Arnaud de Gabaston

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Arnaud de Gabaston (also Arnold de Gavaston ) († before May 18, 1302 ) was a French nobleman who was in the service of the English king as a military man. He was the father of Piers Gaveston , one of the main favorites of the English King Edward II.

origin

Arnaud de Gabaston came from Gascony , which at that time belonged to the English king as part of the Duchy of Aquitaine . As Sire of Gabaston , he was a vassal of Gaston VII , the vice-count of Béarn . In 1272 he married Claramonde de Marsan, a daughter of Arnaud-Guillaume, Vice Count of Marsan. Through the marriage he acquired the castles of Louvigny , Roquefort de Marsan, Montgaillard des Landes , Hagetmau and Saint-Loubouer , which were owed to the English king as Duke of Aquitaine. Gabaston thus owned extensive estates in southwestern France and was one of the leading barons of Béarn.

Military in the service of the English king

Gabaston was a loyal supporter of King Edward I of England , whom he served for over 20 years in Gascony, Wales and Scotland. He was enlisted in Gascony in 1282 for the campaign to conquer Wales . In Wales he commanded a contingent of knights, archers and foot soldiers from Gascony. After the campaign he remained as a knight of the royal household in the king's entourage. In 1286 he accompanied the king when he traveled to Gascony. In 1288 he was one of the hostages that the English king gave the king of Aragon, Alfons III. , had to ask. Also at the beginning of the Franco-English War of 1294 he was a hostage of the French King Philip IV. In 1296 he escaped from being held hostage and fled to England. From 1297 to 1298 he was a member of the English army in Gascony. Back in England, he and his two sons took part in the campaign against Scotland from August 1300 during the First Scottish War of Independence . He died shortly before May 18, 1302 and was believed to be buried in Winchester Cathedral.

progeny

From his marriage to Claramonde de Marsan, Gabaston had several children including:

  1. Arnaud-Guillaume de Marsan
  2. Piers de Gaveston

Individual evidence

  1. Jeffrey Scott Hamilton: Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, 1307-1312. Politics and patronage in the reign of Edward II. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1988. ISBN 0-7108-1378-3 , p. 21
  2. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 151
  3. Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , p. 96
  4. ^ JS Hamilton: Gaveston, Piers. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  5. Harold Frederick Hutchinson: Edward II. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1971. p. 30