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SAVARI DE MAULEON (d. 1236)

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

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

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

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