La Rochelle

La Rochelle: On the Atlantic coast, administrative centre of the département of Charente-Maritime. The seneschal of La Rochelle between 1383 and 1389 (also known as the 'governor') was Guillaume de Naillac.

Pierre le Béarnais, captain of Chalusset

Pierre le Béarnais, alias Perrot de Fontans, notorious routier and captain of the castle of Chalusset located outside the town of La Planche in the Limousin, about 14 km south of Limoges between Pierre-Buffière and Le Vigen and at the confluence of the Briance and Ligoure, modern department of Haute-Vienne.

Berry

Berry, a region and historic province of 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.

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.

Rochelais

The area surrounding La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime), France.

Brittany

The duchy of Brittany, to the northwest of France.

Poitou

France, region in the west bounded by Anjou and Touraine to the north, Berry and Limousin to the east, Angoumois to the south, Aunis, La Rochelle and the Atlantic to the west, and Saintonge to the south-west; ceded to the English crown in 1360 under the Treaty of Brétigny; reconquered by Du Guesclin and granted as an apanage to the duke of Berry in 1372.

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.

Chalusset

Olin Barbe

Olin Barbe, probably a Gascon and the captain of the company.

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.

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.

Chalusset

Castle of Ventadour

Castle of Ventadour, situated in the modern commune of Moustier-Ventadour (Corrèze), 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.

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.

Berry

Berry, a region and historic province of France.

France

The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).

Richard (III) FitzAlan, fourth earl of Arundel (d. 1397)

Richard FitzAlan, fourth earl of Arundel (1346 - 1397), son of Richard FitzAlan, third earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster. In 1386, he was appointed Admiral of England and knighted to the Order of the Garter by Richard II. He was one of the lords Appellant, and was closely allied with the duke of Gloucester. Arundel was arrested for his opposition to Richard II, tried at Westminster and beheaded in 1397.

Richard (III) FitzAlan, fourth earl of Arundel (d. 1397)

Richard FitzAlan, fourth earl of Arundel (1346 - 1397), son of Richard FitzAlan, third earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster. In 1386, he was appointed Admiral of England and knighted to the Order of the Garter by Richard II. He was one of the lords Appellant, and was closely allied with the duke of Gloucester. Arundel was arrested for his opposition to Richard II, tried at Westminster and beheaded in 1397.

Brittany

The duchy of Brittany, to the northwest of France.