John Norreys

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Sir John Norris

Sir John Norreys (often also John Norris ), called the "Black Jack" (* 1547 in Yattendon , Berkshire , † July 3, 1597 in Mallow , Ireland ) was an English military leader.

Life

Norris was born as the second son of Henry Norreys, 1st Baron Norreys (1525-1601) and his wife Lady Marjorie (1521-1599), daughter of John Williams Lord von Thame. His grandfather, Sir Henry Norris (1482-1536), was treasurer of the royal private treasury and was executed in the Tower of London as the alleged lover of Anne Boleyn . Norris studied at Magdalen College , Oxford . In 1567 he and his brother William fought in the battle of Saint-Denis. His father, who was ambassador to France, sent a diagram of the battle to Queen Elizabeth I of England in London as part of his report . In 1571 his father was called back to England and Norris had a good relationship with his successor Francis Walsingham . He served as a volunteer under Admiral Gaspard II. De Coligny on the Protestant side in the French Wars of Religion. Two years later he served as captain under Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex , on the unsuccessful expedition to the Irish province of Ulster . During the Irish campaign, Norris showed his military ability. In 1577 Norris fought in Flanders in the Dutch War of Independence against Spain . A year later he was sent to Ireland with Sir John Perrot , and in 1585 he returned to the Netherlands . There he was beaten in 1586 by the Earl of Leicester to a Knight Bachelor . When the Spanish Armada was expected in 1588 , he was Marshal at Tilbury ; later he served as Queen Elizabeth I's ambassador to Ireland .

Sir John Norris was considered a popular and skillful, but also very brutal officer. There is a memorial of him in Westminster Abbey .

literature

  • John S. Nolan: Sir John Norreys and the Elizabethan Military World. University of Exeter Press, 1998, ISBN 0859895483 .
  • Steven G. Ellis: Tudor Ireland. London 1985, ISBN 0-582-49341-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Norreys, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norris, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Army Commander and Lord President of Munster
DATE OF BIRTH 1547
PLACE OF BIRTH Yattendon , Berkshire
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1597
Place of death Mallow , Ireland