On 14 Mar 1424 Archibald Douglas 1st Duke Touraine (age 52) arrived at La Rochelle with an army following a request from Charles "Victorious" VII King France (age 21) for aid.

After 17 Aug 1424 Archibald Douglas 1st Duke Touraine (deceased) was buried at Tours Cathedral, Tours.

Scotichronicon Book 15 Chapter 14. [14 Sep 1402]. The new earl of Douglas (the second Archibald) who had custody then of the castles of Edinburgh and Dunbar and who was the king's son-in-law wished to seek revenge on the English for the slaughter of Scots at Nisbet. He approached the governor of Scotland, the duke of Albany, for his help in strengthening his army, because he said it was [only] with the duke’s advice [and backing] that he would be willing to go to England. The duke gave him his eldest son Sir Murdoch with an augmented force of knights and brave men. He therefore assembled a large army in the same year to the number of 10,000 fighting men, including the earls of Angus and Moray as well as the master of Fife (the governor's son), and entering England they plundered it as far as Newcastle. As they returned Sir Henry Percy the younger (otherwise Hotspur) with Sir George de Dunbar earl of March and a large army reached Milfield before them. [The master of Fife and] the earl of Douglas climbed to some rising ground called Humbleton where they waited for the arrival of the English. As they stood on the plain facing the Scots, the English were impatient to attack them on Percy’s order; but the earl of March reined Percy back, saying that he should not move, but should send archers who could easily penetrate the Scots as targets for their arrows and defeat and capture them. It turned out in just this way, for the English bowmen, advancing towards the Scots, smothered them with arrows and made them bristly like a hedgehog, transfixing the hands and arms of the Scots to their own lances. By means of this very harsh rain of arrows they made some duck, they wounded others, and killed many. Observing this a brave knight called Sir John Swinton shouted out in a harsh voice as if he were a crier saying: ‘Illustrious comrades! Who has bewitched you today that you do not behave in your usual worthy manner? Why do you not join in hand-to-hand battle nor as men take heart to attack enemies who are in a hurry to destroy you with their flying arrows as if you were little fallow-deer or young mules in pens? Those who are willing should go down with me and we shall move among our enemies in the Lord’s name, either to save our lives in so doing or at least to fall as knights with honour.’ On hearing this the most famous and valiant Adam de Gordon of that Ilk who indeed for a long time had cultivated mortal enmity against the said lord of Swinton following the death of stalwart men-at-arms from both sides in various fights, knelt down before him to ask pardon from him in particular (as the most worthy knight in arms in the whole of Britain, as he claimed) so that he might be girded as a knight by the hands of the same Sir John. This was done, and a band of a hundred respected knights followed these leaders who had thus been reconciled. They contended intrepidly with a thousand Englishmen; and that whole Scottish group fell dead, though not without a great slaughter of English. It was assuredly believed and it was sworn on oath by some Englishmen, as I have heard, that if the other Scots who had stood on Humbleton Hill had fallen on them with like vigour, either the English would have fled, or the Scots would have achieved victory over them. The following knights fell there: John de Swinton, Adam de Gordon, John Livingstone of Callendar, Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie, Walter de Sinclair, Roger de Gordon and Walter Scott, with very many other valiant squires whose deaths were as harmful for the kingdom as they were lamentable and grievous.

Scotichronicon Book 15 Chapter 14. [14 Sep 1402]. In that battle the following were captured: Sir Murdoch Stewart, eldest son of the governor; the second Sir Archibald earl of Douglas, who lost an eye; Thomas earl of Moray and George earl of Angus, the last of whom [soon] died from an epidemic of plague in England. Besides these the following knights were also taken prisoner there: Sir Robert Erskine of Alloa; Sir William Abernethy of Saltoun; Sir James Douglas master of Dalkeith and his two brothers James and William; Sir William Airth of that Ilk with his son and heir Hugh; Sir John Stewart of Lorn; Sir John Seton of that IIk; Sir William Sinclair of Herdmanston; Sir George Leslie of Rothes; Sir James Sinclair of Longformacus with his son John; Sir Patrick Dunbar of Biel; Sir Alexander Home of Dunglass; Sir Adam Forrester of Corstorphine; Sir William Stewart of Angus; Sir Robert Stewart of Durisdeer; Sir Walter Bickerton of Luffness; Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig; Sir John Ramsay of Carnock; Sir Elias de Kinninmonth of that Ilk; Sir Laurence Ramsay of Clatto; Sir John Ker of Samuelston; Sir Fergus MacDowall of Galloway, with various others, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. What more can be said? The flower as it were of the fighting men of the whole realm of Scotland was captured and ransomed.

Hall's Chronicle 1424. HE had skace ended his exhortacion, but the Englishmen beyng incouraged with his prudent persuasion, sette on their enemies, criyng, Sainct George, Bedford. And the Frenchemen likewise cried, Moutioye, sainct Denise. Then the arrowes flewe out of the long bowes on the one parte, the quarrelles out of the crosse bowes on the other parte. After thei came to hande strokes: greate was the fight, & terrible was the batfaill, with so indifferent Judgement of victory that no heraulde could determyne to whiche parte Fortune moste shewed her louyng countenaunce. For on bothe sides men wer slain and wounded, and on bothe partes some wer felled and recouered, thus stil in a doubtful Judgement, the battaill continued about three houres. The duke of Alauson in the meane season neuer ceased to exhorte and praie his people manly to fight, and not to suffre their enemies, (whiche wer at the very point to be ouercome) by their faint hartes to be victors, and ouercommers. Likewise the duke of Bedford rode about his armie, refreshing the weake with freshe men, and encoragyng his people with moste plesaunt wordes: But at the last when he perceiued the Frenchemen, what with heate, and with trauaill, to waxe wery and faint, and not to bee so freshe as thei wer before (for surely the nature of the Frenchmen, is not to labor long in fightyng, and muche more braggeth then fighteth) he with al his strength set incontinent on them with suche a violence, that they bare theim doune to the grounde by fine force. The French horsemen that daie did litle seruice: for the archers so galled their horses, that they desired not muche to approche their presence. This battaill was fought the xxvij. day of August, in the yere of our Lorde. M. CCCC. xxv. in the whiche battaill wer slain:

Of Frenchemen: The erle of Aumerle, The erle of Ventadore. The erle of Forestes. The erle of Mary. The lorde Grauile. The lorde Gaules. The lorde Fountaynes. The lorde of Amboys. The Vicount Thouars. The lorde Mounteney. The lorde of Combreste. The lorde of Brunell. The lorde Tumblet. The lorde of Poysy. And thre hundred knightes beside. The. Vicount Nerbon whose body was haged on a gibbet, because he was one of the murtherars, of the duke of Burgoyne.

Of Scottes also wer slain. Archibald erle Douglas made duke of Toroyne. [his son] James Douglas his sonne erle of Nigton. Ihon the erle of Boughem newly made Constable of Fraunce. Sir Alexander Meldryne. Sir Henry Balglauie. Sir Ihon Sterlyng. Sir William of Homelsdone. Sir James Graye. Sir Robert Kanden. Sir Alexander Lynsaie. Sir Robert Stewarde. Sir Robert Swinton, and. xxvij. hundred Scottes of name and armes, besides other.