Walter TAILBOYS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: "de Jure" Lord Kyme
• Fact: 1423, Sheriff of Lincolnshire
• Fact: 1442-1443, Justice of the Peace

Family/Spouse: ? UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice STAFFORD. Alice died on 24 Apr 1448. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: "de jure" Lord Kyme
• Fact: 19 Feb 1460/1, Knighted

Notes:

Name:
William Tailboys, Knt., of Kyme, co. Lincoln, Lord Kyme 'de jure', son and heir of Walter Tailboys, Lord Kyme. He was born about 1415 (aged about twenty-eight in 1444). He fought as a Lancastrian at the battle of St. Albans on 19 Feb 1460/1 (where he was knighted), and at the battle of Towton on 29 Mar 1461. As a rebel and an adherent of the enemies of the new King, Edward IV, he was attainted on 4 Nov 1461. William Tailboys, Lord Kyme, fought on the Lanastrian side at the battle of Hexham on 15 May 1464, and, escaping after the defeat, was captured in a coal pt near Newcastle-on-Tyne toward the end of the month, and beheaded about 26 May 1464, burial at Grey Friars', Newcastle.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth BONVILLE. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir William BONVILLE, K.G. and Margaret GREY) died on 14 Feb 1490/1. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]