[2] She was a daughter of Sir John Merbury,[5] Chief Justice of South Wales and his wife Alice Pembridge.
[7] Walter Devereux[8] served with the Duke of York in France, and remained his supporter throughout the War of the Roses.
The King did not respond, and York took to the field calling in his supporters including Walter Devereux, and marched on London.
A Yorkist victory that included the capture of the King, restored the Duke of York to complete power.
[8] As the King and the Lancaster party manoeuvred to reverse their losses, outbursts of lawlessness grew on the Welsh Marches.
Devereux followed this by mustering a force of 2000 archers from Gwent, and marched on the castles at Carmarthen and Aberystwyth, which he took by assault.