1459 in England - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1450
    • 2 May - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, military leader (born 1396)
    • 10 June - William Tresham, politician (year of birth unknown)
    • 27 August - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, politician (born 1395)
  • 1451
    • John Lydgate, monk and poet (born 1370)
  • 1452
    • 26 May - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury (year of birth unknown)
    • Nicholas Close, bishop (year of birth unknown)
  • 1453
    • 17 July - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, military leader (year of birth unknown)
    • 24 December - John Dunstaple, composer (born 1390)
  • 1454
    • 22 March - John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 1380)
    • Robert Wingfield, politician (born 1403)
  • 1455
    • 22 May (at the First Battle of St Albans)
      • Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, politician (born 1393)
      • Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, commander (born 1406)
      • Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford (born 1425)
  • 1456
    • 1 November - Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII of England (born c. 1430)
  • 1459
    • 23 September - James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley (born 1400) (killed in battle)
    • 5 November - John Fastolf, soldier (year of birth unknown)

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