With two hundred men-at-arms the Bastard started from Orleans to concert measures with the Count of Clermont.

It was decided to attack the convoy.

Commanded by the Count of Clermont and the Bastard the whole army from Blois marched towards Etampes with the object of encountering Sir John Fastolf.[549] [Footnote 549: _Journal du siege_, p.

37.] On the 11th of February there sallied forth from Orleans fifteen hundred fighting men commanded by Messire Guillaume d'Albret, Sir William Stuart, brother of the Constable of Scotland, the Marshal de Boussac, the Lord of Gravelle, the two Captains Saintrailles, Captain La Hire, the Lord of Verduzan, and sundry other knights and squires.
They were summoned by the Bastard and ordered to join the Count of Clermont's army on the road to Etampes, at the village of Rouvray-Saint-Denis, near Angerville.[550] [Footnote 550: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p.231.

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