John de Vere Earl of Oxford escaped from Hammes Castle in the Calais pale in October 1484, taking several members of the garrison with him to France to join Henry Tudor's court in Brittany and then Normandy. His escape significantly strengthened Tudor's military planning for the 1485 invasion.
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