Petit Meschin

Perin de Sasine, known by his alias Le Petit Meschin, was a French soldier, mercenary and brigand of the Hundred Years War in the 14th century.

[1] Originally from Gascon he was a soldier in his youth[2] but in 1363, after the Treaty of Brétigny, Meschin[3] and his men began to pillage the countryside.

The French King's forces besieged the town of Brignais, which had been seized by the Companies in March as an operating base.

In the battle that followed the government army was routed and James Bourbon and his oldest son were mortally wounded.

Le Petit Meschin was taken prisoner in 1368, by the Bailiff of Franche-Comté [fr], Huart Raincheval, on 11 May 1369.