Sir William TAILBOYS, Knt.

Abt 1415 - Abt 1464  (49 years)

• Name	William TAILBOYS  [1, 2]
  	William Tailboys, Knt., of Kyme, co. Lincoln, Lord Kyme 'de jure', son and heir of Walter Tailboys, Lord Kyme. He was born about 1415 (aged about twenty-eight in 1444). He fought as a Lancastrian at the battle of St. Albans on 19 Feb 1460/1 (where he was knighted), and at the battle of Towton on 29 Mar 1461. As a rebel and an adherent of the enemies of the new King, Edward IV, he was attainted on 4 Nov 1461. William Tailboys, Lord Kyme, fought on the Lanastrian side at the battle of Hexham on 15 May 1464, and, escaping after the defeat, was captured in a coal pt near Newcastle-on-Tyne toward the end of the month, and beheaded about 26 May 1464, burial at Grey Friars', Newcastle. [1]
  Prefix	Sir
  Suffix	Knt.
  Birth	Abt 1415  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	"de jure" Lord Kyme   [2]
  Fact	19 Feb 1460/1	Knighted   [2]
  Death	Abt 26 May 1464  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I82017	Main Tree
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Walter TAILBOYS,   b. 1391   d. 13 Apr 1444 (Age 53 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	? UNKNOWN
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F33362	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth BONVILLE   d. 14 Feb 1490/1
  Children	+ 1. Sir Robert TAILBOYS, Knt.,   b. 1451   d. 30 Jan 1494/5 (Age 44 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F33365	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Fact - 19 Feb 1460/1 - Knighted  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.). [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.