Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach

The narrative traces the life of Pierre Terrail, known as Bayard, from his upbringing in a fortified family castle through his rise as a celebrated medieval knight. Drawing on a contemporary follower's chronicle, it recounts household detail, campaigns in the Italian wars, encounters with prominent European rulers, feats of horsemanship and battlefield bravery, episodes of leadership and mercy, wounds sustained in action, and the circumstances of his death, blending chronological biography with sketches of period warfare, chivalric conduct, and the social setting of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century knighthood.