Le Roy Engloys

{{Short description|16th century song}}

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{{transliteration|frm|Le Roi Anglois}}{{efn|Attested in the Bayeux manuscript as {{transliteration|frm|Le Roy engloys.}}}} ({{langx|en|The English King}}) is a song found in the Bayeux Manuscript,Gérold, Théodore (1921). Le Manuscrit de Bayeux, texte et musique d'un recueil de chansons du XVe siècle. Librairie Istria: Faculty of French Literature and Language of the University of Strasburg. p. 103. read online a collection of more than a hundred songs compiled at the start of the 16th century AD by Charles III de Bourbon and written at the end of the 15th century AD, some dozens of years after the end of the Hundred Years' War.

The song contains numerous historical errors due to the fact that its composition took place close to half a century after the events it recounts. The English King Henry V is said to have died in Saint-Fiacre in Brie, while in reality he died in Vincennes. "Captain Prégent" is Prigent VII de Coëtivy, one of the victors, along with Jean de Clermont, of the Battle of Formigny,{{Cite book|last=Nicolle|first=David|title=The Fall of English France 1449–53|publisher=|year=2012|isbn=|location=|pages=29}} on 18 April 1450 (3,500 dead on the English side, 500 on the French side). The Middle French word used for "tails" (couez), bears a resemblance to the word "couard", meaning "coward".{{Cite web|last=EFFE|first=Frédéric|date=22 April 2016|title=Le Roy Engloys ou le roé anglais|url=https://www.moyenagepassion.com/index.php/2016/04/22/le-roy-engloys-ou-le-roe-anglais/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=16 July 2020|website=moyenagepassion}} The word "Godon" was a French ethnic slur for English people,{{cite journal|last1=de Ullmann|first1=Stephen|date=December 1947|title=Anglicisms in French-Notes on Their Chronology, Range, and Reception|journal=PMLA|publisher=Modern Language Association|volume=62|issue=4|pages=1155–1156|doi=10.2307/459155|jstor=459155}} which may be the result of a corruption of "God-damn".{{cite thesis|last1=Foulsham|first1=Martha|last2=Gunther|first2=G.|last3=Ryan|first3=John S.|title=Stand Up the Real Maid: The St Joan Theme in Selected Modern English Language and European Authors|date=1992|page=[https://rune.une.edu.au/web/bitstream/1959.11/17771/1/open/SOURCE08.pdf 231]|chapter-url=https://rune.une.edu.au/web/handle/1959.11/17771|language=en|chapter=Appendix 1 Godams (Thesis, part 5)}}