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With its snub nose and double chin, it is difficult to believe that this effigy portrays one of France and Europe's
most accomplished soldiers. (Getty Images)
been given to a man first and foremost a professional
soldier rather than one of the country's high nobility.
Bertrand met some resistance to his authority from
the aristocracy he was set over, but a series of brisk
and purposeful campaigns, characterized by the
Constable's energy and careful avoidance of battle
unless he had a clear advantage, saw much of the land
lost by the French in the preceding decade regained.
The knight died on campaign, but not in battle.
On the last day of the siege of Chateauneuf-
de-Randon in 1380, as the garrison were preparing
to surrender according to the terms of the Respite
agreed, Bertrand died, probably from typhoid. His
remains were interred at St Denis alongside the kings
and queens of France, but the heart of this coarse-
bred Breton squire who had become commander of
all France was returned to his Breton homeland.