Robert Chalons
English knight
Sir Robert Chalons (c. 1370–1445) was an English courtier, soldier, administrator and politician from Devon.
Origins
Born about 1370, he was the son of Sir Robert Chalons, of Challonsleigh in Plympton St Mary, and his wife Joan, elder daughter and coheiress of Sir John Beauchamp, of Ryme, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Whalesborough and his wife Joan Bodrugan. His father was a minor landowner in Devon who served Edward Courtenay, 3rd Earl of Devon.
Career
Initially he joined his father as an esquire of the Earl of Devon in 1384, and, in 1387, was serving at sea in the fleet of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel. Later that year he entered the service of Henry of Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, and in 1390 went on his expedition to Prussia, fighting with the Teutonic Knights at Vilnius against the forces of the Grand Duke of Lithuania. Once back in England he married Blanche Waterton, daughter and coheiress of one of Henry's close associates, and in 1399 Henry, the day before the coronation, knighted him. The next year he was appointed a justice of the peace for Devon.
In 1401 he was sent abroad on royal business and by 1402 was a Knight of the King's Chamber. In 1409 he served as High Sheriff of Devon. In 1415, with a small force, he joined the expedition of King Henry V to France and after its capture was part of the garrison of Harfleur.
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