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Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380 (Hardcover, New)
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Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380 (Hardcover, New)
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Evidence from more than fifty archives in western Europe offers
factual detail on du Guesclin, the most famous soldier of
fourteenth-century France, and glamorised subject of a contemporary
chivalric verse-life. Bertrand du Guesclin (d. 1380) was the most
famous French soldier of his generation. He made his name as a
guerrilla leader in the Breton War of Succession (1341-64) and, as
Constable from 1370-80, played a major role in the recovery of
France under Charles V. Captured on at least three occasions, but
also victorious in several important battles, his valour and
dominant personality allowed him to exercise remarkable influence.
He twice led important expeditions to Spain where he was rewarded
with lands and titles by the kings of Aragon and Castile. A
contemporary chivalric verse-life lies at the base of all
subsequent biographies, but this book brings together for the first
time the wealth of archival evidence relating to his career, making
available the full range of diplomatic, administrative and
financial evidence for his public and private life found in more
than fifty archives in western Europe. It offers a corrective to
views on du Guesclin that have traditionally been derived too
exclusively, and often uncritically, from literary sources. MICHAEL
JONES is Emeritus Professor of Medieval French History, University
of Nottingham.
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