Routiers
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For other uses, see Routier (disambiguation).
Routiers (French: [ʁutje]) were mercenary soldiers of the Middle Ages. Their particular distinction from other paid soldiers of the time was that they were organised into bands (rutta or routes).[1] The term is first used in the 12th century but is particularly associated with free companies who terrorised the French countryside during the Hundred Years' War.