Thomas Broughton

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Sir Thomas Broughton of Broughton-in-Furness († 1487 ) was an English knight .

Life

He was a son of John Broughton and Margaret.

He was a supporter of the House of York and fought in the campaign against Scotland in 1482 for Richard Duke of Gloucester , later Richard III. During this campaign he was defeated on July 24, 1482 in Scotland to the Knight Banneret . After Richard III took over the throne. In 1483, Sir Thomas was appointed Knight of the Kings Body .

He fought for his king at the Battle of Bosworth on August 22, 1485 and then received pardon from the victorious Henry VII . But Sir Thomas remained a staunch Yorkist. He hid his friend, Francis Lovel, 1st Viscount Lovel , who had to flee after the defeat of Bosworth, for some time with himself and after his unsuccessful uprising in 1486 Sir Thomas granted refuge again.

Sir Thomas joined the Lambert Simnel conspiracy and was an important local confidante for the conspirators and Margaret of York . When Lambert Simnel landed in England with his army in 1487, you were joined by Sir Thomas and fought against Henry VII in the last battle of the Wars of the Roses in Stoke .

Sir Thomas fell on June 16, 1487 and his possessions, including the Witherslack and Broughton-in-Furness properties , went to Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby . Legend has it that Sir Thomas survived the battle, escaped and lived camouflaged among his former feudal men.

Movie and TV

Sir Thomas Broughton and his support for Viscount Lovel can also be seen in the English TV series The Shadow of the Tower from 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f W. Farrer, J. Browhnhill: A History of the County of Lancaster. Volume 8, Victoria County History, London 1914, pp. 400–406, read online at www.british-history.ac.uk on December 16, 2016.
  2. ^ A b c d e Towton Battlefield Society
  3. ^ William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing, 1971, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 18
  4. ↑ a b c d e Terry Breverton: Richard III. The King in the Car Park. Amberley Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4456-2111-1 .
  5. ^ John Sandler: Border Fury: England and Scotland at War 1296-1568. Routledge 2013, ISBN 978-1-317-86527-8 , p. 404.
  6. ↑ a b 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
  7. ^ Caroline Halsted: Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King. Carey & Hart Philadelphia 1844, p. 471.
  8. ^ A b c d e Richard Brooke: Visits to the Fields of Battle in England. John. R. Smith, London 1837, pp. 178, 179, 187, 188, 316, 317.
  9. ^ H. Woodfall: A Genealogical History of the House of Ivery. Vol. I, London 1742, p. 289.
  10. ^ Stanley Bertram Chrimes: Henry VII. Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-300-07883-8 , p. 71.
  11. ↑ a b Rapin de Thoyras: The History of England, Vol. V. London 1757, pp. 229, 236.
  12. ^ A b Thomas Wright: The History and Topography of Cumberland and Westmorland. Whittaker & Co, London 1860, p. 821.
  13. ^ A b c Edward Baines: History of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Vol. I, Fisher, Son & Co., London 1836, pp. 444, 446.
  14. ↑ a b c d e f Thomas West: The Antiquities of Furness: Illustrated with Engravings. John Ashburuer, 1805, pp. 272, 273, 401.
  15. ↑ a b c d e J. H. Parker: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Chesire. Vol. IX, London 1857, p. 188.
personal data
SURNAME Broughton, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broughton, Sir Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1487
Place of death Stoke