William Alington

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Sir William Alington of Bottisham ( 1430–1479 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir William Alington (also Allington or Alyngton) was a younger son of William Alington, landlord of Horseheath in Cambridgeshire . He himself was the lord of Bottisham in Cambridgeshire.

Sir William began his career as a justice of the peace in Cambridgeshire in 1457 and in Huntingdonshire from 1464 to 1470 .

1467/68 he sat as MP for the Borough Plympton in the English Parliament . In 1472 he was Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire and in 1477 for Lincolnshire Member of Parliament. The representatives of the House of Commons elected Sir William as their speaker in 1472 . Alington held this position until 1475 and was re-elected speaker three years later, in 1478 .

In Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Alington served as sheriff in 1477 . On November 20, 1477, Alington received a £ 6 reward for the arrest of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford .

When George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, was sentenced to death in 1478 and his brother, King Edward IV , hesitated to execute, Sir William, in his capacity as Speaker of the House of Commons, brought his sovereign the demand of the parliamentarians to implement the judgment and thus to allow justice to prevail.

During the Wars of the Roses , Alington fought for the House of York in 1471 at the Battle of Barnet and at Tewkesbury .

In early 1479 Sir William was appointed by the King to the Privy Council .

Sir William Alington died in May 1479 and has his final resting place in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire.

Marriage and offspring

Sir William was married to Joan, a daughter of Sir John Ansty.

The couple had no offspring.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c J. S. Roskell: The Commons and their Speakers in English Parliaments 1376–1523. Manchester University Press, 1965, pp. 283/284.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Edward Hailstone: History and Antiquities of the Parish of Bottisham. Deighton, Bell & Co, Cambridge 1873, pp. 36-38, 110-114, 116.
  4. ↑ a b John Smith Roskell: Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England. Part II, A&C Black, 1981, ISBN 0-9506882-9-0 , p. 168.
  5. ↑ a b c T. Venning: Compendium of British Office Holders. Springer, 2005, ISBN 0-230-50587-2 , p. 510.
  6. ↑ Chris Bryant: Parliament: The Biography. Volume 2, Random House, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4481-7107-1 .
  7. ^ A b James Ross: The Foremost Man in the Kingdom: John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford. Boydell & Brewer, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78327-005-7 , pp. 76, 255.
  8. ↑ David Grummitt: A Short History of the Wars of the Roses. IB Tauris, 2014, ISBN 978-0-85773-303-0 , p. 110.
  9. ↑ JR Lander: Government and Community: England 1450–1509. Harvard University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-674-35794-9 , p. 296.
  10. ^ Towton Battlefield Society
  11. ↑ D. Lysons, S. Lysons: Magna Britannia. Volume 2, T. Cadell, London 1810, p. 216.
  12. ↑ History Gazateer and Dictionary of Cambridgeshire. Robert Gardner, Petersborough 1851, p. 251.
  13. ↑ a b G. L. Watson, Robert, FW Smith: Writing the Lives of People and Things 500-1700. Ashgate Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4724-5069-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Alington, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alington, Sir William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1479