Does anybody know about the battle of Agincourt?
The problem lies with the accuracy of the reporters. The Church often assigned a cleric to chronicle a battle. In many instances, both sides would assign a chronicler. Both might even meet to view the battle from the same vantage point. There would also be knights of letters who could chronicle a battle. It became difficult to reconcile some of these reports in later generations. Jehan Waverin was such a person who reported for the French. Also reporting for the French was Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Governor of Cambrai. He states the following: “Then, by the advice of the constable and others of the king of France’s council, the army was formed into three divisions, the vanguard, the main body, and the rearguard. The van consisted of about eight thousand helmets, knights, esquires, four thousand archers, and fifteen hundred crossbows. This was commanded by the constable, having with him the dukes of Orleans and Bourbon, the counts d’Eu and de Richemonte, the marshal Boucicaut, the maste
