Matches in DBpedia 2015-04 for { ?s ?p "Sir John Clanvowe (1341–1391) was a Welsh diplomat, soldier and poet.Clanvowe was born to a Welsh Marcher family in an area that would later become part of Radnorshire but took up residence in Wigmore, Herefordshire.He was a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1386 they were both deponents in Scrope v. Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry (where both Clanvowe and Chaucer testified in support of the claims by the Scrope family to bear a particular coat of arms).He was one of the 'Lollard knights' (with supposedly heretical views) at the court of Richard II of England.In 1390 he was campaigning with Louis II, Duke of Bourbon against Tunis. He was buried with Sir William Neville in a joint tomb discovered in 1913 in Istanbul's Arap Mosque in a way (helmets facing each other as if kissing, shields overlapping, impaled coats-of-arms), which would suggest a homosexual relationship between the two men."@en }
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- John_Clanvowe abstract "Sir John Clanvowe (1341–1391) was a Welsh diplomat, soldier and poet.Clanvowe was born to a Welsh Marcher family in an area that would later become part of Radnorshire but took up residence in Wigmore, Herefordshire.He was a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1386 they were both deponents in Scrope v. Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry (where both Clanvowe and Chaucer testified in support of the claims by the Scrope family to bear a particular coat of arms).He was one of the 'Lollard knights' (with supposedly heretical views) at the court of Richard II of England.In 1390 he was campaigning with Louis II, Duke of Bourbon against Tunis. He was buried with Sir William Neville in a joint tomb discovered in 1913 in Istanbul's Arap Mosque in a way (helmets facing each other as if kissing, shields overlapping, impaled coats-of-arms), which would suggest a homosexual relationship between the two men.".