Sir ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

Thomas de la Moore or More (died after 1347) of

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, was an

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knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...

and

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. He was a follower of

Edward II of England Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir apparent to ...

, and was present at the king's enforced

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on 20 January 1327. He was later a patron of

Geoffrey le Baker Geoffrey the Baker (died ), also called Walter of Swinbroke, was an England, English chronicler. He was probably a secular clerk at Swinbrook in Oxfordshire. He wrote a ''Chronicon Angliae temporibus Edwardi II et Edwardi III'', which deals with ...

, who wrote a royalist chronicle covering the years 1303 to 1356. Until its authorship was correctly identified in the 19th century by

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, this chronicle was believed to have been written by Sir Thomas.

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* 14th-century deaths English MPs 1327 Medieval English knights People from West Oxfordshire District Year of birth unknown {{England-bio-stub