Edward Hull

Sir Edward Hull KG (c. 1410 – 17 July 1453) was an English knight who served as Constable of Bordeaux and a military commander during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War. Born into a Lancastrian-supporting family, his parents were both members of Henry IV's royal household. Hull became close to Henry VI and his wife, Margaret of Anjou. He served on campaign in France and as an ambassador to European powers. Hull held numerous offices including as Esquire of the Body to the king, Knight of the Body and carver to the queen, a feoffee of the Duchy of Lancaster, justice of the peace and sheriff of both Somerset and Dorset, and Devon. Hull was appointed constable of Bordeaux in Southern France in 1442, a lucrative post due to the collection of export duties on wine. Bordeaux fell to the French in May 1451 and Hull joined the force being assembled to retake the city. He left with an expedition commanded by John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, in summer 1452 and retook Bordeaux in October. Hull became a knight of the Order of the Garter in May 1453. Later that year he joined Talbot in an attempt to relieve the siege of Castillon but was killed in the resulting battle. In the late 1440s he was involved in a dispute with Sir John Fastolf over the ownership of Titchwell in Norfolk. A royal inquisition of 1448 seized the manor from Fastolf into Crown ownership and gave Hull a lease on a farm. After Hull's death a new lawsuit by Fastolf restored the land to his ownership. Early life Edward Hull was born circa 1410. He was the son of John Hull, an Esquire of the Body to Henry IV of England, and Eleanor, a servant to Henry IV's wife Joan of Navarre, Queen of England and a daughter of Sir John Malet of Somerset. Hull's family were staunch supporters of Henry IV's House of Lancaster. Courtier