Robert Welles 8th Baron Welles / 2nd Baron Willoughby [46553] ²⁵

   Cause of his death was beheaded.

  General Notes:

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Robert Welles after his father's death, challenged the king to battle near Stamford, but was defeated at the Battle of Losecoat Field. Robert was taken, and executed on 19 March 1470. Both father and son were attainted in the parliament of 1475; the attainders were later reversed in the first parliament of Henry VII.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded: Baron Willoughby, 1461. On the death of his mother in 1461, he became Baron Willoughby

Robert married Elizabeth Bourchier Baromess Welles [4190] [MRIN: 13880], daughter of John Bourchier 1st Baron of Berners [2355] [LH6H-RZS] and Margery (Margaret) Berners Bariness of Berners [2356] [KFZ2-HHC]. (Elizabeth Bourchier Baromess Welles [4190] was born about 1446 in Halstead, Essex, England, died after 2 Oct 1470 and was buried in Church of Our Lady of Doncaster.)