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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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AMBROISE DE

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