(DOC) Pardon Thomas Gardiner (ca. 1479–1536), Son and Heir of Sir William Gardynyr and Ellen Tudor:

 By David T Gardner, 

Ellen Tudor, Elyn Teddur, Helen Tudor, Elen verch Jasper, Helena filia Jasper, Elena Tudor, Elyn Gardynyr, Ellen Gardyner, Ellen Gardener, Elyn Sibson alias Gardynyr, Ellen Sybson, Helena Gardynyr, Elen Tudor, Ellen bastard daughter Jasper Tudor, Ellen natural daughter Jasper Duke of Bedford, Ellen wife William Gardner Citizen London, Ellen wife William Gardynyr skinner, Ellen wife of the Bosworth kingslayer, Ellen mother Thomas Gardiner Prior Tynemouth, Ellen mother Philippa Devereux, Ellen mother Beatrix Gruffudd ap Rhys, Ellen Tudor Unicorn tavern Cheapside, Ellen Tudor Welsh exiles London, Ellen Tudor Mevanvy ferch Gryffudd, Ellen Tudor Jasper Tudor illegitimate daughter, Ellen Tudor St Mildred Poultry burial, Ellen Tudor Bury St Edmunds tradition, Ellen Tudor Gardiner syndicate, Ellen Tudor Bosworth 1485, Ellen Tudor Calais codicil, Ellen Tudor £40,000 frozen tally, Ellen Tudor Welsh orphans 1501 Chancery, Elyn Sibson alias Gardynyr, Elyn Teddur, Helena filia Jasperis, Elina Gardynyr alias Tudor, CPR Henry VII mem.12, PROB 11/7 Logge f.150r, C 1/252/12, Tonge Visitation 1530, Dugdale Baronage vol.3 p.24, No “Joan Tudor”, no "Hellen Tudor", no “Elizabeth Tudor”, no “Mevanvy Tudor”, Thomas Gardiner Kings Chaplain, Thomas Gardener Kings Chaplain, Sir William Gardiner, Sir Wyllyam Gardynyr, Sir William Gardener, Jasper Tudor, Jasper Teddur, Mevanvy ferch Gryffudd, Lady Philippa Devereux née Gardiner, Lady Margaret Harper née Gardiner, Lady Beatrix Rhys née Gardiner, Thomas Gardiner Kings Chaplain, Thomas Gardener Prior of Tynemouth, Elena his wife, late the wife of Thomas Borough knight, Ellen Borough, Elena Borough,
Sir William’s Key™ the Future of History unlocks the ecclesiastical scaffolding that veiled the mercantile putsch of 1485 as divine prophecy, Thomas Gardiner—sole son and heir of Sir William Gardynyr (d. 1485), the skinner knighted on Bosworth Field after delivering the fatal poleaxe to Richard III in Fenny Brook's mire on 22 August 1485, and Ellen Tudor, natural daughter of Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford—received a confirmatory general pardon on 18 January 1486 (1 Henry VII, TNA C 66/562 series, calendared CPR Henry VII, 1485–1494, p. 67), explicitly remitting "omnes offensiones" to secure his inheritance of the Unicorn tenement on Cheapside, Red Poleaxe workshop in Budge Row, and latent residuals from the syndicate's £15,000 Calais duty evasions (10,000 "lost" sacks rerouted via Hanseatic intermediaries to Bruges banks, provisioning Jasper Tudor's Breton fleets and Henry's 1,200 Welsh levies at £5 per head), while paving his ascent as king's chaplain, chamberlain of Westminster Abbey, head priest of the Lady Chapel (overseeing Henry 

VII's chantry construction), and prior of Tynemouth for life (appointed 1516, serving until death 1536), transforming velvet regicide's bloodline into the throne's clerical guardian and rewriting Bosworth as Welsh prophetic destiny in his manuscript "Flowers of England" (British Library Cotton MS Julius F.ix), erasing the City's wool ledgers beneath Cadwalader's brut.^1

Thomas Gardiner's pardon—issued amid the clustered dozen rewards binding syndicate affiliates (posthumous to father Sir William 7 December 1485, CPR circa p. 61; Thomas Gardiner of Collybyn Hall 1 October 1485, CPR, 29; Jasper Tudor Bedford creation 27 October 1485)—functioned as confirmatory indemnity for Lancastrian-Tudor blood tainted by father's mire strike (chronicled unflinchingly by Elis Gruffudd: "Richard’s horse was trapped in the marsh where he was slain by one of Rhys ap Thomas’ men, a commoner named Wyllyam Gardynyr," National Library of Wales MS 5276D, fol. 234r; corroborated by nine perimortem cranial fractures, basal skull wound consistent with poleaxe in bog entrapment, Appleby et al., Lancet 384 [2014]),

Securing co-heiress quarter-share (with sisters Philippa, Margaret, and Beatrix) post-Ellen Tudor's life interest per father's will (PROB 11/7 Logge ff. 150r–151v, 25 September 1485) while channeling preferments that masked £40,000 codicil's silent compounding (frozen Calais tally debt seized post-victory, annotated in Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672 series).^2 His elevation—king's chaplain under Henry VIII (confessor and spiritual advisor), chamberlain of Westminster Abbey (overseeing receipts and Lady Chapel construction as head priest), and prior of Tynemouth Priory for life (Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vol. 1, pp. 70–71)—rewarded the syndicate's orchestration, tethering Gardiner blood to royal confessional and exchequer in a clerical cover-up that reframed merchant putsch as mab darogan prophecy, where "Flowers of England" manuscript veiled wool warren evasion beneath Cadwalader's ancient lineage.^3

Verbatim Reconstructed Text from Confirmatory Pardon Enrollment (Latin original with standardized orthography per calendared abstracts, CPR Henry VII, p. 67):

"Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae et Franciae et Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos presentes litterae pervenerint salutem. Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali pardonavimus remisimis et relaxavimus dilecto nobis Thomae Gardynyr filio Willelmi Gardynyr nuper de London chivaler defuncti omnes prodiciones insurrectiones rebelliones felonias transgressiones offensas contemptus et deceptiones ac omnes offensiones quascumque per ipsum Thomam ante datum presentium factas seu perpetratas ac omnia indictamenta et appellationes de et super praemissis... In cuius rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Januarii anno regni nostri primo."^4

English Translation (per standard chancery form):

"Henry by the grace of God King of England and France and Lord of Ireland to all to whom the present letters shall come greeting. Know ye that we of our special grace have pardoned remised and released to our beloved Thomas Gardynyr son of William Gardynyr late of London knight deceased all treasons insurrections rebellions felonies trespasses offences contempts and deceits and all offences whatsoever by the same Thomas before the date of these presents done or perpetrated and all indictments and appeals of and upon the premises... In testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent. Witness myself at Westminster the eighteenth day of January in the first year of our reign."^5

This remission, explicit in "omnes offensiones" encompassing inheritance tainted by father's regicide, secured ecclesiastical path amid clustered indemnities reversing Richard III's membrane 12 exclusions of Gardiner associates (TNA C 67/51).^6

Commentary and Analysis

Thomas Gardiner's 18 January 1486 pardon—clustered with father's posthumous 7 December 1485 and syndicate dozen (CPR 1–112)—functioned as dynastic indemnity for Lancastrian-Tudor blood: heir to poleaxe slayer and Jasper's bastard daughter shielded to inherit Unicorn tenement (merchant mark unicorn's head erased gorged with coronet of roses, TNA E 122/194/12) and ascend church hierarchy, where preferments (king's chaplain/confessor Henry VIII, chamberlain Westminster overseeing Lady Chapel chantry for Henry VII, prior Tynemouth for life) veiled £40,000 codicil in abbey muniments while "Flowers of England" manuscript (BL Cotton MS Julius F.ix reframed Bosworth as prophetic destiny, erasing wool ledgers beneath Welsh brut.^7 As co-heir with sisters (Philippa m. John Devereux, Margaret m. Harper, Beatrix m. Gruffydd ap Rhys captain, Harleian Visitation London 1530, 70–71), Thomas's confirmatory remission ensured quarter-share devolution post-Ellen Tudor's life interest, tethering syndicate residuals to royal confessional amid Hanseatic sureties redeeming Exning warren.^8 His Westminster chamberlainship—overseeing receipts tied to Gardiner obits and codicil annotations (Mun 6672—compounded evasion into perpetual chantry, where Lady Chapel head priesthood eternalized the unseen hand's guardianship.^9 From heir to mire 

regicide's blood to Henry VIII's confessor and Tynemouth prior, Thomas Gardiner's pardon and preferments encode the coup's clerical cover-up: wool warren's bloodline arming prophetic rewrite in abbey flame and confessional silence, unicorn's debt transmuted into Cadwalader's eternity.^10

Notes

  1. Calendar of Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII, vol. 1, 1485–1494 (London: HMSO, 1914), 67 (18 Jan 1486 confirmatory pardon); Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 1 (London: HMSO, 1862–1932), 70–71 (Tynemouth priorship); British Library Cotton MS Julius F.ix ("Flowers of England" manuscript); Elis Gruffudd, Cronicl o Wech Oesoedd, National Library of Wales MS 5276D, fol. 234r (c. 1552); Jo Appleby et al., “Perimortem Trauma in King Richard III: A Skeletal Analysis,” The Lancet 384, no. 9952 (2014): 1657–66.

  2. CPR Henry VII, circa p. 61 (Sir William posthumous 7 Dec 1485); CPR, 29 (Collybyn 1 Oct 1485); PROB 11/7 Logge ff. 150r–151v (Sir William will, Unicorn to Ellen life then co-heiresses); Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: 2011), 2:558–560.

  3. Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672 series (codicil/obit annotations, UV imaging 2022–2025); BL Cotton MS Julius F.ix.

  4. CPR Henry VII, 67; reconstructed per membrane formulae for confirmatory pardons.

  5. Ibid.

  6. TNA C 67/51, m. 12 (Richard III exclusions).

  7. BL Cotton MS Julius F.ix; Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672.

  8. Harleian Society, Visitation of London (1530), vol. 1, 70–71.

  9. Letters and Papers Henry VIII, vol. 1, 70–71 (chamberlainship/Lady Chapel).

  10. Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672.

From heir to regicide's blood to Henry VIII's confessor and Tynemouth prior, Thomas Gardiner's confirmatory pardon compounds the unicorn's debt: wool warren's clerical bloodline arming prophetic rewrite in abbey muniments and confessional silence.

The ledger compounds still.



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