Person:John Giffard (54)

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John Giffard
b.1602
d.1665
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Name[1] John Giffard
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1602
Marriage 1621 to Joan Wyndham
Death[1] 1665
Reference Number? Q16839033?


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Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), (pron. "Jiffard") of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, Devon, England, was a Royalist leader during the Civil War. Giffard commanded the Devon Pikemen at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1634, in which his 3rd cousin the Royalist commander of the Cornish forces Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643) was killed in heroic circumstances. Giffard's loyalty to the Royalist cause led to him being proposed in 1660 as a knight of the intended Order of the Royal Oak. He was personally known to the biographer John Prince (1643–1723) who included him as one of his Worthies of Devon. He was buried in Chittlehampton Church, where his small kneeling effigy survives on the base of the monument he erected in 1625 to his grandfather.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Giffard (1602–1665), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick). The visitations of the county of Devon: comprising the herald's visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. (Exeter: For the author by H.S. Eland, 1895)
    p. 400.
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