Medieval News

[Captain Blood]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/12/remains-of-henry-v-warship-believed-to-be-buried-in-hampshire

[Atheling]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/12/remains-of-henry-v-warship-believed-to-be-buried-in-hampshire

Thanks for that Richard, a very interesting article and one that may contribute to knowing just how blarge Henry's armies were when they reached France. 

Darrell.

[Paul]

Interesting.lthough there can´t be much left of the ship.
 Just found this on the "Holigost"

On 20 February 1414 Soper received £100 in part payment for constructing the ‘Saint Claire of Ipsam’ and, two days later, £100 towards the construction of the ‘Holigost’. In the summer of 1414 he received a further £496 4s 2d towards the construction of the ‘Holigost’ and £20 for its cables. On 30 October 1414, £125 was given to him for the building of the ‘Saint Claire’, and in the following month a further £20 for cables for the ‘Holigost’ purchased from a roper of Bridport. In January 1415 further work was carried on the ‘Holigost’. This included the painting of swans, antelopes and coats of arms on the ship. These ships were well armed, with an inventory of 1416 for the Holigost, including 7 cannons, 14 bows, 91 sheaves of arrows, 6 crossbows, 3 pole-axes and 27 bascinets (helmets).

[Atheling]

Interesting.lthough there can´t be much left of the ship.
 Just found this on the "Holigost"

Excellent! I don't know where you pluck this info from but it's all good for me

Darrell.

[Paul]

Excellent! I don't know where you pluck this info from but it's all good for me

Darrell.

What´s interesting is he (Soper) getting payments for two ships..  the Clerk paying is getting confused and calls the re-named clare the holigost (and visa versa) ?

Here´s a site chokka with Agincourt stuff..you Need to search about a bit too find stuff (like the Quote about soper and the Holigost)
http://www.agincourt600.com/southampton-hampshire/

and the ships Motto was une sans pluis (not une sans plus) 

[Paul]

What´s interesting is he (Soper) getting payments for two ships..  the Clerk paying is getting confused and calls the re-named clare the holigost (and visa versa) ?

or a different Holigost (holighost)
https://books.google.de/books?id=WfODMIsqtTQC&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=Holigost&source=bl&ots=OFlruu8EOg&sig=-GrQnj5gOg4A7qy_NcfHhqWoNks&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCDgKahUKEwiJudniybzIAhVL1ywKHdayAIM#v=onepage&q=Holigost&f=false

[Atheling]

Latest installment (sorry could't help myself) of the working in of the Perry diorama at the Tower:

http://blog.royalarmouries.org/2015/agincourt-600-shaping-the-battlefield-with-david-marshall/

Darrell.

[Paul]

Neat, the top pic Shows how huge the dio is

[Atheling]

Neat, the top pic Shows how huge the dio is

I'm off down to London soon so hopefully they will let me take some pics for my personal collection.... hopefully that is

Darrell.

[pocoloco]

New location for the battle of Crécy:

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/29/new-location-for-the-battle-of-crecy-discovered/

[Patrice]

New location for the battle of Crécy:
http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/29/new-location-for-the-battle-of-crecy-discovered/

What?

Um... perhaps. I don't know the area.

After all, some years ago I thought (and still think) that I had probably found the correct location of a 1342 battle on the Morlaix - Lanmeur road (in Brittany), but nobody cares about it...  

[Atheling]

It's actually quite old news. A book has already been published on the subject not so long ago.

Darrell.

[Devoted of Slaanesh]

Solving the "Longbow Puzzle": why did France and Scotland keep their inferior crossbows?

http://boingboing.net/2016/01/20/solving-the-longbow-puzzle.html

[Atheling]

Solving the "Longbow Puzzle": why did France and Scotland keep their inferior crossbows?

http://boingboing.net/2016/01/20/solving-the-longbow-puzzle.html

What rubbish! At Verneuil the Scots had a large enough contingent of longbowmen for De Warenne to note the devastation that the English and Scottish archers demonstrated on one another......

How then does one explain Charles' Scottish Archer Bodyguards?

It's likely that even the Norse used the weapon, though perhaps with a different draw.

Darrell.

[jon_1066]

Solving the "Longbow Puzzle": why did France and Scotland keep their inferior crossbows?

http://boingboing.net/2016/01/20/solving-the-longbow-puzzle.html

That's right.  England alone was a beacon of stability during the middle ages.  The Anarchy, The 1st and 2nd Barons Wars ...  These all point to a stable country with no rebellions whatever.

What about the Welsh Longbowmen?  Was Wales not a source of rebellions?  Yet they were allowed to keep their longbows because ...?

It would also imply that a succession of Kings actively suppressed the Longbow in Scotland and France.  For which there is exactly zero evidence (the opposite in fact as pointed out above)

This is the type of thing you often see when an expert from one field brings their pitiful knowledge and towering ego to another unrelated field.