The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards of Lackham
This would certainly fit the folk-lore, but nothing else suggesting
that Butler was overlord of Lackham, or that he stayed there in
1451, has come to light. Indeed Scrope 101 maintained that
neither “Butler, earl of Wiltshire, or any of his family possessed
property within the county”. This is also supported by the fact
that none of the Inquisitions Post Mortem carried out after his
execution and attainment were from Wiltshire 102 . No signs of
burning were found in the limited excavations carried out on the
site the original house in the early years of the new millennium.
Philip II again witnessed a deed concerning a house his
grandfather had also been involved with in 1451 when he
Avice de Stafford, who in that year inherited the estate of her mother, Maud,
the Brien heiress, which passed into James's possession: below. His youngest
brother Thomas had married another substantial heiress, Anne, daughter and
coheir of Sir Richard Hankeford (d. 1431): below. All three brothers were
brought up at court and were staunch Lancastrians.[For what follows see GEC x.
126-32.] James's second wife, married possibly in April 1458, was Eleanor,
daughter of Edmund Beaufort, duke of Somerset, who had been killed at St.
Albans in 1455. James too had fought at St. Albans, was said to have fought
with Queen Margaret at Wakefield in Dec. 1460, and in Feb. 1461 was marching
to her assistance with the earl of Pembroke when they were defeated at
Mortimer's Cross by Edward earl of March. He fled from the battle of Towton
in March, but was captured at Cockermouth and beheaded at Newcastle on
Tyne[“Comes Wyltonie in Novo Castro super Tynam decollates est” (Hariss, GL &
Harris, MA (1972) John Benet’s Chronicle Camden Miscellany vol XXIV fourth
series vol 9 Royal Hist. Soc p231)] in May 1461. All three brothers were
attainted.
100 Griffith, RA (2004) The Reign of King Henry VI Sutton publishing ISBN 0
7509 3777 7 p576
101 Scrope, G P (1858) The Earls of Wiltshire WAM IV p14
102 PRO C140/43/29 covers lands in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Essex,
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Staffordshire and
Worcestershire and PRO C140/43/15 adds Kent
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