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Bayard — The knight without fear and beyond reproach, killed in action in 1524
A younger son of minor Dauphiné nobility whose every head died in war, page to the Duke of Savoy then man-at-arms to three kings, he held a bridge on the Garigliano alone, was first up the rampart at Brescia, was said to have knighted Francis I on the evening of Marignano — and died on campaign. (Editorial synthesis)
Bayard was born in Pontcharra. (source: Base Mérimée and Encyclopædia Britannica)
Bayard died on 30 April 1524 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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