- Savari de Mauléon
Savari de Mauléon, also Savaury ( _oc. Savaric de Malleo; died 1236), French soldier, was the son of
Raoul de Mauléon ,Viscount of Thouars and Lord of Mauléon (laterChâtillon-sur-Sèvre ; seeMauléon, Deux-Sèvres ).Having espoused the cause of
Arthur I, Duke of Brittany , he was captured atMirebeau (1202), and imprisoned in the château of Corfe. ButJohn of England set him at liberty in 1204, gained him to his side and named himseneschal ofPoitou (1205).In 1211, Savari de Mauléon assisted
Raymond VI of Toulouse , and with him besiegedSimon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester inCastelnaudary .Philip II of France bought his services in 1212 and gave him command of a fleet which was destroyed in the Flemish port ofDamme . Then Maulon returned to John of England, whom he aided in theFirst Barons' War (1215 - 1217).He was one of those whom John designated on his deathbed for a council of regency to govern the
Kingdom of England in the name of new kingHenry III of England (1216).Then Savari went to Egypt (1219), and was present at the taking of
Damietta . Returning toPoitou he was a second time seneschal for Henry III. He defendedSaintonge against Louis VIII in 1224, but was accused of having givenLa Rochelle up to the king of France, and the suspicions of the English again threw him back upon the French. Louis VIII then turned over to him the defence of La Rochelle and the coast of Saintonge.In 1227, Savari took part in the rising of the barons of
Poitiers andAnjou against the young Louis IX. He enjoyed a certain reputation for his poems in the Langue d'oc.References
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