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Sir William TAILBOYS

Sir William TAILBOYS[1]

Male 1415 - 1464  (49 years)

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  • Name William TAILBOYS  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Prefix Sir 
    Born 1415  Kyme, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID G9SG-291 
    _UID C20FF2CF6BD94287BD3845103588B4328CCE 
    Died 26 May 1464  Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Buried Grey Friars, Newcastle, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I13442  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2024 

    Father Walter TAILBOYS, 6th Baron Kyme, Sheriff Lincoln,   b. Abt 1391, Kyme, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Apr 1444  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Mother Alice STAFFORD, Heiress Of Hook & Southwick,   b. 1391, Hooke, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 24 Apr 1448, Southwick, Westbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Alt. Marriage 1415  Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Married Bef 1432  2ND Husband, 2ND Wife Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7
    Family ID F6869  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth BONVILLE,   b. Abt 1420, Shute, Axminster, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Feb 1490-1491  (Age ~ 71 years) 
    Children 
     1. Robert TAILBOYS, 8th Baron Kyme, Sir Knight,   b. Abt 1451, Kyme, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jan 1494-1495, Kyme Priory, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 44 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F6861  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Sir William Tailboys (or Talboys), Knight, son of 1st unkown wife (received none of the inheritance of Alice Stafford), Lord Kyme, knighted 19 Feb 1460/1, b. c 1415, beheaded 26 May 1464; m. Elizabeth Bonville, d. 14 Feb 1490/1, daughter of Sir William, Lord Bonville, KG, d. 1461 and (1) wife Margaret Grey. [Ancestral Roots]

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      BARONY OF KYME (VII) 1444

      SIR WILLIAM TAILBOYS, of Kyme, co. Lincoln, de jure LORD KYME, son and heir, born circa 1415, being aged 28 at his father's death. He had licence, 8 January 1444, for an oratory within his dwelling in the diocese of Lincoln. He is called the "King's esquire" 7 June 1444, when Harbottle Castle was restored to him. From 1441 onwards he was a justice of the Peace in Lincolnshire and in Northumberland. He supported Croyland Abbey in a dispute with Thomas Dacre concerning Whaplode. Here, and later, in official records, up to 1460, he is called "esquire," but, apparently in consequence of having inherited the castle and estate of Kyme, he was generally known as the "Earl of Kyme." He gave a release, 2 April 1446, as Lord of Reddesdale and of Kyme. In 1448 he and his servants were charged with many outrages in Lincolnshire, and he was imprisoned in the Marshalsea, his pardon being procured by the Duke of Suffolk, whose adherent. he was. On 10 October 1449 he was appointed a Commissioner in an inquiry in co. Lincoln. Later he was accused of having made an attempt to murder Ralph, Lord Cromwell, in the Star Chamber at Westminster on 28 November 1449. On 18 February 1458/9 be was appointed a Commissioner of Array in Lincolnshire and on 19 February 1460/1 was knighted at the battle of St. Albans, where, as at Towton on 29 March following, he fought on the Lancastrian side. On 14 May 1461 the new King, Edward IV, ordered Kyme and other manors of William Tailboys, knight, to be taken into his hand, the said William being a rebel and adherent of the King's enemies of France and Scotland. On 26 June following he took part in a Lancastrian assembly in Durham and in August was with Queen Margaret in Scotland. On 4 November 1461 he was attainted, whereby all his honours became forfeited. He was Captain of Alnwick Castle for Henry VI when it was besieged in July 1462, and surrendered it on condition of life and property being spared. He fought on the Lancastrian side at the battle of Hexham, 15 May 1464, and, escaping after the defeat, was captured in a coal pit near Newcastle (or in Redesdale, according to one account) towards the end of the month, and beheaded.

      He married Elizabeth, daughter of William, LORD BONVILLE. He died at Newcastle-on-Tyne, circa 26 May 1464, and was buried in the Grey Friars at Newcastle. His widow, who was allowed one-third of his lands in December 1464, died 14 February 1490/1. [Complete Peerage VII:359-61, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

  • Sources 
    1. [S579] Jim Weber.

    2. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 108-10 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Alice STAFFORD, person ID LKG6-BN8. (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 224-36 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VII:359-361 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 108-9 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VII:359 (Reliability: 3).