André de Laval-Montmorency, seigneur de Lohéac

Lohéac

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(c. 1408-1485) was a Marshal of France

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. He was the son of Guy XIII de Laval

Guy XIII de Laval

Guy XIII de Laval, born Jean de Montfort, was seigneur of Laval and of Kergorlay. His father was Raoul IX de Montfort and his mother Jeanne de Kergorlay....

 and Anne de Laval

Anne de Laval (1385-1466)

Anne de Laval was a medieval French noblewoman. She was the daughter of Jeanne de Laval-Tinténiac and her second husband Guy XII de Laval , governor of Britanny and baron of Laval .-Titles:She was the hereditary dame of Laval, hereditary baronne of Vitré, hereditary countess of Rennes, of...

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In 1423 he served in the French army against England

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, and in 1428 was taken prisoner by John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

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, after the capitulation of Laval

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, which he was defending. After paying his ransom he was present with Joan of Arc

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 at the siege of Orléans

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, at the Battle of Patay

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, and at the coronation of Charles VII

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. He was made admiral of France

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 in 1437 and marshal in 1439.

He served Charles VII faithfully in all his wars, even against the dauphin (1456), and when the latter became king as Louis XI

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, Laval was dismissed from the marshal's office. After the War of the Public Weal he was restored to favor, and recovered the marshal's baton, the king also granting him the offices of lieutenant-general to the government of Paris

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 and governor of Picardy

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, and conferring upon him the collar of the Order of St Michael. In 1472 Laval was successful in resisting the attacks of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy

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, on Beauvais

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