As she marched at their head her first idea was a religious one.

The bastion was built upon the church and convent of the Ladies of Saint-Loup.

With the sound of a trumpet she had it proclaimed that nothing should be taken from the church.[1017] She remembered how Salisbury had come to a bad end for having pillaged the Church of Notre Dame de Clery; and she desired to keep her men from an evil death.[1018] This was the first time she had seen fighting; and no sooner had she entered into the battle than she became the leader because she was the best.

She did better than others, not because she knew more; she knew less.

But her heart was nobler.