An Unlikely Hero: The Black Dog of Brocéliande

The story of an unconventional warfighter in the Age of Chivalry

During the darkest years of the Hundred Years’ War, France stood on the brink of collapse. Its armies were defeated, its ideals applied to warfare exposed as outdated, and its future uncertain.

From this chaos emerged an unlikely figure: Bertrand du Guesclin, known to his enemies as the Black Dog of Brocéliande. The name marked him as a rough forest fig…