John Milewater

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John Milewater of Stoke Edith († 1471 ) was an English soldier and public servant.

Life

John Milewater became King Henry VI's Esquire in 1452 . and received financial recognition for his loyal service.

During the 1450s he was also in the immediate retinue of Edward, Earl of March, later Edward IV , and his brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland . and was named Receiver General (Treasurer / Treasurer) of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York in the Welsh Marches .

After Edward IV ascended the throne at the beginning of March 1461, he reorganized the administrative structures in his empire. So John Milewater became receiver general in other counties . In addition, he acted for the underage Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham as the treasurer of some lands.

On July 3, 1468, John Milewater was charged with ending rebellious machinations in North Wales , which included the submission and punishment of those who did not show themselves to be loyal subjects. He received an identical order for the South Wales region on January 6, 1470.

At the beginning of the Wars of the Roses , John Milewater did not yet intervene actively in the fighting and behaved cautiously, but later fought for the House of York in February 1461 at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross and in March 1461 at the Towton .

As Esquire , John Milewater fought alongside Richard Plantagenet, the Duke of Gloucester and later King Richard III. , at the Battle of Barnet in April 1471 and fell.

family

John Milewater had at least one son, John Jr., who died at the Battle of Tewkesbury in May 1471.

literature

  • John Sadler: The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487. Routledge 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-90517-2 .
  • Howell T. Evans: Wales and the Wars of the Roses. Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-45587-0 .
  • R. Suggett: Houses & History in March of Wales: Radnoshire 1400-1800. Royal Comm. on the Ancient & Historical Monuments in Wales, 2005, ISBN 1-871184-23-1 .
  • Carole Rawcliffe: The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham: 1394-1521. Cambridge University Press, 1978, ISBN 0-521-21663-X .
  • Ralph A. Griffiths: The Reign of King Henry VI. : The Exercise of Royal Authority 1422-61. University of California Press, 1981, ISBN 0-520-04372-3 .
  • MH Keen: England in Later Middle Ages. Routledge, 2004, ISBN 1-134-48304-X .
  • JR Lander: Government and Community: England 1450-1509. Harvard University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-674-35794-9 .
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office. HM Stationary Press, 1467.
  • Michael Hicks: Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England. Boydell & Brewer, 2001, ISBN 0-85115-832-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Great Britain Public Record Office: Calendar of the closed Rolls Preserved in Public Record Office: Henry VI. Volume 5, Kraus Reprint, 1971.
  2. Michael Hicks: Richard III. The History Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7524-7326-0 .
  3. ^ Bertram Percy Wolffe: The Royal Demesne in English History. Allen & Unwin 1971.
  4. Gwaith: The Poetical Works of Lewis Glyn Cothi. Hughes, 1837.
  5. ^ Towton Battle Society