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unusual facts about Giles Daubeney, 6th Baron Daubeney



Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney

In 1497 the king had prepared an army to invade Scotland to punish James IV for his support of Perkin Warbeck, and had given the command to Daubeney; but he has hardly marched when he was recalled ito put down the Cornish rebels, who came to Blackheath unmolested, and was criticised by the king.

In 1496 he, as the lieutenant of Calais, with Sir Richard Nanfan his deputy there, was commissioned to receive for the king payment of the twenty-five thousand francs due half-yearly from the French king under the Peace of Etaples.

Giles Daubeney, 6th Baron Daubeney

The brass effigies of Daubeney and his first wife Joan can be seen in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, in South Petherton, Somerset.

Henry Daubeney, 1st Earl of Bridgewater

He was the son and heir of Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (1451-1508), KG by his wife Elizabeth Arundell, the daughter of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, Cornwall.


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