"French Ordonnance at Montlhery" Topic

I have this cool book in French on the battle of Montlhery. It has lots of plates for the various Burgundian contingents but much less for the French. I'd like to do the French. So a few questions:

- Ordonnances gendarmes: most of them are fully armored I guess so not a lot of opportunity to paint liveries or coats of arms, but on a few some of this should be visible. Is it appropriate to use coats of arms of captains at this point, or should I just stick to livery colors?
- Livery or uniform colors: I'm gathering everything should have a white cross on it in some form or another. Would the ordonnance companies have a variety of liveries or would they be relatively more uniform?
- Livery colors: If livery colors, I gather there is not necessarily a correlation between a livery pattern and the coat of arms of the captains of the companies. Is this correct?

I'm coming to the conclusion that I have a lot of flexibility in painting as long as I have a relatively continuous theme of a visible white cross on most guys.

I suspect you have found the reason there are so few plates in your book showing the French. If the liveries follow normal patterns they will be down to the whim of whoever raised the company and could change at each issue from what I have read about European liveries (and its not much) there is no correlation between the livery and coats of arms. Sorry I couldn't be more help.