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Hi Folks,
Has any recent research shed more light on the parents of Sir Thomas
Vaughan? A lot of contradictory opinions are expressed in the articles
below.

The National Library of Wales through it's website 'Welsh Biography
Online', states Sir Thomas Vaughan (d. 1483) was the son of Robert
Vaughan of Monmouth.

'ODNB', identifies Sir Thomas Vaughan (d. 1483) as the youngest
illegitimate son of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower.

'The Poetical Works of Lewis Glyn Cothi' Royal Cambrian Inst., 1837;
simply has Thomas Vaughan as the son of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower.

' History of the Life of Richard III' by James Gairdner, 1878 has:
"It has been commonly supposed that the Sir Thomas Vaughan put to
death by Richard III, along with Rivers and Lord Richard Grey, was Sir
Thomas Vaughan of Tretower. This is a mistake."

'Grants, Etc., from the Crown During the Reign of Edward the Fifth'
has: p. xv, [fn b.] "In the notes to the Poems of Lewis Glyn Cothi,
printed for the Cymmrodorion, ... in 1837, 8vo., the editor the Rev.
John Jones, M.A. of Christchurch, Oxford, ... and in a pedigree
identifies sir Thomas Vaughan with the son and heir of sir Roger
Vaughan of Tretower, co. Brecon, by Cicely, daughter of Thomas ab
Phylip Vychan , heiress of Talgarth, in the same county; but Johns, in
his History of Brecknockshire ... and Sir Samuel Meyrick, in his notes
to Lewis Dwnn's Visitations of Wales .... state the chamberlain of the
prince of Wales to have been the youngest illegitimate son of Sir
Roger Vaughan of Tretower, by an illegitimate daughter of a prior of
the monastery of Abergavenny... This latter account is probably to be
preferred; and if that is the case we may consider the courtier to be
the same Thomas Vaughan, an esquire for the king's body, who having
married Alianor, the widow of Thomas Browne ...."

Regards
Tom Dunn, Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, Ireland