Peter d’Anchin

Family: Bigorre · Role: captain · First appears: Book 3, Chapter 2

At midnight in Book 3, Chapter 2, Peter d’Anchin of Bigorre and his companions surprised Ortingas, capturing the town and its inhabitants. The governor’s wife surrendered the castle in exchange for her husband, and Peter and his companions gained thirty thousand francs from goods and prisoners. Peter held Ortingas for five years, using it as a base for raids that greatly damaged the surrounding country; King of France was its owner, and a retrospective account says Peter took it by surprise and gained sixty thousand francs from France.

While Peter garrisoned Ortingas, his companions captured Raymond du Paillier’s castle. They released Raymond’s wife and children but held him for four months, until he paid four thousand francs in ransom. After harassing the country, Peter and his companions sold Ortingas and Le Paillier for eight thousand francs and returned to Lourde.

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Peter d’Anchin and his companions captured Ortingas by surprise.(Book 3, Chapter 2 · 📍 Ortingas)
- “At midnight Peter d’Anchin and his company advanced toward Ortingas, and hid themselves and horses in the wood through which we passed.”
Peter d’Anchin captured the town of Ortingas and its inhabitants.(Book 3, Chapter 2 · 📍 Ortingas)
- “Thus was Ortingas taken by Peter d’Anchin of Bigorre and his companions in Lourde.”
Peter d’Anchin compelled the governor’s wife to surrender the castle in exchange for her husband.(Book 3, Chapter 2 · 📍 Ortingas)
- “The lady, who found herself in such a critical situation, through love to him who could not now defend her, in order to recover her husband and to avoid greater dangers, surrendered the castle, when the governor, his wife, and children, set out with all that belonged to them, and went to Pamiers.”
Peter d’Anchin and his companions gained thirty thousand francs from goods and prisoners.(Book 3, Chapter 2 · 📍 Ortingas)
- “By this means Peter d’Anchin captured the town and castle of Ortingas; and, when they entered the place, he and his companions gained thirty thousand francs, as well in merchandise which they found there, as in good French prisoners.”
Peter d’Anchin held Ortingas and used it as a base for raids that ruined the surrounding country.(Book 3, Chapter 2 · 📍 Ortingas)
- “Peter d’Anchin held Ortingas for full five years; and he and his garrison made frequent excursions as far as the gates of Carcassonne, which is sixteen long leagues distant, greatly ruining the country, as well by the ransoms of towns which compounded, as by the pillage they made.”
Peter d’Anchin’s companions captured Raymond du Paillier’s castle and detained him for ransom.(Book 3, Chapter 2 · 📍 Le Paillier)
- With: Raymond du Paillier
- “They this time accomplished their enterprise, having before attempted it in vain; and, by means of a scalado, they took the castle, the knight and his lady in bed.”
Raymond du Paillier paid four thousand francs for his ransom and was released.(Book 3, Chapter 2 · 📍 Le Paillier)
- With: Raymond du Paillier
- “They kept possession of it, allowing the lady and the children to depart, but detained the knight four months in his own castle, until he had paid four thousand francs for his ransom.”
Peter d’Anchin and his companions sold Ortingas and Le Paillier for eight thousand francs and returned to Lourde.(Book 3, Chapter 2 · 📍 Ortingas)
- “In short, after they had sufficiently harassed the country, they sold these two castles, Ortingas and Le Paillier, for eight thousand francs, and then retired to Lourde, their principal garrison.”

Book 3, Chapter 2

enemies with King of France (Ortingas retrospective) (Peter d’Anchin took a town and castle belonging to the King of France.) “Peter d’Anchin had possession of it; he took it by surprise, and has gained sixty thousand francs from France.”
with Raymond du Paillier (Peter d’Anchin’s companions captured and ransomed Raymond du Paillier.) “They this time accomplished their enterprise, having before attempted it in vain; and, by means of a scalado, they took the castle, the knight and his lady in bed. They kept possession of it, allowing the lady and the children to depart, but detained the knight four months in his own castle, until he had paid four thousand francs for his ransom.”
with King of France (Ortingas retrospective) (Peter's seizure of a castle belonging to the King of France.) “On our departure from Pamiers we crossed the mountain of Cesse, which is difficult of ascent, and passed near the town and castle of Ortingas, which belongs to the King of France, but did not enter it. We went to dine at a castle of the Count de Foix, half a league farther, called Carlat, seated on a high mountain. After dinner the knight said, ‘Let us ride gently: we have but two leagues of this country (which are equal to three of France) to our lodging.’--‘Willingly,’ answered I. ‘Now,’ said the knight, ‘we have this day passed the castle of Ortingas, the garrison of which did great mischief to all this part of the country. Peter d’Anchin had possession of it; he took it by surprise, and has gained sixty thousand francs from France.’”

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