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See also:BAYARD, See also:PIERRE TERRAIL, SEIGNEUR DE (1473–1524) ,
See also:French soldier, the descendant of a See also:noble See also:family, nearly every See also:head of which for two centuries past had fallen in See also:battle, was See also:born P.t the See also:chateau Bayard, See also:Dauphine (near Pontcharra, See also:Isere), about 1473. He served as a See also:page to See also:Charles I., See also:duke of See also:Savoy, until Charles VIII. of See also:France, attracted by his graceful bearing, placed him among the royal followers under the seigneur (See also:count) de Lim- y (1487). As a youth he was distinguished for comeliness, affability of manner, and skill in the tilt-yard. In 1494 he accompanied Charles VIII. into See also:Italy, and was knighted after the battle of Fornova (1495), where he had captured a See also:standard. Shortly afterwards, entering See also:Milan alone in ardent pursuit of the enemy, he was taken prisoner, but was set See also:free without a See also:ransom by Lodovico See also:Sforza. In 1502 he was wounded at the See also:assault of See also:Canossa. Bayard was the See also:hero of a celebrated combat of thirteen French knights against an equal number of Germans, and his restless See also:energy and valour were conspicuous throughout the See also:Italian See also:wars of this See also:period. On one occasion it is said that, single-handed, he made See also:good the See also:defence of the See also:bridge of the Garigliano against about 20o Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that See also:Pope See also:Julius II. sought to entice him into the papal service, but unsuccessfully. In 1508 he distinguished himself again at the See also:siege of See also:Genoa by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XII., and See also:early in 1509 the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king made him See also:captain of a See also:company of See also:horse and See also:foot. At the siege of See also:Padua he won further distinction, not only by his valour, but also by his consummate skill. He continued to serve in the Italian wars up to the siege of See also:Brescia in 1512. Here his intrepidity in first mounting the rampart cost him a severe See also:wound, which obliged his soldiers to carry him into a neighbouring See also:house, the See also:residence of a nobleman, whose wife and daughters he protected from threatened insult.
Before his wound was healed, he hurried to join Gaston de See also:Foix, under whom he served in the terrible battle of See also:Ravenna (1512). In 1513, when See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. of See also:England routed the French at the battle of the Spurs (Guinegate, where Bayard's See also:father had received a lifelong injury in a battle of 1479), Bayard in trying to rally his countrymen found his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape cut off. Unwilling to surrender, he rode suddenly up to an See also:English officer who was resting unarmed, and summoned him to yield; the See also:knight complying, Bayard in turn gave himself up to his prisoner. He was taken into the English See also:camp, but his gallantry impressed Henry as it had impressed Lodovico, and the king released him without ransom, merely exacting his See also:parole not to serve for six See also:weeks. On the See also:accession of See also:Francis I. in 1515 Bayard was made See also:lieutenant-See also:general of Dauphine; and after the victory of See also:Marignan, to which his valour largely contributed, he had the See also:honour of conferring See also:knighthood on his youthful See also:sovereign. When See also:war again See also:broke out between Francis I. and Charles V., Bayard, with loon men, held See also:Mezieres, which had been declared untenable, against an See also:army of 35,000, and after six weeks compelled the imperial generals to raise the siege. This stubborn resistance saved central France from invasion, as the king had not then sufficient forces to withstand the imperialists. All France rang with the achievement, and Francis gained See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to collect the royal army which drove out the invaders (1521). The See also:parlement thanked Bayard as the saviour of his See also:country; the king made him a knight of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of St See also:Michael, and See also:commander in his own name of See also:loo gens d'armes, an honour till then reserved for princes of the See also:blood. After allaying a revolt at Genoa, and striving with the greatest assiduity to check a pestilence in Dauphine, Bayard was sent, in 1523, into Italy with
See also:Admiral See also:Bonnivet, who, being defeated at Robecco and wounded in a combat during his See also:retreat, implored Bayard to assume the command and See also:save the army. He repulsed the foremost pursuers, but in guarding the See also:rear at the passage of the Sesia was mortally wounded by an See also:arquebus See also:ball (See also:April 30th, 1524). He died in the midst of the enemy, attended by See also:Pescara, the See also:Spanish corns. See also:mander, and by his old comrade the See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable de See also:Bourbon.
His See also:body was restored to his See also:friends and interred at See also:Grenoble. See also:Chivalry, free of fantastic extravagance, is perfectly mirrored in the See also:character of Bayard. As a soldier he was one of the most skilful commanders of the See also:age. He was particularly noted for the exactitude and completeness of his See also:information of the enemy's movements; this he obtained both by careful See also:reconnaissance and by a well-arranged See also:system of espionage. In the midst of See also:mercenary armies Bayard remained absolutely disinterested, and to his contemporaries and his successors, he was, with his romantic heroism, piety and magnanimity, the fearless and faultless knight, le See also:chevalier sans peur et sans reproche. His gaiety and kindness won him, even more frequently, another name bestowed by his contemporaries, le bon chevalier.
Contemporary lives of Bayard are the following:— " Le loyal serviteur " (? Jacques de Maille) ; La his joyeuse, plaisante, et recreative histoire . . See also:des faiz, gestes, triumpher et prouesses du bon chevalier sans paour et sans reproche, le gentil seigneur de Bayart (See also:original edition printed at See also:Paris, 1527 ; the See also:modern See also:editions are very numerous, those of M. J. See also:Roman and of L. Larthey appeared in 1878 and 1882) ; Symphorien Champier, See also:Les Gestes, ensemble la See also:vie du preulx chevalier Bayard (See also:Lyons, 1525) ; Aymar du Rivail, Histoire des See also:Allobroges (edition of de Terrebasse, 1844) ; see Bayard in Repertoire des See also:sources historiques, by Ulysse Chevalier, and in particular A. de Terrebasse, Hist. de Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayart (1st ed., Paris, 1828; 5th ed., See also:Vienna, 187o).
End of Article: BAYARD, PIERRE TERRAIL, SEIGNEUR DE (1473–1524)
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