Talbart Talbardon was

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captain in the

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. He was also called Taillevardon and was one of several "men-at-arms plundering the whole country ... " according to a letter from that year. In 1363 he was a

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, the king's lieutenant. When the Treaty of Brétigny was signed on 8 May 1360 he was left without employment, and joined the roaming bands of displaced mercenaries who began to plunder the

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country side. According to William Paradin, King John II the Good had him hanged in 1362 at Trishastel along with Guillaume Pot and Jean de Chauffour. However, Guillaume Pot is known to have lived until at least 1367 and Jean de Chauffour was beheaded in

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in the middle of 1364.Bertrand Gille (eds.): History of techniques , Gallimard, coll. "The Pleiad", 1978

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{{reflist Hundred Years' War People of the Hundred Years' War Medieval mercenaries 14th century in France Year of birth unknown