French heavy cavalry

You've seen the Burgundian cavalry, now here are their French opponents. 

There's three units of twenty mounted men-at-arms each. Like the Burgundians, they are primarily a mix of Perry plastics and metals, with a few Steel Fist riders and horses in there too. I wanted them to look potentially better equipped and organised than the Burgundians, as they are more likely to be representing the standing forces of the compagnies d'ordonnance at full strength (the Burgundians in contrast might be representing the remnants of Charles the Bold's defeated army or new units hastily raised from scant resources). They are are almost all in full harness, with a only a few lightly-armed coustilliers in the back ranks. I also gave them uniform livery jackets, like all my French units.

Two of the three units have heraldic banners to represent prominent nobles leading them - these are both removable for maximum flexibility, so I'm not tied down to the same two nobles. For this photoshoot however, they are led by Philippe de Crèvecœur and Antoine de Chabannes.

Philippe de Crèvecœur, Lord of Esquerdes had previously served Charles the Bold  - he was governor of Artois and Picardy and had been made a Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1468. When the French invaded in 1477 he was one of the more prominent Burgundians to switch sides, handing over the citadel of Arras (from which the city itself was besieged and ultimately captured). He led the French at the Battle of Guinegate in 1479, was appointed governor and lieutenant-general of Picardy in 1482, and under Charles VIII was made Marshal of France. He was in charge of the French military efforts in the Low Countries for all of the 1480s, and died in 1494.

Antoine de Chabannes was by 1477 an elderly veteran of the French military, having fought in the Hundred Years War alongside Joan of Arc. Originally a younger son with no lordship of his own, he became Count of Dammartin through marriage in 1439. His long career had actually seen him at one point an enemy of Louis XI, but by 1467 they had reconciled and he was appointed Grand Master of France. He was also made one of the first knights of the Order of St Michael. In 1477 he was involved in the French invasion of the Low Countries, and he died in 1488 aged eighty.