The companies of Mercenary S during the War One hundred Year old, for the periods of peace, gathered in Grandes road companies or , and lived on the surrounding country.

Campaigns in France

The Large companies were troops of adventurers who were balanced by the princes in times of war, and which lived of plundering and ransoms in times of peace or truce. They afflicted France at the 14th century, under the reigns of Jean the good and Charles V. They were recruited among foreigners of all nationality and especially of the Germans that Edouard III of England, king of England, had laid off after the Traité of Brétigny, in 1360.

Irritated their depredations, the peasants beat them in several meetings and dispersed them for some time.

The constable Bertrand of Guesclin was employed to take along these companies in Spain to remove the kingdom from France; they supported there against Pierre Cruel the the cause of Henri de Trastamare, his half-brother.

Famous road chiefs:

• Arnaud de Cervole, known as the Archpriest.
• Bétucat d' Albret
• Bernardon of the Room
• Hugh Calveley
• Robert Knolles
• John Creswell

Latecomers

The Tard-Venus are mercenaries demobilized after the Traité of Brétigny of the May 8th 1360. Under the orders of Small Meschin and Seguin de Badefol they prevailed of Burgundy in Languedoc. In 1362, they demolished with Brignais (Jacques de Bourbon), Count of Walk, sent against them.

White company

The White Compagnie was formed after the Paix of Brétigny of May 8th, 1360 under the orders of John Hawkwood.

Flayers

Other hordes of demobilized mercenaries will afflict France at the 15th century: the flayers.

Elsewhere

The Large companies are not exclusively French. One can quote the Catalan Company of the Almogavres, soldiers mercenaries with the service of the Couronne of Aragon-Catalonia, mainly Catalans and Aragonese, who had been born in the Iberian peninsula at the time of the wars against Buckwheats, between XIII^e and XV^e century, and which went to help the Byzantine emperor Andronic II Paleologist against the Turks.

Internal bonds

• Roger de Flor
• Almogavres with Gallipoli
• Berenguer d' Entença
• Bernat de Rocafort
• Battle of Brignais
• John Hawkwood

See too

External bond

• Letter of the king against the truck drivers in country of Languedoc, 1413

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