Book 3 — APPENDIX VIII
Reading edition
(Page 347)
THE ARMY OF CHARLES VIII., IN 1493
THE contemporary Chronicle of this expedition, reprinted at Lyons in 1842, gives a general muster-roll of the French army, which may be thus classed:—
I. The Royal Staff.
Monseigneur le Visdasme, commanding gentlemen in full sleeves100
” de Myolans, commanding gentlemen in full sleeves and crossbow-men100
” de Cresol, commanding archers of the French guard200
Captain Claude, commanding archers of the Scottish guard100
Many lords of the blood-royal, the court and the council.
II. The Land Forces.
Men-at-arms3,600
Bowmen on foot6,200
Crossbow-men on foot8,000
Long-pike-men8,000
The Lord Ludovic2,040
Dastardeurs6,200
Masters to dress the artillery200
Master carpenters600
Master sappers300
Master stone-hewers900
Master charcoal-burners200
Master rope-makers120
Artillery drivers4,000
40,360
Battering guns [bombardes]1,200
Large stone balls140
Artillery horses8,000
9,340
Monseigneurde Servelances40
”de Monfaucon”40
”Robert de la Marche”30
The Mareschalde Baudricourt”60
Monseigneurde Guise”40
”de Chaude”30
”de Mauleon”200
”Aymart de Poye”25
”de Camicam”35
CaptainOdet”25
525
III. The Naval Armament.
Gentlemenof Agenes, for Monseigneur d’Orleans’s guard4,000
”of Normandy, ” ” ” ”4,000
Commissaries 200
The Ducd’Orleans}
The Conted’Angoulême}
The Ducde Nemours}
The Princed’Orange}
Monseigneurde Vendôme}
The Contede Ligny}
”de Nevers}with their companies, amounting to15,000
Monseigneurd’Albret}
The Contede Boulogne}
The Great Bastardof Burgundy}
” ”of Bourbon}
The Marechalof Burgundy}
The Governorof Champaign}
”of Burgundy}
Monseigneurd’Orleanslances100
”de Foix”50
”Gracien”50
The Bailli ofDijon”30
””Swiss3,000
Monseigneurde Montaisonlances30
”d’Allègre”40
”de Chaumont”30
George de Silly”30
Castillon”30
Julien Burinel”30
Monseigneurde Vergy”30
”d’Armansy”40
Don Jehan”30
André de l’Ospital”54
Monseigneurde la Place”40
The Marechalof Burgundy”40
Monseigneurd’Aubigny”100
”de Ligny”100
”de la Tremouille”50
”de Silly”40
”the Grand Equerry”40
”de Beaumont”40
”de Piennes”50
”the Prince d’Orange”40
The Seneschald’Armagnac”25
MonseigneurPierre de Bellefrontiere”25
Despert de Bonneville”25
27,389
Great ships24
Great galleasses8
Quarracques11
Galleras226
Sailing galleys50
Brigantines60
Fustes80
Boats innumerable.
Total vessels459
Allowing to each man-at-arms and lance two followers, and to each gentleman one, the total force would amount to nearly 90,000 men, 1200 pieces of artillery, and 459 sail. To this there falls to be added, besides the usual attendance of servants and sutlers, an immense retinue attached to the luxurious court of Charles, of which no enumeration is attempted.