Nicholas Vaux
- Born: 1460, Harrowden, Northamptonshire England
- Marriage (1): Elizabeth Fitzhugh in 1484
- Died: 14 May 1523, Clerkenwell, Holborn District, London, Middlesex England at age 63
Noted events in his life were:
• source. Mary-Ann Cook who writes:
Allegedly educated at Oxford; procured nullification of his father`s attainder on Henry VII`s coming to the throne, also restoration of his estates Nov 1485; Steward Olney and Newport Pagnell, Bucks, Nov 1485; fought at Battle of Stoke 1487, following which he was knighted; High Sheriff of Northants 1495-96, 1501-2 and 1516-17; Constable of Rockingham Castle 1502, Lt Guisnes Castle in English-held Picardy 1502 and 1509 on, Knight for the Body to Henry`s VII and VIII; married 1st Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of 5th Lord (Baron) FitzHugh and widow of Sir William Parr, KG (hence grandmother of Queen Katharine Parr), and had three daughters; married 2nd between 17 November 1507 and 29 January 1507/8 Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Green, of Boughton and Green`s Norton, Northants, and died 14 May 1523. [Burke`s Peerage]
Nicholas married Elizabeth Fitzhugh, daughter of Henry Fitzhugh 6th Baron Fitzhugh and Alice Neville, in 1484. (Elizabeth Fitzhugh was born in 1430 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire England and died on 28 Feb 1513 in Harrowden, Northamptonshire England.)
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