• John Paston I (10 October 1421 – 21 or 22 May 1466) was an English country gentleman and landowner. He was the eldest son of the judge William Paston...
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  • John Paston may refer to: John Paston (died 1466) (1421–1466), of the Paston Letters, father John Paston (died 1479) (1442–1479), of the Paston Letters...
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  • Sir John Paston (before 15 April 1442 – November 1479) was the eldest son of John Paston and Margaret Mautby. He succeeded his father in 1466, and spent...
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  • Sir John Paston (1444 – 28 August 1504), was the second son of John Paston and Margaret Mautby. He succeeded his elder brother, Sir John Paston, in 1479...
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    one daughter: John Paston (10 October 1421 – 21 or 22 May 1466), who married Margaret Mautby (died 1484), daughter and heir of Sir John de Mauteby (of...
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  • of whom, John Paston (died 1466), succeeded her father in 1444 as heir and head of the family. By the standards of the time Elizabeth Paston married late;...
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  • post, he may have had to support Somer's children. Wife of John Paston (died 1466) Roskell, John Smith (1981), Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England...
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  • occasions. Paston died in May 1466, with the suit concerning Fastolf's will still proceeding in the church courts. John and Margaret Paston left five sons...
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  •  204. Gurney 1848, p. 412. Moreton 2004. Castor, Helen (2004). "Paston, John (1421–1466), landowner and letter writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    habitation. In 1466 John Paston died leaving his estate which included Gresham to his eldest son, also called John. In 1471 Sir John Gresham contemplated...
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    Diane Watt (2004). The Paston Women: Selected Letters. DS Brewer. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-1-84384-024-4. Thomson, J.A.F., 'John De La Pole, Duke of Suffolk'...
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    a leading courtier and Master of the Horse of Henry VII. In 1478 Sir John Paston wrote that Brandon had been arrested for an attempted rape: "yonge William...
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    Battle of Stoke in 1487. Sir John's father John Paston (1421–1466), MP for Norfolk in 1460 and 1461, wrote the famous Paston Letters. Horton seems to be...
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  • of the minor aristocracy of the region. "Southwell". Davis, Norman. The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling. An Essay Towards a Topographical...
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  • – Thomas Dutton, English knight (d. 1459) October 10 – John Paston, English politician (d. 1466) December 6 – King Henry VI of England (d. 1471) date unknown...
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    Devon (died 1461), Henry (died 1466), deemed by many sources to have inherited the earldom de jure, and John Courtenay, 15th Earl of Devon (died 1471)...
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  • Cressener 1482 Henry Wentworth 1483 John Wyngfield (1st term) 1484 Ralph Willoughby 1485 Richard Pole 1486 John Paston 1487 Edward Bedingfeld 1488 Sir Ralph...
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  • brother, Sir Alexander Boyd, and obtained possession of young James III in 1466. He was then made by Act of Parliament sole Governor of the Realm, Lord Chamberlain...
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    would not lose her own inheritance. On 3 October 1485, she wrote to John Paston, who was married to her cousin. The letter, which she had written from...
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  • King to confirm their rights to their land. In 1466 Pygot was present at an important funeral for John Paston, at Bromholm. Gifts included Pygot who was given...
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    Richard's marriage plans brought him into conflict with his brother George. John Paston's letter of 17 February 1472 makes it clear that George was not happy...
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  • have been that Earl of Worcester had engineered the match. A letter to John Paston on 1 May 1457 described how "the Erle [of Warwick's] yonger broþere maryed...
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    archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2016, retrieved 30 June 2009 Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, iii. 17 Ross 1974, p. 168. Haigh 1995, p. 59. Johnson...
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  • birth of her eldest son, Thomas, was noted in a letter from John Paston II to John Paston III in June 1477: Tydyngys, butt that yisterdaye my lady Marqueys...
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    Anne had one daughter, Anne Holland (1461), who was married in October 1466[citation needed] at Greenwich Palace to Thomas Grey, Lord Astley, son of...
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    of Bonville's councillors. Several contemporary accounts, including the Paston Letters, record this event with the ensuing mock-funeral and coronary inquest...
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    Yelverton I married, first, Anne, a daughter of John Paston I (1421-1466) and Margaret Mautby, of Paston Hall, Norfolk. The William Yelvertons II, III and...
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    Assize on the northern circuit. In 1466, he was made a judge of the common pleas and, in 1475, a knight of the Bath. He died, according to the inscription...
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  • Anglo-Normandy, H) James Gairdner (1828–1912, Scotland/England, H); The Paston Letters Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889–1976, England, H) Eduardo Galeano...
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  • performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, before the King at Whitehall. Paston School founded in Norfolk. 1607 30 January – Bristol Channel floods (a possible...
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