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BEAUMANOIR , a seigniory in what is now the See also:department of See also:Cotes-du-See also:Nord, See also:France, which gave its name to an illustrious See also:family. See also:Jean de Beaumanoir, See also:marshal of See also:Brittany for See also:Charles of See also:Blois, and See also:captain of Josselin, is remembered for his See also:share in the famous See also:battle of the See also:Thirty. This battle, sung by an unknown See also:trouvere and retold with See also:variations by See also:Froissart, was an See also:episode in the struggle for the See also:succession to the duchy of Brittany between Charles of Blois, supported by 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 of France, and See also:John of See also:Montfort, supported by the king of See also:England. John Bramborough, the See also:English captain of Ploermel, having continued his ravages, in spite of a truce, in the See also:district commanded by the captain of Josselin, Jean de Beaumanoir sent him a See also:challenge, which resulted in a fight between thirty picked champions, knights and squires, on either See also:side, which took See also:place on the 25th of See also:March 1351, near Ploermel. Beaumanoir commanded thirty Bretons, Bramborough a mixed force of twenty Englishmen, six See also:German mercenaries and four See also:Breton partisans of Montfort. The battle, fought with swords, daggers and axes, was of the most desperate See also:character, in its details very reminiscent of the last fight of the Burgundian in the See also:Nibelungenlied, especially in the celebrated See also:advice of See also:Geoffroy du Bois to his wounded See also:leader, who was asking for See also:water: " Drink your See also:blood, Beaumanoir; that will quench your thirst!" In the end the victory was decided by See also:Guillaume de See also:Montauban, who mounted his See also:horse and overthrew seven of the English champions, the See also:rest being forced to surrender. All the combatants on either side were either dead or seriously wounded, Bramborough being among the slain. The prisoners were well treated and released on See also:payment of a small See also:ransom. (See Le Fame du combat See also:des Trente, in the See also:Pantheon litteraire; Froissart, Chroniques, ed. S. Luce, c. iv. pp. 45 and See also:Ito if., and pp.
338-340).
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