Marmaduke Constable (died 1545)

Sir Marmaduke Constable
Memorial at Flodden Field, where Marmaduke Constable was knighted
Member of Parliament for Yorkshire
In office 1529–1545
Personal details
Born	c.1480
Died	14 September 1545 (aged 64–65)
Spouse(s)	Barbara Sothill
Children	Sir Robert Constable William Constable Everild Constable
Parents	Sir Marmaduke Constable, Joyce Stafford

Sir Marmaduke Constable (c.1480 – 14 September 1545), of Everingham, Yorkshire, was an English soldier and Member of Parliament. He was the great-grandfather of the poet, Henry Constable, author of Diana, one of the first sonnet sequences in English.

The family takes its name from the office of constable of Chester, to which Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, appointed his kinsman, Nigel, Baron of Halton, at the time of William the Conqueror. The founder of the house of Constable in Flamborough was Robert Lacy (d.1216), surnamed 'Le Constable', ancestor of Marmaduke Constable.

Marmaduke Constable, born about 1480, was the second son of Sir Marmaduke Constable (c. 1456/7 – 1518), eldest son and heir of Sir Robert Constable (4 April 1423 – 23 May 1488) of Flamborough, Yorkshire, and Agnes Wentworth (d. 20 April 1496), daughter of Sir Roger Wentworth of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, by Margery le Despencer. Constable's mother was Joyce Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford (1400 – 7 June 1450) of Grafton, Worcestershire, slain at Sevenoaks by the rebel, Jack Cade, and Eleanor Aylesbury (born c.1406), the daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury (d. 9 September 1418) and his second wife, Katherine Pabenham (c.1372 – 17 June 1436). Constable had three brothers and two sisters:

Constable was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1509–10, and Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1513–14. He fought at Flodden, where his father commanded the left wing, and was knighted 9 September 1513 after the battle by Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey. He was in attendance at the Field of the Cloth of Gold and at King Henry VIII's meeting at Gravelines with the Emperor Charles V in 1520.