Sir Peter Buckton

[1] In the latter years of his life he also held significant positions such as the Mayor of Bordeaux and Ambassador to Castile.

Present with him on crusades to Lithuania and Jerusalem as well as helping him land at Ravenspur, Holderness after which Henry went on to become king.

[3] He entered local administration in 1371 and became keeper of Knaresborough Castle, serving as warden to Richard II of England, who knighted Buckton in 1383 for gallantry.

A friend of Buckton was the author and poet Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote The Canterbury Tales.

[1] Buckton died in 1414, aged 64 and requested in his will to be buried at the Cistercian nunnery in Swine, East Riding of Yorkshire.