Robert de Avenel

• Preferred Name: Robert de Avenel^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LRFJ-QRD
  
• Death: BET 1387 AND 1402 in Salt House, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.95 LONG: E0.09
  
• Birth: ABT 1360 in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N3.1581 LONG: E0.2392 with note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Fastolf Sir John Fastolf KG (c. 1378 – 5 November 1459) was an English knight during the Hundred Years War, who has enjoyed a more lasting reputation as in some part being the prototype of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff. Many historians consider, however, that he deserves to be famous in his own right, not only as a soldier, but as a patron of literature, a writer on strategy and perhaps as an early industrialist. Lineage and early career 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, serving with Earl Thomas of Lancaster in Ireland during 1405 and 1406. He claimed to have visited Jerusalem, as a boy, which must have been in the company of Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV of England. Marriage On 13 January 1409, he married Millicent, widow of Sir Stephen Scrope of Castle Combe in Wiltshire. This marriage brought him an income of £240 per annum, a considerable sum. Fastolf's military career Early service in France He served in Gascony in 1413 and in Northern France from 1415 to 1439, where he served under Henry V and the king's brother, the Duke of Bedford. He took part in the siege of Harfleur in 1415, but was invalided home and so missed Agincourt, though he returned to defend Harfleur against the French attempt to recapture it in the winter of 1415-16. He was Bedford's Master of the Household, and was Governor of the province of Maine and Anjou, and in February 1426 created a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Fastolf was also appointed a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, but the appointment was revoked in 1429.[2] But later in this year he was superseded in his command by John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury; and he became a somewhat controversial figure after the siege of Orleans - see below. After a visit to England in 1428, he returned to the war, and on 12 February 1429 when in cha
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Freebridge (concluded). North Greenhow. Happing. Holt. Launditch – Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin
  
  https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=TMHNAAAAMAAJ&rdid=book-TMHNAAAAMAAJ&rdot=1

• m. by 1387 1st husband

1. Alice de Avenel, b. ABT 1380 in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom     d. ABT 1407 in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

1. Title: Robert Avenel on WikiTree
   Author: WikiTree contributors, "Robert Avenel", WikiTree, http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Avenel-17 (accessed 16 April 2022)
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2. Title: Book - History of Norfolk
   Author: Google Books
   Note: Robert Avenel m- Juliana Belkanp 1387 - Norfolk - John Bokenahm, Ship of Lincoln - conveyed to - ROBERT Avenel & Julianna his wife Salt House, Keeling, Norfolk Holwell, Bedford Beeches & G.....in Wimpole, Cambridge