Henry Bellingham (Knight)

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Sir Henry Bellingham († around 1485 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir Henry was a devoted supporter of the House of Lancaster and fought during the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Wakefield (1460), Towton (1461) and Hedgeley Moor (1464). On December 30, 1460 he received the knighthood as a Knight Bachelor after the Battle of Wakefield .

After the defeat of Towton, Sir Henry fled into exile in Scotland, along with Margaret of Anjou and other faithful, such as Sir Edmund Hampden and Sir Robert Whittingham . The first parliament under Edward IV imposed a Bill of Attainder on Sir Henry , whereby he lost all his rights and possessions in England.

In June 1461 Sir Henry returned with Margaret of Anjou and her army and besieged Carlisle Castle , parts of the city being burned to the ground. Shortly thereafter, Sir Henry was captured during the siege of Naworth Castle and was taken to the Tower of London , but shortly thereafter pardoned, released and the Bill of Attainder was repealed. Sir Henry did not get his property back. Sir Henry accompanied John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, on a sea expedition along the coast in 1463 , but his apparent peace with the House of York was short-lived. As early as 1463/64 he fled to Bamburgh Castle to support the Lancaster troops besieged there and was again given a Bill of Attainder .

During the siege of Harlech Castle , Sir Henry was part of the defenders and on August 14, 1468, when the castle could no longer be held, he was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London , but was again pardoned and released in October.

During the renewed enthronement of Henry VI. (House of Lancaster) Sir Henry was an active supporter in 1470, but had to flee from arrest after the return of Edward IV in 1471 and was again given a Bill of Attainder , which was not revised during his lifetime.

The exact date of his death is unknown, but Sir Henry must have been different around 1485.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Towton Battlefield Society
  2. ^ A b William A. Shaw: The Kights of England , Genealogical Publishing Com. 1971, p. 13
  3. ^ A b Edward Baines: The History of the County of Palatine and Duchy Lancaster, Vol. I , George Routledge & Sons 1868, p. 137
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j E.B. Fryde, Edward Miller: Historical Studies of the English Parliament Vol.I , CUP Archive 1970, p. 98
  5. ^ A b John Sandler: The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487 , Routledge 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-90517-2
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Michael D. Miller - Article: Attainder and Forfeiture on www.warsoftheroses.co.uk - read online 06.06.2016  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.warsoftheroses.co.uk  
  7. ↑ Terry Breverton: Jasper Tudor , Amberley Publishing Ltd. 2014, ISBN 978-1-445-63402-9
  8. ^ A b Anthony Goodman: The Wars of the Roses: Military Activity and English Society, 1452-1497 , Taylor & Frances 1990, ISBN 978-0-415-05264-1 , p. 57
  9. ↑ Richard J .: Article The Battle of Hedgeley Moor April 25, 1464 at www.historyofwar.org - read online June 6, 2016
  10. ↑ RHFritze, WB Robinson: Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England 1272-1485 , Greenwood Publishing Group 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-29124-1 , page 241
personal data
SURNAME Bellingham, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellingham, Sir Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1485