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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 870 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KNOLLES (or KNOLLES), See also:SIR See also:ROBERT (c. 1325-1407)  , See also:English soldier, belonged to a See also:Cheshire See also:family . In See also:early See also:life he served in See also:Brittany, and he was one of the English survivors who were taken prisoners by the See also:French after the famous " combat of the See also:thirty " in See also:March 1351 . He was, however, quickly released and was among the soldiers of See also:fortune who took See also:advantage of the distracted See also:state of Brittany, at this See also:time the See also:scene of a See also:savage See also:civil See also:war, to win fame and See also:wealth at the expense of the wretched inhabitants . After a time he transferred his operations to See also:Normandy, when he served under the allied See also:standards of See also:England and of See also:Charles II. of See also:Navarre . He led the " See also:great See also:company " in their See also:work of devastation along the valley of ,the See also:Loire, fighting at this time for his own See also:hand and for See also:booty, and winning a terrible reputation by his ravages . After the conclusion of the treaty of Bretigny in 136o See also:Knolles returned to Brittany and took See also:part in the struggle for the See also:possession of the duchy between See also:John of See also:Montfort (See also:Duke John IV.) and Charles of See also:Blois, gaining great fame by his conduct in the fight at See also:Auray (See also:September 1364), where Du Guesclin was captured and Charles of Blois was slain . In 1367 he marched with the See also:Black See also:Prince into See also:Spain and fought at the See also:battle of Najera; in 1369 he was with the prince in See also:Aquitaine . In 1370 he was placed by See also:Edward III. at the See also:head of an expedition which invaded See also:France and marched on See also:Paris, but after exacting large sums of See also:money as See also:ransom a See also:mutiny See also:broke up the See also:army, and its See also:leader was forced to take See also:refuge in his See also:Breton See also:castle of Derval and to appease the disappointed English See also:king with a large monetary See also:gift . Emerging from his See also:retreat Knolles again assisted John of Montfort in Brittany, where he acted as John's representative; later he led a force into Aquitaine, and he was one of the leaders of the See also:fleet sent against the Spaniards in 1377 . In 138o he served in France under See also:Thomas of See also:Woodstock, after-wards duke of See also:Gloucester, distinguishing himself by his valour at the See also:siege of See also:Nantes; and in 1381 he went with See also:Richard II. to meet Wat See also:Tyler at Smithfield . He died at Sculthorpe in See also:Norfolk on the 15th of See also:August 1407 . See also:Sir See also:Robert devoted much of his great wealth to charitable See also:objects .

He built a See also:

college and an See also:almshouse at See also:Pontefract, his wife's birthplace, where the See also:alms-See also:house still exists; he restored the churches of Sculthorpe and Harpley; and he helped to found an English See also:hospital in See also:Rome . Knolles won an immense reputation by his skill and valour in the See also:field, and ranks as one of the foremost captains of his See also:age . French writers See also:call him Canolles, or Canole .

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