William Lucy

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Sir William Lucy of Dallington (* around 1404 - 10 July 1460 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir William Lucy was a son of William Lucy of Woodcroft.

Sir William began his career in the early 1420s, when Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March gave him the castles and lands of Narberth Castle and Carmarthen for a period of ten years . In 1430, Sir William served in the Hundred Years War under Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham . In France he was made Lieutenant of Vire (1435) and Captain of Vernon . In 1443, Lucy served under Thomas Scales, 7th Baron Scales.

Lucy returned to England around 1444/1445 and was replaced by Henry VI. appointed Councilor and entrusted with regulatory tasks as Justice of Peace in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire (1446-1459). Sir William represented Buckinghamshire in 1449 and served as Sheriff of Herefordshire 1452-1460.

Sir William was appointed Chief Commissioner in 1453 to put an end to the fighting between the two most important families of northern England, House Percy and House Neville.

King Henry VI. 1454 called Lucy again to councilor and he represented the county of Northamptonshire in 1455 at the Great Council in Leicester . In the 1450s Lucy knew how to cleverly build a network of loyal Lancastrians in his environment through marriages, for example the marriage of William Vaux , his nephew, to Catherine Peniston, a lady in waiting for Margaret of Anjou .

During the Wars of the Roses , Sir William fought for the House of Lancaster in 1455 at the First Battle of St Albans and in 1460 at Northampton .

On July 10, 1460 in Northampton, when the battle had already been decided or already ended, Sir William was killed by John Stafford .

According to many sources, Sir John had a relationship with Margaret, the wife of William Lucy, whom he later married.

Marriage and offspring

Sir William Lucy was married three times. First marriage to Margaret Neville, daughter of Sir John Neville of Sutton. Second marriage to Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Sir Henry Percy of Athole and third marriage to Margaret FitzLewis, daughter of Sir Lewis John. He left no offspring.

reception

Sir William Lucy is also a character in the drama Henry VI. by William Shakespeare .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Douglas Richardson: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition 2011, ISBN 978-146-104513-7 , p. 165 / S. 166 / S. 200 / S. 462
  2. ↑ www.thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com - Article: The Battle of Northampton and the strange death of Sir William Lucy MP - July 8, 2015, Author: The History of Parliament - read online October 11, 2016
  3. ^ Harris Nicholas: Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, Vol. VI , London 1837, p. 148 / p. 476
  4. ↑ a b c d Ralph A. Griffiths: King and Country: England and Wales in Fifteen Century , A&C Black 1964, ISBN 978-1-852-85018-0 , pp. 327/328/361/362
  5. ^ A b Towton Battlefield Society
  6. ↑ a b Linda Clark: The Fifteen Century, XIV , Boydell & Brewer 2015, ISBN 978-1-783-27048-4 , pp. 104/105
  7. ↑ James Bohn: The Chronicles of the White Rose of York , William Stevens London 1845, pp. Lxxxii
  8. ^ Richard Brooke: Visits to the Fields of Battle in England , John R. Smith London 1837, pp. 46/47
  9. ↑ Ian Dawson: Inquiring History: The Wars of the Roses England 1450-1485 , Hachette UK 2012, ISBN 978-1-444-17924-8
  10. ^ Edmond Malone: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare Vol. XVIII , C. Baldwin London 1821, p. 546.
  11. ^ A b Alison Weir: The Wars of the Roses , Random House 2011, ISBN 978-0-345-40433-6 , p. 244.
  12. ↑ Michael Hickes: The Wars of the Roses , Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-11423-2 , p. 183.
  13. ↑ George Goodwin: Fatal Colors: Towton 1461– England's Most Brutal Battle , Hachette UK 2011, ISBN 978-0-297-86072-3 , p. 108.
personal data
SURNAME Lucy, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucy, Sir William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1460