Croquart

Family: England · Role: man at arms · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 67

Life events

Croquart died when his runaway horse stumbled into a ditch and broke his neck.(Book 1, Chapter 67)
- “It chanced one day, as he was riding a young horse which he had just purchased for three hundred crowns, and was putting him to his full speed, that the horse ran away with him, and, in leaping a ditch, stumbled into it, and broke his master’s neck.”

employer: Lord d’Ercle (The chapter identifies Lord d’Ercle as the person Croquart had been page to, but does not explicitly state an employer relationship.) “When this Croquart arrived at manhood, he had his discharge, and went to the wars in Brittany, where he attached himself to a man at arms, and behaved very well.”
with King John of France (King John offered Croquart knighthood, a rich marriage, and an annual payment if he changed sides.) “King John of France made him the offer of knighting him, and marrying him very richly, if he would quit the English party, and promised to give him two thousand livres a year; but Croquart would never listen to it.”

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