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Thomas Crachrode
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Thomas Crachrode, a gentleman of Cust Hall, went with the Earl of Oxford to Agincourt in 1415 - so that this family's tie to the de Veres, later sealed by the Hunt-Vere marriage, was already a century and a half old on the field of that battle.
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✓ THOMAS CRACHRODE, gentleman, of Cust Hall; 'wente with the Erle of Oxford to Agincourt' (1415); father of John (our line). A pleasing foreshadow of the family's later de Vere marriage. Source: 1612 Visitation of Essex (Crochrode pedigree) + Morant, History of Essex ('Cust Hall'), via essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk; read 7 Aug 2026; contested rungs note-only.