Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), (pron. \"Jiffard\") of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, Devon, England was a Royalist leader during the Civil War. He was ultimately descended from Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville, one of the few proven Companions of William the Conqueror.Giffard took part in the Battle of Lansdowne (1643) in which his cousin, Sir Bevil Grenville was killed. His loyalty to the Royalist cause led to him being proposed as one of the Knights of the Royal Oak in 1660. He was known to the biographer John Prince who included him as one of his Worthies of Devon. He is buried in Chittlehampton Church, where survives his kneeling effigy on the monument he erected in 1625 to his ancestors."@en }
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- John_Giffard_(1602–1665) abstract "Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), (pron. \"Jiffard\") of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, Devon, England was a Royalist leader during the Civil War. He was ultimately descended from Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville, one of the few proven Companions of William the Conqueror.Giffard took part in the Battle of Lansdowne (1643) in which his cousin, Sir Bevil Grenville was killed. His loyalty to the Royalist cause led to him being proposed as one of the Knights of the Royal Oak in 1660. He was known to the biographer John Prince who included him as one of his Worthies of Devon. He is buried in Chittlehampton Church, where survives his kneeling effigy on the monument he erected in 1625 to his ancestors.".