Career
He was knighted by the Black Prince in 1346, having helped raise the siege of Aiguillon. In the same year, he was one of the lords who led the second division in the Battle of Crécy, and afterwards commanded the fourth division of the English army against the Scots, near Neville"s Cross, when David Bruce, with many of the Scottish nobles, was taken prisoner. In 1346, he was with the Black Prince, at the siege of Calais, when it was taken by the English.
In 1352, he accompanied Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster on his journey to Prussia.
But died the same year, before the feast of Street Michael, aged twenty-six, and was buried abroad.