Denys de Morbeque

Also known as: Sir Denys · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 80

In Book 1, Chapter 80, King Edward employed Denys de Morbeque in the English king’s service. When King John surrendered to him, saying, “I surrender myself to you,” English and Gascon fighters took the king from Denys and disputed who had captured him.

By Chapter 83, Denys’s claim was contested by Bernard de Trouttes, who declared an equal right to the captive. At Bordeaux, the Prince of Wales arrested both men until they could present their rival claims before the king in England. The prince also privately gave Denys two thousand nobles to support his claim to King John.

Relationship record

Life events

• King John surrendered himself to Denys de Morbeque.(Book 1, Chapter 80)
  • With: King John
  • “The king then gave him his right-hand glove, and said, ‘I surrender myself to you.’”
• English and Gascon fighters took King John from Denys de Morbeque and disputed who had captured him.(Book 1, Chapter 80)
  • With: King John
  • “the English and Gascons had taken him from Sir Denys de Morbeque, and were disputing who should have him”
• 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: Bernard de Trouttes 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.”
• The prince privately gave Denys de Morbeque two thousand nobles to support his claim to the King of France.(Book 1, Chapter 83 · 📍 Bordeaux)
  • With: King John Prince of Wales
  • “the prince ordered two thousand nobles to be given privately to Sir Denys in order to enable him the better to support his rank.”

Book 1, Chapter 80

• employer: King Edward “who was engaged by a salary in the service of the King of England: his name was Denys de Morbeque”
• with King John (King John surrendered to Denys de Morbeque.) “The king then gave him his right-hand glove, and said, ‘I surrender myself to you.’”

Book 1, Chapter 83

• rivals with Bernard de Trouttes “He challenged another squire of Gascony, named Bernard de Trouttes, who had declared that he had an equal right to him.”
• with King John (The king supported Denys's claim to have captured him.) “However, as the King of France gave every assistance to Sir Denys in support of his claim, and leaned more to him than to any of the other claimants, the prince ordered two thousand nobles to be given privately to Sir Denys in order to enable him the better to support his rank.”
• with King John (Denys claims the King of France as his prisoner.) “On this account Denys de Morbeque truly and by right of arms claimed him.”
• patron: Prince of Wales “the prince ordered two thousand nobles to be given privately to Sir Denys in order to enable him the better to support his rank.”

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