Poitiers, brother to the king ; it was composed solely of infantry, and the only person on horseback was the count, which was unfortunate for him ; for the Turks defeated this battalion, and made the count prisoner. They would surely hare carried him away, had not the butchers, and all the other traffickers, men and women, who supplied the army with provision, hearing that the Turks were carrying off the count de Poitiers, set up a great shout, and rushed on the Saracens with such fury that they rescued the count de Poitiers, and drove the Turks beyond the lines. The next battalion to that of the count de Poitiers was the weakest of the whole army, and commanded by Sir Josserant de Brançon, whom my lord de Poitiers had brought with him to Egypt. This division was also formed of dismounted knights, Sir Josserant and his son Sir Henry being the only persons on horseback. The Turks broke this battalion on all pides, on which Sir Josserant and his son fell on the rear of the Turks, and cut them down with their swords. They pressed the enemy so much that they frequently turned on them again, leaving the main body of his men. In the end this would have been fatal ; for the Turks must have slain the whole, if Sir Henry de Cone, a wise and valiant knight of the division under the duke of Burgundy, well knowing the weakness of the lord de Brançon's battalion, had not, every time he saw the Turks make their charge on it, ordered the king's cross-bows to shoot at them. He exerted himself so effectually that the lord de Brançon escaped from this danger, but lost twelve of the twenty knights whom it was said he had, without counting other men-at-arms. He himself, however, was the victim of the wounds he received in the service of God, who, we are bound to believe, has well rewarded him for it This lord was my uncle, and I heard him on his death-bed ray, that he had in his time been in thirty-six battles or warlike skirmishes, and had borne off the prize of arms in most O f some of them I have a remembrance ; for once being in the army of the count de Mascon, who was bis cousin, he came to me and a brother of mine on a Good Friday, and said to us, 4 4 Come my nephews with all your men, and join us in charging these Germans, who are destroying the monastery of Mascon."