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George Bowes (rebel)

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to set up a fort at Coldingham. George Bowes was made the "petty-captain" with 100 men, and some gunners from the Berwick garrison, and ten Irish arquebusiers.
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In November 1544 Bowes seized Coldingham Priory. This act of rebellion worked temporarily in his favour. The English Privy Council announced to the
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intention to confer on him a barony. Bowes, however was then taken prisoner, early in 1545, and the barony was not granted.
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In June 1544 an English force led by George Bowes, John Widdrington, Henry Eure (a son of
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From a young age, Bowes took part in border warfare against Scotland. At the start of the
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Bowes retook Coldingham Priory in November 1544, after a discussion if
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Bowes returned from Scotland, and died at the end of 1545 in
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who was the Lieutenant-General in the North, that it was
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Burning of Edinburgh (1544)
Streatlam
Henry Clifford, 10th Baron de Clifford
Lord Eure
war of the Rough Wooing
Lord Hertford
devastating raid on Edinburgh
Leith
William Eure
Coldingham Priory
local men could be "assured"
Archangelo Arcano
Earl of Shrewsbury
Henry VIII's
Alnwick
Illustrations of British History, vol. 1 (London, 1828), pp. 81–82


Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/3049
UK public library membership
public domain
Bowes, George (1517-1556)
Dictionary of National Biography
Categories
1517 births
1545 deaths
English knights
16th-century English soldiers

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