105.] [Footnote 525: Mathieu d'Escouchy, _Chronique_, ed.

Beaucourt, Paris, 1863, vol.i, p.186.De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.
ii, p.

236.] My Lord the Bastard brought in his train several knights, captains, and squires of renown, that is to say, of high birth or of great valour: the Marshal de Boussac, Messire Jacques de Chabannes, Seneschal of Bourbonnais, the Lord of Chaumont, Messire Theaulde of Valpergue, a Lombard knight, Captain La Hire, wondrous in war and in pillage, who had lately done so well in the relief of Montargis, and Jean, Sire de Bueil, one of those youths who had come to the King on a lame horse and who had taken lessons from two wise women, Suffering and Poverty.

These knights came with a company of eight hundred men, archers, arbalesters, and Italian foot, bearing broad shields like those of St.George in the churches of Venice and Florence.

They represented all the nobles and free-lances who for the moment could be gathered together.[526] [Footnote 526: _Journal du siege_, pp.