne Neville. His daughter, Katherine Conyers (d. 1566), married Sir Francis Bigod.

Ancestry

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* * 1524 deaths Year of birth unknown 1468 births 15th-century English nobility 16th-century English nobility Barons Conyers People from Settrington {{England-baron-stub