Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden
Nicolas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden (* 1460, † May 14, 1523 ) was an English peer and politician.
Family environment
Nicolas Vaux came from a not very distinguished English noble family from the county of Northampton. He was the son of the knight Sir William Vaux, Lord Harrowden on that. Because of his faithfulness to the house of Lancaster and King Henry VI had come out. After Henry's defeat and the accession of Edward IV of the House of York William Vaux was therefore on November 4, 1461 outlawed ( attained) and his land expropriated. He remained Henry VI. more loyal and fell on May 4, 1471 on the part of Lancaster party at the Battle of Tewkesbury.
Life and political career
Nicolas Vaux was born in 1460 as the son of Sir William and educated hearsay after Oxford. He also was a supporter of the House of Lancaster; that's why he joined the Pretender of the house, Henry VII of the House of Tudor, at. After his victory at the Battle of Bosworth on Richard III. from the house of York procured Nicolas Vaux occasion of the accession of the new king lifting the proscription of his father. At the same time it retracted its goods were in November 1485 ( when the king's familiar and much-loved nobleman ' ) will be refunded. He was also on November 19, 1485 on Lifetime To Steward of Olney and Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, and was appointed Commander for Northants in 1488 and Head of the patterns in this region on August 7, 1486. He fought for Henry VII at the Battle of Stoke and was rewarded on November 16, 1487 with the accolade. On November 25, he took part in the coronation festivities for the coronation of the queen consort, Elizabeth of York.
In 1492 he accompanied the king to Boulogne to be there to receive 1501 Catherine of Aragon, the future wife of the Prince of Wales, and to accompany her to England. In the subsequent marriage of the princess at St Paul 's Cathedral with the heir to the throne, Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII, he also took part.
Carried by the king's confidence, he held many offices: 1495-96, 1501-1502 and 1516 to 1517 he was High Sheriff of Northants, in June 1502 he was Constable of Rockingham. He was both Henry VII and Henry VIII for body Chamberlain ( Knight of the body). Under Henry VIII in 1513, he took part in the campaign against France, later accompanied by the conclusion of peace with France Princess Mary, the sister of the king, to Abbeville to their wedding with King Louis XII. of France. In July 1520 he took part in the meeting between Emperor Charles V and Henry VIII. As a reward for his faithful service at the court, administration, diplomacy and military affairs of the king raised him on 27 April 1523 Baron Vaux of Harrowden.
Nicolas Vaux of Harrowden died three weeks after his elevation to the peer on May 14, 1523 in the hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. He was with Elizabeth, the grandmother of the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Parr widow of Sir William Parr, married.