was paraded through Burgos. There he was confined to prison, where he was treated poorly. The Spanish transported prisoners "bound with chains or cords, like dogs in leash", or, as reported at Santander, in leg irons. The treatment meted out to Pembroke and his men appalled the Castilians' French allies: the French chronicler Jean Froissart wrote, of the Castilians, "they know no finer courtesy, just like the Germans". While in prison, Pembroke received news of his wife's pregnancy. A fellow prisoner, Sir John Trailly, following his return to England, reported Pembroke's reaction to a parson connected to the Grey affinity. He was not, Trailly told him, as happy at the news as one might expect; rather, he was moved to anger, as now he had a son and if that son died without heirs, Pembroke's careful planning against Ruthin might be undone. A few months later, possibly after negotiation with the King of France, King Henry II of Castile agreed to sell his right to Pembroke's ransom to the Constable of France, Bertrand du Guesclin, for 120,000 francs. To finance this du Guesclin had to sell his Spanish lordships of Soria and Molina, which he had previously captured from Spain, back to the Castilian King. Pembroke's agreement with du Guesclin laid down that he would pay him 50,000 francs immediately, and the remainder within six weeks of Pembroke's arrival back in England. Pembroke's imprisonment was to continue for another three years, however, asdespite Pembroke's close connections at court and with the Kingthere was little progress made in arranging for Pembroke's ransom until early 1375. King Charles appears to have repeatedly held up the process of Pembroke's release, whose own circumstances were especially harsh. He was lodged at Curiel Castle in what Ormrod calls "infamously gruesome conditions", enough to eventually break his health. The first instalment was eventually lodged in a short-term moneylending account for du Guesclin, with a Fleming in Bruges, by which time Pembroke was ill. He was taken by du Guesclin to Paris"in short stages as kindly and gently as could be"but the Earl's increasing illness forced du Guesclin to make for Calais with all speed, as he had promised to facilitate the Earl's return to England by Easter. Death and succession Pembroke died in Picardy (at either Arras or Moreuil) on 16 April 1375, following his release from prison. Despite a contemporary rumour that he had been