Sir Hugh Johnys ( – in or after 1485), knighted at the

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in Jerusalem after fighting under John, Emperor of Constantinople, was a

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of England and France. In later life he was involved in the upbringing of Henry Tudor, later Henry VII.

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Johnys was descended from a

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of the Vaughans of

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in Herefordshire. Hugh Jones, Bishop of Llandaff, is said to have been descended from the same

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family as Hugh Johnys. A

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, erected to the memory of Johnys and his wife Maud, records that he fought under John, Emperor of Constantinople, for five years against the Turks and Saracens "in the p ris of troy grecie and turky", and was knighted at the

in Jerusalem on 14 August 1441. The brass records that afterwards he was

of France for five years under John, Duke of Somerset, and became at a later date Knight Marshal of England under John, Duke of Norfolk, who gave Johnys the Manor of Landimore in Gower."The brass of Sir Hugh Johnys and his wife Maud in St Mary's, Swansea"
''Church Monuments Society''. Retrieved 23 December 2023. After the Duke of Norfolk's death in 1461, William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke took over as custodian of Gower, and it is thought that Johnys during the 1460s was involved in the upbringing of Lord Herbert's ward Henry Tudor, later Henry VII. Johnys's first wife Mary is mentioned in 1451; her parents and date of death are unknown. He married Maud, heiress of Rees Cradock, probably about 1455. He and his wife were living in 1463, when they were granted a tenement in Fisher Street, Swansea. They had five children. In December 1468, Edward IV appointed Johnys as one of the

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; it is supposed that Maud had died by this time. He then resided mainly in Windsor until the early 1480s, when he returned to Gower. He died in or after 1485.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnys, Hugh English knights 15th-century English military personnel Military Knights of Windsor 1410 births 1485 deaths Year of death uncertain

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