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AUDREHEM, ARNOUL

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 899 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUDREHEM, ARNOUL D' (c. 1305-1370), See also:French soldier, was See also:born at Audrehem, in the See also:present See also:department of Pas de See also:Calais, near St Omer. Nothing is known of his career before 1332, when he is heard of at the See also:court of the See also:king of See also:France. Between 1335 and 1342 he went three times to See also:Scotland to aid King See also:David See also:Bruce in his See also:wars. In 1342 he became See also:captain for the king of France in See also:Brittany; then he seems to have served in the See also:household of the See also:duke of See also:Normandy, and in 1346, as one of the See also:main defenders of Calais, was taken as a prisoner to See also:England by See also:Edward III. From 1349 he holds an important See also:place in the military See also:history of France, first as captain in See also:Angouleme, and from See also:June 1351, in See also:succession to the See also:lord of See also:Beaujeu, as See also:marshal of France. In See also:March 1352 he was appointed See also:lieutenant for the king in the territory between the See also:Loire and the See also:Dordogne, in June 1353 in Normandy, and in 1355 in See also:Artois, See also:Picardy and the Boulonnais. It was Audrehem who arrested See also:Charles the See also:Bad, king of See also:Navarre, and his partisans, at the banquet given by the dauphin at See also:Rouen in 1356. At See also:Poitiers he was one of those who advised King See also:John to attack the See also:English, and, charging in the front See also:line of the French See also:army, was slightly wounded and taken prisoner. From England he was several times given safe-conducts to France, and he took an active See also:part in the negotiations for the treaty of Bretigny, recovering his See also:liberty the same See also:time as King John. In 1361, as the king's lieutenant in See also:Languedoc, he prevented the See also:free companies from seizing the castles, and899 negotiated the treaty with their chiefs under which they followed See also:Henry, See also:count of Trastamara (later Henry II. of See also:Castile), into See also:Spain. In 1365 he himself joined du Guesclin in the expedition to Spain, was taken prisoner with him by the See also:Black See also:Prince at the See also:battle of Najera (1367), and was unable to pay his See also:ransom until 1369.

In 1368, on See also:

account of his See also:age, he was relieved of the See also:office of marshal, being appointed See also:bearer of the oriflamme, with a See also:pension of 2000 livres. He was sent to Spain in 1370 by Charles V., to urge his friend du Guesclin to return to France, and in spite of his age he took part in the battle of Pontvallain (See also:December 1370), but See also:fell See also:ill and died, probably at See also:Saumur, in the latter part of December 1370. See Emile See also:Molinier, " Etude sur la See also:vie d'Arnoul d'Audrehem, marechal de France," in Memoires presentee See also:par See also:divers savants d l'academie See also:des See also:inscriptions et belles-lettres, 2e serie, iv. (1883).

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