Thomas Uvedale was with the King in Scotland in 1336. This army ended the seige at Lochindorb and retook Perth, Carrick and Clyde.87
Thomas Uvedale was in Gascony in 1345 “in the company of Walter de Mauny” at the siege of Aiguillon and the subsequent seige of Calais.88,89
On the 2nd of March 1348 Thomas de Uvedale, along with others, is given a written mandate to take and arrest ships for the passage of Joan, daughter of King Edward II to Gascony. She was betrothed to Peter of Castile.90
Thomas is one of the godparents of Reynold de Cobham, second lord of Cobham, along with Queen Philippa and Sir Walter de Mauny, Church of Edenbridge, Kent in 1348.91
Henry of Grosmont was appointed lieutenant to King Edward I for Brittany in 1355. However he was too busy to take on the role so he appointed Thomas lieutenant in Brittany in his place. Thomas continued the role until 1358.
Thomas de Uvedale, described as a “lieutenant of Duke of Lancaster”, was asked to publish the truce with France in Brittany.
Thomas Uvedale was with the Duke of Lancaster as a lieutenant in the Reims Campaign in 1359/60 which led to negotiations and the Treaty of Bretigny. Henry Grosmont led the English negotiations team.
Thomas de Uvedale worked as a diplomat sent as an envoy to the King of France May and October of 1360, including concerning the Earl of Montfort.92
Thomas de Uvedale and Thomas de Donclent, returned to France to request the King of France fulfill the Treaty of Bretiqny-Calais, including the delivery of lands and castles.93
On the 20th of November 1361 Thomas de Uvedale was asked to recieve a payment for the ransom of Phillip Duke de Burgoyne who had been captured at the battle of Poitiers.94
Thomas was asked to proceed to Calais to deal with the custody of the King of France who was also captured at the battle of Poitiers and was brought to England and stayed at the Savoy.95
In 1361 and 1367 Thomas de Uvedale was knight of the shire for Surrey.96
Thomas de Uvedale was an emissary, along with Henry Lescrop the Governor of Calais, to the count of Flanders to arrange the marriage of Margaret of Flanders to the Earl of Cambridge.97
On 1 May 1364 letters patent were issued at Westminster Palace by the executors of Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster, confirming that the Duke was bound to Sir Thomas Uvedale “in great sums for services rendered and money lent, some of which had been satisfied by him”.98
Pierre de Tourebu brought a case against Thomas Uvedale, who was collecting appatis on behalf of Henry Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster and Chandos. Thomas Uvedale prevailed in the case.99
Sir Thomas Uvedale was back in Paris from October 1366 to January 1367 in secret negotiations with the French.100
Sir Thomas built a chapel onto the church at Titsey, located beside the manor, and was buried there in 1367. There was a stained glass window with a knight on foot armed, on his left arm was a shield with Thomas’s arms “argent a cross moline gules”, with the same on his breastplate, and in his right hand was a spear with a banner of the same arms.101
A pedigree in Di Banco Trinity - 9 Henry V m318 includes a pedigree starting with Sir John de Uvedale, then his sons Hugh and Thomas and descendants of Hugh being Sir John de Uvedale, Kt. Bannaret, then Sir Thomas de Uvedale Kt., then Sir John Uvedale, Kt. who married Sibilla Scures and through him to finally John Uvedale the plaintiff. The court case from 1422 when John Uvedale sued William Wode and William Bassett for lands and rents in Camberwell and Peckham, Surrey.2