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During the Hundred Years' War, French forces captured the town of Jageau, held by British nobleman William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk. Suffolk himself was also captured - by a regular soldier, which was quite humiliating.

But Suffolk, being an enterprising man, denied the French this humiliation by, just before being taken captive, knighting the soldier who captured him. There was nothing so very embarrassing about being captured by a knight, after all.

It was a win-win. Suffolk saved face, and the French got a legend in the newly-made Sir Guillaume Renault. The end.