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Robert Briquet
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[[File:Sack of the town.jpg|thumb|right|The Tard-Venus pillage Grammont in 1362, from [[Froissart's Chronicles]].]]
'''Robert Briquet''', was a [[mercenary]] [[captain]] during the [[Hundred Years War]].
At the end of the [[Hundred Years War]] Robert Briquet and his men found themselves unemployed and so become one of the 30 so-called [[Tard-Venus]] [[bandit]]s,<ref>Jean Alexandre C. Buchon, Charles Du Fresne Du Cange (sieur), Georges Chastellain, Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Jean Froissart, Jean Molinet, Geoffroi de Paris, Collection des chroniques nationales françaises, Volume 14(Verdière & J. Carez, 1824) [http://ift.tt/2BLyX6b p124]</ref> that ranged the [[France|French]] country side pillaging town.<ref>Charles Du Fresne Du Cange (sieur), Histoire de l'empire de Constantinople sous les empereurs français jusqu'à. (Verdière, 1824), [http://ift.tt/2okSB1d p124].</ref> Leading to [[Avignon]], Pope [[Innocent VI]] preaching a ''crusade against the robbers''.
His story is mentioned in the [[Chronicles of Froissart]]<ref>Chroniques de Froissart, Volume 4 (J. Carez, 1824) [http://ift.tt/2BKU2NS p124].</ref> In mid-Lent 1362 his group, in company with up to 2000 other [[Tard-Venus]] Robert Briquet and his men were attacking the [[county|counties]] of [[Mâcon|Macon]], [[Lyon]] and [[Forez]].
Then mid, year [[Robert Briquet]] with [[Naudon de Bageran]],[[Francois Hennequin]], Espiote, Creswey, and Camus bour, separated from the main group of [[brigand]]s and marched on the wealthy and largely undefended [[pope|papal]] city of [[Avignon]] to make ransom of the [[Pope]] and [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinals]].
But on 3 June 1362, this army was cut to pieces by 400 [[Spaniard]] and [[Castilian people|Castilians]] soldiers under the orders of [[Henry of Trastamara]] ([[King of Castile and León]])at [[Montpensier]].
==References==
'''Robert Briquet''', was a [[mercenary]] [[captain]] during the [[Hundred Years War]].
At the end of the [[Hundred Years War]] Robert Briquet and his men found themselves unemployed and so become one of the 30 so-called [[Tard-Venus]] [[bandit]]s,<ref>Jean Alexandre C. Buchon, Charles Du Fresne Du Cange (sieur), Georges Chastellain, Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Jean Froissart, Jean Molinet, Geoffroi de Paris, Collection des chroniques nationales françaises, Volume 14(Verdière & J. Carez, 1824) [http://ift.tt/2BLyX6b p124]</ref> that ranged the [[France|French]] country side pillaging town.<ref>Charles Du Fresne Du Cange (sieur), Histoire de l'empire de Constantinople sous les empereurs français jusqu'à. (Verdière, 1824), [http://ift.tt/2okSB1d p124].</ref> Leading to [[Avignon]], Pope [[Innocent VI]] preaching a ''crusade against the robbers''.
His story is mentioned in the [[Chronicles of Froissart]]<ref>Chroniques de Froissart, Volume 4 (J. Carez, 1824) [http://ift.tt/2BKU2NS p124].</ref> In mid-Lent 1362 his group, in company with up to 2000 other [[Tard-Venus]] Robert Briquet and his men were attacking the [[county|counties]] of [[Mâcon|Macon]], [[Lyon]] and [[Forez]].
Then mid, year [[Robert Briquet]] with [[Naudon de Bageran]],[[Francois Hennequin]], Espiote, Creswey, and Camus bour, separated from the main group of [[brigand]]s and marched on the wealthy and largely undefended [[pope|papal]] city of [[Avignon]] to make ransom of the [[Pope]] and [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinals]].
But on 3 June 1362, this army was cut to pieces by 400 [[Spaniard]] and [[Castilian people|Castilians]] soldiers under the orders of [[Henry of Trastamara]] ([[King of Castile and León]])at [[Montpensier]].
==References==
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