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1ST See also: Richard, 5th baron Talbot, by Ankaret, heiress of the last See also: Lord See also: Strange of Blackmere
.
He was married before 1404 to Maud Neville, heiress of the barons Furnivall, and in her right summoned to parliament from 1409
.
In 1421 by the See also: death of his niece he acquired the baronies of Talbot and Strange
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From 1404 to 1413 he served with his elder See also: brother See also: Gilbert in the Welsh war
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Then for five years from
See also: February 1414 he was See also: lieutenant of See also: Ireland, where he held the honour of See also: Wexford
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He did some fighting, and had a See also: sharp See also: quarrel with the See also: earl of See also: Ormonde
.
Complaints were made against him both for harsh See also: government in Ireland and for violence in See also: Herefordshire
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From 1420 to 1424 he served in See also: France
.
In 1425 he was again for a See also: short See also: time lieutenant in Ireland
.
So far his career was that of a turbulent lord of the See also: Marches, employed in posts where a rough See also: hand was useful
.
In 1427 he went again to France, where he fought with distinction in Maine and at the siege of See also: Orleans; but his exploits were those of a
See also: good fighter rather than of general, and it was his stubborn rashness that was chiefly to
blame for the See also: English defeat at Patay in See also: June 1429
.
After Patay Talbot was four years a prisoner
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On his See also: release he became one of the foremost of the English captains
.
In 1434 he recovered the county of Clermont, next See also: year took See also: part in the siege of St Denys, and in 1436 by reducing and harrying the revolted Pays de Caux saved See also: Normandy
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He was rewarded with the offices of captain of See also: Rouen and marshal of France
.
During five years as a dashing fighter he was the mainstay of the English cause
.
His chief exploits were the defeat of the Burgundians before Crotoy in 1437 and the recovery of See also: Harfleur in 1440
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In 1442 during a visit to See also: England he was created earl of See also: Shrewsbury
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In See also: November he was back in France besieging See also: Dieppe; but " fared so foul with his men that they would no longer abide with him " and was forced to break the siege (See also: Chronicles of See also: London, p
.
150)
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In See also: March 1445 he was once more sent to Ireland, where he used his old methods, so that the Irish said " there came not from the time of
See also: Herod any one so wicked in evil deeds." In 1449 he served for a short time in Normandy
.
When in 1452 the Gascons appealed for English help, Shrewsbury was the natural See also: leader of the expedition
.
He landed in See also: Aquitaine on the 17th of See also: October
.
See also: Bordeaux and the surrounding See also: district returned quickly to their old allegiance, and in the following summer Shrewsbury captured Fronsac
.
In See also: July the French besieged Castillon
.
Shrewsbury hurried to its See also: relief, and with foolhardy valour attacked the enemy in their entrenched See also: camp without waiting for his artillery
.
The English and Gascon footmen charged in vain in face of the French cannon, until Shrewsbury and the flower of his troops had fallen
.
This happened in July 1453 and was the end of the English See also: rule in See also: Gascony
.
Shrewsbury's fighting qualities made him something of a popular See also: hero, and in the doggerel of the See also: day he was " Talbot our good See also: dog," whose valour was brought to nought by the treason of See also: Suffolk
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But in truth though a brave soldier he was no general
.
He was twice married, his second wife being See also: Margaret, eldest daughter of Richard See also: Beauchamp, earl of See also: Warwick
.
He was alleged to be eighty years old at his death; probably he was about sixty-five
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