French Military Commander. A commander of French forces during the Hundred Years War and ally of Joan of Arc. Better known by the moniker of "La Hire", he entered the French Army in 1418, in the service of the Dauphin (later to become King Charles VII) and was a loyal companion of Joan of Arc, with whom he helped to defeat the English at Orléans and Patay. For a time he ravaged Northern France as the head of a marauding band of soldiers, but in 1437 he resumed the fight against the English. He died in Montauban in 1442, and was buried in the Abbey at Montmorillon, where he laid until it was ransacked in 1562 by a group of Huguenots from Orleans and his bones scattered.
French Military Commander. A commander of French forces during the Hundred Years War and ally of Joan of Arc. Better known by the moniker of "La Hire", he entered the French Army in 1418, in the service of the Dauphin (later to become King Charles VII) and was a loyal companion of Joan of Arc, with whom he helped to defeat the English at Orléans and Patay. For a time he ravaged Northern France as the head of a marauding band of soldiers, but in 1437 he resumed the fight against the English. He died in Montauban in 1442, and was buried in the Abbey at Montmorillon, where he laid until it was ransacked in 1562 by a group of Huguenots from Orleans and his bones scattered.
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