AMBROISE DE

LORE (1396-1446)  , baron of Ivry in Normandy and a French commander, was born at the chateau of Lore (Orne, arrondissement of Domfront) . His first exploit in arms was at the 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 English in Maine until the advent of Joan of Arc . He fought at Jargeau, at Meung-sur-Loire and at Patay (1429) . Using his fortress of Saint Ceneri as a 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 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, earl of Richmond (de Richmond), to expel them from Paris . He was appointed provost of Paris in February 1437, and in 1438 he was made " judge and general reformer of the malefactors of the kingdom." He was present in 1439 at the taking of Meaux, in 1441 at that of 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 .