Joan of Arc: a Life Transfigured
“She was accompanied by her squire, Jean d’Aulon, her page, Louis de Coutes, and the army’s new bursar, Jean de Metz, to whom Charles’s treasurer, Hémon Raguier, had entrusted nearly six thousand livres to disperse among the two dozen or so commanders in Joan’s army to cover the expenses of waging war. While Joan is popularly imagined as the leader of a “peasant army,” the core of her troops was “composed of the usual groups of aristocrats, mercenaries, municipal levies, and other typical elemen...ts.” Joan did attract a great number of soldiers who had heretofore avoided joining a losing battle, but they were not different from the men-at-arms who typically volunteered. Knights were noblemen; they traveled with retinues that might include their wives, children, footmen, personal chefs, valets for the men, and maids for the ladies; a medieval army was followed by merchants eager to capitalize on the ready market it represented. Several entries in Raguier’s 1429 account book relate specifically to Joan, the first being, “To the Master Armorer, for a complete harness for the Maid, 100 livres tournois.”MoreLess
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