Editing Reginald Bray (section)

==Life before 1485==
[[File:Wenceslas Hollar - Windsor. St George's Chapel. Bray's Chapel (State 1).jpg|thumb|Bray's chapel in [[St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]]]]
Reginald (Reynold) Bray was born about 1440 in [[St Johns, Worcester|St. John Bedwardine]] parish, then outside of [[Worcester, England|Worcester]], the second son of Richard Bray, a surgeon,.{{sfn|Gunn|2016|p=7}}  He was the eldest son born of his father's second marriage to Joan Troughton.<ref name="Guth">DeLloyd J. Guth, 'Climbing the Civil-Service Pole during Civil War: Sir Reynold Bray (c.1440-1503)', in Sharon D. Michalove and A. Compton Reeves, eds., ''Estrangement, Enterprise & Education in Fifteenth Century England'', Stroud (1998) {{ISBN|0750913843}}, pp. 54-56.</ref>  With his younger brother, John, Bray entered the service of [[Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby|Margaret Beaufort]] during the period of her first marriage to Sir Henry Stafford, acquitting himself sufficiently well to become the couple's receiver-general by 1465.<ref name="Guth"/>  Margaret sent Bray several times on missions to her son by [[Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond|Edmund Tudor]].  For example, in 1469 he brought the young [[Henry VII of England|Henry Tudor]] a gift of money from his mother to enable the boy to purchase a bow and arrows.<ref>DeLloyd J. Guth, 'Climbing the Civil-Service Pole during Civil War: Sir Reynold Bray (c.1440-1503)', pp. 60-61</ref>  

Bray continued in Margaret Beaufort's service after Stafford's death in 1471, and by 1485 had been her estate officer for more than twenty years, serving both Margaret and her successive husbands, Henry Stafford and [[Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby|Thomas, Lord Stanley]].<ref name="Guth"/>{{sfn|Gunn|2016|p=7}}{{sfn|Condon|2004}} 

He had a leading role in the various conspiracies of 1483-1485 whose aim was to place [[Henry VII of England|Henry Tudor]] on the English throne.{{sfn|Gunn|2016|p=7}} Bray would continue as Margaret Beaufort's receiver-general until his own death in 1503.{{sfn|Condon|2004}}