SIR THOMAS ST LEGER

I hope this gets through clearly.This
comes from Wikipedia as I don't think Sir TSL figures in ODNB. We can
have fun picking out reasons for R3's dislike of Sir TSL & planning yet
another historical novel set in TWOTR.Who might have offered money to save him?"St.
Leger faithfully served Edward IV in both a military and administrative
capacity for years. For his loyal service, Edward IV rewarded St. Leger
with a substantial grant of eight manors in the early 1460s. He had a
lucky escape from justice in 1465 when he was arrested for brawling in
the Palace of Westminster and sentenced to have his hand cut off. Edward
IV, however, granted him a pardon. Thomas fought for Edward at the
Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury. St Leger played a key role in ending
the Hundred Years' War when he signed the Treaty of Picquigny with Louis
IX on 29 August 1475. He was granted by Louis IX a pension of 12,000
crowns annually which was to be distributed between himself, Thomas
Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, Sir John Howard (later Duke of Norfolk),
Sir Thomas Montgomery, and some other of the profligate courtiers.[1]
Thomas was also knighted as a member of the Order of the Bath.Thomas
was most likely the lover of Anne of York, before their marriage in c.
1474. She had been married at the age of eight to Henry Holland, 3rd
Duke of Exeter, in 1447. Anne and Exeter had had one daughter, named
Anne, who had been born in c. 1455. The marriage was unhappy and Exeter
and his wife mostly lived apart. Exeter was also a loyal Lancastrian
while his wife was a Yorkist, and Exeter fought against Richard, 3rd
Duke of York, at the Battle of Wakefield where Anne's father and her
brother, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, died in battle. Anne and Exeter
eventually separated. Thomas fought against Exeter at the Battle of
Barnet, where Exeter was badly wounded and left for dead, but survived.
Exeter was later imprisoned, and Anne divorced him in 1472. Exeter was
also on Edward's expedition with Thomas St Leger to France in 1475. On
the return voyage he fell overboard and drowned. Some say he was in fact
thrown overboard at the King's command. St Leger's stepdaughter, Anne
Holland, died some time around 1474, leaving her inherited Exeter
estates behind.Anne
of York died giving birth in 1476 to her and Thomas's only child,
another girl named Anne. Following his wife's death, St. Leger remained
on good terms with his brother-in-law, Edward IV, and served as the
King's Controller of the Mint. In 1481, he was granted a license to
found a perpetual chantry of two chaplains at the Chapel of St. George
in memory of his wife. He never remarried. In 1483, by Act of
Parliament, Anne St. Leger was declared heiress to the entire Exeter
estate, except for a portion which was given to the queen's son Richard
Grey. This act, by which the lands of the Exeter dukedom fell into the
hands of the last duke's stepdaughter and his daughter's brother-in-law,
along with a number of similar acts, is thought to be a cause of
difficulty in maintaining noble support for the reign of Edward IV.[2]Thomas's
brother-in-law, Edward IV, whom he had served faithfully, died suddenly
on 9 April 1483, leaving behind a twelve-year-old son, Edward V, who
was by marriage Thomas's nephew. However, Richard III ascended the
throne in July 1483. Thomas St. Leger attended the new king's coronation
and was given cloth of silver and velvet for the occasion, but he was
soon deprived of his positions of Master of Harthounds and Controller of
the Mint. His daughter Anne was ordered to be handed over to Henry
Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. It has been suggested that Buckingham
had the heiress in mind as a bride for his own eldest son Edward. This
never came to pass either, of course, for both St. Leger and Buckingham
ended up in rebellion against the new king. St Leger had been unshakably
faithful to Edward IV and, like many of the other rebels of the
rebellion of 1483, was undoubtedly distressed at Edward V having
disappeared from sight after having been deprived of his crown.When
the rebellion floundered, St. Leger continued the fight in Exeter, but
was captured. He was executed on 13 November 1483, at Exeter Castle,
despite the offer of large sums of money on his behalf. He had been
executed with Sir John Rame. St. Leger, described by the Crowland
Chronicler as a most noble knight, received a private burial. They are
not buried in Rutland Chapel as most believe.His
daughter Anne St Leger (14 January 1476  21 April 1526) eventually
married George Manners, 12th Baron de Ros. Their son was Thomas Manners,
1st Earl of Rutland. And their daughter, Lady Eleanor Manners (1505 
16 September 1548) married John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath, and had
descendants. Lady Anne St. Leger and her husband George are both buried
in the private Rutland Chapel in Windsor Castle."^ MacFarlene, Charles, The Cabinet history of English civil, military and ecclesiastical^ Ross, Charles (1997). Edward IV. Yale English monarchs (illustrated ed.). Yale University Press. pp. 336337Jan.