CHANDOS, SIR JOHN (d. 1370), English soldier, fought at the siege of Cambrai (1337), at Crecy in 1346, and at Poitiers, where he saved the life of the Black Prince. For these services Edward III. gave him the lands of the viscount of Saint Sauveur in Cotentin, and appointed him lieutenant in France, and vice chamberlain of the royal household in 1360. In 1362 he was made constable of Guienne, and defeated Charles de Blois at Auray in 1364. Chandos accompanied the Black Prince on his expedition in 1367, to restore Pedro the Cruel to the throne of Castile, and won the victory of Navaret over Bertrand du Guesclin. Appointed seneschal of Poitou in 1369, he was mortally wounded in an encounter with the French at the bridge of Lussac near Poitiers, and died on the day after the battle, Jan. 1, 1370.