Hakonarson
11-05-2002, 08:24
Some figures from England:
Conscription rates 1345:
Wealth - to provide:
2 pound - 1 archer
5 pound - 1 mounted archer
10 pound - 1 Hobilar
20 pound - 2 hobilars
25 pound - 1 man-at-arms
30 pound - 1 MAA & 1 mounted archer
40 pound - 1 maa, 1 hobilar, 1 mounted archer
50 pound - 2 MAA
....etc (Revision of the Statute of Winchester in 1345 & 1346)
Original Statute:
40 pound land - serve as Knight
20 pound - man at arms
15 pund - mailed horseman (mounted infantry)
10 pound - infantry with aketon (padded cloth armour)
2-5 pounds - archers with bow, sword and knife
less than 2 pound - archers with bow and arrows only, or else sword, knife or whatever weapons they could provide.
Using this system the 37 counties raised 1407 men at arms, 5600 archers adn 5600 armati (mounted infantry) in 1339.
Pay rates: (per day)
1 pound - Prince (Paid to Black Prince in 1347
13s 4d - Duke
6s 8d - Earl
4s - Banneret or Baron
2s - Knight
1s - Esquire or Man-at-arms (other than those already mentioned - ie non-noble)
6d - Armati - armoured foot-soldier mounted on a horse for transport
6d - Hobilar or Hobilar-archer (the term means mounted archer with armour and was used early in the 100yrs war period) - sometimes only 4d or 3d - probably when serving without horses
6d - Mounted archer, or 4d if in England, although Cheshire or bodyguard archers received 6d always, and in the 15th c sometimes received 8d in France
3d - Archer, 2d in England but occasionally 4d elsewhere
2d - Welsh infantry or archer - probably lower pay due to total lack of armour.
These rates of pay are found in indentures of 1316, 1359, in contracts for troops under Henry V, and even in indentures drawn up for Edward IV's french expedition of 1475.
However with such static pay other inducements were sometimes offered - pay-and-a-half, or even double pay.
all from Armies of het Middle Ages Vol 1, The Hundred Years War, the Wars of the Roses and the Burgundian Wars 1300-1487, by Ian Heath, published by WRG.
This and it's companion Vol 2 (the rest of Europe and the Levant (Balkans, Turkey, etc)) are well worth the price!!
Conscription rates 1345:
Wealth - to provide:
2 pound - 1 archer
5 pound - 1 mounted archer
10 pound - 1 Hobilar
20 pound - 2 hobilars
25 pound - 1 man-at-arms
30 pound - 1 MAA & 1 mounted archer
40 pound - 1 maa, 1 hobilar, 1 mounted archer
50 pound - 2 MAA
....etc (Revision of the Statute of Winchester in 1345 & 1346)
Original Statute:
40 pound land - serve as Knight
20 pound - man at arms
15 pund - mailed horseman (mounted infantry)
10 pound - infantry with aketon (padded cloth armour)
2-5 pounds - archers with bow, sword and knife
less than 2 pound - archers with bow and arrows only, or else sword, knife or whatever weapons they could provide.
Using this system the 37 counties raised 1407 men at arms, 5600 archers adn 5600 armati (mounted infantry) in 1339.
Pay rates: (per day)
1 pound - Prince (Paid to Black Prince in 1347
13s 4d - Duke
6s 8d - Earl
4s - Banneret or Baron
2s - Knight
1s - Esquire or Man-at-arms (other than those already mentioned - ie non-noble)
6d - Armati - armoured foot-soldier mounted on a horse for transport
6d - Hobilar or Hobilar-archer (the term means mounted archer with armour and was used early in the 100yrs war period) - sometimes only 4d or 3d - probably when serving without horses
6d - Mounted archer, or 4d if in England, although Cheshire or bodyguard archers received 6d always, and in the 15th c sometimes received 8d in France
3d - Archer, 2d in England but occasionally 4d elsewhere
2d - Welsh infantry or archer - probably lower pay due to total lack of armour.
These rates of pay are found in indentures of 1316, 1359, in contracts for troops under Henry V, and even in indentures drawn up for Edward IV's french expedition of 1475.
However with such static pay other inducements were sometimes offered - pay-and-a-half, or even double pay.
all from Armies of het Middle Ages Vol 1, The Hundred Years War, the Wars of the Roses and the Burgundian Wars 1300-1487, by Ian Heath, published by WRG.
This and it's companion Vol 2 (the rest of Europe and the Levant (Balkans, Turkey, etc)) are well worth the price!!