Paid to 40 men-at-arms for their arms and wages, 60 pounds. Paid to the 60 archers, for their wages, bows and arrows, and other necessaries, 30 pounds. Paid to the men-at-arms and archers aforesaid, as a courtesy, by order of the Mayor and Aldermen, 10 pounds. Paid to William Hauteyn, …
In his work, De Gestis Edwardi Tertii, Robert of Avesbury has preserved several letters from Edward III in which he gives accounts of his actions while on campaign in France in the 1330s and 1340s. In the letter given below, the King writes to his son, the Black Prince, and …
The Battle of Bremule was fought in 1119 between Henry I of England against Louis VI (the Fat) of France. Orderic Vitalis provides the most extensive account of this battle, noting how few people were killed during the fight. Meanwhile King Louis paid a quick visit to France and suddenly …
Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum wrote his account of the history of the Norwegian kings around 1190. Along with Theodoricus Monachus’ Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium and the anonymous Historia Norvegiae, this work represents one of the earliest surving accounts of the history of Norway and the Scandanavian region. The two following sections are the brief …
This account of the famous battle of Agincourt comes from Enguerrand de Monstrelet (d.1453), governor of Cambrai and supporter of the French crown. CHAPTER CXLIII – THE KING OF FRANCE COLLECTS A GREAT BODY OF MEN-AT-ARMS FROM ALL PARTS OF HIS KINGDOM TO OPPOSE THE ENGLISH. THE SUMMONS HE ISSUES …
Christopher Gravett Tudor Knight Warrior 104. Oxford: Osprey Publishing 2006. 64pp. £ 11.99. ISBN 1-84176-970-3. Not always blessed with good leaders and hampered by corruption at all levels, the armies of Tudor England still had mounted knights as their main shock troops. Chivalry was still alive, with tournaments held before …
Steven Ashton Walton The Art of Gunnery in Renaissance England Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1999 Abstract Previous histories of artillery have concentrated on the guns themselves and their use in military actions, whereas this dissertation attempts to understand those guns as the core of a technological system in late Tudor England and …