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MERCADIER (d. 1200)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MERCADIER (d. 1200) , See also:French See also:warrior of the 12th See also:century, and See also:chief of freebooters in the service of See also:Richard I. oI See also:England. In 1183 he operated for Richard, then See also:duke of See also:Aquitaine, in the See also:Limousin and the See also:Angoumois, taking castles and laying See also:waste the See also:country. We know nothing of him during the ten years 1184-1194, but after Richard's return from See also:Palestine, Mercadier accompanied him everywhere, travelling and fighting by hisside. Richard eulogized Mercadier's exploits in his letters, and gave him the estates See also:left by Ademar de Bainac, who died without heirs about 119o. During the various See also:wars between Richard and See also:Philip See also:Augustus of See also:France, Mercadier fought successively in See also:Berry, See also:Normandy, See also:Flanders and See also:Brittany. When Richard was mortally wounded at the See also:siege of Challis in See also:March 1199, Mercadier avenged him by See also:hanging the defenders of the See also:chateau and flaying the crossbowman who had shot the See also:king. Mercadier then entered the service of See also:John, and ravaged See also:Gascony. On See also:Easter See also:Monday, the loth of See also:April 1200, he was assassinated while on a visit to See also:Bordeaux to pay his respects to Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was bringing from See also:Spain See also:Blanche of See also:Castile. His murderer was an See also:agent of Brandin, another freebooter in the service of John. See Geraud, Mercadier, in Bibliotheque de i'Ecole See also:des Chartes, 1st See also:series, t. iii., pp. 417-443.

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