Memoires Jacques du Clercq. On the 14th day of the said month of July [1453], the Count of Clermont [aged 27] and those of his company went to lay siege to the Châteauneuf-de-Médoc, and remained before it for the space of fifteen days. The place was held for the king of England by the lord of Lisle [aged 27], a Gascon knight, who, seeing that it was impossible to hold it any longer, surrendered it to the French. This done, the said count and those of his company went to lay siege to Blanquefort. There the Count of Foix and the lord of Lautrec, his brother, departed from them and went to lay siege to the castle of Cadillac; and the lord of Xaintrailles went before Saint-Macaire and brought it into the obedience of the king; and the lord of Albret left before Blanquefort and went before Langon and Villandraut, which he likewise brought into the obedience of the king of France. Meanwhile, the other French were still before Blanquefort, and at one time the French were maintaining two or three sieges at once, numbering a thousand lances, including the men of the Count of Armagnac, led by a squire named Lasse de Lange, seneschal of Rouergue. While the siege was before Cadillac, the Count of Clermont continued to maintain the siege before Blanquefort and held it until it surrendered to him.
Le xiiije dudit mois de juillet, le comte de Clermont et ceulx de sa compagnie, allerent mectre le siege devant le chastel noeuf de Made, et feurent devant par l'espace de quinze jours, et tenoit la place pour le roy d'Angleterre le St de Lisle, chevallier gascon, lequel voyant lui estre impossible de la plus tenir, la rendit aulx Franchois. Ce fait, icelluy comte et ceulx de sa compagnie allerent mectre le siege devant Blanfort, et la se partist d'eulx le comte de Foix et le S de Lautrec son frere, et allerent mectre le siege devant le chastel de Cadillacq, et le S de Santralles alla devant St Malcaire, et le meit en l'obeissance du roy, et le S d'Albrecq se partist de devant Blancfort, et alla devant Langon et Villendras, lesquels il meit pareillement en l'obeissance du roy de Franche; estant les aultres Franchois encoires devant Blancfort, et tenoient a la fois les Franchois deux ou trois sieges, lesquels on nombroit mille lanches, en ce comprins les gens du comte d'Ermignac, que conduisoit ung escuyer nommé Lasue de Lange, seneschal de Rouargue. Cependant que le siege estoit devant Cadillacq,: le comte de Cleremont tenoit toujours le siege devant Blancfort et le tint tant qu'il se rendit a lui.
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