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John Delamare

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Sir John Delamare (c. 1320-1383) was a knight at the court of King Edward III of England and the builder of Nunney Castle in Somerset.

He gained permission to turn his manor house at Nunney into Nunney Castle in 1373. He was successively High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1374) and then Somerset (1377) and also Knight of the Shire for the same two counties, Wiltshire in 1376 and Somerset in 1373, 1377, 1382.[1] [2]

Notes

  1. ^ S. E. Rigold, Nunney Castle, Somerset (HMSO, 1967), p. 4 (online)
  2. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, vol. 20, p. 959
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