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FALKES DE BREAUTE (d. 1226)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 482 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BREAUTE (d. 1226)  , one of the See also:foreign mercenaries of See also:King See also:John of See also:England, from whom he received in See also:marriage the heiress of the earldom of See also:Devon . On the outbreak of the Barons' See also:War (1213) the king gave him the sheriffdoms of six midland shires and the custody of many castles . He fulfilled his military duties with as much skill as See also:cruelty . The royalists owed to his daring the decisive victory of See also:Lincoln (1217) . But after the See also:death of See also:William See also:Marshal, See also:earl of See also:Pembroke, Falkes joined the feudal opposition in conspiring against See also:Hubert de See also:Burgh . Deprived in 1223 of most of his honours, he was See also:drawn into a See also:rebellion by the imprudence of his See also:brother, who captured a royal See also:justice and threw him into See also:prison (1224) . Falkes was allowed to go into See also:exile after his submission, and endeavoured to obtain a See also:pardon through the See also:mediation of See also:Pope See also:Honorius III . But this was refused, and Falkes died at St Cyriac in 1226 . See See also:Shirley, Royal Letters, vol. i.; the Patent and See also:Close Rolls; See also:Pauli, Geschichte von England, vol. i. pp . 540-545 . (H . W .

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