BREAUTE, FALKES DE (d. 1226), military adventurer, was one of the foreign mercenaries of King John of England, from whom he received in marriage the heiress of the earldom of Devon. On the outbreak of the Barons' War (1215) the king gave him the sheriffdoms of six midland shires and the custody of many castles. In 1217 he helped the royalist party of Henry III. to win a decisive victory at Lincoln, over Louis, the French claimant to the throne. But after the death of William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, Falkes joined the feudal opposition in conspir ing against the justiciar, Hubert de Burgh. Deprived in 1223 of most of his honours, he took part in a rebellion in 1223-24. In 1224, he went into exile. He failed to obtain a pardon through the mediation of Pope Honorius III. and died at St. Cyriac in 1226.