28 DAGWORTH was one of the most famous captains of his time. He accompanied his brother-in-law, the Earl of Northampton, in his expedition to Brittany early in June 1345,0 and defeated the Franco-Bretons at Cadoret, near Josselin, 17 June 1345. () Appointed Lieut, for the said Earl in Brittany, 28 Jan. i345/6.('=) Defeated Charles de Chatillon, dit de Blois (styling himself Duke of Brittany), 3 June I346.('^) Appointed Lieut, and Captain for the King in Brittany, 10 Jan. 1 346/7. (*) Defeated Charles de Blois at the battle of La Roche-Derien, near Treguier, 20 June 1347, and took him prisoner.(') For this exploit he was awarded 25,000 florins de scuto, 4 Sep. 1348,(6) having had, i Sep., a grant from the Earl of North- ampton, to him and his wife, of all the castles, i^c, in Brittany, forfeited by the Lord of Leon [Herve VII, Sire de Noyon].(8) He was sum. to Pari. 13 Nov. (1347) 21 Edw. Ill and 14 Feb. (1347/8) 22 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Thome de Dagworth whereby he is held to have become LORD DAGWORTH. He m. (lie. 24 Jan. 1343/4, to marry in the chapel of her manor of Vachery, in Cranley, Surrey) C") Alianore, widow of James (le Botiller), Earl of Ormond (who d. 17 Feb. 1 337/8, (') at Gowran, co. Kilkenny), and 2nd surv. da.(') of Humphrey (de Bohun), Earl of Hereford and Essex, by Elizabeth, da. of King Edward I. He O French Roll, 19 Edw. Ill, />. I, m. 21. C') Chron. Brit., in Dom Morice, Preuves, vol. i, c. 8; cf. vol. ii, c. 31 1. (*=) With 15 knights (himself included), 65 esquires, six score archers, " et quarente bideuwers dent lour mestre prent le iour xijd. et lours deux vyneteyners chescun deux vjd. le iour et les trente et sept chescun deux iijd. le iour . . . comensant le xxix iour de Janeuer Ian susdit tanq' al moys de Pasq' p'schein auenir et pleinerement acompli." Indenture, dated 28 Jan. 1345. (Grig, sealed, Exch., K.R., Accounts, 68, file 3, no. 62). The names of these knights, esquires, bfc. (Johan de Daggeworth' heads the list of esquires), are given in Exch., K.R., Accounts, 25, no. 18. There the 40 are called " bayonays," and the 37 " seruaunt' bayonays." {^) "... tercio nonas Junii " (Walsingham, Hist., vol. i, p. 270): " nono die Junii " {Tpod. Neust., p. 289). («) French Roll, 20 Edw. Ill, p. 2, m. 2. (') 20 June, according to Dagworth's despatch to the Chancellor (Avesbury, p. 388): "xii kal. Julii " (Walsingham, Hist., vol. i, p. 272). The Breton historians prefer 18 June, relying on the epitaph at Vitre of Guy, Sire de Laval, who was slain in the battle. Georges de Lesnen, physician to Charles, deposed that when his master lay, wounded in i 7 places, on a feather bed, Dagworth — per indignacionem ut apparebat — had it drawn from under him, so that he lay supra stramina, solo lintheamine supra stramina remanente. Whereupon Charles thanked God, exclaiming quod in tali statu volebat et desiderabat esse et quod de cetero non jaceret supra culcitram plumeam. (Inquest for the canonization of Charles de Blois, in Dom Morice, Preuves, vol. ii, c. 5). (8) Patent Rolls, 22 Edw. Ill, p. 2, m. 5, /. 3, m. 20. C") IVinchester Reg., Orleton i, f. 123 v. {') 17 Feb. iT,Zll^ '* ^y ^^^ '^^ most probable date. See Ormond. (') She was younger than her sister, Margaret, Countess of Devon {Pari. Rolls, vol. iv, p. 268), not older, as stated by genealogists. Her two other sisters, another Margaret, and Isabel, d. young.
