Captain of Calais

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In 1348 John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Warwick [aged 32] was appointed Captain of Calais.

In 1353 Reginald Cobham 1st Baron Cobham [aged 58] was appointed Captain of Calais.

In 1390 Philip Vache [aged 42] was appointed Captain of Calais.

In January 1455 Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 49] was appointed Captain of Calais.

After 25th May 1455 Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury [aged 26] was appointed Captain of Calais.

After November 1459 Henry Beaufort 2nd or 3rd Duke of Somerset [aged 23] was appointed Captain of Calais.

The History of King Richard the Third by Thomas More. King Edward in his life, although this dissension between his friends somewhat irked him, yet in his good health he somewhat the less regarded it because he thought whatsoever business should fall between them, he should always be able to rule both parties. But in his last sickness, when he perceived his natural strength so sore enfeebled that he despaired all recovery, then he, considering the youth of his children, suspecting nothing less than what would happen, and well foreseeing that many harms might grow by family debates while the youth of his children lacked discretion of themselves, and good counsel of their friends-because either party should counsel for their own advantage and by pleasant advice win themselves favor, rather than by profitable advertisement do the children good-he called some of them before him who were at variance, and especially, the Lord Marquis Dorset [aged 30], the Queen's [aged 48] son by her first husband, and Lord Hastings [Note. Text says Richard? Should be William!], a noble man, then Lord Chamberlain, against whom the Queen specially grudged for that great favour the King showed him, and also because she thought him secretly familiar with the King in wanton company. Her kindred also bore him dislike, as well for that the King had made him Captain of Calais (which office the Lord Rivers, brother to the Queen, claimed because of the King's former promise), and for diverse other great gifts which he received that they looked for.

On 11th March 1485 John York [aged 14] was appointed Captain of Calais.

In 1519 Edward Guildford [aged 45] was appointed Marshall of Calais.

John Pole was appointed Captain of Calais.

Edmund de la Pole was appointed Captain of Calais.

Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses

Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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Richard Carew was appointed Captain of Calais.

Richard Woodville was appointed High Sheriff of Kent and Captain of Calais.