Winners and LosersLift to discover their fates

John de Vere, Earl of OxfordCreated Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and Lord Admiral, Chief Steward of the Southern Duchy of Lancaster, Constable of the Tower of London, Lord Great Chamberlain of England and Knight of the Garter. He won

the battle of East Stoke for Henry in 1487 and defeated the Cornish rebels at Blackheath in 1497. He was also

godfather to Prince Arthur.

Reginald Bray of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire

He was created a Knight of the Bath at Henry’s coronation, and later a Knight

of the Garter. Made Treasurer and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,

and Steward of the University of Oxford. He was also the architect of the Henry VII Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey.

John Savage of Clifton, Cheshire

Received land confiscated from Lord Zouche and Lord Lovell.

Made a Knight of the Garter in 1488 but was killed at the siege

of Boulogne in 1492.

Sir Gilbert Talbot of Slottesden, Shropshire

Given the estates of executed Sir Humphrey Stafford in 1486, made keeper of Feckenham Forest in 1492,

Knight of the Garter in 1495 and Lord Deputy of Calais in 1509.

Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Newton, Carmarthenshire

Awarded Crown lordship of Brecknock and made Chamberlain

of Carmarthen and Cardigan.

Thomas WoodA common soldier hence no coat of arms. Made a Yeoman Of The

King’s Bodyguard (along with 28 other ordinary soldiers) and Constable

of Staines Bridge, Middlesex.

Sir Robert Willoughby of Bere Ferrers, Devon

Granted Receivership of the Duchy of Cornwall and appointed Steward of

all mines in Devonshire and Cornwall. He commanded alongside Oxford

against the 1497 Cornish Rebellion.

Sir William Stanley of Holt, Denbighshire

Created Chamberlain of Henry VII’s household, but executed for treason

in 1495 as implicated in the Perkin Warbeck plot.

Francis, Lord Lovell of Minster Lovell, OxfordshireOne of Richard III’s key advisors and friends. He escaped and organised a

series of Yorkist revolts. He later fled to Margaret of York in Flanders and joined the Lambert Simnel revolt. He escaped Stoke Field in 1487 and may have fled to Scotland, but his fate is a mystery.

Marmaduke Constable of Somersby, LincolnshirePardoned by Henry VII, he became a knight of the body to the King by

May 1486, sheriff of Yorkshire in 1488, fought in France in 1492, and at Flodden in 1513. He died in 1518,

apparently having swallowed a frog…

Sir Thomas Burgh of Gainsborough,LincolnshirePardoned by Henry VII. Became Knight of the Body & Privy Councillor to Henry

VII and created 1st Lord Burgh, of Gainsborough in 1487.

William Catesby of Ashby St. Legers

Captured and executed in Leicester on 25th August 1485.

Robert Brackenbury of Denton, Durham

Constable of the Tower of LondonKilled in Action.

Thomas Fitzalan KG, Lord Maltravers

of Arundel, SussexPardoned by Henry VII, he was

godfather to Arthur, Prince of Wales in 1486. In 1489 he was appointed Warden of the New Forest. He was elected Lieutenant of the Order of

the Garter, in 1489 and 1517.

Richard Ratcliffe of Derwentwater, Cumbria

Close personal friend and advisor of Richard III

Killed in Action.

Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland

Captured and imprisoned for 6 months then released

on promise of good behaviour, murdered by a Yorkshire mob in 1489.