Castelculier

Castelculier, to the southeast of Agen, département of the Lot-et-Garonne.

Thuriès

Thuriès, location just outside Pampelonne in the Albigeois, to the north-east of Carmaux, modern department of Tarn.

Thuriès

Thuriès, location just outside Pampelonne in the Albigeois, to the north-east of Carmaux, modern department of Tarn.

Thuriès

Thuriès, location just outside Pampelonne in the Albigeois, to the north-east of Carmaux, modern department of Tarn.

Virgin Mary

Master Francis, parish priest at Thuriès

Thuriès

Thuriès, location just outside Pampelonne in the Albigeois, to the north-east of Carmaux, modern department of Tarn.

Castle of Thuriès

Jean III, count of Armagnac (d. 1391)

Jean III d'Armagnac (1359 - 1391), count of Armagnac; son of Jean II d'Armagnac and Jeanne de Périgord.

Béraud III, prince of Auvergne (d. 1400)

Béraud III, prince of Auvergne and Froissart's patron; died 1400.

King Charles V of France (d. 1380)

Charles V (1338 - 1380), king of France, the eldest son of king Jean II of France and Bonne of Luxemburg.

Auvergne

France, central region at the heart of the Massif Central covering approximately the modern departments of Cantal, Puy-de-Dôme and (parts of) Haute-Loire; bounded to the north by the duchy of Bourbon, the west by Limousin, the south by Viadene, the south-east by Gévaudan and the south-west by Quercy. Major towns: Clermont, Montferrand and Riom.

Rouergue

France, Midi-Pyrénées; corresponds approximately to the modern department of Aveyron; traversed from east to west by the River Aveyron which flows through Rodez, the major city; bounded to the north by Viadene and Auvergne; the west by the Causses de Gramat and Limogne, and by Quercy; the south by Languedoc and the east by Gévaudan and the Causses du Larzac; to the north-east by the Causse de Sauveterre; (ceded to the English in 1360 under the treaty of Brétigny; held by them until early 1369).

Quercy

France, Aquitanian Basin, modern Midi-Pyrénées region; covering approximately the modern departments of Lot and Tarn-et-Garonne; bounded to the north by Limousin, the west by Périgord and Agenais, the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and to the east by Rouergue and Auvergne; limestone plateaux and deep valleys; upper Quercy extends northwards from the diocesan city of Cahors as far as Souillac, Rocamadour, Martel, Bretenoux and Castelnau; lower Quercy (ceded to the English by the 1259 treaty of Paris) to the south as far as Moissac and Montauban. Held by the English from 1360 (treaty of Brétigny) until late 1369.

Limousin

France, centre (modern departments of Corrèze, Creuse and Haute-Vienne); bounded to the north-east by La Marche, the east by Auvergne, the north-west by Poitou, the west by Périgord and Angoumois, and the south by Quercy. Principal city: Limoges, many of whose surrounding fortresses (including Chalusset, Rochechouart, Isle, Châlus, etc) were occupied by routier garrisons during the early 1370s.

Périgord

France, south-west; historic region roughly equivalent to the modern Dordogne; part of the Three Dioceses and largely under English control from 1327; ceded to the English in 1360 under the terms of the treaty of Brétigny; lost to the French by 1370.

Albigeois

Agen

The seneschal of Agen was Hervé de Lesmenuen.

King Edward III of England (d. 1377)

Edward III (1312 - 1377), king of England; son of king Edward II of England and Isabella of France.

Arnauton, Bourc de Caupenne

Gassie-Arnaut or Arnauton, Bourc de Caupenne (Landes). Captain of a free company and cousin to the Bascot de Mauléon.

Carlat

The fortified town of Carlat in the canton of Vic-sur-Cère, département of Cantal, France

Auvergne

France, central region at the heart of the Massif Central covering approximately the modern departments of Cantal, Puy-de-Dôme and (parts of) Haute-Loire; bounded to the north by the duchy of Bourbon, the west by Limousin, the south by Viadene, the south-east by Gévaudan and the south-west by Quercy. Major towns: Clermont, Montferrand and Riom.

Orthez

Orthez (department Pyrénées-Atlantiques).

Gaston III ‘Fébus’, count of Foix (d. 1391)

Gaston III, count of Foix, known as Fébus (1331 - 1391), son of Gaston II of Foix and Aliénor de Comminges, whose court the chronicler visited in 1388. Gaston was born in 1331 and succeeded his father in 1343. On 4th August 1348 he married Agnès de Navarre, the daughter of Philippe, count of Évreux and of Jeanne, queen of Navarre, who herself was the daughter of Louis X of France known as the Quarreller, the Headstrong or the Stubborn. Gaston died in 1391. He was the author of a celebrated treatise on hunting entitled Livre de chasse, or the Book of the hunt.

Louis de Sancerre, marshal of France (d. 1402)

Tarbes

Tarbes, on the river Adour, administrative centre of the Hautes-Pyrénées.

Bascot de Mauléon

The Bascot de Mauléon, routier captain, travelling companion and interlocutor of Froissart; possibly to be identified with Galhardet de Mauléon, a known associate of Amédée, count of Savoy (coincidentally an acquaintance and patron of the chronicler of Valenciennes).

Jehan Froissart

Jehan Froissart (?1337- ?1404). Poet and chronicler from Valenciennes in the county of Hainault. Author of four Books of Chroniques, of an Arthurian romance (Meliador), and of a considerable body of lyric and crypto-autobiographical and dream poetry inspired in part by the Roman de la Rose and the works of Guillaume de Machaut.

Bascot de Mauléon

The Bascot de Mauléon, routier captain, travelling companion and interlocutor of Froissart; possibly to be identified with Galhardet de Mauléon, a known associate of Amédée, count of Savoy (coincidentally an acquaintance and patron of the chronicler of Valenciennes).

Arnaud du Solier, Limousin

Arnaud du Solier, also known as Limousin, was one of the captains of the Great Companies. He served in Burgundy and notably in Spain where he was appointed lord of Villalpando. He was also marshal of the Castilian army at the battle of Aljubarrota in 1385, where he was killed.

Louis Roubaud

Louis Roubaud, captain of a free company from Provence.

Brioude

Brioude, administrative centre of the region of the Haute-Loire.

Louis Roubaud

Louis Roubaud, captain of a free company from Provence.

The feast day of St John the Baptist: 24 June.

The Bascot de Mauléon surpasses himself in this description of the taking of a fortified place by means of disguise. Whilst episodes involving this kind of ruse are found in several other chapters of the Chroniques, the most diverting (of which this is certainly one) are to be found in Book III. On the historical personage, see henceforward: Guilhem Pépin, ‘Towards a Rehabilitation of Froissart’s Credibility: The Non Fictitious Bascot de Mauléon’, in The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century, ed. Adrian R. Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King and David Simpkin, Woodbridge et Rochester NY, The Boydell Press, 2011, pp. 175-90.

Guilhem Pépin, ‘Towards a Rehabilitation of Froissart’s Credibility: The Non Fictitious Bascot de Mauléon’, in The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century, ed. Adrian R. Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King and David Simpkin, Woodbridge et Rochester NY, The Boydell Press, 2011, pp. 175-90.