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Name Prefix:<NPFX> Sir.
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Knight
REFN: HWS21199
Ancestral F ile Number:<AFN> 9FK4-8V
OBJE: C:\LEGACY\PICTURES\knight.gif[Joanne's Tree.1 GED.GED]

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ID: I545276258
Name: John HAWKWOOD
Given Name: John
Surname: Hawkwood
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1325 in <, Hedingham Sible, Essex, England> 1 2 3
Death: 17 Mar 1394 in Florence, Firenze, Tuscany, Italy 1 2 3
Title: Knight
Christening: <, Gosfield, Essex, England> 1 2 3
Event: Knighthood Unknown 2
LDS Baptism: Done
Endowment: Done
Sealing Child: Done
Change Date: 9 Aug 2001
Note:
Name Prefix: Sir.
Name Suffix: Knight
REFN: HWS21199
Ancestral File Number: 9FK4-8V
OBJE: C:\LEGACY\PICTURES\knight.gif

Father: Gilbert HAWKWOOD b: Abt 1295 in <, Hedingham Sible, Essex, England>
Mother: Gilbert HAWKWOOD b: 1303 in <, Hedingham Sible, Essex, England>

Marriage 1 Margery HAWKWOOD b: Abt 1330 in <, Hedingham Sible, Essex, England>
Married: Abt 1350 in <, Hedingham Sible, Essex, England> 4 2
Note: CHAN9 Aug 2001
Children
Antiocha HAWKWOOD b: Abt 1351 in <, Hedingham Sible, Essex, England>

Marriage 2 Domnina VISCONTI b: 1327 in
Married: May 1377 in <, Rye, Sussex, England> 1 2
Note: CHAN9 Aug 2001
Children
John HAWKWOOD b: Abt 1350 in <, Rye, Sussex, England>

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Note: These knights were led by Sir John Hawkwood and dressed completely in white and had their armor polished almost to mirror           conditions,which for some reason seemed to scare the bejesus out of their opponents when faced in battle. The " White Company" was comprised of disaffected English, German,Swiss and Italian Yeoman. Perhaps 3 or 4 were knighted. They dressed in the fashion of the soldier at the time ( Crecy ) but polished their armor to a high shine, thus the name. Sir John Hawkwood ( knighted in the field at Poiters by Edward III ) was elected Captain - General of the White Company in January 1364, and took over from Sterz, who originated the company and became his second in command. ( At one time there were several " White Companies " throughout Europe.)
His company first attacked Avignon in 1361. He later went off to Italy with a company of 3,500 mounted men and 2000 foot soldiers.              They were known for their fury and license and Hawkwood for his ruthlessness. Actually, Hawkwood is a fascinating character, he was honored by many for his fairness and split with the Pope over his Archbishop's order to slaughter the citizens of Cesena. His most famous battle was Castagnaro March 11, 1387. His Army was about 7,000 at full strength with the White Co. comprised of 600 Longbow and 900 Men at Arms. He basically had what would today be called a mercenary force, who fought for the highest bidder.  He was one of the original Englishmen to impress his enemies with the fierceness and ruthlessness of the English army.  He lost as many battles as he won and married Donnina adopted daughter of Bernabo Visconti. After his death on March 16, 1394 theKing requested his body be interred at the parish church of Sible Hedingham.
Note: Posted by Jack Witas
Note: Subject: Re: Who/what was The White Company?
Note: Newsgroups: soc.history.medieval
Note: Date: 1997/08/11
Change Date: 16 JUL 2003


The Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 11, 1960, p. 277

Hawkwood, Sir John (d. 1394), an English adventurer who attained great wealth and renown as a condottiere in the Italian wars of the 143th century. His name was variously spelled as Haccoude, Aucud, Aguto, etc., by contemporaries. He was perhaps the son of a tanner of Hedingham, Sibil in Essex, and was apprenticed in London, whence he went, in the English army, to France under Edward III and the Black Prince. He was certainly of knightly rank, which he may have received from Edward III.
On the peace of Bretigny in 1360, he collected a band of men-at-arms and moved southward to Italy, where the white company, as his men were called, assisted the marquis of Monferrato against Milan in 1362-63 and the Pisans against Florence in 1364. After several campaigns in central Italy, Hawkwood in 1368 entered the service of Bernabò Visconti. In 1369 he fought for Perugia against the pope, and in 1370 for the Visconti against Pisa, Florence and other enemies.
In 1372 he defeated the marquis of Monferrato, but soon afterward, resenting the interference of a council of war, resigned his command, and the white company passed into papal service in which he fought against the Visconti in 1373-75. In 1375 the Florentines agreed to pay him and his companion 130,000 gold florins in three months on the condition that he would not fight against them; and in the same year the priors of the arts and the ganfalonier awarded him a pension of 1,2000 florins per year.
In 1377, under the orders of the cardinal Robert of Geneva, legate of Bologna, he massacred the inhabitants of Cesena, but in May of the same year, disliking the executioner's work put upon him by the legate, he joined the anitpapel league and married at Milan, Donnina, an illegitimate daughter of Bernabò Visconti. In 1378 and 1379, Hawkwood was constantly in the filed; he quarreled with Bernabò in 1378, and entered the service of Florence receiving, as before, 130,0000 gold florins. He served the republic up to 1382, when for a time he was in England ambassador to the papal court.
He fought in Naples in 1383, for the marquis of Padua against Verona in 1386, and in 1388 made an unsuccessful effort against Gian Galeazzo Visconti, who had murdered Bernabò. In 1390 the Florentines tool up the war against Gian Galeazzo in earnest, and appointed Hawkwood commander in chief. His campaign against the Milanese army in the Veronese and the Bergamask was a triumph of generalship, and in 1392 Florence forced a satisfactory peace from Gian Galeazzo. Hawkwood's later years were spent near Florence. On his death in 1394 the republic gave him a public funeral. Paolo Uccello painted his portrait in terre-verte on the inner facade of the cathedral.
Of his children by Donnina Visconti, who was probably his second wife, the eldest daughter married Count Brezaglia of Porciglia, podesta of Ferrara, who succeeded him as Florentine commander in chief, and another a German condottiere Conrad Prospergh. His son John returned to England and settled at Hedingham Sibil.
The children of his first marriage were two sons and three daughters of whom the youngest married John Shelly, and ancestor of the poet.