Giffard was granted a standard in 1523 and may have served in southern France . At some time by 1533 , he was made a knight of the body , a member of the royal body guard , a courtly and military honour . In 1536 he was sent to help fight the Pilgrimage of Grace , the rising in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire against the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
John Giffard (died 1556)