John Norreys
Military Commander
1547 – 1597
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Who was John Norreys?
Sir John Norreys, also frequently spelt John Norris, was an English soldier of a Berkshire family, the son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth.
The most acclaimed English soldier of his day, Norreys participated in every Elizabethan theatre of war: in the Wars of Religion in France, in Flanders during the Eighty Years' War of Dutch liberation from Spain, in the Anglo-Spanish War, and above all in the Tudor conquest of Ireland.
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- Born
- 1547
England - Siblings
- Lived in
- Yattendon
- Died
- Jul 3, 1597
Mallow, County Cork
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on July 23, 2013
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