Battle of the Thirty: chivalry as private duel
1351
In a Breton meadow, thirty knights of the French side fought thirty Anglo-Breton knights under agreed rules until exhaustion. The French won. Both sides were celebrated for courtesy and bravery. Jean de Beaumanoir, who led the French, became a hero of chivalric legend. The episode became a touchstone for fading ideals of chivalric warfare in an age of plague and longbows.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.