He died on May 27, 1444 in Wimborne, Dorset, England, he was 41 years old.Source 1
Attention: Died 9 months (May 27, 1444) prior to the birth (??-??-1450) of child (Sir John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Constable of Bolingbroke & Rockingham Castles) .
May 21 » Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire.
July 21 » Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
October 7 » Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet.
March 2 » Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
June 29 » Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
August 26 » Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.
November 10 » Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.
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