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In order to give him further encouragement and advancement the king did set him close to him at table, showed him all the signs he could of affection, and gave him, together with the office, many handsome gifts and great estates for binelf and his heirs." Charles V.might fearlessly lavish his gifts on the loyal warrior, for Du Guesclin felt nothing more binding upon him than to lavish them, in his turn, for the king's service.

He gave numerous and sumptuous dinners to the barons, knights, and soldiers of every degree whom he was to command.
"At Bertrand's plate gazed every eye, So massive, chased so gloriously," says the poet-chronicler Cuvelier; but Du Guesclin pledged it more than once, and sold a great portion of it, in order to pay "without fail the knights and honorable fighting-men of whom he was the leader." The war thus renewed was hotly prosecuted on both sides.