[robowombat]

Good synopsis. Froissart as with almost all historians of his time couldn't count or more precisely liked to jazz up his text with grossly inflated numbers of dead.

The Black Prince was a fine battle captain well liked by his men and a popular figure in England. His forces looted and plundered across France in the same manner all armies did then. At Limoges he was carried in a litter to the site. He may have been dying from either abdominal cancer or diabetes , considering the sketchy description of his final illness. Whatever it was it was painful and protracted. His insistence on being at the site of the siege says a great deal about his soldierly qualities.

[mass55th]

"Froissart as with almost all historians of his time couldn't count or more precisely liked to jazz up his text with grossly inflated numbers of dead."

So he was a Democrat.

[SunkenCiv]

Froissart was a liar and perhaps a state propagandist.