Unicorn Tavern on Cheapside – headquarters of the 1485 coup – was owned by Sir William Gardynyr

  ──────────────────────────────────────────────

(EuroSciVoc) Medieval history, (EuroSciVoc) Medieval philosophy, (EuroSciVoc) Genealogy, (EuroSciVoc) Archives, (EuroSciVoc) Digital humanities,(MeSH) History, Medieval, (MeSH) Archives, (MeSH) Genealogy and Heraldry, (MeSH) Literature, Medieval, (MeSH) Literature, Medieval/history, (MeSH) Manuscripts as Topic, (MeSH) Paleography, (MeSH) Forensic Anthropology, (MeSH) Homicide/history, (MeSH) Military History, (MeSH) Politics/history, (MeSH) Commerce/history, (MeSH) Textiles/history, (MeSH) England, Bosworth, Richard III, Tudor coup, Gardiner syndicate, C-to-Gardner Method, orthographic retrieval, medieval genealogy, primary sources, Golden Folios, posthumous pardon, poleaxe, Unicorn's Debt, Calais Staple, Hanseatic League, wool trade, regicide, Wars of the Roses, mercantile coupKingslayers Court, Lost Ledgers of Bosworth, Unicorn Tavern, Kingslayers of the Counting House, The Unicorns Debt, , Exning warren, Ellen Tudor, Stephen Gardiner, Wargrave bailiwick, Rhys ap Thomas, fuzzy onomastics, orthographic variation, C-to-Gardner Method, Gardiner, Gardynyr, Cardynyr, Gairdner, Gärtner, Jardine,




DID YOU KNOW? #3


The Unicorn Tavern on Cheapside – headquarters of the 1485 coup – was owned by Sir William Gardynyr (the regicide) and Ellen Tudor (Jasper’s daughter). No historian named them as owners for 540 years. We just did.


Source: LMA DL/C/B/004/MS09171/007 ff.25v–26r (Sir William’s will, 1485 –


“my tenement called the Unicorn in        West Cheap”

──────────────────────────────────────────────



Author and Researcher

David T. Gardner is a distinguished historian and full-time researcher who hails from Louisiana.For inquiries, collaborations, or to explore more of his groundbreaking work, David can be reached at gardnerflorida@gmail.com or via his blog at KingslayersCourt.com, a digital haven for history

© 2025 David T Gardiner (KSC) All original research, narrative text, family-tree reconstructions, citation chains, vault entries, and compiled datasets authored by David T Gardiner are copyright protected worldwide.

Posted by at