As an example, Froissart records that, during a campaign in Beauce in the year 1380, a squire of the garrison of Toury castle named Gauvain Micaille ( Michaille ) — also mentioned in the Chronique du bon duc Loys de Bourbon as wounded in 1382 at Roosebeke, and again in 1386 ; in 1399 was in the service of the duke of Bourbon — yelled out to the English,

Froissart, who gives a graphic description of his court and his manner of life at Orthez in Béarn, speaks enthusiastically of Gaston, saying: " I never saw one like him of personage, nor of so fair form, nor so well made, and again, in everything he was so perfect that he cannot be praised too much ".

French chronicler Froissart gives an account of the action:

Froissart gives account in detail of the various individuals wounded, captured or killed, but what is known is that the Scots won the encounter taking Hotspur and many others prisoner.

Froissart gives an account of the Captal de Buch's chivalry and courage at the time of the peasant uprising in 1358 called the Jacquerie ( see link ).

The words are recorded by Froissart: " the saying may not be authentic ", Johan Huizinga remarks, " but it teaches us what Froissart thought ".

The slanted but vivid and quotable account of Froissart can be balanced by the Regent's letters of amnesty, a document that comments more severely on the nobles ' reaction than on the peasants ' rising and omits the atrocities detailed by Froissant: " it represents the men of the open country assembling spontaneously in various localities, in order to deliberate on the means of resisting the English, and suddenly, as with a mutual agreement, turning fiercely on the nobles ".

Prose compositions in the Middle Ages — other than the prose versions of romances and " chansons de geste " -- include a number of histories and chronicles, of which the most famous are those of Robert de Clari and Geoffroy de Villehardouin ( both on the Fourth crusade of 1204 and the capture of Constantinople ), Jean de Joinville ( on Saint Louis IX of France ), Jean Froissart ( on the wars of the 14th century ) and Philippe de Commines and Enguerrand de Monstrelet ( on the troubles of the 15th century ).

Edward's contemporary Jean Froissart wrote in his Chronicles that " His like had not been seen since the days of King Arthur ".

*" King Richard punishes the rebels in Kent " from The Chronicles of Froissart, edited by Steve Muhlberger, Nipissing University

century, the use of axes is increasingly noted by Froissart in his Chronicle, with King Jean II using one at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 and Sir James Douglas at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.

The only real authority for the battle is Froissart, who was at different times in the service of King Edward or of his wife, Philippa of Hainault, and of the counts of Namur.

We know from the Chronicles of Froissart that de Charny traveled to Scotland by order of the French King on at least two occasions and was well known to the Scottish nobles of the time.

Froissart ’ s words vividly describe Geoffroi ’ s last actions, his bravery to his King and Country and his dedication to the Oriflamme at the Battle of Poitiers on September 19, 1356: “ There Sir Geoffroi de Charny fought gallantly near the king ( note: and his fourteen year old son ).

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

* On The Hundred Years War, a primary source written by Jean Froissart

Miniature by Jean Froissart ( 15th century ) depicting the Battle of Montiel ( Castillian Civil War, part of the Hundred Years ' War ) from his Chronicles.

A century and a half later in the poem La Prison amoreuse ( 1372-73 ) by French chronicler and poet Jean Froissart ( c. 1337-1405 ), we find:

His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart.

* probable – Jean Froissart, French chronicler ( b. 1337 )

* Jean Froissart completes his Chronicles detailing the events of the 14th Century in France.

The medieval chronicler Jean Froissart left the following account of John's last actions:

** Jean Froissart, historian and courtier from Hainaut ( d. 1405 )

However the near-contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart reports a " gossipy " tale that Gaunt's sister kidnapped Mary from Pleshey Castle, Essex, where her family was holding her cloistered as a novice nun in order to keep her fortune for themselves, and took her to her own castle at Arundel.

" Chronicler Jean Froissart described her as " The most gentle Queen, most liberal, and most courteous that ever was Queen in her days.

Philippa was a patron of the chronicler Jean Froissart, and she owned several illuminated manuscripts, one of which currently is housed in the national library in Paris.

Richard II watches Wat Tyler's death and addresses the peasants in the background: taken from the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse ( BnF Fr 2643-6 ) | Gruuthuse manuscript of Jean Froissart | Froissart's Chroniques ( c. 1475 ).

* Froissart, Jean.

Beheadings in a painting from Jean Froissart | Froissart's Chronicles, beginning of the 15th century

John the Good, king of France, ordering the arrest of Charles the Bad, king of Navarre ; from the Chroniques of Jean Froissart.

In 1395, Richard received the French chronicler Jean Froissart there, as described in Froissart's Chronicles.

The French chronicler Jean Froissart called her " the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving.

The design by Rodin is based on a fourteenth century account by Jean Froissart and was intended to evoke public sympathy by emphasizing the pained expressions of the faces of the six men about to be tried.

A century or so later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri John Hawkwood would be juxtaposed against the fantastical Don Quixote and the carousing Sir John Falstaff.

Jean Froissart ( c. 1337 – c. 1405 ), often referred to in English as John Froissart, was a medieval French chronicle writer.

Boardman also asserts that much of the negative views held of Robert II find their origins in the writings of the French chronicler Jean Froissart who recorded that ' king had red bleared eyes, of the colour of sandalwood, which clearly showed that he was no valiant man, but one who would remain at home than march to the field '.

* Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Book II.

Sir Jean III de Grailly, Captal de Buch KG ( d. Paris, 7 September 1376 ), son of Jean II de Grailly, Captal de Buch, Vicomte de Benauges, and Blanch de Foix, was a cousin of the Counts of Foix and a military leader in the Hundred Years ' War who was praised by the chronicler Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry.

As Jean Froissart recorded, Gaston Phoebus's son Gaston betrayed him.

Froissart vividly describes porte-oriflamme Geoffroi de Charny's fall at the side of his king at the Battle of Poitiers in this passage: “ There Sir Geoffroi de Charny fought gallantly near the king ( note: and his fourteen year old son ).

Froissart describes, with less specificity in this passage, some of the nobles that were assembled at, or just prior to the Battle: "... the Englishmen were coasted by certain expert knights of France, who always made report to the king what the Englishmen did.