Robert Broughton (MP)
He was knighted at the Battle of Stoke, where he fought on the Lancastrian side under John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.
[11][12] Broughton was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath when the four-year-old Richard, Duke of York, second son to King Edward IV, one of the two princes later said to have been murdered in the Tower of London, married Anne de Mowbray on 15 January 1478.
[17] He fought under the Earl's banner at the Battle of Stoke in June 1487, and was knighted on the battlefield[18] together with John Paston II and George Hopton.
[17] In October 1501 he was among those who participated in an entertainment on a grand scale to welcome to England Katherine of Aragon, the bride of Henry VII's eldest son and heir, Arthur, Prince of Wales.
After journeying on the Thames to the Tower of London, Katherine was met by King Henry VII's second son, the future Henry VIII, accompanied by the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Durham, the Earls of Suffolk and Shrewsbury, several barons, and a number of knights, including Broughton.
[23] Broughton made his will on 20 June 1504, requesting burial in Denston church, and appointing his wife, Katherine, as one of his executors, and the 13th Earl of Oxford as supervisor.
[24][9] The inquisition post mortem taken after Broughton's death assessed his annual income at £600, making him 'one of the richest non-baronial landowners in England'.
[49][50] Upon the proposed marriage between Sir Richard and Dorothy, in consideration of 400 marks to be paid to him by Richard Wentworth, her brother, he covenanted with them that he, Robert, and Dorothy should have the manors, moiety and lands of Stonham Aspall and Alyngton, moiety of the manor of Burgate, and lands in Ratlysden, to them and the heirs male of their bodies, and further granted and agreed with her brother that they should stand seised thereof to the use of Dorothy and the heirs male of her body by him begotten.
Barbara J. Harris speculates that the gifts may have been received when Dorothy Clopton was living or serving in the Broughton household.
She had also spent some time at Nettlestead, the home of the Wentworths, where she had left a velvet bonnet that she bequeathed to her sister Katherine.
