The compagnie d'ordonnance was the first standing army of late medieval and early modern France. The system was the forefather of the modern company. Each...

end with the rise in centralised state power and military force. Compagnie d'ordonnance Routiers Condottiero Freikorps Tard-Venus Écorcheurs Religious military...

European warfare from the 16th century onwards. The Burgundian compagnie d'ordonnance was a formidable combined arms force relying on close cooperation...

been without a compagnie d'ordonnance since his first was disbanded, in February 1577 Lanssac received a new command, and his new compagnie would serve under...

Abbeville in 1471, proclaimed the formation of a standing army called Compagnie d'ordonnance, made up of 1250 lances fournies, who were accompanied by 1200 crossbows...

king Charles promised Saint-Sulpice the captaincy of the first compagnie d'ordonnance that became vacant. This promise was realised in the December of...

Beauvoir and La Garnache, Knight of the King's Order and captain of a compagnie d’ordonnance │ │ x (1534) Isabella of Albret a.k.a. “Isabella of Navarre” (1512...

campaign of the war Fourquevaux, in his capacity as a captain of a compagnie d'ordonnance took a leading role in the local royalist Catholic war effort alongside...

their creditor, most notably in 1576. In 1577 he was granted a compagnie d'ordonnance (ordinance company) and he was later to be inducted as a conseiller...

since. The 2nd Dragoons trace their lineage to the formation of a compagnie d'ordonnance by Louis de Bourbon, head of the House of Condé, in 1556. At the...

likely returned early in 1519. Upon his return he took charge of a compagnie d'ordonnance (ordinance company) and mustered it for the first time. This gave...

Guard or served alongside it, such as the elite gendarmes, the gendarmes d'ordonnance, the chevau-légers de Berg, and the guards of honour. At the height of...

companies (a headache for the French state), and also into Compagnies d'ordonnance within the French Army. The King kept about him his Garde Écossaise....

removed from his ADC status until recalled to that post. The officiers d'ordonnance (orderly officers) may be considered as junior ADCs, with the rank of...

1422–61) established the first French standing army, the Compagnies d'ordonnance, and defeated the Plantagenets once at Patay (1429) and again, using...