- Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros
Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros (
September 9 ,1427 –May 17 ,1464 ) was a follower of theHouse of Lancaster during theWars of the Roses .Family
He was the eldest son of
Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros andEleanor Beauchamp . His mother was daughter ofRichard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and his first wife Elizabeth Berkeley. Eleanor was an older half-sister ofHenry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick andAnne Neville, Countess of Warwick .Thomas himself was an older maternal half-brother to
Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset andEdmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset .Career
As a loyal supporter of King
Henry VI of England , de Ros was attainted in Parliament onNovember 4 ,1461 . He was later beheaded at Newcastle fortreason , and the Ros lands were confiscated.Belvoir Castle was given toLord Hastings .In February 1461, he had been one of the knights made at the second
Battle of St Albans byEdward of Westminster , Prince of Wales. Thomas had inherited the barony of de Ros when he was barely four years old. His great uncle, Sir Robert Ros, knight, was deputed to perform the office of chamberlain to Archbishop Stafford, on the day of his installation atCanterbury ; this office belonged to the Lord Ros, from his tenure of the manor of Hethfield, in Kent. The fee for this service was the furniture of the room, and the basin and towel. The manor, and tenure on which it was held, came to the Ros family, from the marriage of an ancestor with Margaret Badlesmere.Thomas Lord Ros was only eighteen years of age when put by the king into full possession of his father's estates. Having been faithful to Henry VI throughout his reign, he was rewarded with certain commercial privileges, consisting, chiefly, in an entire remission of the customary duties on exported wool. In 1456, he had permission to go on a
pilgrimage , and in 1460, the king settled on him, as in part, a recompense for the expenses and losses incurred in his service, an annuity of £40, arising out of certain manors forfeited by the Earl of Salisbury. In the same year, being with king at York when news arrived of the Lancastrian defeat at theBattle of Towton , he accompanied Henry to Berwick.Marriage and children
Thomas was married to Philippa de Tibetot, the sister of
John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester . Their children were:
*John de Ros
*Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros
*Eleanor de Ros
*Isabel de Ros
*Joan de Ros
*Margaret de Ros
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