Robert Bellingham

Sir Robert Bellingham was an English knight .

Life

Robert Bellingham served King Henry VII as Esquire to the Kings Body and fought in the last battle of the Wars of the Roses on June 16, 1487 near Stoke . Here Robert Bellingham succeeded in capturing the impostor Lambert Simnel , who posed as Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York , heir to the throne of the House of York .

On September 2, 1487, Bellingham and 20 men entered the house of John Beaufitz and kidnapped his daughter Margery, his beloved. But this seemed to have been quite willing and both married. King Henry was very angry about this and had Bellingham imprisoned in Warwick . When it came to the trial in July 1488, the process collapsed as Bellingham had apparently made peace with John Beaufitz in the meantime.

Robert Bellingham tried in the following years to regain the favor of his king, fought in the siege of Boulogne in 1492 and was finally appointed Bailiff of the Royal Estates at Sutton in 1494 and Sergeant Porter in 1496 .

During the campaign against Scotland Bellingham was defeated on September 30, 1497 by Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Surrey to Knight Bachelor .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Smith, Howitt, Cassell: John Cassell's Illustrated History of England Vol. II. W.Kent & Company London 1858, S23
^ ^A ^b Richard Brooke: Visits to the Fields of Battle in England. John R. Smith, London 1837, pp. 161, 313.
↑ ^a ^b David Grummitt: The Calais Garrison: War and Military service in England 1436-1558. Boydell & Brewer , 2008, ISBN 978-1-84383-398-7 , p. 15.
^ Towton Battlefield Society
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f David Baldwin: Stoke Field: The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses. Pen & Sword, 2006, ISBN 1-78159-693-X .
^ William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1971, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 32.
↑ Agney Conway: Henry VII's relationship with Scotland and Ireland from 1485 to 1498. Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-67528-5 , p. 238.

personal data
SURNAME	Bellingham, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English knight
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	16th Century

[CASSELL-1] Smith, Howitt, Cassell: John Cassell's Illustrated History of England Vol. II. W.Kent & Company London 1858, S23

[FIELDS-2] A ^b Richard Brooke: Visits to the Fields of Battle in England. John R. Smith, London 1837, pp. 161, 313.

[CALAIS-3] David Grummitt: The Calais Garrison: War and Military service in England 1436-1558. Boydell & Brewer , 2008, ISBN 978-1-84383-398-7 , p. 15.

[TOW-4] Towton Battlefield Society

[STOKE-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f David Baldwin: Stoke Field: The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses. Pen & Sword, 2006, ISBN 1-78159-693-X .

[KNT-6] William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1971, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 32.

[CONWAY-7] Agney Conway: Henry VII's relationship with Scotland and Ireland from 1485 to 1498. Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-67528-5 , p. 238.