Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 89
(1314) and Philippe de Yalois 1337—1340) continiedand improved the work of Philippe le Bel. Thenceforward, the ost or armj ofthe king was regularly established; the cross-bowmen and the nien-at-a^mswere the first corps who received a permanent organization and a fixed rateof pay. In the fourteenth… … Fig. 46.—Messenger bringing a Letter to the Kings Army.—From a Manuscript in theNational Library of Paris (Thirteenth Century). engagement. It was necessary, in order to support those combatants alwaysready to take to flight, to employ foreign mercenaries, English, Italian, orGerman, who fought…
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