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 92
ary troops diminished still further the importance of the ban, which wasno longer anything but a badly-equipped secondary militia, though stillarmed with bows and pikes, and still obliged to wear a uniform. On theactual field of battle the pikemen were always posted in the van; behindthem came the… … Fig. 48.—Great Seal of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. The Legend, in Latin, enumerateshis titles and feudal possessions.—National Archives of France (Fifteenth Century). of the communes, and the franc-archer remained the type of the cowardlysoldier. The death of Charles the Bold, Duke of…
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