Waleys, Henri le
Walsingham, Thomas
war, usages of ;
see also
chivalry; plunder and prisoners
Wars of the Roses
Warwick, Earl of,
temp.
Edward III; Richard Beauchamp, Earl of ; at Montargis; trial and burning of Joan of Arc ; death
Waterford, Earl of see Talbot
Waterhouse, second-in-command to Richard Venables
Wavrin, Jean de
weapons: at Agincourt; Castilian ; at Crécy; at Harfleur;
temp.
Henry V;
see also
archers; Bureau
and
guns
Wenlock, Lord
Whittington, Richard
Whittlesey, William, Archbishop of Canterbury
Wight, Isle of
Wigtown, Earl of
William I (the Conqueror)
Willoughby d’Eresby, Lord
Winchelsea, raid on (1360); see
also
Les-Espagnols-sur-Mer
Winter, John
witchcraft;
see also
Joan of Arc
Wodeland, Walter of
wool trade
Wyclif, John
Xaintrailles, Poton de
Yolanda of Sicily, mother-in-law of Charles VII of France
York, Edmund, Duke of, Earl of Cambridge; Edward, Duke of ; Richard, Duke of ; becomes Protector
Young captain
1
The Prior and many of his men were killed. The kern had made a strong impression by their outlandish dress and their ferocity, riding back from raids with severed heads and even babies dangling from their bareback ponies. There were other Irishmen who, led by the Butler family, made a small but effective contribution to the Lancastrian war effort in France. The fourth Earl of Ormonde—Fra’ Thomas was his bastard son—had been on Clarence’s
chevauchée
in 1412 and also took part in the siege of Rouen. Two more of his sons, Sir John and Sir James Butler (later the fifth Earl) were to be noted captains under Bedford and Old Talbot in the 143os and 144os. Besides a long-haired, moustachioed, saffron-cloaked, barefooted ‘tail’ of javelin men and axe- and claymore-wielding gallowglasses, these Anglo-Irish chieftains would have brought more conventionally armed
daoine uaisle
(gentlemen) recruited from their relations.
2
‘This Lenthall was victorious at the battaile of Agin-Court and tooke many prisoners there, by the which prey he beganne the new building and mannour place at Hampton.’ John Leland,
Itinerary.
3
Ogard was a Danish mercenary, his real name being Anders Pedersen. Born about 1400, he was the son of the Knight Peder Nielsen of Aargard, of the great Gyllenstierna family. By 1425 Ogard was serving in Anjou and in 1433 he was made Captain of Vire. He was naturalized in 1436. He served on the Councils of both Bedford and York and was twice an ambassador to the French. In 1450 he was appointed Captain of Caen, which he had the melancholy duty of surrendering. In 1443—in association with Fastolf—he had received a royal licence to ‘empark’ land near Ware in Hertfordshire and here with the money from his French spoils he built Rye House (to be the scene of a famous plot against Charles II). Sir Andrew’s wife was a Norfolk heiress and in 1453 he was elected to Parliament for that county. He died the year after and was buried at Wymondham Abbey.