The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Kendall ( - d. 1501)
Of the Norfolk or perhaps Yorkshire family, he was administrator and prior of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. He was appointed ‘Turcopolier,’ or general of infantry, to the Knights of St. John in 1477, but probably was not present at the siege of Rhodes in 1480. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://www-oxforddnb-com.cyber.usask.ca/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-15349?rskey=K7rqAk&result=5 Relevant locations: Lived at or near Norfolk, EnglandLived at or near Yorkshire, England
References in Documents:
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 64 An antient Copper Medallion of
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No. 32 in the Plate of Antiquites
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