Edmund Bedingfield

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Bedingfields family tomb in St John's Church, Oxborough

Sir Edmund Bedingfield of Oxburgh Hall († 1496 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir Edmund Bedingfield was a son of Sir Thomas Bedingfield.

Edmund was loyal to Edward IV , although he did not take part in the battles of the Wars of the Roses . He received the Cotton Hall estate from the king in 1475/76 and in 1482 he received permission to expand and fortify Oxburgh Hall . Bedingfield served in the garrison of Calais for his king in 1477 .

At the coronation ceremony of Richard III. In 1483, Edmund Bedingfield was made Knight of the Bath . In May 1484 Sir Edmund was entrusted with duties for the protection of the empire as Commissioner of Array , but did not fight for Richard III a year later. in Bosworth . Under the victorious Henry VII , Bedingfield served as Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1487 and was entrusted with his feudal lord, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford , to protect the coast of East Anglia .

In June 1487, Edmund Bedingfield fought for his king in the final battle of the Wars of the Roses at Stoke . In Stoke he received the accolade as Knight Banneret .

There is evidence that King Henry VII visited his loyal follower, Sir Edmund, at his ancestral home in Oxburgh Hall .

Sir Edmund must later have served in Calais again, since he made his will there on October 12, 1496 and died shortly afterwards. His final resting place is in the family grave of St John's Church in Oxbourough, Norfolk.

Marriage and offspring

Sir Edmund was married to Margaret, a daughter of Sir John Scott. The couple had the following offspring:

  • Thomas
  • Peter
  • Edmund
  • Alice ⚭ Sir Philip Booth
  • Margaret ⚭ Sir Edward Jernegan

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e John Chambers: A General History of the County of Norfolk. Vol. II, John Stacy, Norwich 1824, p. 657.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Anthony Emery: Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300-1500. Vol. II, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-521-58131-1 , p. 138.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Bramley: Henry VIII. And his six wives. The History Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7509-5704-5 .
  4. ^ Suffolk Institute of Archeology and Natural History: Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archeology and Natural History. Vol. IV, George Thompson Bury, St. Edmunds 1774, p. 160.
  5. ^ A b c d Colin Richmond: The Paston Family in the Fifteen Century. Manchester University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7190-5990-9 , p. 157 / p. 163
  6. ^ Caroline Halsted: Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King. Carey & Hart, Philadelphia 1844, p. 451.
  7. ↑ a b c James Bohn: The Chronicles of the White Rose of York. William Stevens, London 1845, p. 247.
  8. ^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas: History of the Order of Knighthood of the British Enpire. Vol. III, John Hunter, London 1842, Sx
  9. ^ A b William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing, 1971, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 17 / p. 141
  10. ^ A b Towton Battlefield Society
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g James Ross: The Foremost Man in the Kingdom: John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford. Boydell & Brewer , 2015, ISBN 978-1-78327-005-7 , pp. 117/122/125/126/184/229
  12. ↑ Malcolm Mercer: The Medieval Gentry: Power, Leadership and Choice during the Wars of the Roses. A&C Black, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4411-9064-2 , p. 2.
  13. ↑ a b Richard III. Foundation Inc. ( Memento from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ a b c d e Nicholas Harris Nicolas: Testamenta Vetusta. Vol. II, Nichols & Son, London 1826, p. 429.
  15. ^ A b Douglas Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. 2nd Edition. Douglas Richardson, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4610-4520-5 , p. 89.
  16. ↑ E.Kimber: The barons days of England Vol I., London 1771, p.217.
personal data
SURNAME Bedingfield, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bedingfield, Sir Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1496
Place of death Calais