Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2: Or, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Henry the Fifth, as Prince of Wales and King of EnglandTyler, James Endell
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Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2: Or, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Henry the Fifth, as Prince of Wales and King of England
Tyler, James Endell
Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422
The loss on both sides has been very variously reported. Probably of
the French not less than ten thousand fell in that field of
blood;[139] of the English perhaps less than one-tenth of that number.
But France did not on that day reckon her loss by the number of the
slain; the chief of her chivalry[140] and nobility fell there. (p. 184)
On the English side the only men of note who were slain in the battle
were the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Richard Keghley, Thomas
Fitz-Henry, John de Peniton, and David Gamme.[141]
[Footnote 139: It is quite impossible to reconcile
the different accounts of the loss on the part of
the English. Walsingham speaks of thirty only
having fallen; De Fenin reports them to have been
four or five hundred; whilst Monstrelet raises the
number to sixteen hundred.
On the part of the French, Le Fevre says, that from
a hundred to six score princes fell, and about
seven or eight thousand of noble blood. In the
Annales Ecclesiastici of Baronius, continued by
Raynaldus, the statement of Theodoric Niemius is
quoted, who says (unquestionably without authority)
that Henry advanced from Harfleur with sixty
thousand men, besides two thousand in attendance on
the carriages. He affirms that the French had one
hundred thousand men; among whom were one thousand
Italians, commanded by Buligard, who had long
governed Genoa in favour of the French. He says,
moreover, that more than five thousand five hundred
French nobles were slain; and fifteen hundred taken
prisoners, and carried to England.]
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