Sir Philip Dymoke, son of Sir Thomas, acted as Champion to King Henry VI, and lived long enough to see the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. His Son, Sir Thomas, succeeded to the Championship. This prominence proved fatal. He took no part in the first phase of the war, and, when Henry VI had been constitutionally deposed by Parliament, took his place at the Coronation of Edward IV. Later he showed his Lancastrian sympathies. In 1470 the King ordered him to appear before the Council. Sir Thomas came to London, but, on hearing that the King's counternace was dark, fled to sanctuary, and only left it on receipt of an express promise of pardon. A little later his knight head was removed at the command of an angry and perfidious monarch.

Sir Thomas left a son, Robert, aged ten. In after years, when Robert was of age, King Edward restored to him his patrimony and also all the lands inherited from the distaff side. Sir Robert was appointed a Knight Banneret, and his fortunes flourished throughout his long life. He lived during five reigns (Edward IV and V, Richard III, and Henry VII and VIII) and acted as Champion to the last three. Sir Robert died in 1545, aged 73, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward, who also performed the office of Champion three times, ie., at the Coronations of Edward VI, Queen Mary and Queen Elisabeth. Sir Edward died in 1566

His son and successor was Robert, who, in an inquisition on Sir Edward's death, was described as an Esquire, but there is reason for thinking that he and two of his younger brothers subsequently received the honour of Knighthood. Robert was a staunch Roman Catholic and suffered in the anti-Roman reactions which followed the persecution and burning of Protestants during the reign of Queen Mary. Sir Robert had the misfortune to be living in a diocese the Bishop of which (Dr Cooper) was a stern, unpitying and rampant Puritan. Because of ill health the Court of Inquiry (presided over by the merciless Dr. Cooper) to which Sir Robert was cited, was held at Scriveslby. The Champion refusing to deny his faith, was cast into prison. The aged and feeble frame rebelled at this treatment, and his death in prison entitles Sir Robert to be honoured both as a Martyr and Champion. Sir Robert's son Sir Edward Dymoke, acted as Champion to James I in a meagre and much mutilated Coronation ceremony, necessitated by a fresh outbreak of plague in London. Sir Edward married three times, and his son, Charles, by his third wife, Championed King Charles I at a restored and revised ceremony. He was the first Champion to appear at a Coronation without the knightly spurs. Charles Dymoke was a leading Cavalier, and died (a bachelor) early in the Civil War. Until this time the Dymokes were wealthy and influential. Then followed a period of gradual decline in their fortunes and a break in the direct succession. The Scrivelsby estates are said to have descended in tail male to Sir Nicholas Dymoke, an uncle of Charles. Sir Nicholas was succeeded by his son Sir Edward.

When the regicides came to power the Royal Champion and his house were singled out for attention, and crippling confiscation and fines (one of nearly 5,000 pounds) impoverished the family. Sir Edward officiated at the Coronation ofCharles II. He died shortly after, and was survived by three sons, of whom Sir Charles Championed James II.

Sir Charles, dying in 1686, was succeeded in turn by his two surviving sons, Charles, who performed the office of Champion for William and Mary and the Queen Anne, and Lewis, the Champion of George I and II

Lewis died (a bachelor) in 1760, aged 91, and "endeavouring to do justice to his relations, he lost himself in a maze of cousinhood," bequeathed the Scrivelsby estate to a distant cousin Edward Dymoke. Edward died within a few months. He was succeeded by his son John who was called upon to act as Champion a few weeks later to George III.

John Dymoke left two sons. Lewis, the elder, a Champion who was never called upon to function in an official capacity, was succeeded by his brother the Reverend John Dymoke. The Court of Claims granted permission for the Clerical Champion to be represented by his son Henry at the Coronation fo George IV, in 1821. This was the last occasion upon which the full ceremony of the Challenge was used.

Sir Henry was knighted in 1841, and died in 1865. He was succeeded by his brother the Reverend John Dymoke, who died in 1873.

Henry Lionel, son of the last John, died shortly after his father, and, following his widow's death in 1883, the estate of Scrivelsby - and so the Championship - went by the terms of the will to "the heir-at-law of John Dymoke, who died at Tetford in the year 1782." This was Francis Scaman Dymoke, Esq., who was descended from a younger son of Sir Edward Dymoke, Champion to Charles II Mr Dymoke died in 1893 and was succeeded by his son, also named Francis Scaman, who, as King's Champion and Standard Bearer of England, carried the Royal Standard at the Coronations of King Edward VII, King George V and King George VI. He died in 1946 and the ancient and honourable title came to his grandson John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, who is the 34th King's Champion. He was commissioned into the Royal Lincolshire Regt., and served in World War II. Captain Dymoke acted as Champion at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (1953), and married Miss Susan C. Fane later that year. They have three sons. In 1960 he was awarded the M.B.E. Major Dymoke is at present (1965) an Instructor at the R.M.A., Sandhurst.