Bernard de Trouttes

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

In Book 1, Chapter 83, Bernard de Trouttes, a Gascon squire, claimed an equal right with Denys de Morbeque, who challenged him. At Bordeaux, the Prince of Wales arrested both men until they could bring their rival claims before King John in England. Bernard had also long and loyally served Lord James Audley on dangerous occasions.

Relationship record

Life events

• The prince arrested Denys de Morbeque and Bernard de Trouttes until they could bring their rival claims before the king in England.(Book 1, Chapter 83 · 📍 Bordeaux)
  • With: Denys de Morbeque Prince of Wales
  • “and, as they had engaged to fight each other, the prince put them under an arrest until they should be arrived in England, and forbade any thing more being said on the subject till they were in the presence of the king his father.”

Book 1, Chapter 83

• rivals with Denys de Morbeque “He challenged another squire of Gascony, named Bernard de Trouttes, who had declared that he had an equal right to him.”
• employer: Lord James Audley (Bernard is one of the four squires, but the text does not identify which four by name.) “These four squires who are here have long and loyally served me on many great and dangerous occasions;”
• with King John (Bernard also claimed the King of France as his prisoner.) “He challenged another squire of Gascony, named Bernard de Trouttes, who had declared that he had an equal right to him.”

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