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    Bertrand du Guesclin (Breton: Beltram Gwesklin; c. 1320 – 13 July 1380), nicknamed "The Eagle of Brittany" or "The Black Dog of Brocéliande", was a Breton...
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    prisoner. By 1378, under King Charles V the Wise and the leadership of Bertrand du Guesclin, the French had reconquered most of the lands ceded to King Edward...
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  • Gravey, Junie Astor and Ketti Gallian. The film is a biopic about Bertrand du Guesclin, a baron, Constable of France, and high-ranked officer in the French...
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    was a Breton noblewoman and astrologer. She was the first wife of Bertrand du Guesclin. She was the oldest daughter of Robin Raguenel, seigneur de Chatel-Ogier...
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    routiers who regularly plundered the country when not employed. Led by Bertrand du Guesclin, the French Army was able to turn the tide of the Hundred Years'...
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    of Aquitaine, led the English forces and the French were led by Bertrand du Guesclin. The reason Edward represented Aquitaine rather than England, was...
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    benefit of improved generalship in the person of the Breton commander Bertrand du Guesclin, who, leaving Brittany, entered the service of Charles and became...
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    of Lanvaux. Bertrand du Guesclin, who commanded the vanguard of the French troops, was in nearby Brandivy. On 28 September, du Guesclin landed on the...
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    Trastámara at the head of a host of soldiers of fortune, including Bertrand du Guesclin and Hugh Calveley, and abandoned the kingdom without daring to give...
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    of north-west France on 4 December 1370, when a French army under Bertrand du Guesclin heavily defeated an English force which had broken away from an army...
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    companies, under Sir Hugh Calveley and other leaders, took service with Bertrand du Guesclin, who employed them in 1366 in compelling King Peter of Castile to...
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    companies loyal to his lieutenant the Breton knight and French commander Bertrand du Guesclin. Although the battle ended with a resounding defeat for Henry, it...
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    Henry's Castillian allies, the Aragonese and the French (a company of Bertrand du Guesclin's mercenaries, expelled by Peter of Castile, who had taken refuge...
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    1431. A "tenth worthy" was added by Deschamps, in the figure of Bertrand du Guesclin, the Breton knight to whom France owed recovery from the battles...
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    pig-keepers'! A little later, another reprovisioning was brought by Bertrand Du Guesclin, who entered the town with carts full of rations, distracting the...
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    French Crown, attacked Jersey and Guernsey in 1372, and in 1373 Bertrand du Guesclin besieged Mont Orgueil. The young King Richard II of England reconfirmed...
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    1304–1356), 1356 Robert Moreau de Fiennes (1308–1372), 1356–1370 Bertrand du Guesclin (1320–1380), 1370–1380 Olivier V de Clisson (1336–1407), 1380–1392...
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    resumed in 1363 when Charles de Blois, assisted by Bertrand du Guesclin, had some successes, but when Bertrand left to take control of strongholds in Navarre...
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  • during the Breton War of Succession, the Franco-Bretons, led by Bertrand Du Guesclin, took their revenge at the Battle of Montmuran on April 10, 1354...
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    views of Dinan The Rue du Jerzual is a steep medieval street connecting Dinan to the river below. Statue of Bertrand Du Guesclin. Saint Saviour's Basilica...
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    II of Navarre in Normandy, where he was defeated and captured by Bertrand du Guesclin at Cocherel. After his release the following year, he defected to...
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    by the vigorous Charles V, who enlisted the help of the capable Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France In 1369, the French war started anew, and Edward's...
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    Arnaud, Lord of Albret, and Margaret de Bourbon. He served under Bertrand du Guesclin as a young man and fought at the battle of Roosebeke. He was made...
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    killed out of hand. Examples include Richard the Lion Heart and Bertrand du Guesclin. In 1532, Francisco Pizarro was paid a ransom amounting to a roomful...
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    breach of the peace treaty. The king of France's forces were led by Bertrand du Guesclin, though Jean, Count of Auxerre was the highest-ranking noble present...
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  • French judoka Bertrand Delanoë (born 1950), French politician Bertrand Gachot (born 1962), Franco-Belgian racing driver Bertrand du Guesclin (c. 1320 – 1380)...
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  • of Trastámara. Henry was also supported by the French commander Bertrand du Guesclin and his "free companies" of troops. Peter of Castile was supported...
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    Saintonge, Angoumois, and Poitou. Soon after, the victories of Bertrand du Guesclin and Gaston III, Count of Foix, restored the duchy to its 13th-century...
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    sometime before 1815. It shows the final moments of a legend of Bertrand Du Guesclin, when he reveals his identity after competing anonymously in a tournament...
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  • were prominent military commanders in the medieval period, such as Bertrand du Guesclin who served from 1370 to 1380. The office of the constable was introduced...
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