" asked Suffolk.

"Yes."

"Are you a knight?"

"No."

The Earl of Suffolk dubbed him a knight and surrendered to him.[1215]

[Footnote 1215: _Journal du siege_, p. 99. _Chronique de la Pucelle_,
p. 302. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 82. Berry, in _Trial_,
vol. iv, p. 65.]

Very soon the rumour ran that the Earl of Suffolk had surrendered on
his knees to the Maid.[1216] It was even stated that he had asked to
surrender to her as to the bravest lady in the world.[1217] But it is
more likely that he would have surrendered to the lowest menial of the
army rather than to a woman whom he held to be a witch possessed of
the devil.

[Footnote 1216: Fragment of a letter concerning the wonders which
happened in Poitou, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 122.]

[Footnote 1217: _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, p. 340.
Morosini, vol. iii, p. 70. _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 121-122.]

John Pole, Suffolk's brother, was likewise taken on the bridge. The
Duke's third brother, Alexander Pole, was slain in the same place or
drowned in the Loire.[1218]

[Footnote 1218: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 72. Perceval de Cagny, p. 151.
_Journal du siege_, p. 99. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 328. Morosini, vol.
iii, pp. 128, 129.]

The garrison surrendered at discretion. Now, as always, no great harm
was done during the battle, but afterwards the conquerors made up for
it. Five hundred English were massacred; the nobles alone were held to
ransom. And over them, the French fell to quarrelling. The French
nobles kept them all for themselves; the train-bands claimed their
share, and, not getting it, began to destroy everything. What the
nobles could save was carried off during the night, by water, to
Orleans. The town was completely sacked; the old church, which had
served the _Godons_ as a magazine, was pillaged.[1219]

[Footnote 1219: _Journal du siege_, p. 99.]

Including killed and wounded, the French had not lost twenty
men.[1220]

[Footnote 1220: Perceval de Cagny, p. 151. _Chronique de la Pucelle_,
p. 302. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, pp. 82, 83. Berry, in
_Trial_, vol. iv, p. 65.]

Without disarming, the Maid and the knights returned to Orleans. To
celebrate the taking of Jargeau, the magistrates organised a public
procession. An eloquent sermon was preached by a Jacobin monk, Brother
Robert Baignart.[1221]

[Footnote 1221: Accounts of the town of Orleans at the end of _Le
Journal du siege_, ed. Charpentier and Cuissard, p. 229.