John Falconer

  1. Sir John Falconer, one of John of Guant's, Duke of Lancaster, chief retainers.
  2. Accompanied Edmund Langley's expedition to Portugal to aid King Fernando against Juan I of Castile (1381).
  3. Joined the Duke of Lancaster's campaign in Scotland (1384).
  4. Participated also in Lancaster's Peninsular expedition but was killed near Benavente (1387).
  5. Bibl: Peter Russell, English Intervention in Spain and Portugal in the time of Edward III and Richard II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955), p. 466; Anthony Goodman, John of Gaunt: the Exercise of Princely Power in Fourteenth-Century Europe (London: Longman, 1992), 114 and 117.
mossé Joham Falconeth
mossé Joham Falconet
mõsery João Falconer
monsire Joham Falconer

Chronicle entries in which John Falconer appears:

Crónica de D. Fernando, ch. 149: 10
Crónica de D. Fernando, ch. 149: 59
Crónica de D. João I, part 2, ch. 83

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