A medieval family: the Pastons of fifteenth-century England

The letters

The family

Judge William and his children (1421-1444)

Land disputes and the Siege of Gresham (1444-1450)

Sir John Fastolf, a soldier in retirement (1450-1452)

Sir John Fastolf and John Paston (1453-1459)

The Fastolf will contested (1459-1465)

The Sack of Hellesdon and the death of John Paston (1465-1466)

Royal marriages and misalliances (1466-1469)

The Siege of Caister (1469)

The Battle of Barnet (1470-1471)

Family discord, foreign war, and other disturbances (1471-1475)

Caister regained, a marriage negotiated (1475-1478)

Deaths (1479-1484)

The last of the medieval Pastons.