Tag: Edward Caruna Dingli

Sir Adrian Fortescue (1476–9 July 1539), Knight of St. John, justice of the peace for Oxford, martyr, belonged to the Salden branch of the great Devonshire family of Fortescue, he was a descendant of Richard the Strong, shield bearer of William the Conqueror, who gave to his family his surname — le Fort-Escu: “the Strong Shield” — and his…