Career
In 1372 Robert Hales became the Lord/Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitallers of England. Richard II appointed him Lord High Treasurer, so he was responsible for collecting the hated poll tax He was beheaded on 14 June 1381 on Tower Hill during the Peasants Revolt.
Hales (which?) was present at many latter-day crusader expeditions and is recorded as leading a contingent of hospitaller knights at the sacking of Alexandria.
Hales was known as the "Hero of Alexandria" thereafter. Hales was described by the chronicler Walsingham as a "Magnanimous knight, though the commons loved him not".