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Sir Thomas Vaughan
- Preferred Name: Sir Thomas Vaughan[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- Alternate Name: Walter Vaughan
- Alternate Name: Thomas Vaughan
- Alternate Name: Thomas Vaughn
- Alternate Name: Sir Thomas Vaughan
- Alternate Name: Thomas Vaughn Sir
- Alternate Name: Thomas Philip Vaughan
- Alternate Name: Thomas Vaughn
- Gender: M
- Christening: in England
- unknown: in of Tyle-glas, Brecs. at LATI: N1.9489 LONG: E3.3913
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: sir
- Death: 23 JUN 1483 in executed at Pontefract, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.701 LONG: E1.245
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Knight18 APR 1475
- Birth: 1431 in Glasbury, Radnorshire, Wales at LATI: N2.3301 LONG: E3.3682
- National Identification: with note: Description: IND5406
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
- Burial: 1483 in Westminster Abbey Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England at LATI: N1.4994 LONG: E0.1275 with note: find a grave
- Occupation: Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Todesursache: with note: Description: Geköpft
- FSID: LZNP-GHY
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
As stated in source below on top of page 181:
Vaughan married Alianor or Elanor, daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Arundel of Betchworth Surrey, and Widow of Sir Thomas Browne, under-treasurer of the household to Henry VI. By Her he had a daughter Anne, Married to Sir John Wogan, and a son Henry, Whose son Sir Thomas, taking the name of Parry, is separately noticed.
From the source Vaugahan Family of Wales page 27:
Thomas Vaughan held many positions in the year 1442 or 1443 he was denizship because he was a welshman he was steward, reciever, constable and Porter in 15 June 1446, Master of the Kings ordinance for 10 years starting 23 June 1450.
Main Pernor for Jasper Tudor Earl o f Pembroke on 21 April 1459,
Fled to Oreland with Philip Malpas, William Hatclyf, and King Henry IV with the jewels and treasure. They were captured by French Pirates, Queen Margaret tried to get Louis XI to release them to her but didnt. But Edward IV when becoming King got their release in 1461 @9 June 1465 he became the treasurer of the Kings Chambers and master of the King Jewels. Knighted on 18 April 1475 and between the 13 -25 June 1483 was executed.
Wikipedia life sketch:
Thomas Vaughan (died 1483)
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Sir Thomas Vaughan
Born
c.1410
Died
c.25 June 1483
Pontefract Castle
Occupation
statesman
Spouse(s)
Eleanor Arundel
Parent(s)
Robert Vaughan, Margaret Vaughan (Dictionary of National Biography (attached) states he was the illegitimate son of Roger Vaughan.
Sir Thomas Vaughan (c. 1410 – June 1483) was a Welsh statesman and diplomat, who rose to prominence before and during the Wars of the Roses. He began as an adherent of Jasper Tudor and King Henry VI of England, and was appointed to several offices by Henry. He was nonetheless a Yorkist by inclination, as were many Welshmen of the time. After the Yorkist victory in 1461 he became a loyal and important servant of King Edward IV. In 1483, he was executed by Richard III as part of his seizure of the throne.
Life[edit]
Vaughan was the son of Robert and Margaret Vaughan of Monmouth. In 1446 he was appointed to the offices of Steward, Receiver, and Master of the Game in Herefordshire and Ewyas, and Steward, Constable, Porter, and Receiver of Abergavenny. In 1450, he became Master of the Ordnance. He entered Parliament in 1455 as MP for Marlborough.
Despite his early association with Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, Vaughan was accused of plotting against King Henry VI of England as early as 1459. Somehow he regained the king's favour, and in 1460 was appointed Keeper of Henry VI's "great Wardrobe".
After Henry's defeat at Saint Albans in 1461, Vaughan, along with Philip Malpas and William Hatclyf, sailed for Ireland with Henry's treasury, but were captured by French pirates. Edward IV, surprisingly, ransomed Vaughan from the pirates, for which Vaughan was forever afterwards loyal. Edward soon came to trust Vaughan and placed him in high offices.
Vaughan was appointed Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex for 1464. In 1465 Edward made him Treasurer of the King's Chamber and Master of the King's Jewels.
Edward also sent Vaughan as ambassador to the courts of Burgundy and France. He helped negotiate the marriage of Edward's sister, Margaret to the Duke of Burgundy in 1468.
In 1475, on the same day that Edward's eldest son, the future Edward V, was invested as Prince of Wales, Vaughan was knighted, having acted for some years as Chamberlain to the young prince.
In 1478, he was elected to parliament as knight of the shire for Cornwall.
