Agincourt by Juliet Barker Page A

i, pp. 230-1. Both de Lille Adam and Brimeu would become founder members of the Burgundian order of the Toison d’Or in 1430; le Févre, who is the only chronicler to report this story, was the order’s herald, so he must have heard this story from them. They evidently took some small comfort from the fact that their captor, Sir Lewis Robsart, a long-standing member of Henry V’s household, was from Hainault. (back to text)
    40W&W, ii, p. 53 n. 1; Monstrelet, iii, p. 93. (back to text)
    41W&W, ii, pp. 52-3;
St-Denys
, v, pp. 538-41;
Bourgeois
, p. 77. (back to text)
    42
St-Denys
, v, p. 540. There are some extant musters of the troops gathering at Rouen in September and October 1415; most are for very small companies of fewer than fifteen and do not give any indication of the size of the whole army. A number are summarised in René de Belleval,
Azincourt
(Paris, 1865), pp. 300-36. (back to text)
    CHAPTER ELEVEN: “OUR TOWN OF HARFLEUR”
    1
GHQ
, p. 49. (back to text)
    2
Brut
, ii, p. 376;
St Albans
, pp. 90-1; W&W, ii, p. 49. (back to text)
    3
GHQ
, pp. 48-51;
St Albans
, p. 90;
St-Denys
, v, p. 540. (back to text)
    4Bacquet, p. 91. The rumours also reached Venice: see Morosini,
Chronique
, p. 62 and n. 6. (back to text)
    5
St-Denys
, v, pp. 540-3. The monk places this three-hour assault on the morning of the actual handover of the town, 22 September, which is clearly impossible, as Henry would have executed the hostages if Harfleur had offered any resistance once the agreed time had elapsed. (back to text)
    6
Memorials of London and London Life
, p. 619. The abbreviated version of this letter in
Letter-Books
, i, p. 131 and
Calendar of Signet Letters of Henry IV and Henry V (1399-1422)
, p. 197 no. 965 is misleading; the latter also wrongly dates the surrender to 15 September. (back to text)
    7
GHQ
, pp. 54-5; Nicolas, Appx vi, p. 24. (back to text)
    8See above, pp. 59-60. (back to text)
    9
St Albans
, pp. 90-1; W&W, ii, p. 50;
GHQ
, pp. 50-1;
St-Denys
, v, pp. 540-3. The names of the hostages are given in
Chronicles of London
, ed. by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford (Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1977), pp. 116-17. (back to text)
    10Monstrelet, iii, p. 85;
First English Life
, p. 39. (back to text)
    11
St-Denys
, v, p. 538. (back to text)
    12
GHQ
, pp. 52-3; Usk, p. 255. (back to text)
    13
First English Life
, p. 40;
GHQ
, pp. 52-3; Elmham, “Liber Metricus,” p. 112. The
First English Life
attributes the words of surrender to Sir Lionell Braquemont, “the governor of the town,” but the chaplain, who was an eyewitness, says that de Gaucourt handed over the keys. (back to text)
    14Curry, p. 445;
Registres de la Jurade
, p. 257;
GHQ
, pp. 54-5; Monstrelet, iii, p. 94;
First English Life
, p. 40. (back to text)
    15
GHQ
, p. 55;
Brut
, ii, pp. 377, 554;
St-Denys
, v, p. 544; le Févre, i, p. 229; W&W, ii, pp. 58-60. The unreliable
Chronique de Ruisseauville
claims that many of the refugees were robbed and raped by their fellow countrymen once their English escort had left them: Bacquet, p. 91. (back to text)
    16Nicolas, Appx vi, p. 24;
GHQ
, pp. 54-7. (back to text)
    17Ibid., pp. 56-9; Elmham, “Liber Metricus,” p. 113;
Foedera
, ix, p. 313.
Foedera
wrongly dates the letter to 16 September (it was actually written on 26 September, the day before de Gaucourt’s release) and mistranscribes “Guienne” as “Vienne.” (back to text)
    18Barker,
The Tournament in England 1100-1400
, pp. 158-61; Francis Henry Cripps-Day,
The History of the Tournament in England and in France
(Bernard Quaritch, London, 1918), p. 67 n. 4. (back to text)
    19The chaplain, writing the “official” version of the campaign, had clearly been provided with a copy of the challenge, which he closely paraphrases in his text:
GHQ
, pp. 56-9. (back to text)
    20The chaplain says that Henry released the French men-at-arms “with the intention and in the hope that by their instigation and good offices the peace which he so much desired might be the sooner