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Could it be that Sir Thomas Dale, his brother Richard and sister Isabella descend from Henry Dale and his wife, Isabella of Amesbury, daughter of Henry Plantagenet, the third earl of Lancaster? Henry Plantagenet  was the leader  of the Confederacy of 1324  that deposed King Edward ll and became the guardian of King Edward lll. Isabella's brother, Henry Plantagenet, became England's top militarist, and was Commander of the siege of Calais as well as the King's lieutenant in Flanders. Isabella's sister, Maude married the Duke of Zealand in 1352 in Holland. Her other sister married at Reading Abbey in Berkshire, John de Gaunt Duke of Lancaster. There was, certainly, an affinity with the Low Countries of Europe.

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