Sir Robert Constable ( c. 1478 – 6 July 1537 ) was a member of the English Tudor gentry . He helped Henry VII to defeat the Cornish rebels at the Battle of Blackheath in 1497 . In 1536 , when the rising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in the north of England , Constable was one of the insurgent leaders , but towards the close of the year he submitted at Doncaster and was pardoned . He did not share in the renewal of the rising which took place in January 1537 ; but he refused the king 's invitation to proceed to London , and was arrested , tried for treason , and hanged at Hull in the following June
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Robert Constable