Sir Brian Tunstall

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Sir Brian Tunstall

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Birthplace: Thurland Castle, Lancashire, England
Death: September 09, 1513 (28-37)
Flodden Field, near Branxton, Northumberland, England (killed in the Battle of Flodden Field)
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Tunstall, Esq. and Alice Tunstall
Husband of Isabel Tunstall
Father of Sir Marmaduke Tunstall, Kt.; Anne Middleton and Brian Tunstall, Jr
Brother of Margaret Redman from England and (Miss) Layton

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About Sir Brian Tunstall

Died in Battle Offlodden



Brian was a younger son of Thomas Tunstall III and the heir of his brother Thomas IV.[7] Dubbed the "Stainless Knight" by the king, he was immortalized in the poem Marmion - A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott. His son Marmaduke was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1544.

[7] Flower, W. (1881). "Tunstall," in The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564. Charles Best Norcliffe, Ed. The Harleian Society, 16, pp. 327. London.

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Sir Brian Tunstall's Timeline

1480
1480
Thurland Castle, Lancashire, England
1507
1507
England
1510
1510
Thurland Castle, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
1513
September 9, 1513
Age 33
Flodden Field, near Branxton, Northumberland, England
1513