John Giffard
John Giffard
Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), 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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Date of Birth
January 1st, 1602
Age
422
Date of Death
January 1st, 1665
Died Aged
63
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Arthur Giffard
Father
Anne Leigh
Mother
Joan Wyndham
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John Giffard
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Margaret Giffard
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Henry Giffard
Son
Roger Giffard
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