The Song of Bertrand du Guesclin
Bertrand du Guesclin is one of the great French heroes of the Hundred Years War, his story every bit as remarkable as Joan of Arc's. The son of a minor Breton noble, he rose in the 1360s and '70s to become the Constable of France - a supreme military position, outranking even the princes of the blood royal. Through campaigns ranging from Brittany to Castile he achieved not only fame as a pre-eminent leader of Charles V's armies, but a dukedom in Spain, burial among the kings of France in the royal basilica at Saint-Denis, and recognition as nothing less than the 'Tenth Worthy', being ranked alongside the nine paragons of chivalry who included…
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Weitere Autoren: Cuvelier (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78744-625-0
- EAN: 9781787446250
- Produktnummer: 33272324
- Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 442 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'437 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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