page_title: John Norris (soldier)
hierarchical_section_title: John Norris (soldier)
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir John Norris (1547? - 1597). Oil on panel.
context_page_description: Sir John Norris or Norreys, of Rycote, Oxfordshire, and of Yattendon and Notley in Berkshire, was an English soldier, the son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth.
  The most acclaimed English soldier of his day, Norreys participated in every Elizabethan theatre of war: in the Wars of Religion in France, in Flanders during the Eighty Years' War of Dutch liberation from Spain, in the Anglo-Spanish War, and above all in the Tudor conquest of Ireland.
context_section_description: Sir John Norris or Norreys (ca. 1547 – 3 September 1597),  of Rycote, Oxfordshire, and of Yattendon and Notley in Berkshire, was an English soldier, the son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys,  a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth.
  The most acclaimed English soldier of his day, Norreys participated in every Elizabethan theatre of war: in the Wars of Religion in France, in Flanders during the Eighty Years' War of Dutch liberation from Spain, in the Anglo-Spanish War, and above all in the Tudor conquest of Ireland.
caption: Sir John Norreys. Oil on panel by an unknown author of the English school (1600 – 1629).
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