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    Shiver me timbers

    Apr 06, 2022 4 minutes
    Carla Passino

    SIR JOHN DE WINGFIELD made quite the catch at the Battle of Poitiers. The veteran of Crécy had taken hostage none other than the Sire d’Aubigny, captain of the French king’s bodyguards. As skilled with numbers as he was with the sword—he was the Black Prince’s senior administrator, as well as a soldier—Sir John sold the French aristocrat’s ransom to Edward III for 2,500 marks (about £1,666 at the time and £1.8 million in today’s money). Sadly, he didn’t have much time to enjoy his fortune: the plague took him by November 1361, but not before he had made a provision in his will to found a new chantry college. His wife, Alianore de Glanville, complied and Wingfield College in Wingfield, Suffolk, was

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