Henry Farendon
c 1354 to c 1414
FAR00035B
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1354
Henry Farendon was probably a son of
Johannis de Farendale (FAR00035) and brother of John
Fernedill (FAR00048A).
The evidence for
the York Line of the Farndale family, which supports Henry’s family linkage, is
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1389
In June 1389 Henry Farendon was listed in
the Retinue Roll as part of the Standing Force in the East Marsh of Scotland,
serving under Thomas Mowbray
(the family who once owned the lands which included Farndale),
the Duke of Norfolk (The National Archives
E101/41/17, m2).
Thomas Mowbray, one of the more cautious appellants
against the King’s favourites in 1387, later to fall out with Henry
Bolingbroke, and banished by Richard II in 1398, had been appointed Earl
Marshall of England. When the King regained sole control of government around
in May 1389, Mowbray attended a royal council meeting in Clarendon Palace in
September, demonstrating the gulf that existed by then between him and his ex appellant comrades.
In March, Thomas Mowbray was appointed warden of the
East March and castellan of Berwick Castle, receiving wages of £6,000 in
peacetime and twice that in time of war (C
Fletcher, Richard II: Manhood, Youth, and Politics 1377–1399, 2008,.
Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press, page 185). His appointment was not a success; he alienated the
traditional lord of the north, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who retired
to court. Mowbray held no lands in the north and had few contacts among the gentry,
upon whom he needed to rely to raise his army. Mowbray's tenure in the East
March was effectively disabled from the start (A
King, Pur Salvation Du Roiaume:
Military Service and Obligation in Fourteenth-century Northumberland, 2002
in C Given-Wilson, and N Saul, eds, Fourteenth Century England. Woodbridge:
Boydell Press page 29). Mowbray's
ineffectiveness to highlighted in June that year, when a Scottish incursion
ravaged the north of England and, facing little opposition, went as far south
as Tynemouth. Mowbray, the Westminster Chronicle reported, refused the Scottish
offer of a pitched battle and retreated to Berwick Castle (A Goodman, Introduction, 1992, in War and
Border Societies in the Middle Ages, London, Routledge, page 19 and 20).
See also England and Scotland at
War, 1296 to 1513, Andy King, Border Fury, England and Scotland at War, 1296 to 1568, John Sadler, Border
Bloodshed, Scotland and England at War
1369 to 1403, Alastair J Macdonald.
Makerstoun in
Roxburghshire was raided in 1389 by English forces (Border
Bloodshed, Scotland and England at War
1369 to 1403, Alastair J Macdonald, page 115).
Also serving in with Thomas Mowbray in the East Marsh at the same
time were John Farendon (FAR00048A) and William Faryndon
or Farnham (FAR00035C),
who are likely to have been his brothers.
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1414
If he lived to about 60, he might have died in about 1414.