Sir Frank van Halle

Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 33

In Book 1, Chapter 33, Sir Frank van Halle was named among the knights appointed to serve under Earl of Derby on the expedition. By Chapter 34, he and Sir Walter Manny were serving as Derby’s marshals, ordered to push forward. At Auberoche in Chapter 35, a messenger carrying letters from the besieged knights was captured, and the letters were read in Count de Lisle’s tent.

In Chapter 36, once he and Sir John Lendal saw their friends’ banners, they armed themselves and the men with them, rode out from the fortress, and joined the fighting, “to the great encouragement of the English.”

Relationship record

Life events

• A messenger carrying the besieged knights' letters was captured, and the letters were read in Count de Lisle's tent.(Book 1, Chapter 35 · 📍 Auberoche)
  • With: Count de Lisle Sir Alain de Finefroide Sir John Lendal
  • “He was interrogated, searched, and the letters found upon him, and guarded until morning, when the principals of the army assembled in the tent of the Count de Lisle, where the letters were read.”
• Sir Frank van Halle and Sir John Lendal sallied from the fortress and joined the battle.(Book 1, Chapter 36 · 📍 Auberoche)
  • With: Sir John Lendal
  • “they sallied out of the fortress, made for the plain, and dashed into the thickest of the combat, to the great encouragement of the English.”

Book 1, Chapter 33

• with Earl of Derby (Earl of Derby led the expedition; Sir Frank van Halle served under him.) “The king soon afterwards appointed his cousin the Earl of Derby leader of this expedition, and nominated those knights that he had fixed upon to be under him: first the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Oxford, the Lord Stafford, Sir Walter Manny, Sir Frank van Halle, Sir Henry Eam of Brabant, Sir Richard Fitzsimon, Sir Hugh Hastings, Sir Stephen Tombey, Sir Richard Haydon, Sir John Norwich, Sir Richard Radcliffe, Sir Robert Oxendon, and several more.”
• liege: Earl of Derby “The king soon afterwards appointed his cousin the Earl of Derby leader of this expedition, and nominated those knights that he had fixed upon to be under him: first the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Oxford, the Lord Stafford, Sir Walter Manny, Sir Frank van Halle, Sir Henry Eam of Brabant, Sir Richard Fitzsimon, Sir Hugh Hastings, Sir Stephen Tombey, Sir Richard Haydon, Sir John Norwich, Sir Richard Radcliffe, Sir Robert Oxendon, and several more.”

Book 1, Chapter 34

• with Earl of Derby (Van Halle served as Derby's marshal.) “he therefore one morning marched that way with his army, and ordered his marshals, Sir Walter Manny and Sir Frank van Halle, to push forward.”