English

The people of England; subjects of the English crown; English troops or populations, etc.

Poitou

France, region in the west bounded by Anjou and Touraine to the north, Berry and Limousin to the east, Angoumois to the south, Aunis, La Rochelle and the Atlantic to the west, and Saintonge to the south-west; ceded to the English crown in 1360 under the Treaty of Brétigny; reconquered by Du Guesclin and granted as an apanage to the duke of Berry in 1372.

Saintonge

France, western; area centred on Saintes and bounded to the north by Aunis and Poitou, the east by Angoumois, the south by Guienne-Aquitaine, and to the west by the Atlantic. Roughly equivalent to today’s Charente-Maritime, plus part of Charente; a territory of the inheritance acquired by the English under Henry II through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine; retaken by Du Guesclin 1371-2 and reintegrated into the French crown domains.

La Rochelle

La Rochelle: On the Atlantic coast, administrative centre of the département of Charente-Maritime. The seneschal of La Rochelle between 1383 and 1389 (also known as the 'governor') was Guillaume de Naillac.

English

The people of England; subjects of the English crown; English troops or populations, etc.