Froissart also writes that the French armour was invulnerable to the English arrows, that the arrowheads either skidded off the armor or shattered on impact.

However, according to Froissart, the English were expecting this and quickly attacked the enemy, especially the horses, with a shower of arrows.

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

The English composer Edward Elgar wrote an overture entitled Froissart.

In Act 1, Scene 2, Alençon's praise of the resoluteness of the English army is absent: " Froissart, a countryman of ours, records / England all Olivers and Rolands bred / During the time Edward the Third did reign ./ More truly now may this be verified ,/ For none by Samsons and Goliases / It sendeth forth to skirmish.

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,

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 ".

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.

Described by the medieval historian Froissart as " wise and full of devices ", as a military strategist Chandos is believed to have been the mastermind behind three of the most important English victories of the Hundred Years War: the Battle of Crecy, the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of Auray.

It is best known in connection with the famous soldier, Jean de Grailly, captal de Buch KG ( d. 1376 ), the captal de Buch par excellence, immortalized by Froissart as the confidant of the Black Prince and the champion of the English cause against France.

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.

The battle, as narrated by Jean Froissart, forms the basis of the English and Scottish ballads The Ballad of Chevy Chase and The Battle of Otterburn.

Froissart observed the English invoking St. George as a battle cry on several occasions during the Hundred Years ' War ( 1337 – 1453 ).

Despite Percy's force having an estimated three to one advantage over the Scots Froissart records 1040 English were captured and 1860 killed whereas 200 Scots were captured and 100 were killed.

Charny facing Edward III at the time of his attempt to retake Calais from the English king, in 1349, according to an illumination of a manuscript of the Chronicles of Froissart of the 1st quarter of the 15th C. ( the BnF, France.

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.

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.

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 ".

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 ".

Jean Froissart, in the fourth book of his Chronicles, reports that sixty knights would come to London to tilt for two days, " accompanied by sixty noble ladies, richly ornamented and dressed ".

Continuing the work of Froissart, Monstrelet wrote a Chronique, which extends to two books and covers the period between 1400 and 1444, when, according to another chronicler, Mathieu d ' Escouchy, he ceased to write.

According to the chronicler Froissart, this purely personal duel between the two leaders became a larger struggle when Bemborough suggested a combat between twenty or thirty knights on each side, a proposal that was enthusiastically accepted by de Beaumanoir.

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.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

* 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.

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.

His reflections on the events he has witnessed are profound by comparison with those of Froissart, who lived a century earlier.

Machaut's poetry had a direct effect on the works of Eustache Deschamps, Jean Froissart, Christine de Pizan, René of Anjou and Geoffrey Chaucer, among many others.

Froissart describes a tournament at Cambray in 1385, held on the marriage of the Count d ' Ostrevant to the daughter of Duke Philip of Burgundy.

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 the words of Jean Froissart, the warriors " held themselves as valiantly on both sides as if they had been all Rolands and Olivers.

According to Froissart, the battle was fought with great gallantry on both sides.

In the matter of style Lebel has been placed by some critics on the level of Froissart.

According to Froissart, Douglas announced that he would " carry pennon to Scotland and hoist it on my tower, where it may be seen from afar ", to which Hotspur retorted " By God!

Jean Froissart and Espaing de Lyon on their way ; Gaston Phébus receiving them.

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

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 ).

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 ).

Furthermore, their weapons were damaged by the brief thunderstorm that had preceded the battle, while the longbowmen had unstrung their bows until the rain stopped – Froissart relates that they did not withdraw their bows from their covers or sheaths till the first volley from the Genoese failed: " Les archers anglois découvrent leurs arcs, qu ' ils avoient tenus dans leur étui pendant la pluie ".

Varlet or Squire carrying a Halberd with a thick Blade ; and Archer, in Fighting Dress, drawing the String of his Crossbow with a double-handled Winch .-- From the Miniatures of the " Jouvencel ", and the " Chroniques " of Froissart, Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century ( Imperial Library of Paris ).

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.

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