The first to hasten to the city were: Messire Archambaud de Villars, Governor of Montargis; Guillaume de Chaumont, Lord of Guitry; Messire Pierre de la Chapelle, a baron of La Beauce; Raimond Arnaud de Corraze, knight of Bearn; Don Matthias of Aragon; Jean de Saintrailles and Poton de Saintrailles.

The Abbot of Cerquenceaux, sometime student at the University of Orleans, arrived at the head of a band of followers.[504] Thus the number of friends who entered the city was well-nigh as great as that of the expected foe.

The defenders were paid; they were furnished with bread, meat, fish, forage in plenty, and casks of wine were broached for them.

In the beginning the inhabitants treated them like their own children.

The citizens all contributed to the entertainment of the strangers, and gave them what they had.