Lord of Manny

Role: father of Sir Walter Manny · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 39

Life events

• Peace was agreed on condition that the Lord of Manny make a pilgrimage to St. James of Compostella as penance.(Book 1, Chapter 39 · 📍 Cambray)
  • “Two or three years after, some good-hearted people endeavored to reconcile them; and peace was agreed to, on condition that the Lord of Manny should make a pilgrimage to St. James of Compostella by way of penance.”
• The Lord of Manny was murdered while returning to his lodgings.(Book 1, Chapter 39 · 📍 La Réole)
  • “It chanced one night, as he was returning to his lodgings, that he was watched and waylaid by the kindred of him on whose account he had performed this pilgrimage, and was murdered at a small distance from the Earl Charles’s hotel.”
• The Earl of Valois had the murdered Lord of Manny buried in a chapel outside the town walls.(Book 1, Chapter 39 · 📍 La Réole)
  • With: Earl Charles of Valois
  • “The Earl of Valois had him buried immediately in a small chapel which at that time was without the walls of La Réole;”
• Sir Walter had his father’s tomb opened and sent his bones to Valenciennes for reburial.(Book 1, Chapter 39)
  • With: Sir Walter Manny
  • “Two days afterwards he had the tomb opened, took out the bones of his father, and, placing them in a coffin, sent them to Valenciennes in the county of Hainault, where they were again buried in the church of the Frères Mineurs, near the choir.”
• Sir Walter ordered yearly masses to be said for his father.(Book 1, Chapter 39)
  • With: Sir Walter Manny
  • “He ordered masses to be said, and to be continued yearly.”

Book 1, Chapter 39

• child: Sir Walter Manny “A knight from Gascony tilted with the Lord of Manny, the father of Sir Walter: the Gascon knight was so roughly handled and wounded that he never enjoyed his health afterwards, but died.”
• with Earl Charles of Valois (interaction) “The Earl of Valois had him buried immediately in a small chapel which at that time was without the walls of La Réole;”

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Extracted from the original text of The Boy's Froissart. Made with Rho MD.