He was rumoured to have tied "a heavily pregnant woman to an elm tree - his favourite execution spot - so that as she gave birth he screams attracted wolves, which ripped her to pieces and ate her newborn.

[3] Arthur III, Duke of Brittany, recently released from an English prison, came there to swear allegiance to the king of England and serve with his Breton troops.

However, Duke Philip III of Burgundy was preoccupied fighting on his own doorstep, and would not or could not contemplate coming to Meaux, "even to meet Henry in person, for many months.

The walled part of Meaux on the northern bank of the Marne held out until March 1422, when starving and demoralised citizens opened the gates to the town.

The bastard of Vaurus was drawn through the streets and then decapitated "beside the tree where he executed so many others",[3] as was a trumpeter named Orace, who had repeatedly mocked Henry "by blaring out an irritating tune"[3] whenever he saw him walking among his men during the siege.

Shortly after the siege, while en route to Cosne-sur-Loire, he found himself unable to ride, and had to be carried to Vincennes, where he arrived on 10 August.