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John 1st Earl Of Shrewsbury TALBOT

John 1st Earl Of Shrewsbury TALBOT4,2,1,3

about 13842,1 - 17th Jul 14532,1,1

Made English Marshall of France for King Henry VI

Life History

about 1384

Born.2,1

between 1404 and 1413

Event 1 in Served in English campaigns in Wales.1

between 1414 and 1419

Occupation Lieutenant of Ireland.1

1419

Occupation Joined English forces in France.1

1421

Death of Maud 6th Lady Strange of Blackmere NEVILLE.5

Jun 1429

Event 2 in Talbot's rashness was responsible for the English defeat at Patay.1

1436

Event 3 in Prevented loss of Normandy to the French by suppressing a revolt at Pays de Caux.1

1436

Occupation Made English Marshall of France for King Henry VI.1

between 1449 and 1450

Event 4 in Held hostage by the French after his capture.1

Oct 1452

Event 5 in Arrived in Bordeaux to recover Guyenne and Gascony from the French.1

17th Jul 1453

Died in Castillon, Guyenne, France.2,1,1

Died in battle in Castillon, France, in the last battle of the 100 Years War

after 17th Jul 1453

Buried in St Alkmund Church, Shropshire, Whitchurch, England.3

Other facts

 

Married Maud 6th Lady Strange of Blackmere NEVILLE

 

Titled: Created Earl of Shrewsbury (Salop).1,2

 

CauseOfDeath: died in battle in Castillon, France, in the last battle of the 100 Years War

Notes

  • John Talbot was created Earl of Salop.  According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,  Salop was the official name of the title, but Talbot used the name Shrewsbury, by which it is commonly known, and officially so in later times.

    Shrewsbury was the chief English military commander in the last phase of the Hundred Years' War against French.  He was made marshall of France for English King Henry VI in 1436 after he prevented Normandy from falling to the French.  He was killed in an attempt to lift the French siege of the English castle of Castillon in Guyenne.  This became the last battle of the Hundred years' War, though no peace treaty was signed to formally end hostilities until 1574 at Piquigny."
    -- Encyclopaedia Britannica, Electronic Edition 1996, articles "Shrewsbury, John Talbot, 1st earl of" and "Castillon, Battle of"

    Here are further details from Burke's Peerage

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    1st Earl of Shrewsbury, K.G., summoned to Parliament 1409 as "Johannes Talbot de Furnyvall". He was appointed 1412 Lord Justice of Ireland, and 1414 Lord Lieut. of Ireland, he governed there for 7 years.  This Lord Talbot, whom Shakespeare terms "the great Alcides of the field" was one of the most renowned captains of the warlike age he lived in. His earlier feats of arms were under Henry V in France, at the siege and capture of Meaux, and he seems to have inherited the heroic spirit of his royal master.

    He gloriously sustained the cause of Henry VI throughout his French realm, in battle after battle, until the very name of Talbot became a terror to the Frenchmen.  He was, for a moment, checked in his career by the Maid of Orleans, at Patay, 1429, when, his army being routed, he was taken prisoner. He was exchanged for Ambrose de Lore, a celebrated French partisan, and was soon in activity again, the master-mind and master-director of the fierce contest in France, doing good and effective service every day.  In reward he was created, 20th May 1442, EARL OF THE COUNTY OF SALOP, or as usually styled, EARL OF SHREWSBURY.

    He was subsequently re-constituted Lord Lieut. of Ireland, and elevated to the Peerage of that kingdom, 17 July 1446, as EARL OF WATERFORD, having been appointed at the same time Lord High Steward of Ireland.  After this he went once more to fight in France. He commanded a fleet, landed and took Falaise; as Lieut. of the Duchy of Acquitaine, landed in Medoc and made Bordeaux surrender and the surrounding minor towns send in instant submission.

    He thence advanced to the relief of Chastillon, and met the besieging French army commanded by their then greatest leader, Dunois, Bastard of Orleans.  In the battle which ensued, 20 July 1453, Talbot, in the sixty-third year of his age, received a wound in the head, which proved immediately mortal. He had been victorious in 40 different battles and dangerous skirmishes; his death proved fatal to the English dominion in France, which never flourished afterwards.
    --  http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/htm/beauchamp.htm#src1
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    Occupation:
    1414-1419 Lieutenant of Ireland
    1419 Joined English forces in France
    1404-1413 Served in English campaigns in Wales
    1414-1419 as lieutenant of Ireland
    June 1429 Talbot's rashness was responsible for the English defeat at Patay
    1436 Made English Marshall of France for King Henry VI
    1436 Prevented loss of Normandy to the French by suppressing a revolt at Pays de Caux
    --  Article "Shrewsbury, John Talbot, 1st earl of" "In 1442 he was created earl of Salop -- Sherwsbury was the name that he himself used for the title."

    Ray Gurganus, manager of Our Family Tree community genealogy, contributed the burial information for for John Talbot, from GENUKI, to this genealogy on Our Family Tree.

    John Talbot
    Birth abt 1384 England
    Occup 1407-1453 6th Baron of Furnivall
    Occup 1442-1453 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
    Death 7/17/1453 France, Guyenne, Castillon
    Grave England, Shropshire, Whitchurch, St Alkmund Church
    --  Our Family Tree, https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php?pid=61247

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