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COUNT OF JEAN DUNOIS (1403-1468)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 682 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT OF See also:JEAN See also:DUNOIS (1403-1468)  , commonly called the " See also:Bastard of See also:Orleans," a celebrated See also:French See also:commander, was the natural son of the See also:duke of Orleans (See also:brother of See also:Charles VI.) and See also:Mariette d'See also:Enghien, Madame de Canny . He was broughtup in the See also:house of the duke, and in the See also:company of his legitimate sons, and it appears that he was See also:present at the See also:battle of Beaug6 in 1421 and Vemeuil in 1424 . His earliest feat of arms was the surprise and rout in 1427 of the See also:English, who were besieging See also:Montargis—the first successful See also:blow against the English See also:power in See also:France following a See also:long See also:series of French defeats . In 142£ he defended Orleans with the greatest spirit, and enabled the See also:place to hold out until the arrival of See also:Joan of Arc, when he shared with her the See also:honour of defeating the enemy there in 1429 . He then accompanied Joan to See also:Reims and shared in the victory of Patay . After her See also:death he raised the See also:siege of See also:Chartres and of Lagny (1432) and engaged in a series of successful See also:campaigns which ended in his triumphal entry into See also:Paris on the 13th of See also:April 1436 . He continued to carry on the See also:war against the English, and gradually drove them to the northward, though his See also:work was to some extent interrupted by the See also:civil disorders of the See also:time, in which he played a conspicuous See also:part . Finally in 1450 he completed the reconquest of See also:northern France, and in 1451 he attacked them in See also:Guienne, taking among other towns See also:Bordeaux, which the English had held for three See also:hundred years, and See also:Bayonne . After the See also:expulsion of the English he was constantly engaged in the highest See also:diplomatic and military See also:missions . In 1465 he joined the See also:league of revolted princes, but, assuming the See also:function of negotiator, he was after a time reinstated in his offices . See also:Dunois was thenceforward in the greatest favour with the See also:court . He died on the 24th of See also:November 1468 .

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