The boy's Froissart : $b being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of adventures, battle, and custom in England, France, Spain, etc.Froissart, Jean
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The boy's Froissart : $b being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of adventures, battle, and custom in England, France, Spain, etc.
Froissart, Jean
France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589; Great Britain -- History -- 14th century; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
with the Lord Philip his youngest son, attacked the division of the
marshals, the Earls of Warwick and Suffolk. There were also with the
marshals some Gascons, such as the Captal de Buch, the Lord of Pumiers,
the Lord Amery de Charree, the Lord of Languran, the Lord de l’Estrade.
The Lord John de Landas with the Lord Theobald de Bodenay, returning in
good time, dismounted, and joined the battalion of the king. On one side
the Duke of Athens, constable of France, was engaged with his division;
and a little higher up the Duke of Bourbon, surrounded with good knights
from the Bourbonois and Picardy. Near to these were the men of Poitou,
the Lord de Pons, the Lord de Partenay, the Lord de Dampmaire, the Lord
de Montabouton, the Lord de Surgeres, the Lord John de Saintré, the Lord
Guiscard d’Angle, the Lord d’Argenton, the Lord de Linieres, the Lord de
Montrande, the Viscount de Rochechouart, the Earl of Aulnoy. Many others
were also engaged, such as the Lord James de Beaujeu, the Lord of
Chateau-Villain, and other knights and squires from Burgundy. In another
part were the Earls of Vantadour and Montpensier, the Lord James de
Bourbon, the Lord John d’Artois and the Lord James his brother, the Lord
Arnold de Cervolle, surnamed the Archpriest, armed as the young Earl of
Alençon. There were also from Auvergne the Lord de Marcueil, the Lord
de la Tour, the Lord de Chalenton, the Lord de Montagu, the Lord de
Rochefort, the Lord de la Chaire, the Lord d’Achon; and from Limousin
the Lord de Linal, the Lord de Naruel, and the Lord Pierre de Buffiere.
From Picardy there were the Lord William de Merle, the Lord Arnold de
Renneval, the Lord Geoffry de St. Dizier, the Lord de Chauny, the Lord
de Hely, the Lord de Monsant, the Lord de Hagnes, and many others. The
Lord Douglas from Scotland was also in the king’s battalion, and for
some time fought very valiantly; but, when he perceived that the
discomfiture was so complete on the side of the French, he saved himself
as fast as he could; for he dreaded so much being taken by the English,
that he had rather have been slain.
The Lord James Audley, with the assistance of his four squires, was
always engaged in the heat of the battle. He was severely wounded in the
body, head, and face; and, as long as his strength and breath permitted
him, he maintained the fight, and advanced forward. He continued to do
so until he was covered with blood; then, toward the close of the
engagement, his four squires, who were as his body-guard, took him, and
led him out of the engagement, very weak and wounded, toward a hedge,
that he might cool and take breath. They disarmed him gently as they
could, in order to examine his wounds, dress them, and sew up the most
dangerous.
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