Citations:routier
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English citations of routier
- ((historical,Middle Ages) A mercenary soldier, especially one in any of the bands that ravaged the French countryside during the Hundred Years' War):
- 2008, David Crouch, William Marshall and the Mercenaraiat, John France (editor), Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages, page 15,
- What I want to deal with here is what was the precise nature of the Marshal's distaste for the routier, and particularly the routier captain.
- 2011, Guilhem Pépin, 8: Towards a Rehabilitation of Froissart's Credibility: The Non Fictitious Bascot de Mauléon, Adrian Robert Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin (editors), The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century, page 175,
- In the chronicles of Jean Froissart, one of the most famous passages is the interview by the author of the Gascon routier named the Bascot de Mauléon (given as Maulion in the text) which took place when Froissart was in Orthez to meet Gaston Fébus, count of Foix and vicomte of Béarn, in early December 1388.
- 2008, David Crouch, William Marshall and the Mercenaraiat, John France (editor), Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages, page 15,
