Captal (of Latin capitelis , chief or lord) is a title which distinguished at the time of the One hundred Year old Guerre one of the five or the six most important lords of Aquitaine. There remained of use thereafter only for the captaux of Buch and the Captal de Trame.

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One knows especially under the first of these two titles Jean de Grailly, principal Gascon general of Edouard III of England, such a general time with the service of Charles the Bad, king de Navarre. He was regarded by the Froissart chronicler as the chivalrous ideal of his time. The “anglo-Gascon” cavalry Plantagenêt was under its command with the battle of Poitiers, when it captured the king of France. It was twice overcome, the first time by ordering an army belonging to king de Navarre, by Bertrand of Guesclin to the Bataille of Cocherel in Normandy in the year 1364; the second in 1372, close to the Castle of Soubise, where it was surprised by Welsh mercenaries (under the command of the last legitimate heir to the throne independent of Wales) with the service of king de France. Charles V tried to attach it to its service at the time of its two stays to the Temple, by offering an advantageous situation to him. He died in 1377 with the Prison of the Temple to Paris.

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Capitoul

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