for only two years. Sir Thomas and Dame Joan occupied certain Norfolk lands of Joan's kinsman Sir Richard Walkfare after his death in 1370–1371, including Gelham Hall at Dersingham, which Sir Richard had conveyed to John and Elizabeth de Reppes in 1354, at about the time of Joan's marriage. Other Walkfare lands were formally released to Joan during her widowhood in 1384. The manor of Fordham Feltons (Cambridgeshire) came to the Feltons in 1375, through the 1362 betrothal of their daughter Mary to Edmund Hengrave, who died overseas in 1374. Edmund de Felton, who was living in 1364, married a daughter of Robert Gerrard of Coddenham, Suffolk. Career Crécy and Poictiers Thomas de Felton was with the expedition commanded by Edward III which invaded France in 1346, and he took part in the Battle of Crécy, the capture of Calais and the other important events of that campaign. He became an important figure in the service of Edward the Black Prince. When Prince Edward went to take possession of Gascony in 1355, Felton went with him, and followed him to the Battle of Poitiers. His marriage to Joan de Walkfare and the birth of his children followed in the later 1350s. He was one of the commissioners who signed the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) and took oath to see it executed. He is named among the principal witnesses to the marriage of Prince Edward to Joan, Countess of Kent in 1361, as "miles" (i.e., Knight), and appears elsewhere as "chivaler", through most of his career. Seneschal of Aquitaine By letters dated 8 February 1362, Sir Thomas de Felton, as Seneschal of Aquitaine, represented Prince Edward's authority there, and served as Steward of his household during 1363. He made Richard de Walkfare an attorney for his affairs in England during his absence. He was deputed to receive Peter I, King of Cyprus, who came to Aquitaine to visit the prince in 1364. He also had power to treat with Pedro, king of Castile. When Don Pedro asked to be reinstated to the Crown of Castile, the prince referred the matter to Sir John Chandos and to Felton. Chandos was opposed, but Felton recommended that the barons and knights of Aquitaine should be consulted in the matter, and the prince replied, "It shall be done". The larger council decided that Felton should be sent to Spain with a fleet of twelve ships