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SAVARI DE MAULEON (d. 1236)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 904 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAVARI DE

MAULEON (d. 1236)  , French soldier, was the son of Raoul de Mauleon, vicomte de
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Thouars and lord of Mauleon (now
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Chatillon-sur-Sevre) . Having espoused the cause of Arthur of
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Brittany, he was captured at Mirebeau (1202), and imprisoned in the chateau of Corfe . But John set him at liberty in 1204, gained him to his side and named him seneschal of
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Poitou (1205) . In 1211 Savari de Mauleon assisted Raymond VI. count of Toulouse, and with him besieged Simon de Montfort in
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Castelnaudary . Philip Augustus bought his services in 1212 and gave him command of a
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fleet which was destroyed in the Flemish
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port of
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Damme . Then Mauleon returned to John, whom he aided in his struggle with the barons in 1215 . He was one of those whom John designated on his deathbed for a council of regency (1216) . Then he went to
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Egypt (1219), and was
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present at the taking of
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Damietta . Returning to Poitou he was a second time seneschal for the king of England . He defended
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Saintonge against Louis VIII. in 1224, but was accused of having given La Rochelle up to the king of France, and the suspicions of the
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English again threw him back upon the French . Louis VIII. then turned over to him the defence of La Rochelle and the coast of Saintonge . In 1227 he took
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part in the rising of the barons of
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Poitiers and
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Anjou against the young Louis IX .

He enjoyed a certain reputation for his poems in the langue d'oc . See Chilhaud-Dumaine, " Savari de Mauleon," in Positions

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des Theses des eaves de l'Ecole des Charles (1877); Histoire litteraire de la France, xviii . 671-682 .

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