Sir James Tyrell
Sue Scott-Buccleuch of the Richard III Society has given me a new insight into
a possible connection between the Tyrell's and Belchamp Walter.
James' Father - William
Tyrrell's father was beheaded on Tower Hill on 23 February 1462, together with Sir Thomas Tuddenham and
John Montgomery.
John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and his eldest son and heir,
Aubrey, were beheaded on 26 February and 20 February,
respectively, after the discovery of an alleged plot to murder Edward IV.
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The article from the Ricardian, 1978
SIR JAMES TYRELL is one of the most notorious figures of the later fifteenth century
yet his character, and his antecedents and connections, remain relatively
obscure. It is hoped that the following article will go some way to remedy this.
The Tyrell genealogy for the second half of the fifteenth century is made more
difficult by the number of Tyrell men bearing the same Christian names, and the
accompany table will, it is hoped, make clear the family relationships here
described.
Table to be scanned
Sir John Tyrell of Heron, Essex (d. 1437), a distinguished man, had been
Speaker, Treasurer of the Household, and Sheriff of Suffolk, and of Hertfordshire.
He had married Alice, daughter of William Coggeshall and granddaughter of the celebrated English condottiere,
Sir John Hawkwood of Sible Hedingham, Essex, known in Italy as Giovanni Acuto.
Hawkwood was twice
married. The name of his first wife, the mother of Coggeshall’s wife Antiocha
(or Mary), is not recorded, but she was possibly a Brandolim' of Bagnacavallo. Footnote 1
She was dead by 1377, when Hawkwood married Donnina (or Aufricia), one
of the bastard daughters of Bernabb Visconti, Duke of Milan, by Donnina
di Leone Porto, a Milanese noblewoman. Of Bernabb’s legitimate daughters, Footnote 2
one, Lucia, was married to Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, another, Violanta
(or Yolanda), married Lionel, Duke of Clarence
