Peter Buckton

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Sir Peter Buckton (* around 1350; † March 4, 1414 ) was an English politician and knight from the village of the same name Buckton in Holderness , Yorkshire .

Origin and life

Buckton's family belonged as Lord of the Manor of Buckton to the English gentry and owned extensive estates. The family members were considered extremely generous to the church. In 1369, his first military fight for the closely related house Anjou-Plantagenêt is documented. In this 20-year so-called Carolinian War , part of the Hundred Years War , the English faced the French, who in turn had the Castile at their side. In 1371 he became Constable of Knaresborough Castle . In 1386 he was knighted there by the then 16-year-old King Richard II for his valuable services .

During this time at Knaresborough Castle, he also became friends with Henry IV , who in 1399 deposed Richard II from the throne , through close cooperation . Together they worked out the crusades that they undertook in 1392 with the so-called Prussian trip to Lithuania and the following year to Jerusalem .

During this time he married Cecilia (also: Cecily), with whom he had three sons who reached adulthood: Peter, Ralph and William (* 1406).

Buckton helped Heinrich remove Richard, which gave him tremendous advantages with the new king. As early as the middle of the 1390s he was the private secretary of Henry IV and from October 1, 1401 also the tutor of his son Thomas of Lancaster, born in 1388 , 1st Duke of Clarence . With the accession to the throne in 1399 Peter Buckton was justice of the peace and 1404 for one year High Sheriff of Yorkshire.

In 1395, 1397 and 1404, i.e. in three legislative terms, he was elected Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire in the English House of Commons .

It was only in the last years of his life that Buckton held duties outside of England: in 1411 he traveled to Castile on a diplomatic mission , and in 1411 he was offered the office of mayor of Bordeaux . Bordeaux was extremely important as the capital of Aquitaine , which was part of English rule. Buckton died in Castile at the age of 64 and, according to his will, was buried in his native Swine, east of Hull . The choir of the village church of Swine is considered the grave site .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Thompson: A history of the church and priory of Swine in Holderness , Thomas Topping, Lowgate 1824, p. 101
  2. ^ A b William M. Ormerod: Lord Lieutenants & High Sheriffs of Yorkshire 1066-2000 , Department of History of the University of York, 2000. ISBN 1-871647-74-6
  3. ^ John David Griffith Davies: King Henry IV , Barker 1935, p. 61
  4. ^ Werner Paravicini: The Prussian journeys of the European nobility. Part 1 (= supplements of Francia. Volume 17/1). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-7317-8 , p. 149 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Sir Piers Buckton, Kt at rootsweb.com
  6. ↑ a b Buckton, Sir Peter, (ca.1350–1414) .doc at girders.net
personal data
SURNAME Buckton, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English politician and knight
DATE OF BIRTH around 1350
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1414