Lord Philip d’Artois, Count d’Eu

Family: Christian · Role: lord · First appears: Book 4, Chapter 5, part 2/2

Life events

The lords rejected Lord de Coucy’s advice and decided not to break off the accepted challenge.(Book 4, Chapter 5, part 2/2)
- With: Lord de Coucy Lord Philip de Bar
- “But some, and in particular the Lord Philip d’Artois, Count d’Eu, and the Lord Philip de Bar, said, ‘Since the challenge has been accepted by our knights, they would be disgraced were the combat now broken off; and in the name of God and Our Lady let them accomplish it the best manner they can.’ This was adopted; for it was now too far advanced to be stopped.”

with Lord de Coucy (They held opposing views on whether the accepted challenge should proceed.) “many thought the accepting such a challenge improper, and supported the opinion of the Lord de Coucy, who said it ought to have been ordered otherwise. But some, and in particular the Lord Philip d’Artois, Count d’Eu, and the Lord Philip de Bar, said, ‘Since the challenge has been accepted by our knights, they would be disgraced were the combat now broken off; and in the name of God and Our Lady let them accomplish it the best manner they can.’”
allies with Lord Philip de Bar “But some, and in particular the Lord Philip d’Artois, Count d’Eu, and the Lord Philip de Bar, said, ‘Since the challenge has been accepted by our knights, they would be disgraced were the combat now broken off; and in the name of God and Our Lady let them accomplish it the best manner they can.’”

Extracted from the original text of The Boy's Froissart. Made with Rho MD.