A Catholic field army of four thousand remained in southwest France after Coutras

Evidence

The Gascons pointed out, however, that there was still a Catholic army in the south-west, about four thousand men under Matignon actually marching northward for a rendezvous with Joyeuse. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 365

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 365