6. The Brut of England, p. 422
7. Monstrelet, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 308
Chapter XI, ‘The Norman Conquest – In Reverse’
1. Allmand, Lancastrian Normandy, pp. 52–3
2. Juvénal, op. cit., p. 545; Chronique du Réligieux de Saint-Denys, Vol. VI, pp. 311–13
3. As recently as the 1960s, in La Résistance à l’Occupation anglais, p. 18, Jouet argued, ‘En effet, les Anglais ont volontairement et clairement usé du terme préexistant de “brigand” pour designer une réalité nouvelle, le partisan. Manoeuvre habile …’
4. Basin, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 166–8
5. ‘So alarmed were the English authorities that they attempted to restrict, then to prevent the emigrants from leaving, and finally to entice them to return … by remission of rent and tax concessions.’ Fowler, Hundred Years War, p. 14
6. Newhall, The English Conquest of Normandy, p. 226
7. The First English Life of King Henry the Fifth, pp. 132–4
Chapter XII, ‘The Murder of John the Fearless’
1. Monstrelet, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 320
2. ibid., Vol. III, pp. 321 ff
3. Vaughan, John the Fearless, p. 230
4. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, pp. 126–7
5. ibid., p. 129
6. McFarlane, Nobility of Later Medieval England, p. 33
7. Stevenson (ed.), Letters and Papers, Vol. II, pp. 579–81
8. Vaughan argues convincingly that the dauphin was well aware of the trap, John the Fearless, pp. 274–86
9. The First English Life of King Henry the Fifth, p. 153
10. Hearne (ed.), op. cit., pp. 80, 81
Chapter XIII, ‘Heir and Regent of France’
1. Ascoli, op. cit., pp. 12–13, who takes it from Doncieux Romancero Populaire de France, showing it refers to the marriage of Catherine to Henry V and not to that of Henrietta Maria to Charles I.
2. Chronique du Réligieux de Saint-Denys, Vol. VI, p. 163
3. Monstrelet, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 406
4. Juvénal, op. cit., p. 561
5. Waurin, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 429
6. Juvénal, op cit., p. 561
7. ibid., p. 561
Chapter XIV, ‘The Fall of Paris 1420’
1. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 145
2. ibid., pp. 146, 156
3. Chastellain, Oeuvres, Vol. I, pp. 198–200
4. Monstrelet, op. cit., Vol. IV, pp. 9–10; Chastellain, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 179
5. Monstrelet, op. cit., Vol. IV, p. 17; Tutuey (ed.), op. cit., p. 145
6. Monstrelet, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 305
7. Perroy, op. cit., pp. 232–3
8. Vale’s brilliant Charles VII does belated justice to him, altering the traditional picture.
Chapter XV, ‘Lancastrian Normandy’
1. Le Cacheux, Rouen au temps de Jeanne d’Arc et pendant l’occupation anglais (1419–1449)
2. Blondel, Complanctorum bonorum Gallorum, ch. xix
3. Blondel, Oratio Historialis, ch. iii
4. Newhall, op. cit., pp. 240–2
5. Rymer, op. cit., Vol. X, pp. 160–1
6. Newhall, op. cit., p. 236
7. At the truce of Tours of May 1444 the English agreed to end pâtis, courses, sauvegardes, billets and congés in Normandy, Anjou, Maine and Perches, and at Mantes and at Le Crotoy.
8. Allmand, op. cit., p. 30
9. Puiseux, L’Emigration Normande et la colonisation anglaise en Normandie au XVe Siècle, pp. 56–7
10. Favier, ‘La Tourment’ in Histoire de la Normandie (ed. Boüard), pp. 233–4
11. Favier, Guerre de Cent Ans, p. 467. In 1430 the ecclesiastical judges at Rouen gave a ruling that ‘son of an Englishman’ was an insult as grave as ‘son of a whore’.
Chapter XVI, ‘Rending of Every Man Throughout the Realm’
