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DAGWORTH 29 d. in July or Aug. 1 3 <;o,() being slain treacherously, in time of truce, in a skirmish near Aurai in Brittany-C") His widow d. 7 Oct. I363.('=) 2. Sir Nicholas de Dagworth, of Blickling, Norfolk, s. and h.('^) Captain of Flavigny in Burgundy, 1359 to Mar. 13 59/60. (') Constable of Nor- ham Castle for the Bishop of Durham, but resigned about 20 July I373.(0 Sent abroad on a secret mission, in Feb. 1373/4.(0 Sent to examine and report on the revenues of Ireland, in June I375,(^) and to investigate the charges against William de Windesore, late Lieut, of Ireland, and others, in I376,() but was recalled by the King at the instigation of Alice Ferrers. (') Again sent to report on the Irish revenues, 7 Oct. I377.(^) Was a knight of the King's Chamber. Appointed an Ambassador to the Pope, 5 May 138 I, with powers to treat with the King of the Romans, the Princes of Germany, and the Dukes and Lords of Italy. (') Appointed an Ambassador to the Pope, 15 Apr. 1382 and again 6 Feb. 1384/5, with powers to treat with the King of Naples and others. (') He was placed under (*) "... circiter festum Sancte Margarete " (Avesbury, p. 41 1) : "en lentree du moys daoust" [Grandes Chron. de France, edit. Paris, vol. v, p. 494 : Froissart, bk. i, cap. 152). Chron. Normande, edit. Molinier, p. 99. C") A hostile annalist {Chron. diet. Lemovic. — Bibl. Nat., MS. latin, no. 5005 C, f. 159) calls him " flos milicie anglicane." "... strenuum militem, virum utique elegantem " (Avesbury, p. 352). ". . . dominus Thomas Dagworthe miles vali- dissimus . . . bene et laudabiliter versos Gallos et Britones se habuit, ita quod nomen eternitatis digne sibi adquirere meruit " (Murimuth, p. 244). The contemporary poem, La Bataille da Trente (edit. Crapeiet, p. 14), applauds his humanity to the Breton peasantry : — " En son viuant auoit pour certain ordonne Que menues gens de ville, ceulx qui gaingnent le ble, Ne seroient dez Englois plus prins ne guerroie. Quant le baron fu mort, tantost fu oublie." (<=) Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 177, nos. 8, 24. See Ormond. {^) There appears to be no evidence for this statement, which is made by Dugdale and repeated by other genealogists. (*) Near which town, in 1359, he with 13 men, barricading themselves with carts, defeated 66 g/aiues fraunceis. [Sca/acronica, Maitland Club, p. 1 89). He held a responsible post in France, 6 Dec. 1365, when John de Chaundos, Hugh de Calverley, Nicholas de Dagworth, and William d'Elmham, chivalers, were ordered to prevent the King's subjects from joining the expedition to Spain. {French Roll, 39 Edw. Ill, m. 3). This shows at least that he was not a son of the Countess of Ormond. He was claiming the manor of Bradwell in 1382. {Pari. Rolls, vol. iii, p. 134). Durham Cursitors' Records, Chancery Roll 31, m. 4 d: Patent Roll, 4 Ric. II, p. 3, m. 10: French Roll, 48 Edw. Ill, m. 22. («) Patent Roll, 49 Edw. Ill, p. 1, m. 8: Patent Roll [I.], 49 Edw. Ill, nos. 140, 141: Patent Roll, I Ric. II, />. i, m. 8. (■■) Close Roll, 50 Edw. Ill, p. I, w. I d. See also Memoranda de Hibernia, 49-50 Edw. Ill (printed in AylofFe's Calendars, pp. 444-462). (') Pari. Rolls, vol. iii, pp. 12-14: Close Roll, 50 Edw. Ill, p. 2, ;;:. 5 d. (J) French Rolls, 4 Ric. II, mm. 4, 3, 8, 7, 2; 5 Ric. II, m. 5; 8 Ric. II, mm. 8, 7, 6, 5.