Zavish the Black of Garbow Characters

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The Invincible Knight, exemplar of all knightly virtues, undefeated champion of tournaments, the most famous among the famous. With these and many other epithets, Zavish of Garbow was known, likely the most renowned knight of his time and certainly the most famous Pole of the early 15th century.
Sources indicate that around 1403 he served as a mercenary knight in the service of Margrave Prokop and led a guerrilla war against the Bishop of Olomouc. Later, he served at the court of Sigismund of Luxembourg, with whom he campaigned in Bosnia. In 1410, he fought on the side of Poland in the famous Battle of Grunwald.
He died in 1428 in Serbia during a crusade against the Turks.

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