Lord de Raseflez

Family: Flanders · Role: earl's representative · First appears: Book 2, Chapter 8

Life events

Philip reported the Earl of Flanders's humiliating final terms for peace to the inhabitants of Ghent.(Book 2, Chapter 8 · 📍 Ghent)
- With: Philip von Artaveld Lord de Gontris Sir John Villames Earl of Flanders (Ghent war)
- “They declared his final terms for peace between him and the inhabitants of Ghent were, that every male inhabitant, excepting priests and monks, from the age of sixteen to that of sixty, should march out of the town in their shirts, with bare heads and feet, and halters about their necks, and should thus go two leagues or more to the plains of Burlesquans, where they would meet the Earl of Flanders, attended by such whom he may choose to bring with him; and that, when he should see us in this situation, with joined hands, crying out for mercy, he would, if he pleased, take compassion on us.”

with Philip von Artaveld (Lord de Raseflez is named as one of the envoys who informed Philip and his companions of the Earl's terms.) “the Lord de Raseflez, the Lord de Gontris, Sir John Villames, and the provost of Harlebecque, came to Tournay, where they very graciously informed us of the will of the earl, and the only means of putting an end to this war.”

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