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Sir John Fastolf KG (6 November 1380 – 5 November 1459) was a late medieval English landowner and knight who fought in the Hundred Years' War .

Coming from a minor gentry family in Norfolk , John Fastolf was born on 6 November 1380 at the manor house of Caister Hall, a family possession which he later turned into Caister Castle , but of which little now remains aside from the water-filled moat . The son of Sir John Fastolf (died 1383) and Mary Park (died 2 May 1406), he belonged to an ancient Norfolk family originally seated at Great Yarmouth , where it is recorded from the thirteenth century. Notable members of the family in earlier generations included Thomas Fastolf , Bishop of St David's , and his brother, Nicholas Fastolf , Lord Chief Justice of Ireland . Many of the name had been bailiffs of Great Yarmouth since the time of Edward I , and a certain Hugh Fastolf was sheriff of Norfolk in 1390.

Battle of Patay (1429)

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Sir John Fastolf KG (6 November 1380 – 5 November 1459) was a late medieval English landowner and knight who fought in the Hundred Years' War .

Coming from a minor gentry family in Norfolk , John Fastolf was born on 6 November 1380 at the manor house of Caister Hall, a family possession which he later turned into Caister Castle , but of which little now remains aside from the water-filled moat . The son of Sir John Fastolf (died 1383) and Mary Park (died 2 May 1406), he belonged to an ancient Norfolk family originally seated at Great Yarmouth , where it is recorded from the thirteenth century. Notable members of the family in earlier generations included Thomas Fastolf , Bishop of St David's , and his brother, Nicholas Fastolf , Lord Chief Justice of Ireland . Many of the name had been bailiffs of Great Yarmouth since the time of Edward I , and a certain Hugh Fastolf was sheriff of Norfolk in 1390.

Battle of Patay (1429)