Marmaduke Constable (ca. 1455-November 20, 1518) English soldier, was descended from a certain Robert (d. 1216), lord of Flamborough, who was related to the Lacys, hereditary constables of Chester, hence the surname of the family. A son of Sir Robert Constable (d. 1488), Marmaduke was in France with Edward IV **in 14-5** and with Henry VII in 1492. He was sheriff of Staffordshire and Yorkshire, was in high favor with Henry VII and Henry VIII, and led his kinsmen and retainers to the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513. He was twice married, and left several sons when he died on the 20th of November 1518. In Flamborough church one may still read a rhyming epitaph describing Constable's life and prowess. Events February 9 - Wars of the Roses: Richard, Duke of York dismissed as Protector February 23 - Johannes Gutenberg prints the first Bible on a printing press May 22 - Wars of the Roses: First Battle of St Albans - Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick defeat... November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola. ... English in common usage may refer to: English, a West Germanic language spoken mainly in the United States, the UK as well as its former colonies, and used as an international lingua franca in many parts of the world a citizen of England, the country the English people, an ethnic... A Norwegian soldier (a Corporal, armed with an MP-5) A soldier is a person who has enlisted with, or has been conscripted into, the armed forces of a sovereign country and has undergone training and received equipment to defend that country or its interests. ... Events Prince Louis of France, the future King Louis VIII, invades England in the First Barons War Henry III becomes King of England. ... Map sources for Flamborough at grid reference TA226703 Flamborough is situated next to the prominent coastal feature Flamborough Head and is just north of Bridlington. ... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in the northwestern England, close to the border with Wales. ... // Events February 3 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of Africa becoming the first known European to travel this far south. ... The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... Henry VII can mean: Henry VII of England Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Events January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. ... Sheriff is both a political and a legal office held under English common law, Scots law or American common law, or the person who holds such office. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ... The White Yorkshire rose. ... Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ... Western side of the battlefield, looking south-south-east from the monument erected in 1910 (marked red in the key below). ... Events January 20 - Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway. ...

Sir Marmaduke's eldest son, Sir Robert Constable (ca. 1478-1537), helped Henry VII to defeat the Cornish rebels at Blackheath in 1497. In 1536, when the rising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in the north of England, Constable was one of the insurgent leaders, but towards the close of the year he submitted at Doncaster and was pardoned. He did not share in the renewal of the rising which took place in January 1537; but he refused the king's invitation to proceed to London, and was arrested. Tried for treason, he was hanged at Hull in the following June. Events February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London. ... Events January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed. ... Joe Cornish, British TV presenter. ... Blackheath is a place in London, divided between the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Greenwich. ... Events May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. ... Events February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... The Pilgrimage of Grace was a rising by Roman Catholics in the north of England in 1536, in protest at the conversion of England to Protestantism, and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, as well as other specific political, social and economic grievances. ... Map sources for Doncaster at grid reference SE5702 Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, (and in the former West Riding of Yorkshire), England which has been recognised nationally as an emerging regional city . ... Events January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed. ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation. ... Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. ...

Sir Marmaduke's second son, Sir Marmaduke Constable (ca. 1480-1545), was knighted after the battle of Flooded, and was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He was a knight of the shire for Yorkshire and then for Warwickshire, and was a member of the Council of the North from 1537 until his death. Events March 6 - Treaty of Toledo - Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize African conquests of Afonso of Portugal and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain Great standing on the Ugra river - Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde. ... Events February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victory over superior English forces December 13 - Official opening of the Council of Trent (closed 1563) Battle of Kawagoe - between two branches of Uesugi families and the late Hojo clan in Japan. ... A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ... The Field of the Cloth of Gold was the name given to a place in Balinghem, between Guînes and Ardres, in todays France, near Calais. ... Events January 18 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde. ... For information on the fictional Shire of J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings, see Shire (Middle-earth) A shire is an administrative area of Great Britain. ... Warwickshire (pronounced worrickshur or worricksheer) is a landlocked county in central England. ... The Council of the North was an administrative body set up by Richard III of England in 1484 to improve government control over the northern counties. ... Events January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed. ...

Another noteworthy member of this family was the regicide, Sir William Constable (d. 1655), who was created a baronet in 1611. A member of the Long Parliament, he fought with distinction among the parliamentarians at Edgehill; in 1644 his military enterprises in north Yorkshire were very successful, and later he guarded the king at Carisbrooke, and was governor of Gloucester. He was one of the king's judges, was a member of the council of state under Oliver Cromwell, and died in London on the 15th of June 1655. The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ... Events New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch forces. ... A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) is the holder of a title, similar to a knighthood except that it is hereditary, known as a baronetcy. ... Events June 23 - Henry Hudsons crew maroons him, his son and 7 others in a boat November 1 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeares romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time. ... The Long Parliament is the name of the English Parliament called by Charles I, in 1640, following the Bishops Wars. ... The Battle of Edgehill (or Edge Hill) was the first major engagement of the First English Civil War. ... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ... Gloucester (pronounced ) is a city and district in south-west England, close to the Welsh border. ... Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1657. ...

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