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== Biography ==
=== Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography ===
[[Vaughan-320|VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS]] (d. 1483), soldier, was probably youngest illegitimate son of [[Vaughan-189|Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower]], son of Sir Roger Vaughan (d. 1415), by an [[UNKNOWN-111918|illegitimate daughter of Prior Coch]] (the redheaded) of the monastery of Abergavenny (''Meyrick in Dwnn's Heraldic Visitation of Wales, i. 42; Jones, Brecknockshire, iii. 506; Nichols, Grants of Edward V, p. xv; but cf. Poems of Lewis Glyn Cothi, ed. Jones, p. 44'').
He must be carefully distinguished from the [[Roger-160|Thomas Vaughan of the true line of Hergast]] who was killed at the battle of Banbury, 1469, and is celebrated by Glyn Cothi (''Poems, p. 16''); from the Sir Thomas Vaughan who distinguished himself at Bosworth [1485] (''cf. Campbell, Materials for the History of Henry VII, ii. 126, 157, 252''); and seemingly from a Thomas Vaughan who was master of the ordnance in 1450.
[[Vaughan-320|Vaughan]] was a great warrior in the Wars of the Roses, taking the Yorkist side. Glyn Cothi (''Poems, p. 47''), writing in 1483, speaks of his having fought eighteen battles for Edward IV. In 1455 he was exempted from an act of resumption; he had then two houses in London. [[Vaughan-320|He]] was attainted, like other Yorkists, in 1459. When Edward became king, Vaughan was made a yeoman of the crown, a squire of the king's body, and then treasurer of the king's chamber. He also held at some time the office of comptroller of the coinage of tin in Cornwall and Devonshire. He was exempted from an act of resumption in 1464, and from an act of apparel in 1482. On 4 Feb. 1470 [[Vaughan-320|he]] was appointed one of the commissioners to deliver the Garter to Charles the Bold. That Edward trusted him entirely may be seen from his having appointed him in 1471 chamberlain and councillor to the young Prince Edward, and he carried the prince in September 1472 at the ceremonial attending the reception of Lewis de Bruges Seigneur de la Gruthuyse at Windsor. [[Vaughan-320|He]] was knighted on Whitsunday 1475. At the time of Edward IV's death, [[Vaughan-320|Vaughan]] was with the young prince at Ludlow, as were Rivers, Grey, Haute, and others. On the journey to London, by order of the council, they were met by Richard and Buckingham, who seized them at Stony Stratford, and hurried them off to the north of England. [[Vaughan-320|Vaughan]] was tried before the Earl of Northumberland and a court probably of northern peers, and executed at Pontefract about 23 June 1483. The matter was managed, doubtless roughly enough, by Sir Richard Radcliffe [q. v.] [[Vaughan-320|Vaughan]] was buried in the chapel of St. John the Baptist, Westminster Abbey, where there is a monument to his memory. It is curious that Glyn Cothi, who wrote two odes to him in 1483, thought that he was about to support Richard. But it may be that the words were really addressed to the [[Vaughan-320|Sir Thomas Vaughan]] of the right line, as Jones assumes, which we may accept without following Jones to the extent of regarding that Sir Thomas as the chamberlain of Edward V.
[[Vaughan-320|Vaughan]] married [[Arundel-138|Alianor or Eleanor]], daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Arundel of Betchworth, Surrey, and widow of Sir Thomas Browne, under-treasurer of the household to Henry VI. By her he had a daughter
# Anne, married to Sir John Wogan,
# and a son Henry, whose son, ## Sir Thomas, taking the name of Parry [q. v.], is separately noticed.[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vaughan,_Thomas_%28d.1483%29_%28DNB00%29 Vaughan, Thomas]

=== Excerpt from Welsh Journals ===
The traditions of the Vaughans were the same as those of the great lines of Maeliennydd and Elfael. The poets who praised the new houses and ancient traditional hospitality of the clans of Philip Dorddu and Meilir of Diserth in turn sat in the hall at Hergest and Bredwardine and sang in intricate verse of the fame and generosity of the descendants of [[Ieuan-44|Rhosser Fawr of Llechryd]].
Hergest Court, which stands in the Valley of the Arrow, a mile to the west of Kington, is known, by name at least, to most Welshmen as being the original home of the Red Book of Hergest, one of the most important manuscripts in the Welsh language.
The first of the Vaughans to live there was Thomas ap Rhosser. From the year 1422, when he was appointed to the office of Constable of the castle of Huntingdon, until his death in the battle of Edgecote in 1469, he took an active part in civil and military affairs. But although he served the English crown, Thomas ap Rhosser did not neglect the customs, language and traditions of his own people.
During his lifetime and that of his son, Watkin of Hergest Court, and the hospitality and generosity of its owners were the inspiration of poems that will live as long as the Welsh language. One of these poems describes the burial of Thomas, and how his widow, Elen Gethin of Llinwent, erected a tomb to his memory in St. Mary's Church, Kington, causing both their effigies to be placed thereon. I have already referred to the poet Hywel ap Syr Mathew of Llanfair Waterdine. In a historical chronicle written by him he mentions the death at the battle of Edgecote of this Thomas ap Rhosser as follows :—
''" And Thomas ap Rhosser was killed and Elen Gethin fetched his body home and buried him with honour in Kington Church.''"
Thomas's widow, Elen Gethin, was of the family of Philip Dorddu, being a sister to the Dafydd Fychan of Llinwent to whom I have already referred. After the death of her husband she retired to a property of hers at Nash, near Presteign. While there in April, 1474, she obtained an indulgence for those who would pray for the soul of her late husband. When ultimately she too died, the famous poet Llawdden, who was the family bard of her kinsman Meredudd of Maeliennydd, commemorated her in a very fine elegy.Radnorshire Society, pp. 8-9


== Sources ==* [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vaughan,_Thomas_%28d.1483%29_%28DNB00%29 Dictionary of National Biography], 1885-1900, Volume 58; by William Arthur Jobson Archbold
* [http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1191402/llgc-id:1191946/llgc-id:1191957/getText Welsh Journals] Radnorshire Society transactions - Vol. 8 1938 Radnorshire bards and their patrons
* [http://archive.org/stream/VaughanFamilyOfWales/VaughanFamily_djvu.txt Vaughan Family of Wales]

===Footnotes===


===Contributors===[http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Vaughan-320 Vaughan-320] created through the import of Grant_David_Meadors_2008-02-17.ged on Sep 18, 2011 by [[Meadors-35 | Grant Meadors]].

Birth	Abt 1420	Tre Tower
Death	Abt 1483
Reference No		2835744
Reference No		2873434
Reference No		60

Father	Sir Roger "of Tretower" Vaughan (1410 - 1471)
Mother	Eva Coch (1415 - )