However, Edward IV reneged on a promise of safe keeping and had her husband beheaded in 1469, less than a year after their marriage.
In 1457 John abandoned his wife and son as well as his estates and earthly possessions to become a monk at Mount Grace Priory.
This was a Carthusian charterhouse that had been founded by his great-grandfather, John Ingleby near North Allerton.
The royal family worshiped at Sheen and John became the first of three executors for Queen Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV in 1492.
Henry appointed him to oversee the conversion of the priory at Sheen into the royal palace of Richmond.