Lineage and Early Career
He was son of a Norfolk gentleman, Sir John Fastolf of Caister-on-Sea, and is said to have been squire to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, before 1398 and to have served with Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence in Ireland during 1405 and 1406. He claimed to have visited Jerusalem as a boy, which must have been in the company of Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV of England. The Fastolf family have been recorded at Great Yarmouth since the thirteenth century: notable members in earlier generations include Thomas Fastolf, Bishop of St Davids and his brother Nicholas Fastolf, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
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