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Revision as of 02:45, 29 July 2005 by Pmanderson (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (1391–c. 30 September 1416) succeeded as Baron West at the age of 14. He fought at the Battle of Agincourt, and is listed on a pipe-roll with a retinue of 14 lancers and 40 archers. Afterwards, he was assigned to the garrison of Calais Next year, the Earl of Warwick, who was Captain of Calais, sent out an expedition on 24 September, 1416 to capture a Genoese carrack, since the Genoese were allies of France. Thomas West was mortally wounded putting on his armor before the battle; he was arming himself at the foot of the mast when one of the stones being hauled up to the catapults on masthead slipped; but he survived long enough to die in England. The Gesta Henrici Quinti puns on this, suggesting that he received the chief of all evils (verticem mali) while pursuing the root of all evil (radicem mali).
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