When Isabell Bilton was born in 1433, in Angmering, Sussex, England, her father, Sir Edward Bilton, was 26 and her mother, Margaret Cook, was 22. She married Sir John Palmer II in 1454, in Angmering, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1495, in her hometown, at the age of 62, and was buried in Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
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Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
English: habitational name from any of the places in Northumberland and Yorkshire called Bilton, from an Old English personal name Billa + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. There is also a Bilton in Warwickshire, of which the first element is probably Old English beolone ‘henbane’ (compare Belton ).
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