I had a dream last night that I was in Highschool English class & totally bombed a test. Even though the test was a group one, I got a little frantic and only really answered one of the questions. Spent most of the time arguing with my team mates about how to spell that one answer, which I remember now being ‘Amerigot’. Other people in my group said that was not quite right and that the spelling & the meaning had something to do with the Tarot.
Not sure where I got Amerigot, but I did a google searching this morning and found this:
Notice the text at the bottom that says “Detail of a miniature of the execution of Amerigot (Aymerigot) Marchel.” Looks like it can be spelled many ways…
What did Amerigot Marcel do to the people of Bruges to be publicly executed in the main town square? THROUGHOUT the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) the English made use of routiers, bands of mercenaries who roamed throughout rural France.
These were usually former soldiers who were surprisingly well organized an dwell trained. Most hailed from the province of Gascony in south-west France(though others came from Spain, Germany and England) which had been under English control since 1154 and was a major battleground during the War.
They gained a fearsome reputation: pillaging, raping and looting everything they came across.
Amerigot Marcel (who also appears as Aymerigot Marcel, Amerygott Marcel and Merigot Marches in the literature) was a former French captain born in Limousinin about 1360.
Limousin was particularly volatile during the conflict being on the border ofFrench and English dominions, and Marcel eventually left service to became a routier.
He was, for a time, the most feared man in southern France, taking to plundering and occupying many castles in the Auvergne region including Ventadour, Cassuriel and Mercoeur.
In spite of his elaborate appeal, Merigot was decapitated, hanged (somehow in that order), drawn and quartered in Paris on Wednesday, July 12, 1391, having refused the blessings of the priest.
