John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury

He made his will at Sheffield the year after marriage to Lady Elizabeth, a daughter of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormonde and Joan de Beauchamp.

The marriage between John and Elizabeth seems to have been an attempt to heal the old feud between the Talbot and Butler families, which had dominated Irish politics for many years and greatly weakened the authority of the English Crown in Ireland.

They had seven children: Raised by his mother in the West Riding and estates around Sherwood Forest, his father was almost continually away in Ireland and France.

Sent back there two years later, York accused the Lancastrian of trying to ambush the column at Holt, after he had lost most of his inheritance to Shrewsbury's new marriage.

During the Protectorate, but once York's party had left London, he sat in oyer et terminer on the traitor Henry Percy in June 1454.

Realising the possible treachery of the 'professional army' of York he sided with Queen Margaret, by whom he was raised to Lord Treasurer of England on 14 September 1456.

The following year he arranged the Loveday Award in which Earl of Devon was encouraged to act as mediator for his friend the duke of York.

Margaret's attempt to break out peace in the realm failed, while at his greatest sharing power with Wiltshire, Shrewsbury was made a Knight of the Garter,[3] Keeper of the Royal Mews, and Chief Butler.