Centule I (
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: ''Centolh d'Astaragues'') (died 1230 or 1233) was the
Count of Astarac
Astarac is a region in Gascony, a county in the Middle Ages. Astarac was formed as a county out of the partition of the Duchy of Gascony: following the death of García II Sánchez of Gascony, the duchy was partitioned between his sons, with Arno ...
from 1174 or 1175 until his death.
He is recorded in a ''
sirventes
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The name comes from ''sirvent'' ('serviceman'), from whose perspective the song is allegedly wr ...
'' of
Bertran de Born as having joined the alliance against
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was ...
in 1183. Bertran calls him ''E.n Centols''. Centule raised a company of
Gascon ''
routiers
Routiers () were mercenary soldiers of the Middle Ages. Their particular distinction from other paid soldiers of the time was that they were organised into bands (''rutta'' or ''routes''). The term is first used in the 12th century but is partic ...
'' along with
Gaston VI of Béarn
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People
First name
*Gaston I, Count of Foix (1287–1315)
* Gaston II, Count of Foix (1308–1343)
*Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391)
*Gaston ...
and sent them north under one Brunus (or Brenus) to aid
Adhemar V of Limoges in besieging a church on the
Gorre
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Inhabitants of Gorre are known as ''Gorrois''.
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* Communes of the Haute-Vienne department
The following is a l ...
in February. The company was routed by Richard.
Centule participated in the
Reconquista
The ' (Spanish, Portuguese and Galician for "reconquest") is a historiographical construction describing the 781-year period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the Nasrid ...
in the
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
**
* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
**
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, def ...
and was present at the great
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, known in Islamic history as the Battle of Al-Uqab ( ar, معركة العقاب), took place on 16 July 1212 and was an important turning point in the ''Reconquista'' and the medieval history of Spain. The Chris ...
in 1212.
Sources
*Kastner, L. E
"Concerning Two ''Sirventes'' of Bertran de Born."''Modern Philology'', Vol. 29, No. 1. (Aug., 1931), pp. 1–9.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Centule 01 Of Astarac
1233 deaths
Counts of Astarac
People of the Reconquista
Year of birth unknown