Footnote 516

The Duke of Bedford, in a letter to Henry VI, wrote that "everything prospered for you there until the siege of Orleans was undertaken", where the English suffered a great misfortune as a result of the "Pucelle", who caused such "irrational fear" among Bedford's troops. (For the original language, see: Quicherat's "Procès...", Vol V, p. 136).

Monstrelet makes a number of comments about her effect on the English army throughout her campaigns, such as the following:
Shortly after the lifting of the siege of Orleans, he notes that "... the principal English commanders, who were in the town of Beaugency, seeing how through the renown of this Maiden, fortune had turned against them... and also [seeing that] the greater part of their troops were completely dumbfounded and terror-stricken... they greatly wished to withdraw to the borders of Normandy..." (For the original language, see: Quicherat's "Procès...", Vol IV, p. 370).
He notes that her later capture sparked such glee on the part of the English and Burgundians, quote, "because they had never feared or dreaded any other commander nor war leader as much as they had always feared this Maiden til this present day", and they regarded her as more valuable than "500" other prisoners. (For the original language, see: Quicherat's "Procès...", Vol IV, p. 402).

Jean Lefevre de Saint-Remi gives the following comment about how his faction viewed Joan's later capture at Compiegne: "[the Duke of Burgundy] was overjoyed at her capture due to the great renown that she had..." (For the original language, see: Quicherat's "Procès...", Vol IV, p. 439).

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