Robert Hildyard^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1445 - Bef 1501  (~ 56 years)

• Name	Robert Hildyard
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1445
  Death	Bef 9 Jun 1501  [1]
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2021

  
  

  Wife	Elizabeth Hastings           b. Abt 1445
  Children	1. Dionis Hildyard           b. Abt 1475  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2021

  
  

• Notes

  From Foster's Pedigrees1: Sir Robert Hildyard of Winestead, knighted at coronation of Richard 3 [1483], an executor under his father's will, proved 29 August 1489; he was a well-known personage during the reigns of Henry 6, Edward 4 and Richard 3. In 9 Edward 4 [c. 1470] he, together with Sir John Conyers and others, headed an insurrection in the north, made in favour of the Lancastrians, numbering 20,000 men, and encountered the Earl of Pembroke at the head of 18,000 Welshmen at a place called Danes More, near Edgecote in Oxford, and entirely defeated them, taking hte said earl and his brother Richard prisoners, who, together with Richard Woodville, Earl of Rivers, were subsequently beheaded at Northampton, by command of George, Duke of Clarence, and Nevile, Earl of Warwick. He was one of the knights who met Henry 7 in his progress towards York, and died 5 Henry 7 [1489/1490]. Administration granted to his son Stephen, 9 June, 1501. Footnotes [1] Pedigrees of The County Families of Yorkshire, Compiled by Joseph Foster, Volume 3 (North and East Riding), London (1874); Hildyard of Winestead, Hutton Bonville etc See also: MCA Skepper 11

  
  

• Sources

  [S0450] Joseph Foster, Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, (London, 1844-1905), Hildyard of Winestead; Volume 3. [S0528] William Flower Esq., Visitations of Yorkshire, 1563-1564, (London, 1881), Barneby of Barneby, pages 12-13.