When Miles Metcalfe was born about 1428, in Nappa, Yorkshire, England, his father, Capt James Metcalfe Esq., of Nappa, was 41 and his mother, Gelsone Gibson IREBY, was 34. He married Matilda in 1454, in Nappa, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. His occupation is listed as justice of assize in Lancashire, England. He died on 12 February 1486, in Yorkshire, England, at the age of 59, and was buried in York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England.
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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: variant of Metcalf .
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