 At the beginning "la compagnie écossaise des gardes du corps du roi" included 100 "gardes du corps" (25 bodyguards and 75 "archiers").Each bodyguard had four men-at-arms under his command, (a squire, an archer, a cranequinier and a servant), one of them acquired the name of "premier homme d'armes du royaume de France".They were finally disbanded in 1830 at the abdication of Charles X.

Scottish warriors were believed to have fought for Charlemagne and later in the Armies of Charles the Simple in 882.