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GUILLEBERT DE LANNOY (1386—1462)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUILLEBERT DE

LANNOY (1386—1462)  , Flemish diplomatist, was chamberlain to the duke of
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Burgundy, governor of the fort of Sluys, and a knight of the
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Golden Fleece . He discharged several
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diplomatic missions in France, England, Prussia, Poland and Lithuania, and was one of the negotiators of the treaty of
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Troyes (1420) . In 1421 he was sent by Henry V. of England to
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Palestine to inquire into the possibility of reviving the
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kingdom of Jerusalem, and wrote an account of his travels,
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Les Pelerinages de Surye et de Egipte, which was published in 1826 and again in 1842 .

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