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BEAUMANOIR , a seigniory in what is now the department of Cotes
marshal of Brittany for Charles of Blois, and captain of Josselin, is remembered for his share in the famous battle of the Thirty. This battle, sung by an unknown trouvere and retold with variations by Froissart, was an episode in the struggle for the succession to the duchy of Brittany between Charles of Blois, supported by the king of France, and John of Montfort , supported by the king of England. John Bramborough, the English captain of Ploermel, having continued his ravages, in spite of a truce, in the district
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Breton partisans of Montfort . The battle, fought with swords, daggers and axes, was of the most desperate character, in its details very reminiscent of the last fight of the Burgundian in the Nibelungenlied, especially in the celebrated advice of Geoffroy du Bois to his wounded leader, who was asking for water: " Drink your blood, Beaumanoir; that will quench your thirst!" In the end the victory was decided by Guillaume de Montauban
ransom . (See Le Fame du combat des Trente, in the Pantheon litteraire; Froissart, Chroniques, ed. S. Luce, c. iv. pp. 45 and Ito if., and pp. 338-340).End of Article: BEAUMANOIR If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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