ABSTRACT
The Brabanons and others condemned by Third Lateran were the hired soldiers of competing rulers whom would call mercenaries. Geoffroy de Vigeois tells us about a local Limousin knight who served with the mercenaries devastating the Limousin on behalf of Richard the Lionheart in the autumn of 1183, and had motives other than the simply financial for joining the Angevin forces. In this connection, it is interesting that mercenaries make regular appearances in The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour, many of which also relate to injuries sustained in warfare. The Anonymous admits that this inspired the people of Aquitaine, Gascony and Provence to turn against the mercenaries, but he ends by saying that the Capuchins terrified the lords of the area. The Aragonese became Angevin allies, and their claims in Southern France against the house of Toulouse were championed with particular vigour by Alfonso II.
