![]() ![]() Waurin would even fight less than a decade later at the Battle of Verneuil, which has been described by some as a "second Agincourt". ![]() Although Waurin was only 15 at the time and not an active participant, both he and Le Fevre (a herald) had strong connections to the English and Burgundian factions and both were well versed in war. They are very specific that the French a) camped between Azincourt and Tramecourt and b) that the battle was fought there the next day. Let's start with where current scholarship agrees the Battle of Agincourt was fought.īy and large, the placement of the Battle of Agincourt between the villages of Azincourt and Tramecourt is down to Jean Le Fevre’s chronicle of the 1460s and the close collaboration or copying by Jean de Waurin at around the same time. But more on this and my own alternative site later. Livingston does bring up a number of good points, in particular the issue surrounding the length of the English line, and I think these are enough to render the precise traditional location invalid, but I ultimately don't think the bulk of the evidence supports his proposal. With that said, I can't say that I agree with Michael Livingston's interpretation and I think that the traditional location is much closer to where the battle was fought. The answer to this question is that there are actually a number of inconsistencies between primary sources, physical evidence and issues such as the area needed to fight a battle on the scale of Agincourt, and Michael Livingston is not the first to raise some of the problems, which have been slowly gaining attention since the mid-2000s. ![]() So, the question is, if we know everything there is to know about the Battle of Agincourt and it all matches up perfectly, why has Michael Livingston chosen to dispute these well known facts? After all, he says himself in a recent podcast that he has no desire to go around being contrary about the location of battles just for the sake of it. The terrain even matches the description of the battle, with the French being "funneled" from the wider northern end to the narrower center of the field and becoming so compressed as a result that they couldn't use their weapons. That is, in the fields between the villages of Azincourt and Tramecourt. The two best, most reliable chronicles - by eyewitnesses, no less - give it a very precise location. ![]() For over a hundred and fifty years, the location of the Battle of Agincourt has been known with 100% certainty. ![]()
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