Sir Robert TAILBOYS, Knt.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Lord Kyme
• Fact: 1472-1478, Member of Parliament
• Fact: 1480, Sheriff of Lincolnshire

Notes:

Name:
Robert Tailboys, Knt., Lord Kyme 'de jure', Sheriff of Lincolnshire, M.P. for Lincolnshire, was born about 1451 (aged forty at mother's death). The attainder of his father was reversed in 1472.

Robert married Elizabeth HERON before 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George TAILBOYS, Knt. was born about 1467; died on 21 Sep 1538; was buried in Bullington.
2. Maud TAILBOYS

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.

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