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Thomas Fitzalan KG, Lord Maltravers of Arundel, Sussex Winners and Losers Lift to discover their fates William Catesby John Savage of Ashby St. Legers Sir Thomas Burgh of Clifton, Cheshire Sir Rhys ap Thomas Captured and executed in Leicester of Gainsborough,Lincolnshire on 25th August 1485. Received land confiscated from Pardoned by Henry VII. Became Knight of Newton, Carmarthenshire Lord Zouche and Lord Lovell. of the Body & Privy Councillor to Henry Awarded Crown lordship of Made a Knight of the Garter in VII and created 1st Lord Burgh, Brecknock and made Chamberlain 1488 but was killed at the siege Sirof Gainsborough Thomas Burghin 1487. ofSir Carmarthen Rhys ap and Thomas Cardigan. William Catesby of JohnBoulogne Savage in 1492. of Gainsborough,Lincolnshire of Newton, Carmarthenshire of Ashby St. Legers of Clifton, Cheshire John de Vere, Earl of Oxford Thomas Fitzalan KG, Richard Ratcliffe Created Captain of the Yeomen of the Lord Maltravers Sir Gilbert Talbot Guard and Lord Admiral, Chief Steward of Derwentwater, Cumbria of the Southern Duchy of Lancaster, of Arundel, Sussex of Slottesden, Shropshire Close personal friend and Constable of the Tower of London, Pardoned by Henry VII, he was Given the estates of executed advisor of Richard III Lord Great Chamberlain of England godfather to Arthur, Prince of Wales Sir Humphrey Stafford in 1486, made Killed in Action. and Knight of the Garter. He won in 1486. In 1489 he was appointed keeper of Feckenham Forest in 1492, the battle of East Stoke for Henry in Warden of the New Forest. He was Knight of the Garter in 1495 and 1487 and defeated the Cornish rebels elected Lieutenant of the Order of LordSir Deputy Gilbert of Calais Talbot in 1509. Richard Ratcliffe at BlackheathJohn inde 1497. Vere He was also Thomasthe Garter, in Fitzalan 1489 and 1517.KG, of Slottesden, Shropshire of Derwentwater, Cumbria godfatherEarl ofto OxfordPrince Arthur. Lord Maltravers of Arundel, Sussex Sir William Stanley Francis, Lord Lovell Reginald Bray Marmaduke Constable of Holt, Denbighshire of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire of Somersby, Lincolnshire Created Chamberlain of Henry VII’s One of Richard III’s key advisors and He was created a Knight of the Bath at Pardoned by Henry VII, he became household, but executed for treason friends. He escaped and organised a Henry’s coronation, and later a Knight a knight of the body to the King by in 1495 as implicated in the series of Yorkist revolts. He later fled to of the Garter. Made Treasurer and May 1486, sheriff of Yorkshire in Perkin Warbeck plot. Margaret of York in Flanders and joined Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1488, fought in France in 1492, and the Lambert Simnel revolt. He escaped and Steward of the University of Oxford. at Flodden in 1513. He died in 1518, Stoke Field in 1487 and may have fled He was also the architect of the Henry apparentlyMarmaduke having swallowed Constable a frog… Sir William Stanley to Scotland,Francis, but hisLord fate Lovell is a mystery. VII Lady ChapelReginald in Westminster Bray Abbey. of Somersby, Lincolnshire of Holt, Denbighshire of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire Henry Percy Sir Robert Willoughby Robert Brackenbury Earl of Northumberland of Bere Ferrers, Devon of Denton, Durham Thomas Wood Captured and imprisoned Constable of the Tower of London Granted Receivership of the Duchy of A common soldier hence no coat for 6 months then released Cornwall and appointed Steward of Killed in Action. of arms. Made a Yeoman Of The on promise of good all mines in Devonshire and Cornwall. King’s Bodyguard (along with 28 other behaviour, murdered by He commanded alongside Oxford ordinary soldiers) and Constable a Yorkshire mob in 1489. againstSir Robertthe 1497 WilloughbyCornish Rebellion. Robert Brackenbury of StainesThomas Bridge, Wood Middlesex. Henry Percy of Bere Ferrers, Devon of Denton, Durham Earl of Northumberland.
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