Interaction With Royalty
At Bristol in 1456 he entertained Queen Margaret of Anjou, consort of the Lancastrian King Henry VI(1422-1461). William's half-brother Thomas Young, whilst serving with him as the Bristol MP's in 1450, had proposed a motion in Parliament for the recognition of his Yorkist royal patron Richard, Duke of York(d.1460) as heir to Henry's throne, for which action he was imprisoned. Canynges appears to have shared his half-brother's support for the Yorkist cause as in 1450 during his third term as mayor he prevented the sale in Bristol of gunpowder intended for use against the Duke. He also occupied Bristol Castle on the Duke's instructions, holding it against his rival Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset(d.1455). Whilst mayor in September 1461, following Henry's deposition in that year, Canynges received in Bristol the Duke's son, the new Yorkist King Edward IV(1461-1483), to whom he loaned 500 marks.
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