Robert Knowles
English knight · Lived 1317 to 1407 · aged 90
Sir Robert Knolles or Knollys was an English knight of the Hundred Years' War, who, operating with the tacit support of the crown, succeeded in taking the only two major French cities, other than Calais and Poitiers, to fall to Edward III.
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His methods, however, earned him infamy as a freebooter and a ravager: the ruined gables of burned buildings came to be known as "Knollys' mitres".
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Lived 1317 to 1407 · aged 90