Individual Details

Sir Walter "7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley" Devereux KG

(1432 - 22 Aug 1485)

[[Category:Knights Companion of the Garter]]

[[Category: Battle of Bosworth Field]]
[[Category: Battle of Towton]]
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== Biography ==
Walter Devereux was the son of Sir Walter Devereux and Elizabeth Merbury.Shirley, E P. Stemmata Shirleiana, or the Annals of the Shirley Family. 1873, p 104 [https://archive.org/details/cu31924029787250/page/n125/mode/2up Archive.org].

=== Birth ===
:: 23 Aug 1432 Weobley, Herefordshire, England

===Honours===Walter was knighted on 29 March 1461by Edward IV at the Battle of Towton. [https://archive.org/details/knightsofengland02shawuoft/page/n21 Knights of England Page 13] He was made a Knight of the Garter (Number 205) in 1472. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Knights_and_Ladies_of_the_Garter Wikipedia: List of Knights and Ladies of the Garter]
=== Death ===
:: 22 Aug 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England

== Sources ==

* Hope, Sir William Henry St. John. ''[[Space:The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485|The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485]]'' (A. Constable and Co., ltd., Westminster, 1901) [https://books.google.com/books?id=38sxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT313 Plate LXXVII]

* [[Wikipedia:Walter_Devereux,_Lord_Ferrers_of_Chartley]]

* [[Wikipedia:Baron_Ferrers_of_Chartley]]

    Events

    Birth1432Weobley, Herefordshire, England
    Birth23 Aug 1432Weobley, Herefordshire, England
    Marriage25 Oct 1446Anne Ferrers
    Burial1485Bosworth Battlefield Grave Pits, Dadlington, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough, Leicestershire, England
    Death22 Aug 1485Leicestershire, England
    Death23 Aug 1485Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England
    Alt nameBaron Walter Devereux XIII of Charley
    Reference No287348
    Reference No302937
    Reference No60

    Families

    SpouseAnne Ferrers (1438 - 1499)
    ChildElizabeth Devereux (1452 - 1516)
    FatherSir Walter Devereux (1411 - 1459)
    MotherElizabeth Merbury (1412 - 1459)
    SiblingAnne Devereux (1424 - 1486)
    SiblingRichard Devereux (1426 - )
    SiblingJohn Devereux (1434 - )
    SiblingSibil Devereux (1440 - )
    SiblingThomas Devereux (1442 - )