William Jauderell

William Jauderell was an archer in the English armies in Wales of Edward, the Black Prince in the 14th century. He was from the town of Yeardsley in Derbyshire.

A descendant of Peter Jauderel, The translated modern text reads "Know all that we, the Prince of Wales, have given leave on the day of the date of this instrument, to William Jauderel, one of our archers, to go to England. In witness of this we have caused our seal to be placed on this bill. Given at Bordeaux 16 December, in the year of grace 1355."

After travelling to England, Jauderell went back overseas, presumably to France where the Battle of Poitiers took place in September 1356, and was recorded returning to England in 1356 when he was awarded two oak trees to repair his Derbyshire home, taken from Macclesfield Forest.

Jauderell's name lives on in the name of Cheshire's Jodrell Bank Observatory.