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Sir Hugh Calveley (died 23 April 1394) was an English knight and commander, who took part in the Hundred Years' War, gaining fame during the War of the Breton Succession and the Castilian Civil War. He held various military posts in Brittany and Normandy.
English soldier, mercenary warrior, admiral, statesman and adventurer, Hugh Calveley had a long and extremely eventful life. He was born in 1315 to David de Calveley of Lea and his wife Joanna, members of the landed gentry residing at Calveley Manor in Cheshire.
Biography. The subject of this biography came of a long-established Cheshire family, which numbered among its members two of the most celebrated English commanders of the Hundred Years’ War, Sir Hugh Calveley and Sir Robert Knolles.
Jun 1, 2019 · Hugh de Calveley was the son of David de Calveley, second son of David de Calveley of Lea in the county of Chester, and brother of the celebrated Sir Hugh de Calveley above mentioned. It has not been ascertained when he was born, and the first notice of him is in 1379, when he was abroad in the King's service. [2]
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Dec 28, 2020 · CALVELEY, Sir HUGH (d. 1393), a distinguished soldier, was the son of David de Calvelegh, and his first wife Joan, of Lea in Cheshire, and was the brother, it is thought, of Sir Robert Knolles. Both are celebrated in the pages of Froissart.
Biography. Of old Cheshire stock, Hugh Calverley inherited lands at Lea, Handley, Milton and elsewhere in the county, and these were to be augmented shortly before his death by his wife’s manor of Harthill and her other property; the manor of Tattenhall he had leased in 1546, while in Chester he rented houses from the corporation.
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May 2, 2022 · Sir Hugh Calveley [1] (died 23 April 1394) was an English knight and commander, who took part in the Hundred Years' War, gaining fame during the War of the Breton Succession and the Castilian Civil War. He held various military posts in Brittany and Normandy.
