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• John Talbot was created Earl of Salop.  According to the EncyclopaediaBritannica,  Salop was the official name of the title, but Talbot usedthe name Shrewsbury, by which it is commonly known, and officially soin later times.
  
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  Shrewsbury was the chief English military commander in the last phaseof the Hundred Years' War against French.  He was made marshall ofFrance for English King Henry VI in 1436 after he prevented Normandyfrom falling to the French.
  
  He was killed in an attempt to lift the French siege of the Englishcastle of Castillon in Guyenne.  This became the last battle of theHundred years' War, though no peace treaty was signed to formally endhostilities until 1574 at Piquigny.
  -- Encyclopaedia Britannica, Electronic Edition 1996, articles"Shrewsbury, John Talbot, 1st earl of" and "Castillon, Battle of"
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  Here are further details form Burke's Peerage
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  1st Earl of Shrewsbury, K.G., summoned to Parliament 1409 as "JohannesTalbot de Furnyvall". He was appointed 1412 Lord Justice of Ireland,and 1414 Lord Lieut. of Ireland, he governed there for 7 years.
  
  This Lord Talbot, whom Shakespeare terms "the great Alcides of thefield" was one of the most renowned captains of the warlike age helived in. His earlier feats of arms were under Henry V in France, atthe siege and capture of Meaux, and he seems to have inherited theheroic spirit of his royal master. He gloriously sustained the causeof Henry VI throughout his French realm, in battle after battle, untilthe very name of Talbot became a terror to the Frenchmen.
  
  He was, for a moment, checked in his career by the Maid of Orleans, atPatay, 1429, when, his army being routed, he was taken prisoner. Hewas exchanged for Ambrose de Lore, a celebrated French partisan, andwas soon in activity again, the master-mind and master-director of thefierce contest in France, doing good and effective service every day.
  
  In reward he was created, 20th May 1442, EARL OF THE COUNTY OF SALOP,or as usually styled, EARL OF SHREWSBURY. He was subsequentlyre-constituted Lord Lieut. of Ireland, and elevated to the Peerage ofthat kingdom, 17 July 1446, as EARL OF WATERFORD, having beenappointed at the same time Lord High Steward of Ireland.
  
  After this he went once more to fight in France. He commanded a fleet,landed and took Falaise; as Lieut. of the Duchy of Acquitaine, landedin Medoc and made Bordeaux surrender and the surrounding minor townssend in instant submission. He thence advanced to the relief ofChastillon, and met the besieging French army commanded by their thengreatest leader, Dunois, Bastard of Orleans.
  
  In the battle which ensued, 20 July 1453, Talbot, in the sixty-thirdyear of his age, received a wound in the head, which provedimmediately mortal. He had been victorious in 40 different battles anddangerous skirmishes; his death proved fatal to the English dominionin France, which never flourished afterwards.
  --  http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/htm/beauchamp.htm#src1
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Sources

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