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Falkes de Breauté (died
1226), was one of the foreign
mercenaries of
King John of England, from whom he received in
marriage the heiress of the
earldom of Devon.
Breauté is a small town near
Le Havre in France. His name is also spelled "Fawkes".
On the outbreak of the
Barons' War (1213) the king gave him the
sheriffdoms of six midland
shires and the custody of many castles. He fulfilled his military duties with as much skill as cruelty. The royalists owed to his daring the decisive
victory of Lincoln (1217). But after the death of
William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, Falkes joined the
feudal opposition in conspiring against
Hubert de Burgh.
When he married he acquired his wife Margaret's London house which came to be known as "Fawkes Hall", subsequently corrupted over the years to "Foxhall", then "
Vauxhall". In return for his services, King John granted Falkes the manor of
Luton. He was also granted the right to bear his own
coat of arms and chose the mythical
griffin as his
heraldic emblem. The griffin thus became associated with both Vauxhall and Luton in the early
13th century.
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Deprived in
1223 of most of his honours, he was drawn into a
rebellion by the imprudence of his brother, who captured a royal justice and threw him into prison (1224). This led to the siege of
Bedford Castle. Falkes was allowed to go into
exile after his submission, and endeavoured to obtain a pardon through the mediation of
Pope Honorius III. But this was refused, and Falkes died at
St. Cyriac in 1226.
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