Gilbert Talbot (soldier)

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

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.

Talbot supported Henry Tudor at Bosworth, where he commanded the right wing. He was given the Grafton estates in Worcestershire after Sir Humphrey Stafford was executed in 1486 for his part in the Stafford and Lovell Rebellion. Talbot was also given the honorary position of keeper of Feckenham Forest in 1492.

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:

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