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John Fastolf

1380 - 1459

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Sir John Fastolf (6 November 1380 – 5 November 1459) was a late medieval English soldier, landowner, and knight who fought in the Hundred Years' War from 1415 to 1439, latterly as a senior commander against Joan of Arc, among others. He has enjoyed a more lasting reputation as the prototype, in some part, of Shakespeare's character Sir John Falstaff, although their careers are very different. Many historians argue, however, that he deserves to be famous in his own right, not only as a soldier, but as a patron of literature, a writer on strategy and perhaps as an early industrialist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. John Fastolf is the 1,300th most popular military personnel (down from 1,049th in 2024), the 2,511th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,792nd in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Fastolf ranks 1,300 out of 2,058. Before him are Gildo, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Helmut Kunz, Werner Goldberg, Abdul Haris Nasution, and Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle. After him are Charles Robert Jenkins, Bardanes Tourkos, Ioannis Frangoudis, Athanasios Diakos, Dimitrios Loundras, and Leo Phokas the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1380, John Fastolf ranks 20. Before him are Nanni di Banco, Mustafa Çelebi, Joseph Albo, Ma Huan, Master Francke, and James II, Count of Urgell. After him are Sayf ad-Din Inal, and Gonzalo Pérez. Among people deceased in 1459, John Fastolf ranks 10. Before him are Gregory III of Constantinople, Ausiàs March, Antoninus of Florence, Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein, Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken, and James of Portugal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Fastolf ranks 2,512 out of 8,785. Before him are Alec Jeffreys (1950), Walter Pater (1839), Luke Howard (1772), York Bowen (1884), Harold Abrahams (1899), and Paul Robinson (1979). After him are Madge Syers (1881), Josephine Tey (1896), Robert Whitehead (1823), Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950), Roger Deakins (1949), and Tom Felton (1987).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, John Fastolf ranks 58. Before him are Arthur Percival (1887), Robert Maynard (1684), David Stirling (1915), John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885), Claude Choules (1901), and J. F. C. Fuller (1878). After him are Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), John Burgoyne (1722), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), Edward Vernon (1684), and Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889).

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