Lol. I've been mostly away and out of action for a while (in a distant galaxy, of course) and may have lost some of my perspective on which battles are critical. :-)
Alarming evidence that Father Christmas died in 1564 has turned up in the records of a country church.
While every child knows that this could not possibly be the real Santa Claus, nevertheless someone called Father Christmas was laid to rest in a churchyard in the village of Dedham, Essex, on May 30 that year.
An entry in the parish record for that month states: "The 30[th] Day, Father Christmas was buried." Any headstone marking his grave disappeared many years ago.