John Lingen

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Sir John Lingen of Sutton (also Lyngen , † October 15, 1506 ) was an English knight .

Life

John Lingen was a son of Ralph Lingen and Jane Russel.

He was the squire of Lingen and Sutton St. Nicholas in Herefordshire . In 1466 and 1472 he was sheriff of Herefordshire.

Already at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses Sir John stood on the side of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and the House of York and was one of the men under the leadership of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Walter Devereux , who invaded Wales in 1456 , Captured Carmarthen Castle and imprisoned Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond . In the course of the wars he fought for York in 1461 at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross , at Barnet (1471) and on May 4 of the same year at Tewkesbury . On the battlefield of Tewkesbury he received after the battle the knighthood as a Knight Bachelor . Sir John is also said to be on August 22, 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth for Richard III. have fought.

Sir John died in 1506 and his grave is in Aymestrey Church in Herefordshire.

Marriage and offspring

Sir John Lingen was married to Isabel (* before 1441), third daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Burgh (1414-1471). They had at least one son, Sir John Lingen († 1530), who was promoted to Knight Bachelor in 1486, was sheriff of Herefordshire in 1486, 1495 and 1497 and married Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Milwater.

literature

  • John Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume II, Henry Colburn, London 1835.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b John Duncumb: Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford. Volume I, EG Wright, Hereford 1804, pp. 144 ff.
  2. ↑ Terry Brecerton: Jasper Tudor. Amberley Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2014, ISBN 978-1-445-63402-9 .
  3. ↑ a b c 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
  4. ^ A b Towton Battlefield Society
  5. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 14.
  6. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner: Buildings of England. 25. Herefordshire. Yale University Press, 1963, ISBN 0140710256 , p. 68.
  7. ^ Powys-Land Club (Ed.): Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire. Volume I, Russel Smith, London 1868, p. 98.
  8. ^ Powys-Land Club (Ed.): Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire. Volume VIII, Thomas Richards, London 1875, pp. 93 f.
  9. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 23.
  10. ^ Collectanea topographica et genealogica. Volume IV, John Bowyer Nichols & Son, London 1837, p. 110.
personal data
SURNAME Lingen, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lingen of Sutton, John (full name); Lyngen, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1506