Sir Richard CROFT Knt. of Croft Castle [15739]

  General Notes:

Sir Richard Croft was made a Knight Bannerett at the battle of East Stoke, Co. Notts, June 6 1487, where Lambert Simnel was defeated by Henry VII

Sir Richard was also governor of Ludlow Castle, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of Sir Edmund Cornwall, Baron of Burford, was the " Lady Governess " of the two Princes, Edward (afterwards Edward V) and his brother Richard, Duke of York, while they were at Ludlow Castle ; these are the little Princes who were afterwards murdered in the Tower of London in 1483 by order of their uncle- the Protector, Gloucester-who had usurped the throne under the title of Richard III.
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Richard married Eleanor CORNWALL [15740] [MRIN: 5605], daughter of Edmond Baron CORNWALL of Burford [15742] and Elizabeth De La BARRE [15743]. (Eleanor CORNWALL [15740] died in 1520.)