HYW French Knights, info about Royal Armouries Gaming Event & Agincourt game

[Stuart]

Hi all

Is there a list anywhere, ideally with heraldry of French nobles present at Agincourt?

It's my (very small) distraction project  

Cheers

Stuart

[Captain Blood]

It's my (very small) distraction project 

Hurray! 

[Stuart]

  thought you'd like that

[cdr]

There is a two volume book by Rene & Maguy Aquilina, Le Chevalerie Francais a Azincourt 1415.
It is however difficult to find.

Carl

[Arlequín]

The old WRG 'Armies of Medieval Europe' Vol.1 had a fairly extensive section on HYW coats of arms (mainly Agincourt iirc) ... but I imagine is also hard to find.

[Ray Earle]

Good luck.  

I'd asked a similar question covering the English at Agincourt a while ago. Following a fair bit of Internet searching I'd managed to find a list including named Knights and number of archers with each group, but nothing including coats of arms.

The Ian Heath 'armies of the Middle Ages: part I' covers most of the main players.

I hope that's of some help.  

[Charlie_]

Do the Osprey books have anything helpful? There is "The Armies Of Agincourt" in the men-at-arms series and "Agincorut 1415" in the campaign series. I don't actually have either of them so don't know, perhaps someone who does could tell you!

[cdr]

http://franceblasons.free.fr/index2.htm

Check out the first nine items on this site. It gives the combatants and prisonners from the battle
of Agincourt (Azincourt in French) 1415

Carl 

[Captain Blood]

Do the Osprey books have anything helpful? There is "The Armies Of Agincourt" in the men-at-arms series and "Agincorut 1415" in the campaign series. I don't actually have either of them so don't know, perhaps someone who does could tell you!

I've got Osprey Men-at-arms 317 'Henry V and the conquest of France' by David Nicolle and with colour plates by the wonderful Graham Turner. It's a good read, but unfortunately the colour plates are all of the English and none of the French. So that one's not much use when it comes to heraldry I'm afraid.

[Johan]

If you are not afraid of some Italian this has a rather complete overview of coats of arms :


http://www.soldiershop.com/libri/battlefield/la-battaglia-di-azincourt-1415-vol.-1.html

[Charlie_]

I've got Osprey Men-at-arms 317 'Henry V and the conquest of France' by David Nicolle and with colour plates by the wonderful Graham Turner. It's a good read, but unfortunately the colour plates are all of the English and none of the French. So that one's not much use when it comes to heraldry I'm afraid.

Yes, I've got that one, a good read as you say. I've also just yesterday finished reading "The Fall Of English France 1449-53" which I'd recommend, it sees most of it through a French perspective. By the end of it I was cheering the French on and came to realise us English really were the bad guys in that war!!! It's mostly concerned with the battles of Formigny and Castillon, and has three fantastic double-page paintings from Graham Turner.

[Stuart]

Thanks all, hopefully I should be able to get some inspiration from that.

I'll update as I go if you like, or indeed feel free to post your own French knights from your armies.

Stuart

[Ray Earle]

Please do. It's always nice to see others projects, especially those to your standards. 

[NurgleHH]

Found this Sites: http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_French_coats_of_arms

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_heraldry

I think enough for you?

[Atheling]

Stuart,

I've got a stack of stuff- hundreds!

Only problem is, since I downloaded Windows 10 the scanner on my printer has gone bonkers and I cannot scan anything without it being made up of huge files of parts of the scanned paper! 

I'd love to help but I really cannot scan anything at present 

Darrell.