Agincourt

Ranulph Fiennes

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781681773223
• eBook ISBN:
  9781605989167
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

On 25th October 1415, on a French hillside near the village of Agincourt, four men sheltered from the rain and prepared for battle. All four were English knights—ancestors of Sir Ranulph Fiennes—and part of the army of England's King Henry V. Across the valley, four sons of the French arm of the Fiennes family were confident that the Dauphin's army would win the day...Sir Ranulph Fiennes explains how his own ancestors were key players through the centuries of turbulent Anglo-French history that led up to Agincourt, and he uses his experience as expedition leader and soldier to give us a fresh perspective on one of the bloodiest periods of medieval history.With fascinating detail on the battle plans, weaponry, and human drama of Agincourt, this is a gripping evocation of a historical event integral to English identity.Six hundred years after the Battle of Agincourt, Sir Ranulph Fiennes casts new light on this epic event that has resonated throughout British and French history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Foreword
• 1. The French Connection
• 2. The rise and rise of Eustace de Fiennes
• 3. Geoffrey de Mandeville and other fickle Fienneses
• 4. Intermarriage, bribery, temerity and indecision
• 5. Friends and Lovers
• 6. Wool, wine and war
• 7. The Buying of Broughton
• 8. So much Christian blood spilled
• 9. When men of good breeding think nothing of killing
• 10. Fair stood the wind for France
• 11. The actions of the tiger
• 12. Fiennes to the fore
• 13. A family at war
• 14. A Vaste Multitude Yielded Up in Death
• 15. La Mort de Fiennes
• 16. Another Fiennes loses his head for losing the War
• Postscript
• Appendix: The Arming Of An English Man-At-Arms, c.1415
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Picture Credits
• Index
• Copyright