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Froissart again gives us a vivid description of the capture of King Jean II and his youngest son in this passage: " ...
So many Englishmen and Gascons came to that part, that perforce they opened the king's battle, so that the Frenchmen were so mingled among their enemies that sometime there was five men upon one gentleman.
There was taken the lord of Pompadour and ^ the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, and there was slain sir Geoffrey of Charny with the king's banner in his hands: also the lord Raynold Cobham slew the earl of Dammartin.
Then there was a great press to take the king, and such as knew him cried, ' Sir, yield you, or else ye are but dead.
' There was a knight of Saint Omer's, retained in wages with the king of England, called sir Denis Morbeke, who had served the Englishmen five year before, because in his youth he had forfeited the realm of France for a murder that he did at Saint-Omer's.
It happened so well for him, that he was next to the king when they were about to take him: he stept forth into the press, and by strength of his body and arms he came to the French king and said in good F ' rench, ' Sir, yield you.
' Denis answered and said: ' Sir, he is not here ; but yield you to me and I shall bring you to him.
' Sir ,' quoth he, ' I am Denis of Morbeke, a knight of Artois ; but I serve the king of England because I am banished from the realm of France and I have forfeited all that I had there.
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