He had been a Yorkist, and had fought for Richard.

That might have been forgiven him if he had not unhorsed his future king at Bosworth and almost succeeded in slaughtering him with his own reckless hands.

So he had fled, and had remained in obscurity and a safe hiding-place after his brother's death, preferring his head without a title to a title without a head.
On this document, unsigned and undated, with nothing to indicate the place of its origin, the Turold family based its claim of descent from the baronial Turralds of Great Missenden.

But the Turold history was a chequered one.

Their branch was nomadic, without territorial ties or wealth, without continuance of chronology.