William Stonor

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Sir William Stonor of Stonor († 1494 ), was an English knight .

Life

Sir William was a son of Thomas Stonor, lord of Stonor in Oxfordshire , and Joan de la Pole, an illegitimate daughter of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk .

Faithful and loyal to Edward IV, William fought at the Battle of Towton during the Wars of the Roses in 1461 . He represented Oxfordshire in Parliament in 1478 as Knight of the Shire and was named Knight of the Kings Body . Sir William also had a good relationship with Queen Elizabeth Woodville , as evidenced by a letter from the Queen in 1481 to her esteemed and loyal William .

When Richard III. In 1483, when he ascended the throne, Sir William was present at the coronation ceremony. Like other loyal supporters of the late Edward IV and his Queen Elizabeth Woodville, Sir William rebelled against Richard III shortly afterwards. and joined the uprising known as Buckingham's Rebellion .

The first parliament under Richard III. then imposed a Bill of Attainder , so that Sir William lost all his rights and possessions. It is likely that William Stonor and Thomas Gray, 1st Marquess of Dorset , a son of Elizabeth Woodville's first marriage , fled to Brittany to Henry Tudor, later Henry VII .

Under Henry VII, Sir William was again Knight of the Kings Body , Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire, Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire (1485), Sheriff of Devonshire (1490-91), High Steward of the University of Oxford and Co-Constable of Wallingford Castle .

On January 17, 1478 he was beaten on the occasion of the wedding celebrations of Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York to the Knight of the Bath . On June 16, 1487, Henry VII beat him to the Knight Banneret before the Battle of Stoke .

Sir William Stonor died in 1494.

Marriage and offspring

Sir William was married three times. In his first marriage he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Croke and widow of Thomas Rich, in his second marriage Agnes, daughter of John Winnard and widow of John Wydesdale, and in the fall of 1481 in third marriage Anne Neville, daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (1431-1471). He had at least two third marriage children, Anne and John.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Towton Battlefield Society
  2. ↑ a b Richard III. Foundation Inc. ( Memento from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c Charles Ross: Richard III. University of California Press, 1983, ISBN 0-520-05075-4 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Douglas Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. 2nd Edition. Douglas Richardson, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4610-4520-5 , pp. 54/55.
  5. ↑ John Sandler: The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487. Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-90518-9 , p. 244.
  6. ^ Glenn Foard, Anne Curry: Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered. Oxbow Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78297-180-1 , p. 33.
  7. ^ Caroline Halsted: Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King. Carey & Hart, Philadelphia 1844, p. 451.
  8. ^ William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing, 1971, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 138.
  9. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 24.
  10. ^ Rachel Gibson: Exploring History 1400--1900. Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-84779-258-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Stonor, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stonor, Sir William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1494