After Edward IV died in 1483, Vaughan was accompanying Edward V from Ludlow to London when the party was intercepted by the future King Richard III, then Duke of Gloucester. Richard had Vaughan arrested and executed along with Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl of Rivers and tutor for Edward V. Also arrested was Edward V's half brother Sir Richard Grey the son of Sir John Grey of Groby and the first husband of Elizabeth Woodville. All three were beheaded at Pontefract Castle on 25 June 1483, in West Yorkshire.
Vaughan was the second husband of Eleanor Arundel, widow of Sir Thomas Browne, who had likewise been executed in 1460.[1]
In Shakespeare's Richard III, Vaughan's ghost appears to the King on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth.[2]
Memorial
Sir ROGER VAUGHAN, third son of ROGER VAUGHAN of Bredwardine — see Vaughan family of Bredwardine — by Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam, was the first of the Vaughans to reside at Tretower. It is said
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!#4569-v1-p163; v3-p461*; !illeg son; ^bornL2> Llanfihangel Dwm Du;
=== !Cyral A. Watson. Sources: The Ancestr ===
!Cyral A. Watson. Sources: The Ancestry of John Whitney F FH 702, p 74-115, 216; Americana, Am. Pub. F, v. 28, p. 141-150; Archaelogia Cambrensis, Wales Pub. A, 4s, v.2, p. 31; Royal Fam. & Mayflower Desc., Royal Fam. & Mayflower Desc., B13B4, p. 83, 155,156.
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=== Relationship to N. G. Utting note ===
Seventeenth Great Grandfather.
Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather
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Preferred Parents:
Father: Roger Vaughan of Tretower, b. 1410 in Tretower, Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom d. 1471 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Mother: Denise-Cicely verch Thomas, b. 1414 in Radnorshire, Wales d. 1457 in Tretower, Breconshire, Wales
Family 1: Eleanor Arundel, b. 1415 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England d. 1 JUN 1469 in Betchworth, Surrey, England
- Ann Vaughan, b. 1459 in Bredwardline, Herefordshire, England d. 1535 in Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Sources:
- Title: Thomas Vaughan, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-X85W : 15 June 2022), Thomas Vaughan, ; Burial, Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, Westminster Abbey; citing record ID 122003785, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-X85W;
- Title: Welsh Journals online/Cyf. 25, rh. 4 Gaeaf 1988 The marriages of knighted Welsh landowners, 1485-1558
Author: Google search for Knights in Pembrokeshire wales
Publication: Name: http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1277425/llgc-id:1288291/llgc-id:1288333/get50Percent;
Note: Gives relationship with spouses and death dates and relationship with parents page 396. The statement in the final sentence that Jane was not the widow of Lewis Pollard is misleading. While she was not the widow of Lewis Pollard who died in 1526, she was the widow of Lewis Pollard his grandson.
Page: shows relationship to daughter Ann and death year
- Title: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22 for Thomas Vaughan
Author: Ancestry.com search
Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1981/31205_Vol20-00198/75789?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/18454250/person/29124398640/facts/citation/150201275975/edit/record#?imageId=31205_Vol20-00198;
Note: This is from library of wales and has information about Wales families. shows relationship and dates
Page: page 196 on scroll bar actual book page 180 to 181. gives brief history of this Thomas Vaughan
- Title: Archaeologia Cambrensis
Author: Google search for Heiress of Stonehall
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=77s1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&dq=Heiress+of+Stonehall&source=bl&ots=l7Mq0Ez6ki&sig=3oQJPKIMZBZykLnqAXt3-dth7VQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTkZ-S0qfLAhVM42MKHdKOCIAQ6AEIHzAB#v=onepage&q=Heiress%20of%20Stonehall&f=false;
Note: Shows pedigree of Wogan family in a book that was put together in 1902 and back
Page: Shows relationship with Daughter
- Title: Eleanor Arundel in Notes on the Vaughan Family of Wales
Author: Search for Vaughan family of Wales
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/VaughanFamilyOfWales/page/n25/mode/2up?q=Arundel&view=theater;
Note: Marriage to Thomas Vaughan after Thomas Browne's death.
Page: Page 26 gives some history and shows relationship to father and spouse and son
- Title: Dictionary of Welsh Bio
Author: Google search for this website and bio on Thomas Vaughan and Arundels
Publication: Name: https://biography.wales/article/s-VAUG-THO-1483?&query=Wogan&lang[]=en&sort=score&order=desc&rows=12&page=1;
Note: Gives dates history of this Vaughan family
Page: shows relationship to spouse and children and dates
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