Simon Mollevin

Family: Genoese · Role: varlet · First appears: Book 4, Chapter 6, part 2/2

Life events

The Saracen chiefs promised to spare Simon Mollevin, send him home safely, and give him a hundred golden besants.(Book 4, Chapter 6, part 2/2)
- With: Agadinquor d’Oliferne Brahadin de Tunis
- “they promised to spare his life, and send him safe and well to his own country on board of the first galley that should come thither from Genoa or Marseilles, with a present of a hundred golden besants.”
Simon told the Saracens that the Christians had raised the siege because of heavy losses and fear of wintering there.(Book 4, Chapter 6, part 2/2)
- “He replied, ‘So great was the loss on the day the combat was to have taken place between ten of your knights with ten of ours, that upward of sixty knights and squires, men of renown, died that day; and it was solely on this account,’ as the Genoese said, ‘the siege was raised.’”
Simon returned home and related what had passed and what answers he had made.(Book 4, Chapter 6, part 2/2 · 📍 Portevances)
- “On his return to Portevances and Genoa, he related all that had passed and what answers he had made, for which he was no way blamed.”

with Agadinquor d’Oliferne (Agadinquor, together with Brahadin, promises Simon safe passage and a present.) “The chiefs of the army, such as Agadinquor d’Oliferne and Brahadin de Tunis, thought they should gain nothing by his death; and to induce him to answer truly, without any equivocation, what questions should be put to him, they promised to spare his life, and send him safe and well to his own country on board of the first galley that should come thither from Genoa or Marseilles, with a present of a hundred golden besants.”
with Brahadin de Tunis (Brahadin, together with Agadinquor, promises Simon safe passage and a present.) “The chiefs of the army, such as Agadinquor d’Oliferne and Brahadin de Tunis, thought they should gain nothing by his death; and to induce him to answer truly, without any equivocation, what questions should be put to him, they promised to spare his life, and send him safe and well to his own country on board of the first galley that should come thither from Genoa or Marseilles, with a present of a hundred golden besants.”

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