Sir Matthew V Redmayne

From William Greenfield, The Redmans of Levens and Harewood, 1905: p. 90.

Sir Matthew V.

Of Sir Richard's elder son, the fifth of the knightly Matthews of the line of Levens, there is practically nothing to record beyond the facts that he lived, married, and died before his father. For his wife the youthful heir of Harewood went a-wooing to Thurland Castle, on the Lancashire border, where Sir Thomas Tunstall had a bevy of fair daughters for whom he was no doubt prepared to welcome eligible suitors.

Johanna was the daughter who found favour in Matthew's eyes, and he made her his wife, somewhere about 1416. Of Johanna's sisters, it is interesting to note, Mary became the wife of Sir John Radcliffe ; Alice, wife of Sir Thomas Parr, was to become the great-grandmother of a Queen in Katherine Parr. Elizabeth found a hus- band in Sir Robert Bellingham, and from her sprang the Bellinghams of Levens; while Catherine married Sir John Pennington. This was the first of five alliances between the families ot Redman and Tunstall.

When Sir Matthew died, in 1419, he left behind him an infant son who, seven years later, was to succeed his grandfather and to become the second Sir Richard, of Harewood.

Note. Just thirty years after Matthew's death, another knightly Matthew of Redman name, for whose discovery I am indebted to Mr. Oswald Barron, F.S.A., the learned editor of the Ancestor, perished gallantly on the banks of the Sark, on the Scottish border. This Matthew, who is described by Boec6 as " Maheus rubente juba (Matthew of the Red Mane) eques auratus," and by a French historian [Brit. Mas. Vesp., c. xvi., p. 41) as " Barberouse le Grand," led the van of the English army of 6000 men under Percy, eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland, which gave .battle to the Scottish forces under the Earl of Ormond, on Oct. 33, 1449.

The Scots reeled before the deluge of arrows poured into them by the English bowmen, and the battle promised to end in their ignominious flight, when Wallace, of Craigie, commander of Ormond's right column, rallied them with such eloquent scorn that they were " so inraiged and ruschit sa furieouslie upon the Inglisch wangaird with exis (axes), speiris, and halbertes," that Maheus Redmane's men broke and fled. Maheus himself, " a redoubtable leader," was slain ; and of the Englishmen 2000 perished, many of them being drowned in the estuary of the Sark, in which the tide was at full. The identity of this valiant Redman knight I have been unable to discover ; but it is not improbable that he may have been a cadet of Harewood.

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d. 1419

• Father Sir Richard Redmayne d. 22 May 1426
• Mother Elizabeth Aldburgh b. b 1364, d. 21 Dec 1417

Sir Matthew V Redmayne was born at of Harewood, Yorkshire, England. He married Johanna Tunstall, daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall, Justice of the Peace for Westmorland and Isabel Harrington. Sir Matthew V Redmayne died in 1419.

• Family Johanna Tunstall
• Child Sir Richard Redmayne+ d. bt 1476 - 1477

Citations

• 1.[S10747] Unknown author, Redman of Levens and Harewood, by W. Greenwood, 1905, p. 1.

From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1157.htm#...

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