 Two years later, he would remove Marchamp from his name, thus giving rise to the first true Bataillard on 17 September 1368.This omission was not continued by his immediate descendants, however, who chose to keep their nominal ties to the noble Marchamp family.The engagement of the damoiseau (not yet knight) Jean Bataillard dit Marchamp, is recorded to have taken place on 1 September 1374, and so from this it is inferred that he was the son of the chevalier Jean Bataillard.