Bayard
Bayard names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bayard PIERRE DU TERRAIL, SEIGNEUR DE (bī-yär')
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PIERRE DU TERRAIL, SEIGNEUR DE (bī-yär'), the Bon Chevalier sans Peur et sans Reproche (good knight without fear and without reproach), and from whom is derived the proverbial saying, "Brave as Baywas born in 1476, of an ancient ard," and noble French family of Dauphiné. He early displayed the indomitable resolution, courage, military skill, and honor which made him the model of knighthood, and caused his sovereign, Francis I., to covet as an honor the ceremony of being dubbed a knight by his hands. Bayard, at 13 years old, was placed as a page in the house of the Duke of Savoy, where he remained for five years. On the completion of his 18th year he became a soldier. The first battle at which he fought was that of Fornovo, in 1494, under the banner of Charles VIII., when he distinguished himself. He fought in the Italian wars of Louis XII. and once held a bridge single-handed enabling the French to retreat. In 1513 he fought at the famous battle of the Spurs, in Picardy, where his valor saved the dis- On grace of the whole French army. this occasion Bayard surrendered to an English knight, but was soon exchanged. In the battle of Marignano, fought Sept. 13, 1515, Bayard displayed his usual prowess; and in 1521 he defended Mé- 30-Vol. I-Cyc zières, a frontier town of France, against of the Count of Nassau, with a force orce 35,000 men. Bayard was as conspicuous for military skill as for bravery; but lacking the arts of the courtier, he was never appointed to the command of armies. Nevertheless, in moments of danger and difficulty, he was always looked up to for advice. In 1524, he served under Admiral Bonnivet in Italy against the Imperialists under the Constable de Bourbon, and at the passage of the Sesia received his mortal wound. He refused to be carried off the field, saying he would not then, for the first time, turn his back on the enemy. Reclining at the foot of a tree, he still urged on his comrades. The Constable coming up was affected at the sight, and the noble Bayard, with almost his last breath, is said to have uttered the rebuk buke, "It is not me you should mourn for, but yourself fighting against your King and your country," ," after which he died. His life was written by his loyal serviteur, or secretary, and has passed through many editions.
Bayard THOMAS FRANCIS, an American statesman and diplomatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS FRANCIS, an American statesman and diplomatist, born in Wilmington, Del., Oct. 29, 1828. He came of a family which four cessive generations represented the State for sucof Delaware in the United States Senate. The first of his ancestors to settle in that State was Peter, a son of Petrus Bayard, probably a collateral descendant of the celebrated Chevalier Bayard and Anne C. Stuyvesant, the latter a sister of Peter Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch Governors of New Netherlands. Mr. Bayard's great-grandfather, Richard Bassett, was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Bayard was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced law until 1868, when he succeeded his father, James A. Bayard, in the United States Senate. In the Democratic National Convention of 1872 he received 15 votes for the presidential nomination, and in the convention of 1876, 31 votes, which he turned over to Samuel J. Tilden. In 1880 and again in 1884 his name was voted on in the National convention of his party. In 1885 he was chosen by President Cleveland as Secretary of State, and on Cleveland's second election, in 1892, he was appointed United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, being the first to bear that title. While holding this high office he won many friends by his personal charm of manner, and his public utterances promoted good feeling in both social and government He died in Dedham, Mass., circles. Sept. 28, 1898. BAYAZID. See BAJAZET.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both accounts still stand in their essentials. The Chevalier Bayard did die of a wound at the Sesia in April 1524, but historians now read the biography by his "loyal serviteur" (Jacques de Mailles) as partly devotional legend, and the famous deathbed rebuke to the Constable de Bourbon is generally treated as a later embellishment rather than reported speech; the 500th anniversary of his death in 2024 passed with the "knight without fear and without reproach" still a fixture of French national memory and of place names from Grenoble to North America. On the American Bayard, Collier's in 1921 counted four successive generations of the family in the United States Senate; the very next year a fifth was added, when Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. won a Delaware seat and served from 1922 to 1929. He was indeed the first United States envoy to hold the rank of ambassador, to London in 1893, when Congress raised the country's senior missions from ministerial rank.
Written for this edition, 2026.