Gilbert Talbot (soldier)

Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, KG (1452 – 16 August 1517 or 19 September 1518), was an English Tudor knight, and younger son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and 2nd Earl of Waterford, and Elizabeth Butler.

[1] His father was killed at the Battle of Northampton when Talbot was 8 years old.

[2] He was a soldier, Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1495 and Lord Deputy of Calais in 1509, where he continued in a joint appointment with Richard Wingfield.

[3] Talbot supported Henry Tudor at Bosworth, where he commanded the right wing.

[5] He married firstly Elizabeth Greystoke, daughter of Ralph de Greystoke, 5th Baron Greystoke and widow of Thomas Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Masham, and had three children: He married secondly Etheldreda (called Audrey) Cotton, daughter of William Landwade Cotton of Landwade, Cambridgeshire, and had one child:

Tomb of Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton's first wife, Lady Elizabeth Talbot (née Greystoke, died 1490)
Arms of Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton's granddaughter Elizabeth as wife of Sir John Lyttelton
Tomb of Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton's son John and his wives in St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove .