Sir Agos de Bans

Family: La Réole · Role: governor · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 38

Life events

• Sir Agos de Bans withdrew into the castle and refused to surrender it.(Book 1, Chapter 38 · 📍 La Réole)
  • “When the governor, Sir Agos de Bans, a Provençal, found that the inhabitants wanted to surrender the town, he retired into the castle of La Réole with his fellow-soldiers; and, while this treaty was going on, he had conveyed into it great quantities of wine and other provision. He then ordered the gates to be fastened, and said he would never surrender in so shameful a manner.”

Book 1, Chapter 38

• enemies with Earl of Derby (The earl's army besieged the castle held by Sir Agos de Bans.) “He then entered it with his army, and, surrounding the castle, erected all his machines against it; but they did little mischief, for the castle was very high and built of a hard stone.”

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