List of Captains, Lieutenants and Lords Deputies of English Calais
Captains and Lieutenants of Calais

List of Captains, Lieutenants and Lords Deputies of English Calais

Section Title: Captains and Lieutenants of Calais
Table Section Text: None

Date(s)	Holder	Position, subordinates

1353	Reynold Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough	Captain. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent was Captain of Calais Castle in 1352.

1361	Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham	Warden of Calais and Guînes.

1373	Sir John Burley	Captain.

1375–1378	Hugh Calveley	Captain. Bernard Brocas was Captain of Calais Castle 1377-1379.

1379	William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury	Captain.

February 1380	Bryan Stapleton	Captain of Calais Castle very briefly, becoming Captain of Guînes, under the Black Prince as governor.

1380	John Devereux, Baron Devereux	Captain.

1383–1389	William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny	Captain.

1389	Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland	Captain.

1391–1398	Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk	Captain.

1398–1399	John Holland, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter	Captain. William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire was Captain of Calais Castle in 1398.

1401–1410	John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset	Captain.

1410–1413	Prince Henry	Captain.

William Zouche, 4th Baron Zouche	Lieutenant.

1414	Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick	Captain.

1427	Richard Woodville	Lieutenant.

1427	John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford	Captain.

1435	Richard Woodville	Lieutenant.

1435	Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester	Captain.

1437	Thomas Rempston	Lieutenant. John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley was lieutenant of Calais Castle from 1437 to 1442.

1439–1442	Thomas Kyriell	Lieutenant.

1441–1451	Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham	Captain. Ralph Boteler, 1st Baron Sudeley was Captain of Calais Castle 1450-1452, and was sent to Calais in 1451.

1451	Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset	Captain. Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, connected to Somerset by marriage, was his deputy-captain (or lieutenant) after 1451; it is presumed he remained in post until Warwick arrived in April 1456.

1454–1455	Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York	Captain.

1455–1458	Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick	Captain.

1459	Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset	Captain.

1461–1471	Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick	Captain. His deputy was John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock.

1471	Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers	Lieutenant, appointed as successor to Warwick. But Hastings was brought in over his head.

1471–1483	William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings	Captain, mostly absent. John Howard acted as deputy, John Dynham at the end of the period; Ralph Hastings, his brother, was his man on the ground.

1483	John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham	Lieutenant.

John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy	Temporary governor of Calais, then Guînes. He had been lieutenant of Hammes since 1470, but under Richard III was an ill man, and left Hammes to his brother James Blount who had held the position jointly with him from 1476; and had Thomas Montgomery as deputy.

1485	John of Gloucester	Captain. James Tyrrell was appointed lieutenant of Guînes as Richard appointed loyalists.

1486	Giles Daubeney	Lieutenant-governor.

1492	Richard Nanfan	Deputy lieutenant.

1493	Edward Poynings	Deputy lieutenant; but "deputy or governor" in the old DNB. Governor.

Sentence(s)

On February 1380, Bryan Stapleton was appointed Captain of Calais Castle and captain of Guînes.

final_sentence: On February 1380, Bryan Stapleton was appointed Captain of Calais Castle and captain of Guînes.