John Blanke (also rendered Blancke or Blak) (fl. 1501–1511)

Extract from the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll.


Little is known about his life, but he was paid 8 pence per day by King Henry VII.[3] A surviving document from the accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber records a payment of 20 shillings to "John Blanke the Blacke Trumpet" for wages on December 1507, with payments of the same amount continuing monthly through the next year. John Blanke attended both the funeral of King Henry VII and the coronation of Henry VIII in 1509, and is thought to have married in 1512.

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