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3 unusual facts about Robert Knolles


Robert Knollys

Robert Knolles (c. 1320–1407), also known as Knollys, English soldier of the Hundred Years' War

Thomas Knollys

Knollys is said by Dugdale to have been descended from Sir Robert Knollys or Knolles (d 1407), the soldier, but, according to Sidney Lee in the Dictionary of National Biography, this is an error.

Vieux-château de l'Île d'Yeu

The longest of these had been led by the famous English pirate, Robert Knolles, who managed to seize the castle in 1355 and occupied the island for 37 years.



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Rochester Bridge

A stone bridge was built by Sir John de Cobham and Sir Robert Knolles (or Knollys), finished in 1391.