Sir Edward Brampton: AN ANGLO-JEWISH ADVENTURER DURING THE WARS OF THE ROSES

The extraordinary figure of Sir Edward Brampton, the Portuguese apostate who came to England during the Wars of the Roses and achieved the dignity of Governor of Guernsey under Edward IV, has been a subject for mild controversy among Anglo-Jewish historians during the last quarter of a century. To explain the origins and circumstances it is I am afraid necessary to embark into a highly personal account.

The earliest paper which I read before the Jewish Historical Society of England, as an Oxford undergraduate not long since returned from what we then naively considered the Great War, was entitled ” Sir Edward Brampton : an Anglo-Jewish Adventurer during the Wars of the Roses 55. It was based on the assumption, supported by numerous documents, that Edward Brandon, godson of King Edward IV, who was an inmate of the Domus Conversorum in London in 1468-1472, was identical with Sir Edward Brampton,

Written by

Cecil Roth

Published in

Volume 16

1945

Other articles within the volume

• William Wollaston (1659-1724): English Deist and Rabbinic Scholar
• A Hebrew Elegy on the York Martyrs of 1190
• The Case of Dr. Lopez
• The Case of Dr. Lopez
• More Anglo-Jewish Leading Cases
• Grace Aguilar : A Centenary Tribute
• Jewish Residents in Eighteenth-century Twickenham
• Sir Edward Brampton: AN ANGLO-JEWISH ADVENTURER DURING THE WARS OF THE ROSES
• Sir Henry Finch (1558-1625) and the first english advocates of the restoration of the jews to palestine
• Maimonides and England
• Jewish Finance in Thirteenth-century England
• The Strayings of Paul Isaiah in England, 1651-1656
• The Non-Christian Oath in English Law
• The Damascus Affair-1840
• Solomon ben Joseph Buzaglo
• Church and Synagogue in the Middle Ages
• Levi Barent Cohen and some of his descendants
• War and Jewish History
• Preface