05 Works, Sebastiaen Vrancx's Medieval soldiers scenes, with footnotes

The Tard-Venus pillage Grammont in 1362

Froissart’s Chronicles / Gallica Digital Library, Public Domain

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An army always made sure to put in place what was called a " supply train" , this is even known from the times of Alexander´s campaigns.

The supply train was the logistic mechanism that allowed resupplying the army with everything it needed. The bigger the army and the deeper it was into enemy territory, the bigger and longer the "supply train" was. More on supply train

Matthew Paris

A house is pillaged in the 14th century

The Island Race, a 20th century book

Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris (c. 1200 – 1259), was an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. He wrote a number of works, mostly historical, which he scribed and illuminated himself, typically in drawings partly coloured with watercolour washes, sometimes called "tinted drawings". 

His Chronica Majora is an oft-cited source, though modern historians recognise that Paris was not always reliable. He tended to glorify Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and denigrate the pope. However, in his Historia Anglorum, Paris displays a highly negative view of Frederick, going as far as to describe him as a "tyrant" who "committed disgraceful crimes". More on Matthew Paris

Richard Hook, English (b.1938)

Medieval soldiers looting and pillaging.

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Richard Hook, was born in Godstone Surrey, in 1938, the son of Ernest J. Hook and his wife Leonora J. (nee Warwick). He suffered from rheumatic fever as a child and developed a fascination with history and drawing and a result of enforced idleness. He trained at the Royal College of Art and, after his National Service with the Queen's Royal Regiment, he spent some years with a London advertising agency. In 1962--the same year he married Hilary Litherland--he became art editor of the educational magazine Finding Out, published by Purnell, which brought him into contact with many of the country's leading illustrators. He developed lifelong friendships with other artists, including Ron Embleton and Angus McBride. More on Richard Hook

Sebastien Vrancx

Pillage scene (Looting scene)

Oil on panel

Private collection

When the armed forces of the Catholic League and an imperial army – under Wallenstein’s leadership – invaded the north, the Lutheran Protestant King Christian IV of Denmark intervened. However, he suffered several defeats, which cost him most of the estates in Lower Saxony. In 1629, he made peace with the Holy Roman Emperor. The entire North was now open to the imperial army of the Catholic League, and Emperor Ferdinand II was at the height of his power.

Sebastiaen Vrancx  (1573–1647)

Soldiers plundering a farm during the thirty years' war, c. 1620

Oil on panel

height: 50.8 cm (20 in); width: 69.5 cm (27.3 in)

Deutsches Historisches Museum

As Wallenstein was a military entrepreneur, the upkeep of his army was closely linked to his duchy, Friedland, whose prosperity now relied entirely on war. His ever-expanding army required substantial contributions from the occupied territory, the Upper Palatinate, in the form of a tax. All military entrepreneurs (or, to use the modern term, ‘contractors’) lived off the land, supported by subsidies and foreign troops, and since the local farmers had limited means of subsistence, a desperate struggle for their own existence arose. The supply of the armies became the decisive strategic factor. This now became the crux of the war: local populations caught in between were murdered, tortured, and raped; their belongings were stolen and destroyed. The onslaught left behind burnt-out villages, depopulated cities, and ravaged landscapes. More on this painting

Sebastiaen Vrancx, Sebastiaan Vrancx or Sebastian Vranckx (22 January 1573 – 19 May 1647) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and designer of prints who is mainly known for his battle scenes, a genre that he pioneered in Netherlandish painting. He also created landscapes with mythological and allegorical scenes, scenes with robbers, village scenes and celebrations in cities. He was a gifted figure painter who was regularly invited to paint the staffage in compositions of fellow painters. As an active member of a local chamber of rhetoric, he wrote comedies and a number of poems. He was further captain of the Antwerp civil militia (schutterij). More on Sebastiaen Vrancx

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