John Paston (died 1466), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Knight of the Shire for Norfolk
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About John Paston (died 1466)
- John Paston I (10 October 1421 – 21 or 22 May 1466) was an English country gentleman and landowner.
- He was the eldest son of the judge William Paston, Justice of the Common Pleas.
- After he succeeded his father in 1444, his life was marked by conflict occasioned by a power struggle in East Anglia between the dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk, and by his involvement in the affairs of his wife's kinsman, Sir John Fastolf.
- A number of his letters survive among the Paston Letters, a rich source of historical information for the lives of the English gentry of the period.
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