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SIR MARMADUKE CONSTABLE (c. 1455-1518)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 983 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR MARMADUKE See also:CONSTABLE (c. 1455-1518)  , See also:English soldier, was descended from a certain See also:Robert (d . 1216), See also:lord of Flamborough, who was related to the Lacys, hereditary constables of See also:Chester, hence the surname of the See also:family . A son of See also:Sir Robert See also:Constable (d . 1488), Marmaduke was in See also:France with See also:Edward IV. in 1475 and with See also:Henry VII. in 1492 . He was See also:sheriff of See also:Staffordshire and See also:Yorkshire, was in high favour with Henry VII. and Henry VIII., and led his kinsmen and retainers to the See also:battle of See also:Flodden in 1513 . He was twice married, and See also:left several sons when he died on the loth of See also:November 1518 . In Flamborough See also:church one may still read a rhyming See also:epitaph describing Constable's See also:life and prowess . Sir Marmaduke's eldest son, Sir Robert Constable (c . 1478-1537), helped Henry VII. to defeat the Cornish rebels at See also:Black-See also:heath in 1497 . In 1536, when the rising known as the See also:Pilgrimage of See also:Grace See also:broke out in the See also:north of See also:England, Constable was one of the insurgent leaders, but towards the See also:close of the See also:year he submitted at See also:Doncaster and was pardoned . He did not See also:share in the renewal of the rising which took See also:place in See also:January 1537; but he refused the See also:king's invitation to proceed to See also:London, and was arrested . Tried for See also:treason, he was hanged at See also:Hull in the following See also:June .

Sir Marmaduke's second son, Sir Marmaduke Constable (c . 1480-1545), was knighted after the battle of Flodden, and was at the See also:

Field of the See also:Cloth of See also:Gold in 1520 . He was a See also:knight of the See also:shire for Yorkshire and then for See also:Warwickshire, and was a member of the See also:Council of the North from 1537 until his See also:death . Another noteworthy member of this family was the See also:regicide, Sir See also:William Constable (d . 1655), who was created a See also:baronet in 1611 . A member of the See also:Long See also: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 See also:Carisbrooke, and was See also:governor of See also:Gloucester .

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