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 1404 - 1480 (76 years)
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| Name |
William Plumpton |
| Title |
Sir |
| Birth |
7 Oct 1404 |
(Plumpton Hall, Yorkshire) England  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Seneschal of Knaresborough Castle [1] |
 Occupation |
0___ 1447 [1] |
| High Sheriff of Yorkshire |
| Occupation |
0___ 1453 [1] |
| High Sheriff of Derbyshire |
| Military |
French War 1427-1430 [1] |
| Military |
War of the Roses [1] |
| Death |
15 Oct 1480 [1, 2] |
| Person ID |
I45142 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
7 May 2018 |
| Father |
Sir Robert Plumpton, Knight, b. ~ 1381, Plumpton Hall, Yorkshire, England d. 8 Dec 1421, Spofforth, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 40 years) |
| Mother |
Alice Foljambe, b. ~ 1386, Hassop, Derbyshire, England d. 0___ 1416, Spofforth, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 30 years) |
| Marriage |
16 Jan 1393 |
Tideswell, Derbyshire, England [1, 3] |
| Family ID |
F16444 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elizabeth Stapleton, b. 1406, Cartlon, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 1446, Plumpton, Yorkshire, England (Age 39 years) |
| Marriage |
1430 |
(Yorkshire) England [1, 2] |
| Children |
| | 1. William Plumpton, b. 28 Feb 1435, Plumpton, Yorkshire, England d. 29 Mar 1461, Battle of Towton, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, England (Age 26 years) |
| | 2. Elizabeth Plumpton, b. Plumpton, Yorkshire, England d. Clint, Yorkshire, England |
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| Family ID |
F16443 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Sir William Plumpton (1404 - 15 October 1480) was a 15th-century English aristocrat, landowner and administrator.
He was the grandson of Sir William Plumpton executed in 1405 for treason by Henry IV and the son of Sir Robert Plumpton of Plumpton Hall, Yorkshire. On the death of his father in 1421 he became the ward of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland.
He served in the French war 1427-30 and was knighted. On his return to England he was appointed by Northumberland as Seneschal of Knaresborough Castle and Steward of Northumberland's Spofforth estates.
Plumpton's own estates included Plumpton Hall, Yorkshire, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire and Hassop Hall, Derbyshire. He represented Nottinghamshire in the Parliament of 1436. He served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1447 and High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1453.
During the War of the Roses he fought on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton in 1461, where his son William and his benefactor Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland were slain. Plumpton was captured but later was pardoned by Edward IV and regained his offices in 1471.
He married firstly in 1430, Elizabeth Stapleton of Carlton, Yorkshire and secondly in 1451 Joan Winteringham. He is a part-of the Worsley Family Tree.
References
This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2012)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Keith Dockray 2004
The Plumpton Letters and Papers Joan Kirby 1996. Google Books. [1]
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