[1] The names of his familia taken with him are in Patent
    Rolls of Henry III., 1216-1227, pp. 461-62.

During Falkes’s wanderings his brother had been struggling valiantly against overwhelming odds. Petrariae and mangonels threw huge stones into the castle, and effected breaches in keep and curtain.  Miners undermined the walls, while over-against the stronghold two lofty structures of wood were raised, from which the crossbowmen, who manned them, were able to command the whole of the interior.  At last the castle was captured in four successive assaults.  In the first the barbican was taken; in the next the outer baily was stormed; in the third the interior baily was won; and in the last the keep was split asunder.  The garrison then allowed the women and captives, including the wife of Falkes and the unlucky Braybrook, to make their way to the enemies’ lines.  Next day the defenders themselves surrendered.  The only mercy shown to these gallant men was that they were allowed to make their peace with the Church before their execution.  Of the eighty prisoners, three Templars alone were spared.

Falkes threw himself upon the king’s mercy, appealing to his former services to Henry and his father.  He surrendered to the King the large sums of money which he had deposited with his bankers, the Templars of London, and ordered his castellans in Plympton and the other west-country castles of his wife to open their gates to the royal officers.  In return for these concessions he was released from excommunication.  His life was spared, but his property was confiscated, and he was ordered to abjure the realm.  Even his wife deserted him, protesting that she had been forced to marry him against her will.  On October 26 he received letters of safe conduct to go beyond sea.  As he left England, he protested that he had been instigated by the English magnates in all that he had done.  On landing at Fecamp he was detained by his old enemy Louis, then, by his father’s death, King of France.  But Louis VIII. was the last man to bear old grudges against the Norman adventurer, especially as Falkes’s rising had enabled him to capture the chief towns of Poitou.

Even in his exile Falkes was still able to do mischief.  He obtained his release from Louis’ prison about Easter, 1225, on the pretence of going on crusade.  He then made his way to Rome where he strove to excite the sympathy of Honorius III., by presenting an artful memorial, which throws a flood of light upon his character, motives, and hopes.  Honorius earnestly pleaded for his restitution, but Hubert and Langton stood firm against him.  They urged that the pope had been misinformed, and declined to recall the exile.  Honorius sent his chaplain Otto to England, but the nuncio found it impossible to modify the policy of the advisers of the king.  Falkes went back from Italy to Troyes, where he waited for a year in the hope that his sentence would be reversed.  At