page_title: John Creswey
hierarchical_section_title: John Creswey
caption_attribution_description: English: The men of Ghent capture and pillage Grammont (1380). (BNF, FR 2644) Jean Froissart, Chronicles, fol. 135. Flandres, Bruges 15th Century. (185 x 200 mm) Français&#160;: Pillage de la ville de Grammont (1380). Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Belgique (Bruges), 3e quart du XVe siècle, Paris, BnF, département des Manuscrits, Français 2644, fol. 135. Русский: Разграбление города. Миниатюра из "Хроник Фруассара". Франция. XIV в.
context_page_description: John Creswey, was a mercenary captain during the Hundred Years War and was an Englishman.
  At the end of hostilities during the Hundred Years War Creswey and his men found themselves unemployed and so become one of the 30 so-called Tard-Venus bands of bandits, that ranged the French country side pillaging towns. Leading to Avignon, Pope Innocent VI preaching a crusade against the robbers.
  His story is mentioned in the Chronicles of Froissart
  After pillaging the counties of Macon, Lyon and Forez through the season of Lent, mid, year Creswey joined Naudon de Bageran, Francois Hennequin, Espiote, Robert Briquet, and Camus bour, and marched on the wealthy and largely undefended papal city of Avignon to make ransom of the Pope and cardinals.
  But on 3 June 1362, this army was cut to pieces by 400 Spaniard and Castilians soldiers under the orders of Henry of Trastamara at Montpensier.
context_section_description: John Creswey, was a mercenary captain during the Hundred Years War and was an Englishman.
  At the end of hostilities during the Hundred Years War Creswey and his men found themselves unemployed and so become one of the 30 so-called Tard-Venus bands of bandits, that ranged the French country side pillaging towns. Leading to Avignon, Pope Innocent VI preaching a crusade against the robbers.
  His story is mentioned in the Chronicles of Froissart
  After pillaging the counties of Macon, Lyon and Forez through the season of Lent, mid, year Creswey joined Naudon de Bageran, Francois Hennequin, Espiote, Robert Briquet, and Camus bour, and marched on the wealthy and largely undefended papal city of Avignon to make ransom of the Pope and cardinals.
  But on 3 June 1362, this army was cut to pieces by 400 Spaniard and Castilians soldiers under the orders of Henry of Trastamara (King of Castile and León) at Montpensier.
caption: The Tard-Venus pillage Grammont in 1362, from Froissart's Chronicles.
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