Background
Clanvowe was born to a Welsh Marcher family in an area that would later become part of Radnorshire, but took up residence in Wigmore, Herefordshire.
Clanvowe was born to a Welsh Marcher family in an area that would later become part of Radnorshire, but took up residence in Wigmore, Herefordshire.
In 1386 they were both deponents in the Scrope v. Grosvenor case in the Court of Chivalry, in which Lord Scrope of Bolton and Sir Robert Grosvenor fought over the right to bear a particular coat of arms. Chaucer and Clanvowe testified in favour of Scrope.
In 1390 he was campaigning with Louis II, Duke of Bourbon against Tunis.
He was buried with Sir William Neville in a joint tomb discovered in 1913 in Istanbul"s Arap Mosque in a way (helmets facing each other as if kissing, shields overlapping, impaled coats of arms), which would suggest a homosexual relationship between the two mentor