Family Background
In the lead up to the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 King Richard appointed Sir William Alington of Horseheath, Knt., his Commissioner of Array for Cambridgeshire. He made his last will on 15 August and was killed fighting alongside John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk. His son and heir was Sir Giles Alington (1483–1522), a Knight of the Bath and twice High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, who had married Mary, daughter & heiress of Sir Richard Gardiner, Knt., (d.1489) Lord Mayor of London by his spouse Audria, daughter of William Cotton, Lord of Landwade Manor, Cambridgeshire. The Alingtons thrived under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs, and had the privilege of handing to the King his first drink at coronations.
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