Crossword-Solution: CREPY 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Meantime the Maid rode from Lagny, now to Soissons, now to Senlis, now to Crepy-en-Valois, and in Crepy she was when that befell which I am about to relate.

And after matins came Father Francois, his face very joyful, with the tidings that the Maid, and a company of some three hundred lances of hers, had ridden in from Crepy-en- Valois, she making her profit of the darkness to avoid the Burgundians.

Only Pothon de Xaintrailles, and the gentlemen with him, as knowing the manner of war, saved and held to ransom certain knights, as Messire Jacques de Brimeu, the Seigneur de Crepy, and others; while, for my own part, seeing a knight assailed by a knot of clubmen, I struck in on his part, for gentle blood must ever aid gentle blood, and so, not without shrewd blows on my salade, I took to ransom Messire Collart de Bertancourt.

She was clad in a gown that any shepherdess among them might have envied, a pale yellow crepy thing shot through with gleams of gold.

Henry had honourably refused to make terms for himself; but on September 19th Charles signed the peace of Crepy--amounting to a simple desertion of his ally.