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SEIGNEUR DE LOHEAC ANDRE DE LAVAL (c....

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 290 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDRE DE See also:LAVAL (c. 1408-1485)  , See also:French soldier . In 1423 he served in the French See also:army against See also:England, and in 1428 was taken prisoner by See also:John See also:Talbot, 1st See also:earl of See also:Shrewsbury, after the See also:capitulation of See also:Laval, which he was defending . After paying his See also:ransom he was See also:present with See also:Joan of Arc at the See also:siege of See also:Orleans, at the See also:battle of Patay, and at the See also:coronation of See also:Charles VII . He was made See also:admiral of See also:France in 1437 and See also:marshal in 1439 . He served Charles VII. faithfully in all his See also:wars, even against the dauphin (1456), and when the latter became See also:king as See also:Louis XI., Laval was dismissed from the marshal's See also:office . After the See also:War of the Public Weal he was restored to favour, and recovered the marshal's See also:baton, the king also granting him the offices of See also:lieutenant-See also:general to the See also:government of See also:Paris and See also:governor of See also:Picardy, and confer-See also:ring upon him the See also:collar of the See also:order of St See also:Michael . In 1472 Laval was successful in resisting the attacks of Charles the Bold, See also:duke of See also:Burgundy, on See also:Beauvais .

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