Montmerancie

Family: France · Role: marshal of France · First appears: Henry IV 20

Life events

• c. 1405 · Montmerancie landed with French forces to aid Owen Glendouer.(Henry IV 20 · 📍 Milford hauen)
  • With: Owen Glendower
  • “the French king had appointed one of the marshals of France called Montmerancie, and the master of his crosbowes, with twelue thousand men to saile into Wales to aid Owen Glendouer. They tooke shipping at Brest, and hauing the wind prosperous, landed at Milford hauen”
• c. 1405 · Montmerancie captured Carmarden by composition.(Henry IV 20 · 📍 Carmarden)
  • “the marshall Montmerancie, with his armie, besieged the towne of Carmarden, and wan it by composition”

Henry IV 20

• allies with Owen Glendower “the French king had appointed one of the marshals of France called Montmerancie, and the master of his crosbowes, with twelue thousand men to saile into Wales to aid Owen Glendouer.”
• enemies with Henry IV “In the meane while the marshall Montmerancie, with his armie, besieged the towne of Carmarden, and wan it by composition, granting to the men of warre that kept it against him, licence to depart whither they would, & to take with them all their mooueable goods: the castell of Penbroke they assaulted not, estéeming it to be so well manned, that they shuld but lose their labour in attempting it. Notwithstanding they besieged the towne of Hereford west, which neuerthelesse was so well defended by the earle of Arundell and his power, that they lost more than they wan, and so they departed towards the towne of Denbigh, where they found Owen Glendouer abiding for their comming, with ten thousand of his Welshmen. Here were the Frenchmen ioifullie receiued of the Welsh rebels, and so when all things were prepared, they passed by Glamorganshire towards Worcester, and there burnt the suburbes: but hearing of the kings approch, they suddenlie returned towards Wales. The king with a great puissance followed, and found them imbattelled on a high mounteine, where there was a great vallie betwixt both the armies, so that either armie might plainelie perceiue the other, and either host looked to be assailed of his aduersarie, & therefore sought to take the aduantage of ground.”
• siblings with Patroullars de Tries “the lord Patroullars de Tries, brother to the marshall of France”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.