Lord Eustace de Ribeaumont

Also known as: Eustace de Ribeaumont / Sir Eustace de Ribeaumont · Family: France · Role: knight · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 64

In Book 1, Chapter 64, Lord Eustace de Ribeaumont was among the four French knights defending Bethune while Lord Oudart de Renty’s Flemish forces besieged it; the siege failed. In Chapter 65, he rode with Sir Geoffry de Chargny, Sir Guy de Nesle and the Lord of Beaujeu to tell the King of England that the King of France sought a place for a general combat.

At Calais in Chapter 69, he fought King Edward for a long time before surrendering his sword, saying, “I surrender myself your prisoner, for the honor of the day must fall to the English.” In Chapter 70, King Edward awarded him a chaplet for valor and freed him without ransom.

In Chapter 76, King John sent him to inspect the English army with Lord John de Landas and Lord Guiscard de Beaujeu. His companions chose him to report their findings: the English numbered about two thousand men-at-arms, four thousand archers and fifteen hundred footmen.