The écorcheurs (French: [ekɔʁʃœʁ], lit. "flayers") were armed bands who desolated France in the reign of Charles VII, stripping their victims of everything...

when they were not employed; in France they were called routiers and écorcheurs and operated outside the highly structured law of arms. The term "free...

recruited warbands in the Midi that fought with unheard-of ferocity: the Écorcheurs. At their head, he ravaged the vicinity of Paris and advanced into the...

French Army Years of service 1418–1443 Rank Captain-General Commands Écorcheurs County Bailiff of Vermandois Commander of Château Thierry Commander of...

headquarters near Brent Tor, on the edge of Dartmoor. In France there were the Écorcheurs, or Skinners, in the 15th century, and the Chauffeurs around the time...

constantly tempted to take such a risk. In 1444, Louis led an army of "écorcheurs" (bands of mercenary soldiers) against the Swiss at the Battle of St....

her neighbors, organized gang violence involving disbanded soldiers (écorcheurs) lingered and grew into the 16th century. In 1445, Charles VII recruited...

of Arras in 1435. Massacres, however, continued with marauding bands (écorcheurs) still roaming the countryside, pillaging and destroying, provoking misery...

Van Nieuwenhuyse, D. (2012). Dynamique de population de la Pie-grièche écorcheur (Lanius collurio) dans le sud-est de la Belgique : modélisation de l’influence...

against the plundering bands of soldiers and peasants known as routiers or écorcheurs. By 1435 he had regained his influence at the French court and then helped...