Note 2097 — Chapter IX · THE FALL OF THE ANGEVINS. 1199–1206.

On this man see Géraud, Les Routiers (Bibl. de l’Ecole des Chartes, ser. i. vol. iii. p. 132). In his native tongue he was called “Lobar”; in Latin he appears as “Lupicarius,” “Lupescarus,” “Lupatius.” M. Géraud calls him in French “Louvart”; the name was doubtless an assumed one, meaning “wolf.” He was a fellow-countryman and old comrade-in-arms of Mercadier; Mat. Paris introduces them both at once, in 1196, as “natione Provinciales”—“qui duces fuerunt catervæ quam ruttam vocamus, militantes sub comite Johanne regis fratre.” Chron. Maj. (Luard), vol. ii. p. 421. Lupicar however had made his first historical appearance some years earlier than Mercadier, as a leader of the Brabantines in the Limousin, about 1177. See Geoff. Vigeois, l. i. c. 70 (Labbe, Nova Biblioth., vol. ii. p. 324).