Sir Robert Constable (ca. 1478-1537), helped Henry VII to defeatthe Cornish rebels at Blackheath in 1497. In 1536, when therising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in NorthernEngland, Constable was one of the insurgent leaders, but towardsthe close of the year he submitted at Doncaster and waspardoned. He did not share in the renewal of the rising whichtook place in January 1537; but he refused the king's invitationto proceed to London, and was arrested. Tried for treason, hewas hanged at Hull in the following June.