This time the island fortress was of no use to the villagers.

Lord Henri took all the cattle from the two villages and drove them fifteen or twenty leagues[251] away to his _chateau_ of Doulevant.

He had also captured much furniture and other property; and the quantity of it was so great that he could not store it all in one place; wherefore he had part of it carried to Dommartin-le-Franc, a neighbouring village, where there was a _chateau_ with so large a court in front that the place was called Dommartin-la-Cour.

The peasants cruelly despoiled were dying of hunger.

Happily for them, at the news of this pillage, Dame d'Ogiviller sent to the Count of Vaudemont in his _chateau_ of Joinville, complaining to him, as her kinsman, of the wrong done her, since she was lady of Greux and Domremy.