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during the

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. He fought for

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in 1360, and on the

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's expedition to Castile in 1366. Michael Lynch
The Oxford Companion to Scottish History
(

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). After the

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Hagre and his men found themselves unemployed and so become one of the 30 so-called

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s, that ranged the

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country side pillaging towns. This led Avignon Pope

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to preach a "crusade against the robbers", and

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John II to "pay off" the brigands with gold to go to

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. His story is mentioned in the Chronicles of Froissart which holds that:

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, Carsuelle, Aymon of Ortinge, Garsiot of Chastel, Guionnet of Paux, Hortingo de la Salle and several others. If these Companies advised, about mid-
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, that they were trailing towards
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and would go to see the
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and the
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s: if they passed and entered and ran in the
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; and they came to the county of Forez for this good country and to
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on the Rhone.

There is some debate among modern scholars over whether he isAndy King, Claire Etty, ''England and Scotland, 1286-1603'' (Macmillan International Higher Education, 2015
p 173
or is not David Ditchburn. Scotland and Europe: the Medieval Kingdom and its Contacts with Christendom, 1214-1560 – volume I: Religion, Culture and Commerce. (Tuckwell Press. 2000). identifiable with Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus
.

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