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 BEDFORD 73 4 May, 1483, aged about 26, having survived his father twelve years, and was bur. at Sheriff Hutton. III. 1485 I. Jasper Tudor, called of Hatfield, was b. about to i430> ^t Hatfield, Herts, being 2nd s. of Sir Owen Tudor, 1495. by Katharine, Queen Dowager of England, da. of Charles VI, King of France. Being thus uterine br. to King Henry VI, he was knighted by him 25 Dec. 1449, ^"^ was, on 6 Mar. 1452/3, cr. Earl of Pembroke, with place and precedency in Pari, and elsewhere immediately below his elder br., Edmund, Earl of Richmond (fr. the same day), who had place and precedency immediately after all Dukes. (^) Nom. K.G. before 23 Apr. 1459. For his energetic support of the House of Lancaster he was attainted, 4 Nov. 146 !.('') He took an active part in the temporary restoration (9 Oct. 1470 to 14 Apr. 147 1) of Henry VI, when he was restored to his honours, but was again attainted in 1471, having, after the battle of Barnet (14 Apr. 1471), fled into Brittany. On the accession of his nephew, Henry VII, to the Crown, he was, on 27 Oct. 1485, cr. DUKE OF BEDFORD, and on 12 Dec. following was again restored to the Earldom of Pembroke (') by Pari. P.C., 1485. High Steward of Oxford Univ. 1485-92. Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1486-94. One of the commissioners for the High Steward at the Coronation of the Queen Consort, and Bearer of her Crown thereat, 10 Nov. 1487. Hew., before 7 Nov. 1485, Katharine, widow of Henry (Stafford), Duke of Buckingham, 6th da. and coh. of Richard (Widville), Earl Rivers, by Jacqueline, da of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, and sister of Elizabeth, Queen Consort of Edward IV. He d. s.p. legit.,{f) 21 Dec. 1495, aged about 65, and was bur. in the Abbey of Keynsham, when all his honours became extinct. Will dat. 15 Dec. 1495, ?•"• ^ July 1496. (*) His widow, who was aged above 34 on 4 Aug. 1492, ?«. (as his ist wife) Sir Richard Wingfield, K.G., of Kimbolton Castle, Hunts, who d. 22 July 1525, at Toledo, in Spain. EARLDOM. I. John Russell (*) s. and h. of James R., of Kingston (*) See for a list of special warrants of precedency, vol. i, Appendix C. ('') "The Due of Excestre and th'erle of Pembrok ar floon and taken to the mounteyns, and dyvers Lordes with gret puissans after them." (H. Wyndesore to John Paston, 4 Oct. 1461). V.G. (') For a list of these restorations, see note sub Edward, Earl of Devon [1485- 1509]. C^) Helen, his illegit. da., m. William Gardiner, citizen of London, and was mother of Stephen, the celebrated Bishop of Winchester. («) Test. Vet., p. 430. The Norman origin which is claimed for the Russells in the Memoir i of the House of Russell, by J. H. WiflFen, 1833, has been demolished by J. H. Round, and the true descent established in his paper on "The Origin of the Russells" [Studies in Peerage and Family History, pp. 250 et sqq.). V.G. I I