About John Phelip
John Phelip was a politician.
Sir John Phelip (died 2 October 1415) was an English knight who served as knight of the shire (MP) for Worcestershire.
Life Phelip was the son of William Phelip and Juliana Erpingham, and the younger brother of William Phelip, 6th Baron Bardolf.
Phelip's uncle Sir Thomas Erpingham had been into exile with Henry Bolingbroke, and played a leading role in Bolingbroke's overthrow of King Richard II to take the throne as King Henry IV in 1399. Through Erpingham's favour with the king, John Phelip entered the household of his heir, the future Henry V, becoming his close friend.
Phelip became a justice of the peace in Worcestershire in 1410. In 1411, he served as a captain in the army commanded by the Earl of Arundel, sent to France by Henry to support the Burgundians in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
Family Phelip was married 3 times: By her second and third marriages, she became Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk.
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Who was John Phelip?
(d.1415) of Kidderminster, Worcs
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John Phelip died in 1415.
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John Phelip was a politician.
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