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AMBROISE DE LORE (1396-1446)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 6 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LORE (1396-1446)  , See also:baron of Ivry in See also:Normandy and a See also:French See also:commander, was See also:born at the See also:chateau of See also:Lore (See also:Orne, See also:arrondissement of See also:Domfront) . His first exploit in arms was at the See also:battle of See also:Agincourt in 1415; he followed the party of the Armagnacs and attached himself to the dauphin See also:Charles . He waged continual warfare against the See also:English in See also:Maine until the See also:advent of See also:Joan of Arc . He fought at Jargeau, at Meung-sur-See also:Loire and at Patay (1429) . Using his fortress of See also:Saint Ceneri as a See also:base of operations during the next few years, he seized upon See also:Matthew See also:Gough near Vivoin in 1431, and made an incursion as far as the walls of See also:Caen, whence he brought away three thousand prisoners . Taken See also:captive himself in 1433, he was exchanged for See also:Talbot . In 1435 he and See also:Dunois defeated the English near Meulan, and in 1436. he helped the See also:constable See also:Arthur, See also:earl of See also:Richmond (de Richmond), to expel them from See also:Paris . He was appointed See also:provost of Paris in See also:February 1437, and in 1438 he was made " See also:judge and See also:general reformer of the malefactors of the See also:kingdom." He was See also:present in 1439 at the taking of See also:Meaux, in 1441 at that of See also:Pontoise, and he died on the 24th of May 1446 . See the Nouvelle Biographie Generale, vol. xxxi., and the Revue Historique du Maine, vols. iii. and vi . (J .

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