Jeremy Penthaile

Sir Jeremy Penthaile (681 - 763) was a Dunn knight and advisor to the Counts of Welldale. He was also the founding head of the noble House Penthaile.
== Early Life ==
Jeremy was born to a craftsman and his wife in the hamlet of Penthaile in southern Dunfleasel, and raised to be a carpenter like his father. At the age of eighteen, though, his town was attacked by raiders from Mamelkert and put to the torch. Losing his family and many friends, Jeremy travelled to the town of Beyham where he joined the local town militia. He rose through the ranks quickly, and by the age of thirty became the commander of Beyham's militia and levies in times of war. 
== Service to Beyham and Welldale ==
As was customary at the time, the Count of Beyham - Count Eric Ovardale - knighted Jeremy. He took the surname Penthaile, to remind him of his origins, and took the arms 'Vert, a castle afire'. Jeremy's newfound fame became his local downfall. He began to have illicit relations with the Count's daughter, and was discovered and laid off in 714 at the age of thirty-three.
Exiled from Beyham, Sir Jeremy took up the post of military advisor to the Count of Welldale - one of Count Eric's fiercest rivals. He retained this post for the rest of his life. In 721 he led a cattle raid into the hamlets north of Beyham, and again in 724. Eric Ovardale died in 726, and with him went Welldale's animosity towards Beyham. The 624 raid was the last time Sir Jeremy was pitted against other Dunns.
== Later Life ==
Sir Jeremy was married to a local carpenter's daughter in 725, and quickly had several children. The Count of Welldale died in 731, and his successor died in 752. The third Count of Welldale Sir Jeremy served, inaugurated in 752, was Count John Havocke. John relied heavily on Jeremy's advice for his ambitious planning, and it was on this advice that the Count annexed the lands of Houses Granthood and Debauvais in 755 and 759 respectively.
== Death ==
Sir Jeremy advised Count John on his scheme to take the Lacrivian fortress of Mont-Sarmans in 762. However, this venture is not called Havocke's Folly for no reason. On the first day of the march, Sir Jeremy fell from his horse and broke his ankle. Due to his old age - he was nearly eighty-two at the time - complications arose from this injury. Sir Jeremy returned to Welldale directly after the injury and died, surrounded by friends and family, on the 3rd of January 763. He was succeeded as head of House Penthaile by his second son, John Penthaile.
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