Combat of the Thirty
Thirty against thirty: a fight by appointment mid-war
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In the middle of the Hundred Years' War, the captains of two Breton castles agreed to settle their quarrel with a fight of 30 knights against 30, like a tournament. It lasted all day, with a break for rest and drink; the French side won.
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"Drink your blood, Beaumanoir, and your thirst will pass!" So, says the chronicle, a comrade answered the wounded Breton leader who asked for water during the Combat of the Thirty in 1351. Share →
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 14 years earlier
Africa
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 24 years earlier
Asia
- 1351 Founding of Ayutthaya — same year
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 17 years later
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 19 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 15)
- Orhan (aged 70)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 47)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 46)
- Edward III (aged 39)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 37)
- Charles IV (aged 35)
- Murad I (aged 25)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 19)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 1)