Thomas ap Roger Vaughan
Thomas ap Roger Vaughan († July 23 or 26, 1469 at Danes Moor ) was a Welsh nobleman.
Thomas was probably the second son of Roger Fychan and his wife Gwladus, a daughter of Dafydd Gam . His father died in 1415 at the Battle of Azincourt , after his death his mother married Sir William ap Thomas . While his older brother Watkyn inherited Bredwardine Castle in Herefordshire and his younger brother Roger became Lord of Tretower as a follower of their half-brother William Herbert , Thomas inherited properties near Kington in Herefordshire, where he built a new mansion, Hergest Court , in 1430 instead of an older one .
From the mid-1440s Vaughan was in the service of Humphrey Stafford , who was elevated to Duke of Buckingham in 1444. From 1453 to 1454 he was administrator of Brecknock , Hay and Huntington, and during the minority of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham King Edward IV confirmed him in September 1461 as administrator of the South Welsh estates of the Stafford family. Like his relatives, he was a loyal supporter of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses . Although he fell through the Coventry Parliament in 1457 together with other relatives under a general amnesty from King Henry VI. , and in 1460 he was to occupy the properties of Richard of York and the Earl of Warwick in Herefordshire on behalf of the king , but he remained a staunch Yorkist. He fell at the Battle of Edgecote Moor , although it is controversial whether he fell in a pre-battle skirmish or in the main battle. He was buried in Kington Church, where the funerary memorial of him and his wife has survived.
He married Elen Gethin, a daughter of Cadwgan ap Dafydd. With her he had three sons and a daughter:
- Watkyn
- Richard († after 1469)
- Roger
- Alice (or Elizabeth) ∞ Robert Whitney
He and his sons promoted Welsh poets. In their residence, Hergest Court, they kept a collection of Welsh texts known as the Red and White Book of Hergest , and they may even have created these collections through their sponsorship.
Web links
- RA Griffiths: Thomas ap Roger Vaughan (c.1400-1469). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
- Evan David Jones: VAUGHAN family, of Tretower Court (Dictionary of Welsh Biography)
Individual evidence
- ^ British Listed Buildings: Hergest Court, Kington Rural. Retrieved February 10, 2016 .
- ^ Dictionary of Welsh Biography: VAUGHAN family, of Hergest, Kington, Herefords. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thomas ap Roger Vaughan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | welsh nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1415 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1469 or July 26, 1469 |
| Place of death | at Danes Moor |