Tudor Invasion and Death
In 1485, when news arrived that Henry Tudor had landed in Wales he was ordered to escort Lords Hungerford and Bourchier to Leicester but en route they escaped.
When Richard III marched against the invader, Brackenbury hurried himself to reach the King and arrived two days before the Battle of Bosworth Field (22 August 1485), in which - according to Molinet and Lindsay - he had joint command of Richard's vanguard; he took part in the final charge on Henry and was killed fighting beside Richard III.
On 7 November 1485, Brackenbury was posthumously attainded by Henry VII. In a document antedating Henry Tudor's rule, Brackenbury was charged with having "assembled to them at Leicester ... a great host, traitorously intending, imagining and conspiring the destruction of the king’s royal person, our sovereign liege lord".
Brackenbury's attainder was partly reversed in 1489 in favour of his sister's and bastard son, allowing them to recover the family lands but not the new grants from Richard III. Ralph, his nephew and heir male inherited Saleby.
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