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Recreational Groups Forum Index » Organisations - Society for Creative Anachronism » Medieval battle records go online
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| Harold Groot |
 Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:20 am |
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From the BBC:
The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including
archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - have gone
online.
The database of those who fought in the Hundred Years War reveals
salaries, sickness records and who was knighted.
The full profiles of soldiers from 1369 to 1453 will allow researchers
to piece together details of their lives.
Thomas, Lord Despenser is the youngest soldier on the database, whose
career began when he was aged just 12 in 1385.
Elsewhere, the career of Thomas Gloucestre, who fought at Agincourt,
can be traced over 43 years and includes campaigns in Prussia and
Jerusalem.
'Remarkable survival'
The website is the product of a research project by Professor Anne
Curry of the University of Southampton and Dr Adrian Bell of the
University of Reading.
Dr Bell said: "The service records survive because the English
exchequer had a very modern obsession with wanting to be sure that the
government's money was being spent as intended.
"Therefore we have the remarkable survival of indentures for service
detailing the forces to be raised, muster rolls showing this service
and naming every soldier from duke to archer."
He said accounts from captains showing how funds were spent and
entries detailing when the exchequer requested the payments can be
found.
The free-to-use website, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council, also shows which soldiers rode the furthest.
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It would have been nice if they included some URLs:
The council is at
www.ahrc.ac.uk/
The database itself is at
http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/ |
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