In 1451, already a veteran of the fight at St Barnets Green,[clarification needed] he was created Viscount Lisle.
[citation needed] Ordered to recruit reinforcements for the English army in France, he found 2325 men at Dartmouth and Plymouth before embarkation on 5 March 1453.
He was joined by the Lords Moleyns and Camoys, as he led troops into Guyenne to reinforce his father.
Some chroniclers assert that when his wounded and unhorsed father begged him to quit the field and save himself, he refused, preferring death to dishonour; a scene memorialized by William Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part I, Act IV, Scene VI.
He married Joan Cheddar (b. c. 1425), the daughter of Thomas Chedder, Esquire and the widow of Richard Stafford in 1443 and had three children: