William Eure, 1st Baron Eure [SEP] date of death
William Eure, 1st Baron Eure
William Eure, 1st Baron Eure (c.1483–1548) of Witton was an English knight and soldier active on the Anglo-Scottish border. Henry VIII of England made him Baron Eure by patent in 1544. The surname is often written as "Evers". William was Governor of Berwick upon Tweed in 1539, Commander in the North in 1542, Warden of the Eastern March, and High Sheriff of Durham. During the Anglo-Scottish war called the Rough Wooing, Eure and his sons Henry
(1545–1551)
- Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (1556)
- Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1557–)
- William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton (1559–)
- Sir John Forster (1560–1595)
- William Eure, 2nd Baron Eure (1595)
- Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure (1595)
- Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth (1596–1598)
For England Warden of the Western March.
- Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle