Sir. Walter IV DEVEREUX, Baron^{[1, 2]}

1432 - 1485  (53 years)

• Name	Walter IV DEVEREUX  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Prefix	Sir.
  Suffix	Baron
  Birth	1432	Bodenham, Leominster, Herefordshire, England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  	Calculated 1432 age 27 in 1459
  Gender	Male
  Baron of Chartley	, Chartley Lodge, Stafford, England   [6, 9, 10]
  _FSFTID	9DTB-Z3H
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9DTB-Z3H
  _UID	31104E48832A4689B51A9980DAE42C95BAE0
  Burial	1485	Bosworth Battlefield Grave Pits, Dadlington, Leicestershire, England   [4]
  Death	23 Aug 1485	Battle Of Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I8093	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Sir. Walter III DEVEREUX, Knight,   b. 1411, Bodenham, Leominster, Herefordshire, England d. 22 Apr 1459, Weobley, Herefordshire, England (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Lady Elizabeth MERBURY, Heiress Of Kinnersley,   b. 1412, Lyonshall, Herefordshire, England d. 22 Apr 1459, Bodenham, Herefordshire, England (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1425	<, , Herefordshire, England>   [3, 6, 11]
  	Walter was a Child Groom at the age of 11 [3, 6]
  Family ID	F4071	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anna DE FERRERS, Baroness Of Chartley,   b. 1 Nov 1437, Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, England d. 9 Jan 1469, Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	Bef 26 Nov 1446	Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales   [3, 6, 8]
  	Child Groom at the age of 14 [3, 6]
  _STAT	Arranged Marriage
  Children	1. Lady Elizabeth DEVEREUX,   b. 1452, Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England d. 1516, Shropshire, England (Age 64 years)   2. Lady Catherine DEVEREUX,   b. 1453, Chartley, Staffordshire, England d. 1459, Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, England (Age 6 years)   3. Katherine DEVEREUX,   b. Abt 1455, Weobley, Herefordshire, England d. Abt 1499 (Age ~ 44 years)   4. Sir Richard DEVEREUX,   b. Abt 1456, Chartley, Herefordshire, England d. 7 May 1501, Chartley Hall, Staffordshire, England (Age ~ 45 years)   5. Sir Thomas DEVEREUX,   b. 1458, Chartley, Herefordshire, England d. 18 Nov 1492, Chartley Hall, Staffordshire, England (Age 34 years)   6. Sybil DEVEREUX,   b. 1459, Weobley, Herefordshire, England d. 1499, Hereford, Herefordshire, England (Age 40 years)   7. John DEVEREUX,   b. Abt 1461, <, Chartley, Stafford, England> d. 7 May 1501 (Age ~ 40 years)   8. Sir John DEVEREUX, 9th Baron Ferrers Of Chartley,   b. 1461, Chartley, Stowe, Staffordshire, England d. 7 May 1501, Chartley, Stowe, Staffordshire, England (Age 40 years)   9. Lady Isabel Katherine DEVEREUX,   b. 1469, Hereford, Herefordshire, England d. 1546, Hereford, Herefordshire, England (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F4063	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Jane VERDON,   b. Abt 1444, England d. Aft 9 Nov 1512 (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	Aft 9 Jan 1468-1469	1st Husband 2ND Wife   [3, 6, 12]
  Family ID	F4045	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers, age 27 in 1459, killed at Bosworth 22 Aug 1485 and attainted. [Ancestral Roots] --------------------------- BARONY OF FERRERS OF CHARTLEY (II, 1) 1461 SIR WALTER DEVEREUX, of Weobley and Bodenham, co. Hereford, Branston, Cottesbach, and Newbold Verdon, co. Leicester, Market Rasen, co. Lincoln, &c. son and heir of Sir Walter DEVEREUX, of the same (who died 22 or 23 April 1459), by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John MERBURY, sometimc Chief Justice in South Wales. He married, 1stly, before 26 November 1446, Anne, daughter and heir of Sir William DE FERRERS, of Chartley, by Elizabeth, his wife. On 17 March 1452/3 they had a grant that they might have livery of her father's lands, without proof of her age, she being then aged 14 and more: on 20 March following they had livery of her inheritance in cos. Oxon, Berks, Hunts, Stafford, and the city of London, the fealty of Walter being ordered to be taken by the escheator in cos. Oxon and Berks. He was aged 26 and more, or 27 and more, at his father's death in 1459. He was with the Duke of York in the skirmish at Ludford, 12 October 1459, but surrendered and threw himself on the King's mercy, and was granted his life, but was condemned to forfeit his lands: these he was afterwards permitted to redeem for a fine of 500 marks. Knight of the Shire for co. Hereford, 1460. He accompanied Edward, Duke of York, on his advance from Gloucester to London in February 1460/1, and was present at the council held at Baynard's Castle, 3 March following, where it was resolved that Edward should be made King. On account of his great services against Henry VI, the Duke of Exeter, the Earls of Pembroke and Wiltshire, and other rebels and traitors, in 1 Edward IV he was raised to the rank of a Baron, thereby becoming LORD FERRERS, and on 20 February 1461/2 he had an extensive grant of forfeited lands. He was summoned to Parliament from 26 July 1461 to 9 December 1483 by writs directed Waltero Devereux, with the additions de Ferrers militi [1461), domino de Ferreys chivaler (1462 to 1462/3), and de Ferreys or de Ferrers, chivaler [1466/7 to 1483). He accompanied the King in his expedition to the North in November 1462. On 18 June 1463 he was appointed Constable of Aberystwith Castle, for life, and on 10 August 1464 joint Keeper of le heywode, co. Hereford. He was granted the offices of Constable of the castles, and Steward of the lordships, of Brecknock, Hay, and Huntington, during the minority of Henry, grandson and heir of Humphrey, late Duke of Buckingham, 16 November 1469, and was appointed Sheriff of co. Carnarvon and Master Forester of Snoweden hilles in North Wales, 28 July 1470, for life. He was one of the Lords who, with others, swore in the Parliament Chamber at Westminster, 3 July 1471, to accept Edward, Prince of Wales, as heir to the Crown, and was one of those selected, 20 February 1472/3, to be tutors and councillors of the Prince till he was 14 years of age. He accompanied the King to France in July 1475, and was present at the conference at Saint-Christ in Vermandois, 13 August, when the Kine agreed to bind himself to withdraw his army into England. On 31 Jan. 1475/6 he received a grant, to him and the heirs male of his body, of the manor of Wigston, co. Leicester, forfeited by John Veer, late Earl of Oxford; and 12 August 1484, of the manor of Cheshunt, Herts, to hold for life, as from the preceding Michaelmas. His 1st wife, the said Anne, who was aged 11 years and 8 months in July 1450, died 9 January 1468/9, aged 30. He married, 2ndly, Jane. He was slain at the battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485, and was attainted of high treason in the Parliament which met 7 November 1485, and was adjudged to have forfeited all that he possessed on the preceding 21 August, whether held in fee simple, fee tail, or for life. His widow married, 2ndly, Thomas VAUGHAN, who was living 18 November 1492. She married 3rdly Sir Edward BLOUNT, of Sodington, co. Worcester, who died s.p. 6 July 1499, and was buried in Mamble Church, co. Worcester. She married, 4thly, before 31 May 1507, Thomas POYNTZ: both were living 9 November 1512. [Complete Peerage V:321-5, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

  
  

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