Marmaduke Constable Sir Knight [16938] ²⁵

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Member of Parliament, Known as the Little. Born in 1443 was in France under King Edward IV and at the taking of Berwick of which he was made captain. He shared with his four sons in the glory of Flodden
<http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/the_battle_of_flodden.htm>,
1513, being then 71 years of age, his nephew Marmaduke Constable of Cliffe was possibly also there. His distinguished services were acknowledged in an autograph letter to him from Henry VIII <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutHenryVIII.htm>. He died in 1518. The death of Sir Marmaduke Constable, as quoted from Memorials of the Wars of the Roses by WEHampton, for the Richard III Soc by Alan Sutton Publishing "A story relates that in his old age, seated in his garden overlooking the sea, he inadvertantly swallowed a frog in a glass of water, wherof he died. His death occurred on Nov. 20, 1518.".

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Marmaduke married Margery FitzHugh [40030] [MRIN: 9440], daughter of Henry FitzHugh 5th Baron Fitzhugh of Ravensworth [2409] [LH93-2XC] and Alice Neville Baroness Fitzhugh of Ravensworth [2410] [LZM1-J4X]. (Margery FitzHugh [40030] was born in 1455 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England and died before 1480.)

Marmaduke next married Joyce Stafford [16693] [MRIN: 8070], daughter of Humphrey of Grafton Stafford Sir Knight [8842] and Catherine Fray [8843], about 1480 in Burton, Yorkshire, England. (Joyce Stafford [16693] was born about 1460 in Grafton, Worcestershire, England.)