1. Wylie and Waugh, op. cit., Vol. III
2. Harvey, ‘Architectural History from 1291 to 1558’ in A History of York Minster, pp. 181–6.
3. McFarlane, Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. VIII, p. 387
4. Newhall, op. cit., p. 266
5. Juvénal, op. cit., p. 565
6. Strecche, Chronicle, p. 278
7. Adam of Usk, op. cit., p. 133
8. Harriss (ed.), op. cit., p. 177
10. Rymer, op. cit., Vol. X, p. 131
11. Knowles, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 182–4
Chapter XVII, ‘Meaux Falls’
1. Chastellain, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 220
2. Juvénal, op. cit., p. 566
3. Chartier, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 6
4. Chastellain, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 282
5. Burne, The Agincourt War, p. 179
6. Walsingham, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 343
7. Chronique du Réligieux de Saint-Denys, Vol. VI, p. 381
8. ibid., Vol. VI, p. 381
9. Juvénal, op. cit, p. 561
10. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 171 ff
11. Chronique du Réligieux de Saint-Denys, Vol. VI, p. 450
12. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 178
13. ibid., p. 163
14. Waurin, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 361
15. Clephan, ‘The Ordnance of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries’, Archaeological Journal, pp. 49–84
16. Letter in Bib. Nat. fr. 26044, no. 5712 – cit. Newhall, op. cit., p. 264
17. Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry V (8 April, 1421), p. 384
18. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 170
19. Juvénal, op. cit., p. 563
20. Chronique du Réligieux de Saint-Denys, Vol. VI, p. 563
21. ‘ac hospitalus fuit in castro delectabilissimo du boys de Vincennes per Seneam distante’, ibid., p. 466
22. The First English Life of King Henry the Fifth, p. 178
23. The Brut of England, Vol. II, p. 493
24. Chastellain, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 313
25. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 174 ff
Chapter XVIII, ‘Lancastrian France’
1. Wylie and Waugh, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 143
2. Perroy, op. cit., p. 219. ‘Henri V se fit brutal, lésa sans remords tous les intérêts. Expulsions, confiscations, amendes, firent regner un régime de terreur.’
3. Favier, op. cit., p. 463
4. Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, Vol. II, p. 336
5. Chartier, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 13
6. Basin, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 9–10
7. Puiseux, op. cit., Allmand, Lancastrian Normandy
8. Basin, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 106–7
9. Le Cacheux, Actes de la Chancellerie de Henri VI, Vol. 1, pp. 253–5
10. Juvénal, in Dénifle, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 502–12
11. ibid., p. 511
12. Stevenson (ed.), Letters and Papers, Vol. I, pp. 10–19
13. Dénifle, op. cit., Vol. I, xvi
14. Juvénal, in Dénifle, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 506
15. Blondel, ‘De Reductione Normanniae’, in Narratives of the Expulsion of the English from Normandy, p. 179, ‘Quid de tuis sacrilegiis, Henrie, rex immanissimo, omnium sacrilegorum princeps.’
16. Chronique du Réligieux de Saint-Denys, Vol. VI, p. 165
17. Chartier, op. cit., p. 4
18. Basin, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 86–8. The great Lancastrian lawyer Sir John Fortescue, who was in France during the late 1460s, reports, ‘there was never people in that land more poor than were in our time the commons of the county of Caux, which was then almost desert for lack of tillers.’ (The Pays de Caux had once been the granary of eastern Normandy.)
19. The First English Life of King Henry the Fifth, p. 131
20. Chastellain, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 221
21. ibid., Vol. I, pp. 221–22, 308
22. cit. Ascoli, op. cit., p. 18
23. cit. Lewis, Essays in Later French Medieval History, p. 194
24. Robinet, cit. Ascoli, op. cit., p. 43
25. Commynes, Mémoires, Vol. II, p. 37
26. Fowler, The Hundred Years War, p. 23
27. Cheruel, Histoire de Rouen sous la domination anglaise au quinzième siècle, pp. 86–8
28. McFarlane, The Nobility of Later Medieval England, p. 35
29. Monstrelet, op. cit., Vol. IV, p. 117. The nobleman was ‘Messire Sarasin d’Ailli, uncle to the Vidame of Amiens’.
30. Juvénal, in Dénifle, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 500
31. Chastellain, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 337–9
Chapter XIX, ‘Death’
1. Waurin, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 426
2. Basin, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 79
3. Favier, op. cit., p. 455. ‘Dans ce réalisme des derniers instants, Henri V reconnaissait implicitement la légitimité du futur Charles VII.’
4. Chastellain, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 339–40
5. Chartier, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 28
6. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 178
7. Waurin, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 428; Monstrelet, op. cit., Vol. IV, p. 116
8. The Brut of England, Vol. II, p. 430
9. Waurin, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 429
10. Chartier, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 6
11. Chastellain, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 312
12. Jacob, op. cit., p. 202
13. Wylie and Waugh, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 426
14. McFarlane, Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. VIII, pp. 384–5
15. Basin, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 89
16. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 320
17. Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act III, scene iii
Chapter XX, Epilogue
1. Commynes, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 256
2. ibid., Vol. II, p. 240
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