The King's council was making every effort to succour Orleans. The King summoned the nobles of Auvergne. They had been true to the Lilies ever since the day when the Dauphin, Canon of Notre-Dame-d'Ancis, and barely more than a child, had travelled over wild peaks to subdue two or three rebellious barons.[547] At the royal call the nobles of Auvergne came forth from their mountains. Beneath the standard of the Count of Clermont, in the early days of February, they reached Blois, where they joined the Scottish force of John Stuart of Darnley, the Constable of Scotland, and a company from Bourbonnais, under the command of the barons La Tour-d'Auvergne and De Thouars.[548] [Footnote 547: _Gallia Christiana_, vol. ii, p. 732. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. i, p. 213; vol. ii, p. 6, note 2. S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p. ccxcv.] [Footnote 548: _Journal du siege_, pp. 21, 36-38. The accounts of Hemon Raguier, Bibl. Nat. Fr. 7858, fol. 41. Loiseleur, _Comptes des depenses de Charles VII pour secourir Orleans_, _loc. cit._] Just at this time tidings were received of a convoy of victuals and ammunition which Sir John Fastolf was bringing from Paris to the English at Orleans. With two hundred men-at-arms the Bastard started from Orleans to concert measures with the Count of Clermont. It was decided to attack the convoy. Commanded by the Count of Clermont and the Bastard the whole army from Blois marched towards Etampes with the object of encountering Sir John Fastolf.[549] [Footnote 549: _Journal du siege_, p. 37.] On the 11th of February there sallied forth from Orleans fifteen hundred fighting men commanded by Messire Guillaume d'Albret, Sir William Stuart, brother of the Constable of Scotland, the Marshal de Boussac, the Lord of Gravelle, the two Captains Saintrailles, Captain La Hire, the Lord of Verduzan, and sundry other knights and squires. They were summoned by the Bastard and ordered to join the Count of Clermont's army on the road to Etampes, at the village of Rouvray-Saint-Denis, near Angerville.[550] [Footnote 550: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 231. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp. 266, 267. _Journal du siege_, pp. 37, 38.] The next day, Saturday, the eve of the first Sunday in Lent, when the Count of Clermont's army was still some distance away, they reached Rouvray. There, early in the morning, the Gascons of Poton and La Hire perceived the head of the convoy advancing into the plain, along the Etampes road.