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| | The Battle of the Golden Spurs |
 | | He assembled a very strong and numerous army, and put in command of it Robert, count of Artois, his own kinsman and the queen's uncle, strong, noble, courageous and from his youth practiced in battles and expert in tournaments. |
 | | The count of St. Pol, who was in command of the third line, entrusted with the defence of the rear, though he saw his two half-brothers giving way with the [other] two lines, and in peril of death, did not go to their aid and succour, but most disgracefully taking to flight quitted the field. |
 | | the count of Eu; the lord of Nesle, marshal, that is to say chief of the knighthood of France, with his brother Guy, a most valiant knight; and other barons and landed magnates, as noble, mighty and powerful as many counts of Germany, to the number of seventy-five. |
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