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Affairs changed dramatically on 13 June 1483 during a council meeting at the Tower of London: Richard, supported by the Duke of Buckingham, accused Hastings and other council members of having conspired against his life with the Woodvilles, with Hastings's mistress Jane Shore (formerly also mistress to Edward IV and Dorset), acting as a go-between. While other alleged conspirators were imprisoned, Hastings was immediately beheaded in the courtyard.
The execution of the popular Hastings was controversial among contemporaries and has been interpreted differently by historians and other authors: while the traditional account, harking back to authors of the Tudor period including William Shakespeare, considered the conspiracy charge invented and merely a ploy to remove Hastings, who was too formidable an obstacle to Richard's royal ambitions,[15] others have been more open to the possibility of such a conspiracy and that Richard merely reacted to secure his position.[16] Some authors have conceded the possibility of a conspiracy, but think it was a respmse to Richard's grasp for the throne.
Richard did not issue an attainder against Hastings and his family. Hence his wife and sons were allowed to inherit his lands and properties. Hastings himself was buried in the north aisle of St George's Chapel, Windsor, next to Edward IV.
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William II, Count of Eu
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William of Eu, Count of Eu (died January 1096) was a first generation Anglo-Norman aristocrat and rebel.
Along with William of Aldrie, he conspired with Roger de Lacy and Robert de Mowbray to murder William II and install the king's cousin Stephen of Aumale.
In 1095 the rebels impounded four Norwegian trading ships and refused the king's demand to return the merchandise.
King William conducted a lightning campaign, outflanking the rebels at Newcastle upon Tyne and capturing a rebel stronghold at Morpeth. He besieged the rebels at Bamburgh Castle and built a castle facing the existing one.
In January 1096 in Salisbury, William was formally accused and challenged to trial by battle. He was defeated by Geoffrey Baynard, former High Sheriff of Yorkshire. Tradition condemned the loser to blinding and castration. Count William died as a result of this mutilation.
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Chronicle of Britain ISBN 1-872031-35-8
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Roger de Busli
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Roger de Busli (c. 1038 - c. 1099) was a Norman baron who accompanied William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy) on his successful conquest of England in 1066.
Roger de Busli was born in or around 1038. His surname comes from the town now known as Bully (near Neufchâtel-en-Bray, mentioned as Buslei ar. 1060, Busli 12th century.[1]) in Normandy, and he was likely born there.[2] After the Conquest, Busli was given lands in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Strafforth wapentake of Yorkshire. These had previously belonged to a variety of Anglo-Saxons, including Edwin, Earl of Mercia.[3]
By the time of the Domesday survey de Busli was tenant-in-chief of 86 manors in Nottinghamshire, 46 in Yorkshire, and others in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, plus one in Devon. They became the Honour of Blyth (later renamed the Honour of Tickhill), and within it, de Busli erected numerous castles, at Tickhill, Kimberworth, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Mexborough.[3]
Much of the de Busli's family's leverage came from their familial relationships with the crown through the Counts of Eu.[4] Roger de Busli's wife Muriel was in favour with the queen, to whom she was probably a lady-in-waiting or a kinswoman, evident in the queen's grant to de Busli of the manor of Sandford upon his marriage.[5] The de Buslis had one son, also called Roger, who died as an infant, thus leaving no heirs.[6] Beatrix, probably Roger's daughter (or possibly his sister), married William, Count of Eu.
De Busli died in the last years of the 11th century without an heir. His lands were given to Robert de Bellême, but de Bellême lost them in 1102 after he led a rebellion against Henry I. Ernulf de Busli, probably Roger's brother, may then have inherited some of the lands; these were then passed to his son Jordan and grandson Richard de Busli.[3] Richard de Busli was co-founder of Roche Abbey, South Yorkshire with Richard FitzTurgis in 1147.
The male line of the de Busli family ran out in 1213, and the de Busli family holdings passed into the family of Vipont through the marriage of Idonea de Busli with Robert de Vipont (Vieuxpont).[7][8]
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^ François de Beaurepaire, Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la sine-Maritime, éditions Picard 1979. p. 54.
^ Scholars believe that the English word 'bully' derives from the surname of this early Norman lord.{cn}
^ a b c David Hey, Medieval South Yorkshire
^ Lewis Christopher Loyd, Charles Travis Clay, David Charles Douglas, Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975 ISBN 0-8063-0649-1, ISBN 978-0-8063-0649-0
^ The Aristocracy of Norman England, Judith A. Green, Cambridge University Press, 1997
^ Hunter, Joseph (1819). "Sheffield under De Busli and De Lovetot". Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones. (wikisource)
^ The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Ordericus Vitalis, 1854
^ Roger de Busli, Malty, Yorkshire, Maltbyonline
The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis C. Loyd, 1951
Roger de Busli and his Descendants
The Aristocracy of Norman England, Judith A. Green, Cambridge University Press, 1997
Pedigree of de Busli and Vipont