ABSTRACT
The prowess of Englishmen in France was but an expression of their chivalric tradition at home, a subject which might well arouse the curiosity of knights and nobles on the continent. Moreover, dramatic and bloody events exercise a perennial fascination, whether the deposition of Richard II, the battles of the Wars of the Roses, Richard Ill’s usurpation, or the murder of the little princes in the Tower. The French kings and nobility were interested in English affairs as combatants in the Hundred Years’ War, and because of the Anglo-Burgundian alliance. This concern is reflected by the French chroniclers, the most important of whom wrote either while in, or after retirement from royal or ducal service. The fact that the valiant deeds of British and English heroes were not adequately recorded was lamented by one foreign chronicler, the Fleming Jean de Waurin, lord of Forestal.
