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Was a
French military
commander during the
Hundred Years' War. He
fought alongside
Joan of Arc in the
campaigns of 1429. His most significant action was
to lead the vanguard in the important victory at
Patay.
He entered (1418) the service of the dauphin
(later King Charles VII) when the English army
invaded France. Three years later, in 1421 he fought
at the
Battle of Baugé.
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Robert Barriot's work of
Jeanne d'Arc, Friar Jean Pasquerel and La
Hire |
He was a close comrade of
Joan of Arc, and as the
King's captain he commanded the advance guard at the
Battle of Patay, a
French victory. He was imprisoned in Dourdan in the
spring of 1431. He won the
Battle of Gerbevoy.
He was at the
battle of Baugé (1421). La Hire was with Dunois,
when they reinforced Montargis with 1,600 troops,
forcing Warwick to break off his siege. La Hire
seized Le Mans, but Talbot retook the town later. La
Hire, with Jean de Dunois
and Jean Poton de
Xaintrailles, reinforced Orléans early in the siege
and remained active in the army of the Loire
campaign in 1429 until the
coronation of Charles VII.
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Battle
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Xaintrailles & La Hire |
Jean de
Xaintrailles & La Hire |
In late 1436, La
Hire and Xaintrailles
appeared in front of Rouen with 1,000 troops, but
the citizens would not admit them. The French
retired to a little town of Ris, where they were
later driven out by Talbot.
For a time La Hire ravaged N France at the head of a
marauding band of soldiers, but in 1437 he resumed
the fight against the English.
La Hire was made captain general of Normandy
in 1438 by Charles VII. He was later captured
by the Burgundians and ransomed by the French king.
La Hire became ill at Montauban during one of the
early reconquest campaigns of the southwest.
He died at
Montauban on 11
January, 1443, of an unknown illness.
place La Hire et
Xaintrailles
dans
Gerberoy, France
In popular
culture
La Hire is commemorated as the face of the
Jack of Hearts
in French playing cards.
His name remains a byword
for a choleric disposition.
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