John Luttrell (soldier)

[1] John Luttrell, his younger brother, and his uncle Thomas Wyndham served as boy pages in the household of Cardinal Wolsey during his embassy to France in July 1527.

[2] Luttrell accompanied Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford in the first stages of the military expeditions to Scotland known as the Rough Wooing and was present at the taking of Edinburgh and Leith.

[3] In 1546, as the border wars in Scotland dragged on, Luttrell accompanied Hertford to France where the earl had been appointed commander of the English forces at the captured port of Boulogne.

Luttrell commanded a force of 100 men[3] during five months of "fast moving raids, vicious skirmishes, and ambushes" between Hertford's army and the French.

[5] In the aftermath of Pinkie, Luttrell was appointed captain of the English base at the island Abbey of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth, from whence he harassed Scottish shipping with little success.

In August 1548 Luttrell was troubled by rumours that he had mismanaged royal funds, and he declared "though I be not so rich as others are, nor have not so profitable and easy entertainments (employment), yet I trust it shall not appear I esteem any of the King's Majesty's money above the duty of a humble true subject".

On the day the peace of the Treaty of Boulogne was declared in England, 29 March 1550, Thomas Wyndham was sent to Scotland with two post horses and five Scottish hostages to exchange for Luttrell.

[18] Sir John Luttrell died in an epidemic of the sweating sickness on 10 July 1551, while preparing for an expedition to Morocco with his uncle, Thomas Wyndham.