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- "Sir ROGER VAUGHAN, third son of ROGER VAUGHAN of Bredwardine […] by Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam, was the first of the Vaughans to reside at Tretower. It is said that the residence was a gift to him from his half-brother William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, to whom the castle and manor of Tretower had descended by the marriage of his father, Sir William ap Thomas, to the widow of Sir James Berkeley, heiress of Tretower. Roger Vaughan enlarged and remodelled the house by the addition of a western range of buildings with a hall. Like all his kindred, Roger Vaughan is found on the Yorkist side in the divisions of his time, but he also was granted a pardon by the Coventry Parliament of 1457. The Privy Council ordered him, with Sir William Herbert and Walter Devereux, to prevent assemblies and the victualling of castles in Wales, 17 August 1460. He was with Edward's forces at Mortimer's Cross, 1461, and it is said that it was he who led Owain Tudor to his execution at Hereford after the battle. He was granted the offices of porter of the castle of Bronllys, forester of Cantrecelly, steward and receiver of the lordships of Cantrecelly, Penkelly, Alexanderston, and Llangoed, 15 November 1461, and lands in south-west England, 11 July 1462. He took a prominent part in quelling a rising in Carmarthenshire in 1465, and received grants of the insurgents' manors and estates in Gower and Kidwelly. By 23 March 1465 he was a knight, though the investiture is not recorded by Shaw. He was on commissions of 'oyer et terminer' in Wales and the Marches in 1467 and 1468. In the earl of Warwick's charter to Neath abbey, 24 June 1468, Vaughan as the earl's chancellor at Cardiff is the first witness, and Thomas ap Roger, possibly his son, is described as coroner of Cardiff. The common belief that he fell with his brothers at the battle of Banbury is incorrect. Lewis Glyn Cothi called upon him to avenge that battle, and on 16 February 1470 he was appointed constable of Cardigan castle. After the battle of Tewkesbury, 1471, it is said that Edward IV ordered him to pursue and capture Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke, but it was Vaughan himself who fell into the earl's hands, to be summarily beheaded at Chepstow. His elegies were sung by Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal or Huw Cae Llwyd, and Llywelyn Goch y Dant, who accused Jasper Tudor of treachery and guile. Guto'r Glyn also called on his family to avenge his death. He is described in the pedigree books as lord of Cantrecelly and Penkelly, owner of Merthyr Tydfil and Llandimore, and various lands in Glamorgan, and it is said that he built the 'royal palace' at Cardiff." [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below]
"The three sons of Roger Fychan—Watkyn, Thomas, and Roger—were established at the main Vaughan residences of Bredwardine, Hergest, and Tretower, having been brought up with their half-brothers, William [see Herbert, William, first earl of Pembroke] and Richard Herbert, after the widowed Gwladus married Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan. The Vaughans proved staunch Yorkists during the Wars of the Roses, and Roger Vaughan was the duke of York's receiver of Builth as early as 1442–3. […] Sir Roger Vaughan (d. 1471), the third son of Roger Fychan of Bredwardine, was the most prominent of all. He was the first Vaughan to reside at Tretower, which appears to have been a gift from William Herbert, and which he turned into an imposing fortified manor house. He was closely associated with his Herbert and Devereux kinsmen, whom he joined on the Yorkist side at Mortimer's Cross in February 1461; Roger is said to have led Owen Tudor to execution at Hereford after the battle. Vaughans, Herberts, and Devereux were responsible for securing Wales for Edward IV: Roger was steward and receiver of Cantref Selyf, Alexanderston, and Pencelli; he helped to quell a Carmarthenshire rising in 1465, and he was knighted. On 16 February 1470 he was appointed constable of Cardigan Castle, but after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury in May 1471 he was captured by Jasper Tudor and beheaded at Chepstow, an act that poisoned the Vaughans' relations with the Tudors. Welsh poets urged revenge for the defeat of the Herberts and their allies at Edgcote, and for Jasper Tudor's treachery at Chepstow. The four daughters of Roger and his first wife, Denise, daughter of Thomas ap Philip Vaughan of Talgarth, married prominent gentry in southern Wales." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]
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