[SPAM] character. Michel, the heir of Gruyere, and

N favor with Pierre de Savoy and his successors, the counts of Gruyere
became their trusted courtiers and counselors, and through many
vicissitudes and many wars merited the encomium of Switzerland's first
historian, that the "Age of chivalry produced no braver soldiers than
these counts, their suzerain had no more devoted vassals." The
submission of Rodolphe of Gruyere having been confirmed in formal
treaty, his grandson and successor Count Pierre the Third, loyally
supported during a long and brilliant reign the banners of his overlord
against the rising power of Rudolph of Hapsburg. When Berne, allied with
Savoy, was besieged by the Hapsburg army, Count Pierre generously
supplied money to the beleaguered city and in the final battle when the
city fell, it was a Jean de Gruyere who snatched the torn and
bloodstained Bernese banner from the hands of the enemy. When asked the
name of the hero who had saved the flag, his comrades answered "_c'est
le preux de Gruyere_," and to this day the Bernese family of Gruyere
bear the title thus bravely won by their progenitor. The role of
mediator, filled with distinction by his successors, was first assig

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