Henry Roos

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Sir Henry Roos of West Grinstead (* around 1435; † 1504 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir Henry was a son of Sir Robert Roos (also de Ros) and Anne, daughter of John Halsham and widow of John Bohun.

On his father's side he was a grandson of William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros and nephew of John de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros and Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros , both older brothers of his father.

When his father died in 1448, Henry Roos received his father's income as Keeper of Rockingham Forests by an Act of Resumption to King Henry VI. arranged, secured. Between 1456 and 1460, Henry received the knighthood as a Knight Bachelor and served as Sheriff of Sussex in 1460 and as Constable of Roxburgh Castle from 1458 to 1460 .

During the Wars of the Roses , Sir Henry fought for Henry VI. and the House of Lancaster at the Battle of Wakefield (1460), Mortimer's Cross (1461), the Second Battle of St Albans (1461) and the defeat of Towton (1461).

After Towton, Sir Henry fled to Scotland with Margaret of Anjou and other loyal Lancastrians. In England he was attained by parliament , so that he lost all his rights and lands to the crown.

In 1464 Henry Roos joined Margaret of Anjou in France, where she lived in exile. In May 1471 Sir Henry fought at the Battle of Tewkesbury , which at first seemed to be the end of the Wars of the Roses and the House of Lancaster.

Henry Roos must have come to an arrangement with the ruling House of York , so that the ostracism in 1473/1474 was dissolved and he was rehabilitated. In 1477 and 1483 he was again appointed Sheriff of Sussex and 1491/92 as Knight of the Shire for Sussex in Parliament.

Sir Herny Roos died in 1504.

Marriage and offspring

His first marriage was to Margaret Berkeley († 1481). In his second marriage he married Maud, the widow of John Harbard and Richard Georges, as their third husband. He left no children.

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ A b William Berry: County Genealogies Pedigree of the Families in the County Sussex. W. Marchant, London 1830.
  4. ↑ a b J.C.Wedgwood, Anne Holt: The History of Parliament 1439-1509 , HMStationary Office 1936, p 726
  5. ^ A b c d Towton Battlefield Society
  6. ↑ a b c d e Michael R. Jones: Wars of the Roses A Gazetteer-2 , LuLu Com, ISBN 978-1-471-699368 , p. 291
  7. ^ Richard Brooke: Visit to the Fields of Battle in England , JRSmith London 1857, p. 108
  8. ↑ John Fenn: Paston Letters. Volume I, Charles Knight & Co, London 1840, p. 147
  9. ↑ James Bohn: The Chronicles of the White Rose of York. William Stevens, London 1845, p. 103
  10. ^ A b The Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England. Volume II, J. + R. Tonson, London 1762, p. 335 / p. 357
  11. ^ Mary Anne Hookham: The Time and Life of Margaret of Anjou , Tinsley Brothers London 1872, p. 172
  12. ↑ Richard III. Foundation Inc. ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.richard111.com
  13. ^ William Prynne: An exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London , William Leake London 1657, p. 689
  14. ^ A b Alexander Hay: The History of Chichester , J. Seagrave Chichester 1804, p. 558.
personal data
SURNAME Roos, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roos, Sir Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1504