John Hawkwood, II

Son of the famous condottiere, Sir John Hawkwood of the "White Company", by Donnina (Domnina ) Visconti, whom he married in 1377. Returned to Essex after his fathers' death.

Authorities. -M uratori, Rerum Italicarum scriptores, and supplement by Tartinius and Manni; Archivio storico italiano; TempleLeader and Marcotti, Giovanni Acuto (Florence, 1889; Eng. transl., Leader Scott, London, 1889); Nichol, Bibliotheca topographica Britannica, vol. vi.; J. G. Alger in Register and Magazine of Biography, v. 1.; and article in Dict. Nat. Biog.

Of his children by Donnina Visconti, who appears to have been his second wife, the eldest daughter married Count Brezaglia of Porciglia, podesta of Ferrara, who succeeded him as Florentine commander-in-chief, and another a German condottiere named Conrad Prospergh. His son, John, returned to England and settled at Hedingham Sibil, where, it is supposed, Sir John Hawkwood was buried. The children of the first marriage were two sons and three daughters, and of the latter the youngest married John Shelley, an ancestor of the poet.

Authorities. -M uratori, Rerum Italicarum scriptores, and supplement by Tartinius and Manni; Archivio storico italiano; TempleLeader and Marcotti, Giovanni Acuto (Florence, 1889; Eng. transl., Leader Scott, London, 1889); Nichol, Bibliotheca topographica Britannica, vol. vi.; J. G. Alger in Register and Magazine of Biography, v. 1.; and article in Dict. Nat. Biog.