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Arnaud de Cervole, also ''de Cervolles'', ''de Cervolle'', ''Arnaut de Cervole'' or ''Arnold of Cervoles'' (''c.'' 1300 - 25 May 1366), known as l'Archiprêtre (The Archpriest), was a French mercenary soldier during the Hundred Years' War. ==Early career== He was born into the minor nobility at Lot-et-Garonne in the Périgord somehere around the year 1300. Even though a layman, he possessed the ecclesiastical fief of Velines in Dordogne; because of it he was called the Archpriest of Vélines (''Archiprêtre de Velines''). He was deprived of his benefice by the archbishop of Bordeux because he was mixing "with brigands and men of base extraction".〔("Fourteenth-Century Mercenaries", USNA )〕 In the early 1350s, Arnaud commanded a band of 80 men in South-West France, and was known for his skill at taking walled cities and castles by escalade (ladders). He was equally known for repeatedly crossing line between military service and banditry. In 1356, he was wounded and captured after fighting in the forces of the Count of Alençon at the Battle of Poitiers.〔Sumption (1999), p.360〕 After his release he married a rich widow. In 1357 Anaud was elected commander of the "Great Company", a loose collection of companies of freebooters of various nationalities. While most ordinary companies numbered no more than a few hundred men, the shifting membership brought at its height made up an army of about 2700 men.〔 In 1358, Arnaud and his troops travelled to Avignon where Pope Innocent VI gave him 20,000 gold florins to distribute among his companions in exchange for giving up all the castles his men had occupied in the papal territories.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arnaud de Cervole」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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