John Norris (soldier)

For other people with the same name, see John Norris (disambiguation).

Sir John Norreys. Oil on panel by an unknown author of the English school (1600 – 1629).

Sir John Norris, or Norreys (ca. 1547 – 3 September 1597), of Rycote, Oxfordshire, and of Yattendon and Notley in Berkshire,[1] was an English soldier. The son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, he was a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth.

The most acclaimed English soldier of his day, Norreys participated in every Elizabethan theatre of war: in the Wars of Religion in France, in Flanders during the Eighty Years' War of Dutch liberation from Spain, in the Anglo-Spanish War, and above all in the Tudor conquest of Ireland.

  1. ^ "NORRIS, Sir John (C.1547-97), of Rycote, Oxon. And Yattendon and Notley, Berks. | History of Parliament Online".