"Royal Standard Bearers - Y & L" Topic

Does anyone know the name (and ideally the arms) of the standard-bearer of Edward IV in any of his battles? And same question for Henry VI, on those occasions when he was present at a battle (1st StA, Northampton, etc)?

Quick search yielded

Reference to Standard Bearer for England
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For Edward IV

Sir David Mathew for Edward IV – Towton was the battle where Edward acknowledged him Grand Standard Bearer for England
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Ralph Vestynden is also listed as a standard bearer during Towton for Edward with the Black Bull Standard
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Neville "may have" also had that role during the battle of Barnet

For Henry VI

Sir William Brandon who died at Bosworth. His brother Thomas was also listed as a standard bearer.
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Visits to Fields of Battle, in England, of the Fifteenth Century
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Note there were some internet references to a Sir Willima Burton also being a standard bear for Henry VI and dying at Towton

The Earl of Wiltshire was standard bearer to Henry VI at 1st St Albans.

Sir William Brandon who died at Bosworth.

I think that was Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) not Henry VI

You are right my error

Many thanks to DisasterWargamer for the quick replies. Two notes:

(1) The Wiki link shows "or, a lion sable" for the arms of Sir David Matthew. Isn't that also the arms of Flanders?

(2) It does seem that Sir William Burton is a strong possibility for Henry VI's standard-bearer at later battles than 1st SA (thanks to Major B for the Wiltshire tip – didn't Wiltshire flee from 1st SA somewhat ingloriously?). I can't find arms for Burton on Wiki yet.

Eumelus, I did a bit of a search and found this on link :

Sir William Burton was the standard bearer for King Henry VI in France from 1421 to 1429. He sadly died at the Battle of Towton in 1461.

As for a crest, link refers to "Burton of Falde Hall, co. Staffordshire, England – Sir William Burton (c. 1391-1461)" and gives the arms as azure a fess or, three hound (talbot?) heads erased or.

Graham Turner has painted Ralph Verstynden with the Black Bull standard – the picture is in his Ward of the Roses book and is accessible on his Studio 88 website. The picture shows Verstynden in armour rather than a surcoat but there's no trace of arms for that name in the Armorial Generale of Europe so he may not have had them.