John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester

John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester ( born May 8, 1427 Eversden, † October 18, 1470 in London ) was an English statesman.

Life

He was the son of Lord John Tiptoft (1400-1442) and Lady Joyce de Cherleton ( 1403-1446 ). Between 1440-1443 he studied at the University of Oxford. 1449 he was appointed Earl of Worcester. In 1457 he went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and thereafter remained in Italy, where he studied in Ferrara, Padua, Florence and Rome in the famous humanists of his time. 1460 Worcester came back to England, where King Edward IV appointed him " Constable of the realm " ( 1462 ); Worcester was because of its many death sentences as soon as the " Butcher of England " ( Butcher of England) known. He was also governor of Ireland, where he was going like cruel. 1470 caught him insurgents who had been forced to flee and Eduard Heinrich put the Sixth on the throne again. He was charged with three blows of the sword, beheaded in the Tower of London, at his request.

Worcester was the first English aristocrat who joined the Renaissance ideals of classical scholarship, the promotion of science and Books collection with the Renaissance feature of unrestrained cruelty.

John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester was married three times:

Translation from Latin

• Buonaccorso because Montemagno: Controversia de nobilitate, 1481 printed in English by William Caxton.