Rostan de Soler was a 13th-century
Gascon knight and administrator who served as lieutenant of the
Seneschal of Gascony in 1231 and then Seneschal of Gascony 1241–43.
During his seneschalcy, King
Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry a ...
, who was also the hereditary
Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony, launched the
a war against France. One of the lead citizens (''prud'hommes'') of
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...
, he served two terms as
mayor there in 1237–38 and 1241.
Life
Soler was the son of Rostan de Soler. Following his father, he became the head of the family, one of the most prominent in Bordeaux. In 1216, he was a prisoner of King
John of England
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Emp ...
being held in
Corfe Castle. On John's death that year he was released on the orders of the regent,
William Marshal.
Charles Higounet
Charles Higounet (13 January 1911 – 8 April 1988, aged 77) was a French historian medievalist, specialising in bastides and the Middle Ages in the southwest of France.
Biography
Charles Higounet was a French medievalist who taught in Bordeau ...
, ''Histoire de Bordeaux sous les rois d'Angleterre'' (Bordeaux: Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest, 1962), pp. 78 and 566–67.
Rostan served as Mayor of Bordeaux from 26 March 1237 until 13 March 1238. In 1241 he was again elected mayor and served from 22 July. Until when is not known. Higounet has him leaving office on 24 September that same year, after having been appointed seneschal.
[ Bémont has him continuing in office until the next known mayor, Pierre Béguey, was installed on 9 July 1242. This would mean that he was both mayor and seneschal simultaneously, a unique occurrence.][Charles Bémont, "Les institutions municipales de bordeaux au moyen age. la mairie et la jurade", in ''Revue Historique'', 123, fasc. 1 (1916), pp. 1–53.]
Rostan was appointed on 22 September 1241, as Seneschal of Gascony, replacing Henry de Turberville
Sir Henry de Turberville (died 1239), was a noted English soldier and Seneschal of Gascony (1227–1230, 1234–1237 and 1238).
Origins and early years
He was the son of Robert Turberville. In the latter part of John of England's reign Trublevi ...
. Rostan resigned the position on 10 November 1242 and was replaced by John Maunsell. During 1249, the Solers family and the Colom family fought over political control of Bordeaux. Simon de Monfort
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, the Seneschal of Gascony, put down the factional fighting, arresting Rostan and sending him to England to appear before Henry III. Rostan was succeeded by his son Gaillard.
Marriage and issue
Rostan was married to Honorette Aymar and are known to have had the following known issue:
*Gaillard de Soler, married to Esclarmonde de Tartas, had issue.
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13th-century French people
Medieval French knights