"English Longbowmen ond other troops in the Low Countries" Topic
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DucDeGueldres | 31 Jan 2017 1:55 p.m. PST |
Is there evidence that English/Welsh Longbowmen during the 100 Years War were active elsewhere during breaks in the hostilities in France? I understand they mostly were employed by contractors, so how did this work? More specific would it be realistic to suppose that temporarely unemployed both English and French troops were contracted by Dukes and Counts in the Low Countries for their own local wars? I speak of the 1570's and 1580's. |
uglyfatbloke | 31 Jan 2017 2:11 p.m. PST |
The HYW was long past by the 1570s Duc and so was the longbow really. |
DucDeGueldres | 31 Jan 2017 11:02 p.m. PST |
That was a typing error, sorry. Of course I meant 1370's and 1380's. |
Daniel S | 01 Feb 2017 12:19 a.m. PST |
The only examples I've found are from the later part of the HYW when English troops did appear in some numbers on the side of thoses resisting the Philip the Goods rule in the Netherlands. In the 14th Century it seems that Italy and Spain was the main destinations for out of work troops |
GurKhan | 01 Feb 2017 2:23 a.m. PST |
Sumption – "Hundred Years' War 3: Divided Houses" p.456 – mentions English and German mercenaries in the army of Ghent in 1382, and on p.458 specifically 300 English archers, some of them deserters from the Calais garrison. (This is under van Artevelde's radical regime rather than the Count.) |
Mako11 | 01 Feb 2017 3:31 a.m. PST |
Burgundy? Not sure on the timeline though. |
dapeters | 01 Feb 2017 12:56 p.m. PST |
14th Cent Italy the white company 15th Cent Charles the Bold of Burgundy |
wrgmr1 | 01 Feb 2017 4:31 p.m. PST |
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