162:'s version of the life of Richard III, More says that after the coronation on 6 July 1483 and while on his way to Gloucester, Richard sent John Green to Brackenbury with written orders for Brackenbury to kill the princes. Brackenbury, says More, replied "that he would never put them to death, though he should die therefore". So Richard then ordered Sir
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On 7 November 1485, Brackenbury was posthumously attainted by Henry VII. In a document antedating Henry Tudor's rule, Brackenbury was charged with having "assembled to them at
Leicester ... a great host, traitorously intending, imagining and conspiring the destruction of the king's royal person, our
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Brackenbury was one of
Richard III's close associates. He was treasurer of Richard's household when he was Duke of Gloucester. When King Edward died Brackenbury was almost certainly one of the Northerners who accompanied Richard to London. Shortly after Richard took the throne Brackenbury received
193:(22 August 1485), in which – according to Molinet and Lindsay – he had joint command of Richard's vanguard; he took part in the final charge on Henry and was killed by Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh fighting beside Richard III.
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Brackenbury's attainder was partly reversed in 1489 in favour of his sisters and bastard son, allowing them to recover the family lands but not the new grants from
Richard III. Ralph, his nephew and heir male inherited Saleby.
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seems to have written a rather convincing account of the events during the reign of
Richard III, it should not be relied on wholeheartedly. Thomas More was only 7 years old during the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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to go to
Brackenbury with a letter by which he was commanded to deliver to Sir James all the keys of the Tower for one night, "to the end he might there accomplish the King's pleasure".
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500 per year – more than many Barons. He must have been better rewarded than all but three or four of the household. Between August 1484 and
January 1485 he was
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in about 1474. Richard III and
Brackenbury, were therefore, close neighbours. Indeed, a tower of Barnard Castle is still called Brackenbury Tower.
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he was rewarded with large grants of land in the south-east of
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Brackenbury remained Constable of the Tower and on 17 July 1483 he was appointed Constable of the
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of Burne Hall, Denton and Saleby. Robert inherited Saleby; in the immediate vicinity of
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Green,R.F.; "Historical notes of a London citizen, 1483–1488"
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29:(died 22 August 1485) was an English courtier, who was
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Sir Bartholomew Reed and Robert Fenrother (1492–1498)
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a number of appointments, including Constable of the
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For the English poet, philanthropist and mystic, see
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432:Henry de Bruselee and John Chichester (1351–?)
429:Richard de Snowshill/Richard of Grimsby (1331)
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217:Bunnett, R.J.A.; "Sir Robert Brackenbury",
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979:People from the Borough of Darlington
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485:Sir Richard Tonstall (1459–1461)
260:Dictionary of National Biography
238:, Unwin Paperbacks, London, 1973
231:Cambridge University Press, 1989
182:In 1485, when news arrived that
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31:Constable of the Tower of London
999:People of the Wars of the Roses
229:Richard III: A Study in Service
523:Sir Giles Daubeney (1485–1490)
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441:Walter dei Bardi (1375–1391)
435:Walter dei Bardi (1361–1361)
283:The White Queen (miniseries)
90:. After the collapse of the
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949:Chancellor of the Exchequer
482:Robert Manfield (1446–1459)
438:John Chichester (1365–1367)
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245:, Alan Sutton, London, 1990
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479:John Paddesley (1435–1446)
473:Sir Lewis John (1418–1420)
470:Sir Lewis John (1413–1414)
467:Richard Garner (1411–1414)
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178:Tudor invasion and death
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234:Kendall, Paul Murray;
212:The Battle of Bosworth
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854:2nd Earl of Clancarty
812:2nd Earl of Liverpool
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243:The Wars of the Roses
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836:Lord Charles Spencer
420:House of Plantagenet
316:Craig, John (1953).
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989:Masters of the Mint
969:15th-century births
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896:1st Baron Ashburton
602:Sir Edward Villiers
304:"Robert Brakenbury"
251:Brackenbury, Robert
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575:Sir Richard Martin
530:4th Baron Mountjoy
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