Thomas Fynderne

Sir Thomas Fynderne of Fynderne (* around 1420 † 1464 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir Thomas Fynderne (also Finderne) was a son of Sir William Fynderne († 1445) and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Childrey.

He began his career in the Hundred Years War in Calais and Guînes in the late 1440s . From 1452 Sir Thomas was lieutenant of the garrison in Guines and represented as a Knight of the Shire , the county of Essex in the English Parliament .

During the Wars of the Roses he fought for the House of Lancaster in 1455 at the First Battle of St Albans , where he was selected by Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset to negotiate with the Yorkists in advance of the battle. In the further course of the wars Sir Thomas fought at the Battle of Northampton in 1460 , at Wakefield and in 1461 at Towton . After the defeat at Towton, Sir Thomas fled to the besieged Dunstanburgh Castle and in its fall like Henry VI. , Queen Margaret of Anjou and other loyal Lancastrians, e.g. B. Sir Richard Tunstall , Sir Edmund Hampden and Sir Robert Whittingham , into exile in Scotland. In England, the first parliament under Edward IV imposed a Bill of Attainder on Sir Thomas, so that Sir Thomas lost all his rights and possessions in England. Much of his land went to Sir Thomas St. Ledger. Thomas Fynderne fought at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor in 1464 and then mobilized again with Henry Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset , and went to the Battle of Hexham on May 15, 1464 .

Sir Thomas was captured in Hexham and was convicted and beheaded along with others on May 17, 1464 in Newcastle upon Tyne .

Marriage and offspring

Sir Thomas was married to Catherine Berners. The couple had at least one son:

• Sir William

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} www.historyofparliamentonline.org - entry William Fynderne - read online February 13, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b} Linda Clark: Conflicts, Consequences and the Crown in late Middle Ages , Boydell & Brewer 2007, ISBN 978-1-843-83333-8 , p. 63
3. ↑ David Grummitt: The Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England 1436-1558 , Boydell & Brewer 2008, ISBN 978-1-843-83398-7 , page 64
4. ↑ Tim Thornton: Social Service and Political Structures , The History Press 2001, ISBN 978-0-752-49481-4
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} V.J. Scattergood, Julia Boffey: Texts and their Context: Papers from the early Book Society , Four Courts Press 1997, p. 218
6. ^ Andrew W. Boardman: The First Battle of St. Albans , Tempus 2006, ISBN 978-0-752-42983-0 , p. 113
7. ^ Dorothy Clayton: The Administration of the County of Palatine of Chester 1442-1485 , Manchester University Press 1990, ISBN 978-0-719-01343-0 , p. 86
8. ^ ^{A b c d} Towton Battlefield Society
9. ^ ^{A b c} Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Newcastle 1885, p. 77
10. ^ ^{A b} Anthony Goodman: The Wars of the Roses: Military Activity and English Society 1452-1497 , Taylor & Francis 1990, ISBN 978-0-415-05264-1 , p. 61 / S. 64
11. ^ ^{A b} David Lysons: Magna Britannia Vol. II , London 1810, p. 159 / p. 276
12. ↑ ^{a b} John Smith Roskell: The Commoners and Their Speakers in English Parliament from 1376 to 1523. Manchester University Press 1965, p. 356
13. ↑ ^{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. 
14. ↑ ^{a b c} James Bohn: The Chronicles of the White Rose of York , William Stevens London 1845, p. 14 / p. 106 / S. 107