Sir Robert Mareschaut

Family: Flanders · Role: knight · First appears: Book 2, Chapter 10

Life events

Sir Robert Mareschaut reported that the Ghent men had taken the town.(Book 2, Chapter 10 · 📍 Bruges)
- With: Earl of Flanders (Ghent war)
- “The knight returned as speedily as he could to the earl, whom he met coming out of his palace on horseback, with a number of torches. The knight told him what he had heard”
Sir Robert Mareschaut found the escaped earl and helped him seek a horse and travel to Lille.(Book 2, Chapter 11)
- With: Earl of Flanders (Ghent war)
- “The earl, hearing him talk as he was passing, said to him, ‘Robert, art thou there?’ The knight, who well knew his voice, replied, ‘My lord, you have this day given me great uneasiness in seeking for you all round Bruges: how were you able to escape?’--‘Come, come, Robert,’ said the earl: ‘this is not a time to tell one’s adventures: endeavor to get me a horse, for I am tired with walking, and take the road to Lille, if thou knowest it.’--‘My lord,’ answered the knight, ‘I know it well.’”

liege: Earl of Flanders (Ghent war) “Sir Robert Mareschaut, one of the earl’s knights, had been sent to the gates to see they were guarded;”

liege: Earl of Flanders (Ghent war) “As he lay thus hid under the bush, he heard some one talk, who by accident was one of his knights, that had married a bastard daughter of his: his name was Sir Robert Mareschaut.”

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