* The Siege of Limoges in 1370 on the Aquitaine area, after which the Black Prince was obliged to leave his post for his sickness and financial issues, but also because of the cruelty of the siege, which saw the massacre of some 3, 000 residents according to the chronicler Froissart.

Jean Froissart is also known to have been one of the first to mention the use of the verge and foliot, or verge escapement in European clockworks, by 1368.

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 '.

He was also written about by Lord Brougham in his ' Old England's Worthies ' ( 1857 ) and by Froissart.

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,

Golding was also very interested in historical works and translated many, such as, Leonardo Bruni ’ s History of the War Against the Goths, Froissart ’ s Chronicles in Sleidan ’ s epitome, and Aesop ’ s fables.

Walsingham also states that Straw and his followers murdered both notable local figures in Bury and, after reaching the capital, several of its Flemish residents, an accusation also made by Froissart.

Jean Froissart, in his adaptation of the troubadour pastourelle genre to the chant royal form also employed the envoi.

Longbows and crossbows could also pierce plate armour up to ranges of with a lucky shot, notably in battles such as the Battle of Visby, though historian Jean Froissart suggests that the success of such weapons at the Battle of Poitiers was less due to the bodkin arrows used by the English and more due to aiming for the side or rear of the armour, which is weaker.

His name is spelled in many variant forms, and is given as " Brandebourch " by Froissart, and also appears as " Bembro ".

He also published several critical editions of Middle Ages texts, including one of Les Poésies de Froissart ( Brussels, 1870 – 1872 ), and a monograph Sur le séjour de l ' apôtre saint Pierre a Rome ( Brussels, 1845 ), which was translated into German and English.

Froissart writes that English cannon made " two or three discharges on the Genoese ", which is taken to mean individual shots by two or three guns because of the time necessary to reload such primitive artillery.

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:

Later in the same year, Froissart records French men-at-arms using mauls at the Battle of Roosebeke, demonstrating it was not simply a weapon of the lower classes.

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

French chronicler Froissart gives an account of the action:

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.

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

The French chronicler Jean Froissart knew him as Jean Haccoude and Italians as Giovanni Acuto.

Examples of violence on this scale by the hands of French peasants are offered throughout all of the medieval sources, including Jean de Venette, in general sympathetic to the peasants ' plight, and the particularly unsympathetic aristocrat Jean Froissart.

In 1355 he served under the Black Prince in Aquitaine, taking part in his march to the Loire and his victory at the Battle of Poitiers, where he was credited by the French historian Jean Froissart with the slaying of the French knight Geoffroi de Charny.

* An historical account ( in French ), by Georges Peignot's grandson Jean-Luc Froissart for Typographie. org

Froissart's Chronicles was written in French by Jean Froissart, chronicling the years 1322 until 1400, and describing the conditions that created the Hundred Years ' War, as well as the first fifty years of the war.

The Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse ( BnF Fr 2643-6 ) is a heavily illustrated deluxe illuminated manuscript in four volumes, containing a French text of Froissart's Chronicles, written and illuminated in the first half of the 1470s in Bruges in Flanders, in modern Belgium.

He had already become known as the author of a book on Jean Froissart ( Brussels, 1855 ), which was crowned by the French Academy.

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 claims that he fought on the French side at the Battle of Poitiers, but there is no evidence to support this.

While tests have been done to support this with fixed pieces of flat metal, the result is inconclusive with respect to the curved armour of the period. Given the following actions of the archers, it seems likely Froissart was correct.

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 ".

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.

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.

Froissart originated from Valenciennes, Hainaut, and his writings suggest his father was a painter of armorial bearings.

One of his brothers was Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex ( d. 1483 ), and his grand-nephew was John, Lord Berners, the translator of Froissart.

In 1370, Limoges was occupied by Edward, the Black Prince, who massacred some 3, 000 residents, according to Froissart.

Froissart states that after Tyler's death at Smithfield, Straw ( along with John Ball ) was found " in an old house hidden, thinking to have stolen away ", and beheaded.

She was remarkably well educated for a female at the time and studied science under Friar John, poetry under Jean Froissart, and philosophy and theology under John Wycliffe.

According to Froissart, while Joanna was heavily pregnant with Catherine she wished to have a bath but the doctors advised against it because they thought it to be too dangerous.

Their revolutionary leader Guillaume Cale was referred to by the aristocratic chronicler Froissart as Jacques Bonhomme (" Jack Goodfellow ") or Callet.

The most famous of the Captals de Buch was Pierre's grandson, Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch ( 1343 – 1377 ), a cousin of the Count of Foix who was a military leader in the Hundred Years ' War, praised by the chronicler Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry.