The town of Calais, France, was in English hands from 1347 to 1558. During this historical period the task of the treasurer, in conjunction with the Captain...
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throne History of Calais List of Captains, Lieutenants and Lords Deputies of English Calais The Pale (Ireland) Treasurer of Calais Middle English, Cales...
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(1489–1551) was the Treasurer of Calais and a privy councillor to Edward VI of England. Edward first appears in the commission of the peace for Kent on...
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different times Captain of Calais, King's Lieutenant of Calais (Castle), or Lord Deputy of Calais. Commands were over the castle of Calais, the town, the march...
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Francis Weston (category Executions at the Tower of London)
Governor of Guernsey, Treasurer of Calais and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer. His mother was Anne Sandys, a daughter of Oliver Sandys of Shere in the...
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Vernon family (category Treasurers of Calais)
Staffordshire in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of which he was Speaker in 1426. He was Treasurer of Calais in the last year of his life (1450–1451)...
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member of the royal household of king Henry VII who served in a number of official posts including Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and Treasurer of Calais. Hugh...
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(1489–1551), Treasurer of Calais, and Nicholas Wotton (c. 1497–1567), a diplomat who, in 1539, arranged the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves....
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William Vernon (died 1467) (category Members of the Parliament of England for Derbyshire)
William Vernon of Haddon (c. 1418/1419 – 30 June 1467) was an English landowner, politician, and soldier who held the posts of Treasurer of Calais and Knight-Constable...
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politician Sir Edward Wotton (1489–1551), English public official, treasurer of Calais Edward Wotton (zoologist) (1492–1552), English zoologist Edward Wotton...
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Haddon Hall (category History of Derbyshire)
MP and Speaker of the House of Commons. His son Sir William was Knight-Constable of England and succeeded him as Treasurer of Calais and MP for Derbyshire...
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KB, of Sutton Place in the parish of Guildford in Surrey, was a courtier and diplomat who served as Governor of Guernsey, Treasurer of Calais and Under-Treasurer...
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Maurice Denys (category Treasurers of Calais)
Member of Parliament for Malmesbury in Wiltshire and as Treasurer of Calais. He was the builder of Siston Court in Gloucestershire, which survives largely...
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Gervase Clifton (died 1471) (category Treasurers of Calais)
when he became Treasurer of Calais in May 1451, not 1450. He was briefly Treasurer of the Household of Henry VI and Treasurer of Calais in 1450–1460. He...
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early years of his reign. In 1517 he was appointed Treasurer of Calais, a personal possession of the king, and in 1518 was made a Knight of the Garter...
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Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy (category Treasurers of Calais)
Blount, as Treasurer of Calais in 1460, becoming governor a year later as a reward for service rendered to King Edward IV at the Battle of Towton. Edward...
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Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle (category Wives of knights)
of Francis Hall a Spear of Calais, where she remained under house arrest for two years. The Lisle household was broken up on 2 June and the Treasurer...
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records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom and of England includes a variety of lists of MPs by age, period and other circumstances of service...
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Walter Blount (soldier) (category Members of the Parliament of England for Derbyshire)
knight of the Garter in 1413; and was present at the siege of Rouen in 1418: Sir John died without male issue. Sir Thomas Blount was Treasurer of Calais during...
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Roger Walden (category Treasurers of Calais)
with his ecclesiastical duties, and in 1387 also he was appointed Treasurer of Calais, holding about the same time other positions in this neighbourhood...
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[citation needed] Two of her brothers held important positions in the government. Sir Edward Wotton was Treasurer of Calais, and Nicholas Wotton was...
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Henry Vernon (died 1515) (category Members of the Parliament of England for Derbyshire)
Vernon family of Cheshire and Derbyshire. His father, William Vernon, was Knight-Constable of England, Treasurer of Calais, and a Member of Parliament,...
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Thomas Thwaites (civil servant) (category Treasurers of Calais)
Upon the ascension of Richard III he was knighted and moved to Treasurer of Calais, where he served from 1483 to 1490. Thwaites's tenure as Chancellor...
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siege of Calais (4 September 1346 – 3 August 1347) occurred at the conclusion of the Crécy campaign, when an English army under the command of King Edward...
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list of parliaments of England from the reign of King Henry III, when the Curia Regis developed into a body known as Parliament, until the creation of the...
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as large as £5,500 owed to the crown for Sir Maurice's account as Treasurer of Calais. Sir Maurice had also mortgaged Siston manor to two London merchants...
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Walter Mildmay (category Treasurers of Calais)
On 9 January 1558, he was appointed treasurer of the forces sent to the relief of Calais and was chosen as knight of the shire to represent Northamptonshire...
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Edward Wotton may refer to: Sir Edward Wotton (1489–1551) treasurer of Calais Edward Wotton (zoologist) (1492–1552), early English zoologist Edward Wotton...
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Pucklechurch (section Murder of King Edmund AD 946)
1561), Treasurer of Calais and builder of Siston Court. From him the manor passed to his cousin Hugh Denys, and a cadet (younger) branch of the Denys family...
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residence. His grandfather had been Treasurer of Calais under Henry VIII and in 1557/8 Weston was himself part of the garrison defending the town during...
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