Giles d'Argentan

Giles d'Argentan ( 1280 – 24 June 1314) was a Norman knight who was slain at the Battle of Bannockburn. At the time he was serving under King Edward II of England. According to the Liber Pluscardensis, d'Argentan was ranked in his prime as one of the three most accomplished knights in Christendom, along with the Holy Roman Emperor Henry and King Robert I of Scotland.

Born in about 1280, at or near Argentan, d'Argentan had participated in a Crusade to the Middle East via the Knights of Rhodes, during which he had been captured by the Emperor of Byzantium, Andronikos II Palaiologos. Edward had ransomed d'Argentan from that Emperor, so as to place a well-respected warrior at his side. He had also served in the wars of Henry of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Emperor. His death is described in the Vita Edwardi Secundi, Thomas Grey's Scalacronica, and John Barbour's poem Brus.