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"I wrote a letter warning you of this, and describing the four men, and despatched it by the hand of a trusty messenger." "He was worthy of your trust," I said. "The second letter asking you to meet me at Poictiers was not written by me." "Then who was the writer?" I asked. "It would be difficult to prove, but I should say it was Etienne Cordel.
I regret that this army is not, like the army which fought at Crecy and Poictiers, composed of men well inured to war, with a great number of good archers and led by experienced warriors, instead of a hasty gathering of men, who have been fired by the exhortations of the priests and the promises of the pope. "We are but a small gathering.
Anjou, he said, had been thoroughly defeated, and there was already talk of the end of the war. "And where are the troops now?" I asked. "They marched in the direction of Poictiers. It is rumoured that the Admiral intends to besiege the town." "It may be so," I observed doubtfully, "but it is hardly likely. That is the mistake Monseigneur made after Jarnac."
The last duke of the ancient Capetian house of Burgundy dying in 1361 without heirs male, the duchy fell into the possession of the French crown, and was by King John II bestowed upon his youngest son, Philip the Hardy, Duke of Touraine, as a reward, it is said, for the valour he displayed in the battle of Poictiers.
Every night brought fresh surprises; and, in the conflicts which took place, the Crusaders had not always the best of the struggle. 'A large body of Turks, says Joinville, 'made an attack on the Count of Poictiers and me. But be assured they were very well received. It was well for them that they found their way back as they came; but they left behind them great numbers of slain.
This is what Hilary, the Bishop of Poictiers, in his well-known passage written about the time of the Nicene Council, says: "It is a thing equally deplorable and dangerous that there are, as many creeds as opinions among men, as many doctrines as inclinations, and as many sources of blasphemy as there are faults among us, because we make creeds arbitrarily and explain them as arbitrarily.
It appears by the annals of Liverpool, contained in Gore's Directory, that in 1076 there was a baronial castle built by Roger de Poictiers on the site of the present St. George's Church. It was taken down in 1721. The church now stands at one of the busiest points of the principal street of the city. The old Church of St.
Had I not better waken him? We shall not reach Poictiers to-night." "Yes; tell him we are ready to start. I have no wish to pass the night at some village inn." L'Estang's messenger was indeed a surly fellow. He came into the courtyard rubbing his eyes and grumbling at being disturbed.
From the battle of Poictiers we will cull but that glorious feat which was peculiar to it, and which might be called as unfortunate as glorious if the captivity of King John had been a misfortune for France.
At the time when the two armies had drawn near to each other and the battle seemed imminent, the cardinal was at Poictiers, and just as the King of France was marshaling his troops in the order of battle, and preparing for the onset, the cardinal, at the head of his suite of attendants, galloped out to the king's camp, and, riding up to him at full speed, he begged him to pause a moment that he might speak to him.
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