Walter DEVEREUX, Knt.

Abt 1433 - 1485  (52 years)

• Name	Walter DEVEREUX  [1]
  	Walter Devereux, Knt., K.G. of Weobley and Bodenham, co. Hereford, Branston, Cottesbach and Newbold Verdon, co. Leicester, Market Rasen, co. Lincoln, etc., M.P. for Herefordshire, son and heir of Walter Devereux, Knt., of Weobley and Bodenham, etc., by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Merbury, Chief Justice in South Wales. He was born about 1433 (aged twenty-six and more in 1459). She did aged thirty on 9 Jan. 1468/9. He was married for the second time to Jane (?). He was knighted after the Battle of Towton on 29 Mar 1461. On account of his great services against King Henry VI he was raised to the rank of Baron, thereby becoming Lord Ferrers. He was summoned to Parliament from 26 July 1461, by writs directed 'Waltero Devereux de Ferrers militi'. Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers, was slain at the battle of Bosworth on 22 Aug 1485, and was attainted of high treason in Parliament. [1]
  Suffix	Knt.
  Birth	Abt 1433  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Aug 1485	Slain at the battle of Bosworth   [1]
  Person ID	I90553	Main Tree
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2018

  
  

  Family 1	Anne DE FERRERS,   b. Abt Nov 1438   d. 9 Jan 1468/9 (Age 30 years)
  Marriage	Bef 26 Nov 1446  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth DEVEREUX   d. 1541
  Family ID	F37758	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Jane ?   d. Aft 9 Nov 1512
  Family ID	F37759	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 22 Aug 1485 - Slain at the battle of Bosworth  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).