Captal of Buch

Family: Gascony · Role: captal · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 83

In Book 1, Chapter 83, the Captal of Buch was among the Cardinal de Perigord’s relations who helped give the prince reasons to admit the cardinal to an audience. In Chapter 89, he returned from a crusade in Prussia with his cousin Earl of Foix. Although attached to the English, he joined Earl of Foix in resolving to assist the ladies during a truce between the two kings.

At Meaux, their force drove the peasant attackers from the town, killing upward of seven thousand. On the men-at-arms’ return, they set fire to Meaux and burnt it.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Earl of Foix and the Captal of Buch resolved to go to the ladies’ assistance.(Book 1, Chapter 89)
  • With: Earl of Foix
  • “The two knights resolved to go to the assistance of these ladies, and to re-enforce them with all their might, notwithstanding the Captal was attached to the English; but at that time there was a truce between the two kings.”
• The Earl of Foix and the Captal of Buch’s force drove the peasant attackers out of Meaux, killing thousands.(Book 1, Chapter 89 · 📍 Meaux)
  • With: Earl of Foix
  • “All manner of armed persons then rushed out of the barriers, drove them before them, striking them down like beasts, and clearing the town of them; for they kept neither regularity nor order, slaying so many that they were tired. They flung them in great heaps into the river. In short, they killed upward of seven thousand.”
• The men at arms set fire to and burnt Meaux.(Book 1, Chapter 89 · 📍 Meaux)
  • With: Earl of Foix
  • “On the return of the men at arms, they set fire to the town of Meaux, and burnt it”

Book 1, Chapter 83

• with Cardinal de Perigord (The Captal of Buch helped the cardinal make his case.) “The prince believed that the cardinal had sent them thither; but the cardinal, through the means of his relations, the Lord of Chaumont, the Lord of Montferrant, and the Captal of Buch, gave such good reasons for his conduct to the prince, that he admitted him to an audience.”
• with Cardinal de Perigord (The text calls them the cardinal's relations; it does not specify the precise kinship.) “The prince believed that the cardinal had sent them thither; but the cardinal, through the means of his relations, the Lord of Chaumont, the Lord of Montferrant, and the Captal of Buch, gave such good reasons for his conduct to the prince, that he admitted him to an audience.”

Book 1, Chapter 89

• cousins with Earl of Foix “the Earl of Foix, and his cousin the Captal of Buch, were returning from a croisade in Prussia.”
• allies with Earl of Foix “The two knights resolved to go to the assistance of these ladies, and to re-enforce them with all their might,”
• allies with Duke of Orleans (Meaux refuge) “marching under the banners of the Earl of Foix and Duke of Orleans, and the pennon of the Captal of Buch, posted themselves in front of this peasantry, who were badly armed.”

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