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The Fastolf family have been recorded at Great Yarmouth since the thirteenth century: notable members in earlier generations include Thomas Fastolf, Bishop of St Davids and his brother Nicholas Fastolf, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
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Fastolf and family
* Sir John Fastolf ( 1378 ?- 1459 ) the prototype for Falstaff lived mainly at Caister-on-Sea but his family had lived at Great Yarmouth for generations
The Fastolf family, whose most celebrated member was Sir John Fastolf, are recorded here from the thirteenth century.
Fastolf and have
Sir John Fastolf of Caister Castle Norfolk ( 1380-1459 ) later claimed to have been ' the first man over the side ' of the boat when the English landed outside the town ; and he certainly played a part in the siege, being invalided home afterwards.
He was son of a Norfolk gentleman, Sir John Fastolf of Caister-on-Sea, and is said to have been squire to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, before 1398 and to have served with Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence in Ireland during 1405 and 1406.
Sir John Fastolf is shown as a comical figure who wins the battle thanks to rumours he may have heard about the Bohemian heretics and their commander, Jan Žižka ( whose name he pronounces as " Sheeshka ").
Fastolf and been
This supply convoy was led by Sir John Fastolf and had been outfitted in Paris, whence it had departed some time earlier.
Fastolf and at
The historical John Fastolf fought at the Battle of Patay against Joan of Arc, which the English lost.
* 1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay.
* February 12 – battle of Rouvray ( or " of the Herrings "): English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk at Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stewart.
Fastolf brought the supplies in triumph to the English soldiers at Orleans three days later.
The name was changed to " Falstaff ", based on Sir John Fastolf, an historical person with a reputation for cowardice at the Battle of Patay, and whom Shakespeare had previously represented in Henry VI, Part 1.
At his defeat at Patay in 1429 he was advised not to fight there by Sir John Fastolf, who was subsequently blamed for the debacle, but the French, inspired by Joan of Arc, showed unprecedented fighting spirit-usually they approached an English position with great terror.
The name Falstaff was derived from Sir John Fastolf, who was also a historical person — allegedly a greedy and grasping individual, who had a ( probably undeserved ) reputation for cowardice at the Battle of Patay.
However, it was found that, a few days before Fastolf's death, he had executed a fresh will in which Fastolf had named ten executors, of whom two only, John Paston and another, were to act ; and, moreover, that Fastolf had bequeathed all his lands in Norfolk and Suffolk to Paston, subject only to the duty of founding the college at Caister, and paying 4, 000 marks to the other executors.
He was educated at Oxford and became secretary to Sir John Fastolf.
An English reinforcement army under Sir John Fastolf departed from Paris following the defeat at Orléans.
Fastolf and century
In the fifteenth century, Blickling Hall was in the possession of Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk ( 1380 – 1459 ), who made a fortune in the Hundred Years ' War, and whose coat of arms is still on display there.
In the fifteenth century, the town was occupied by the English, and belonged to Sir John Fastolf of Caister Castle in Norfolk ( 1380-1459 ).
The village prospered during the fifteenth century, when it belonged to Millicent, the wife of Sir Stephen Le Scrope and then of Sir John Fastolf ( 1380 – 1459 ), a Norfolk knight who was the effective lord of the manor for fifty years.
Fastolf and include
Worcester's other writings include the last Acta domini Johannis Fastolf.
Fastolf and Thomas
* Thomas Fastolf
Fastolf, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Sir Thomas Scales commanded the English.
Fastolf and Nicholas
* 1324 Nicholas Fastolf
* 1328 Nicholas Fastolf again
Fastolf and Lord
* June 18 – Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.
Fastolf and .
Fastolf appears in Henry VI, Part I in which he is portrayed as an abject coward.
Hearing of the dispatch of an English supply convoy from Paris, under the command of Sir John Fastolf for the English siege troops, Clermont decided to take a detour to intercept it.
As in 1437, York was able to count on the loyalty of Bedford's supporters, including Sir John Fastolf and Sir William Oldhall.
Sir John Fastolf, the inspiration for Shakespeare's Falstaff, was buried here in December 1459, next to his wife Millicent in a new aisle built by Fastolf on the South side of the abbey church.
See: Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John Fastolf.
Fastolf had died without descendants, making him safe for a playwright's use.
Talbot's failures are all blamed on Fastolf and feuding factions in the English court.
Fastolf, however, died without descendants, making him safe for a playwright's use.
Paston had become very intimate with the wealthy knight Sir John Fastolf, who was probably related to his wife, and who had employed him on several matters of business.
Sir John Fastolf was a prominent soldier in the Hundred Years ' War who gave his name to Shakespeare's character Falstaff.
family and have
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.
Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
He could have been blackmailed, or his family might have been threatened.
Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.
The brushes can be cleaned and sterilized by boiling and are detachable so that every member of the family can have his own.
We have far less to fear in the migrant family than we have in the migrant developer under these conditions.
He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.
In recognition of the growing trend for second homes, or vacation cottages, we have designed this one specifically with the family handyman in mind.
Some members of the bee family have become idlers, social parasites that live at the expense of their hardworking relatives.
Now the only way in which all curves of the image family of Af can pass through a fixed point is to have a generator of Af which is not a secant but a tangent of **zg, for then any point on such a generator will be transformed into the point of tangency.
When you see a needle in my hands you will know the family buttons have fallen off and I have to sew them back on, or get out the safety pins.
If you have a year-round, full-time job you can't expect to grow much more than your family uses -- unless other members of the family do a good deal of the work or you hire help.
`` Didn't have no family -- around here.
Neighbor women, such as Mrs. Sidney Baker, 2269 Serra, Sterling Township, have been supplying the family with meals and handling household chores with Kowalski's sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna Kowalski, 22111 David, East Detroit.
The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.
Every member of the family must have a vital place in its life.
They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.
That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??
Mr. Willis, eager to have him allied with the family, wanted advice beyond the confines of his field, and William set out on a serious study of the situation, including trips to Wisconsin and Washington.
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