Dear Mr Cornwell having read your article in the Daily Mail 27/10/08 regarding your new book about Agincourt I thought you might be interested that my ancestor fought at the battle of Crecy as Edward the Black Prince bodyguard and was wounded during the battle and that Edward carried him to his tent,eventually after the battle he became a baron and was enlisted into the archers as he was 7 feet!! tall he eventually died in 1366 but one of his sons was a commander of the British armies under Henry V and fought at the battle of Marliem in France and killed the French commander General Leopold de Rick in single handed combat for which he was awarded the arm and dagger for the family coat of arms,all of these facts are documented but we are not able to find any reference to the battle of Marliem I wonder if you have come across it in your research? Kind regards. Malcolm Phillips.