Savary de Mauléon

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Savary de Mauléon

Savary de Mauléon (* around 1180 ; † July 29, 1233 ) was a French knight and baron of the 13th century. He was a son of Raoul de Mauléon and Alix Chabot. As lord of Mauléon , Châtelaillon, Fontenay , Talmont and others, he was one of the greatest barons of Poitou . His biography falls during the period when the so-called Angevin Empire collapsed.

After Richard the Lionheart died in 1199, Savary supported his nephew Arthur von Bretagne as his successor, but was taken prisoner at Mirebeau by Johann Ohneland in 1202 . After a short imprisonment in Corfe Castle , he joined Johann's entourage and was appointed Seneschal of Poitou in 1205 as the successor to the captive Robert of Thornham . In 1211 Johann's order led an army in support of Count Raimund VI. von Toulouse , Johann's brother-in-law, against the Albigensian crusade into the Languedoc and took part in the siege of Castelnaudary . Immediately afterwards, he switched to the side of King Philip II of France , to whom he made the league oath in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and for whom he fought on the coast of Flanders as a naval commander. While its fleet in 1213 was in the port of Damme from the Earl of Salisbury destroyed . He then returned to the service of Johann Ohneland, whom he supported in the conflict against the English barons.

In September 1219 Savary traveled to Egypt as a crusader to take part in the siege of Damiette (fifth crusade). After his return he was from Heinrich III. reappointed Seneschal of Poitou. In 1224, King Louis VIII of France led a conquest of the Poitou , which Savary could not do much to counter. He entrenched himself in La Rochelle , but after a long siege he lost the necessary support from Henry III. had to hand over to the King of France. Construed as treason, he was captured by English soldiers, but managed to escape after which he joined Louis VIII. In 1226 he accompanied him again on the Albigensian Crusade and took part in the siege of Avignon .

After King Louis VIII died shortly afterwards, Savary moved back to the Angevin camp and took part with Richard of Cornwall in the uprising of the barons against the regent Blanka of Castile . But as early as 1227 Cornwall entered into an armistice with the regent and withdrew to England. Savary paid homage to the young King Louis IX. (the saint) . In 1230, however, he was again at the side of Henry III, who had led an army to France to support Peter Mauclerc , but had returned to England a little later without a fight.

Savary de Mauléon was also active as a trobador , three works have come down from him. He was buried in the church of Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm .

With his wife Belleassez de Paredes he had two daughters:

From affairs with various noble women he had a son, Raoul († 1251), who was legitimized by the Archbishop of Bordeaux .

literature

  • Bélisaire Ledain: Savary de Mauléon . Pyrémonde, 2006, ISBN 2-84618-326-0
  • HJ Chaytor: Savaric de Mauléon, baron and troubadour . Cambridge, 1939.

Individual evidence

  1. On the oath of trust see Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no. 1391, pp. 315-316.
  2. Matthäus Paris , Chronica Majora , ed. by Henry Richards Luard in: Rolls Series 57 (1876), vol. p. 50