He was so disfigured that, when the dead were removed, he was not recognized.
Notice, however, was taken of an old man wearing a cuirass covered with red velvet; this, it was presumed, was he; and he was placed upon a shield and carried into the camp.

An English herald came with a request that he might look for Lord' Talbot's body.

"Would you know him ?" he was asked.

"Take me to see him," joyfully answered the poor servant, thinking that his master was a prisoner and alive.

When he saw him, he hesitated to identify him; he knelt down, put his finger in the mouth of the corpse, and recognized Talbot by the loss of a molar tooth.