Agincourt illustrates heralds observing a battle, recognizing the winner, and preserving conventions around naming and prisoners. Their presence created limited order and safe space within brutal land warfare. Winchelsea lacked any comparable herald ship, helping explain why defeat at sea so often meant death rather than captivity. Medieval rules depended on institutions and physical refuges that could not simply be transferred from a field to a moving naval melee.
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Heralds created order on land, not at sea
Medieval heralds could identify victors and protect prisoners on land, but sea battles had no equivalent neutral refuge.