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- Arnaud de Cervole, also de Cervolles, de Cervolle, Arnaut de Cervole or Arnold of Cervoles, known as l'Archiprêtre de Velines (The Archpriest of Vélines), was a French mercenary soldier during the Hundred Years' War. He was born in Lot-et-Garonne in the Périgord, the younger son of minor nobility, somehere around the year 1300. Originally a priest who possessed the ecclesiastical fief of Vélines in Dordogne (the origin of his sobriquet Archpriest of Vélines), he eventually repudiated his clerical duties for warfare. His first recorded military action, undertaken in Valois service, was the capture of the fortress of Montravel in April of 1351. Apparently a protégé of Charles de la Cerda, then Constable of France, Arnaud received the lordship of Châteauneuf-sur-Charente and served as the king's lieutenant in the region between the Dordogne and the Loire during most of 1351. After Charles was assassinated by ruffians hired by the Charles the Bad in 1354, Arnaud raised his own company of men and undertook military operations on his own account, seizing three castles in Angoulême and, while serving under John II for 1355 to 1356, another fortress in Normandy. Arnaud was eventually captured by the English during the Battle of Poitiers in September 1356. The defeat the French suffered was not only in military terms, but also economically: it brought an end to regular payment of troops, as England and France sought to negotiate a treaty. Unemployed soldiers began to support themselves by pillaging and extorting the French countryside as routiers, mercenaries associated with free companies. In March of 1357, Arnaud, who had acquired several lordships in the region by marrying a wealthy widow, was named in the Truce of Bordeaux (1357) as one of the French conservators for Berry. In September of 1358, Arnaud and his troops laid siege to Avignon and forced Pope Innocent VI to pay him a thousand gold florins. After the Pope paid the ransom, Arnaud discharged his troops on the spot, pocketed the money and left, leaving his men ever more furious and dangerous. In 1362, he was hired by John II to deal with English brigands, dispatching him with a small royal army led by the Comte de Tancarville and the Comte de la Marche. In 1365, he received payment to lead remnants of the Great Company out of eastern France and into the Holy Roman Empire, where it was hoped that he would lead a crusade against the Turks. However, delays in arranging passage and payment made his troops restive, and he was eventually assassinated by one of his own men in May of 1366 while arguing with some malcontents.
- Arnaud de Cervole, genannt „der Erzpriester“, war einer der berüchtigsten französischen Briganten während des Hundertjährigen Krieges.
- Arnaud de Cervole dit l'Archiprêtre fut un célèbre chef mercenaire dans les grandes compagnies au XIV siècle et un audacieux partisan français.
- Arnold de Cervole [särvå'l] eller Cervolle, vanligen kallad "ärkeprästen", archiprètre, emedan han drog inkomsterna av prästgäll, fastän han var både gift man och riddare, var en fransk legokrigare under de fransk-engelska krigen på 1300-talet. Efter slaget vid Poitiers drog han - i sold än hos den ene fursten, än hos den andre - omkring i södra Frankrike med en skövlande legoskara. Då han 1365 med 40 000 äventyrare inbröt i Elsass under förevändning att tåga mot turkarna, jagades han tillbaka av kejsar Karl IV. Död 1366.
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- Arnaud de Cervole, also de Cervolles, de Cervolle, Arnaut de Cervole or Arnold of Cervoles, known as l'Archiprêtre de Velines (The Archpriest of Vélines), was a French mercenary soldier during the Hundred Years' War. He was born in Lot-et-Garonne in the Périgord, the younger son of minor nobility, somehere around the year 1300.
- Arnaud de Cervole, genannt „der Erzpriester“, war einer der berüchtigsten französischen Briganten während des Hundertjährigen Krieges.
- Arnaud de Cervole dit l'Archiprêtre fut un célèbre chef mercenaire dans les grandes compagnies au XIV siècle et un audacieux partisan français.
- Arnold de Cervole [särvå'l] eller Cervolle, vanligen kallad "ärkeprästen", archiprètre, emedan han drog inkomsterna av prästgäll, fastän han var både gift man och riddare, var en fransk legokrigare under de fransk-engelska krigen på 1300-talet. Efter slaget vid Poitiers drog han - i sold än hos den ene fursten, än hos den andre - omkring i södra Frankrike med en skövlande legoskara.
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