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Reginald Stourton

English knight

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ7308881 ↗
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Sir Reginald Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire (born c. 1434) was an English knight.

Life

Stourton was the second son of John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton and Margery or Marjory Wadham.

Stourton was knighted and became High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1455–1456 and 1462–1463.

In the spring of 1470, he was arrested on the orders of King Edward IV as one of the Lancastrian supporters of the Earl of Warwick.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1434, 1455, 1456, 1462—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1434-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Reginald, Stourton and English can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Reginald Stourton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.