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10 Facts about Gilles de Rais: French War Hero or First Serial Killer
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10 Facts about Gilles de Rais: French War Hero or First Serial Killer
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Over their long history, the French have had their share of monsters, such as the serial sex offender Marquis de Sade, mass guillotiner and witch hunter Maximilien de Robespierre, WWII traitor Maréchal Pétain, and, more recently, Pierre Chanal, who murdered seventeen boys. Yet one that isn’t discussed much is Gilles de Rais, which may be due to both the controversial nature of his alleged actions and the argument between two opposing factions over his guilt or innocence for them. So settle in as we scrutinize Gilles de Rais’ case from his childhood to his execution and let you decide—was he guilty or innocent of being one of the world’s first psychotic super serial killers? Related: Top 10 American Serial Killers Who Predated The 20th Century 10 Gilles de Rais’s Family Culture Gilles de Rais was born in the family castle at Champtocé-sur-Loire, to parents Guy II de Montmorency-Laval and Marie de Craon in 1404. Gilles was an intelligent child, fluent in Latin, and divided his attentions between military discipline and intellectual and moral advancement by consuming manuscripts. After his parents both passed away in 1415 (his father in a hunting accident), he and his brother René de La Suze were sent to their mother’s grandfather, Jean de Craon, for tutoring. It turned out that Jean de Craon was a major schemer who quickly tried to get the twelve-year-old Gilles married off to a four-year-old girl named Jeanne Paynel—whose mother “just happened” to be one of the wealthiest heiresses in France. Despite his first plan being doomed to fail, which it did, he tried the same ploy again, this time failing to target the Duke of Brittany’s niece for his grandson’s bride no less. Being quite the tenacious scheme artist that he was, Craon tried again for a third time. As they say, the third time’s the charm because, on November 30, 1420, he succeeded in marrying young Gilles off to Catherine de Thouars of Brittany, who “just happened” to be the heiress of La Vendée and Poitou. [1] 9 The Ultimate French Childhood Did Medieval Childhood Exist? In 15th-century France, the ultimate childhood began by being born into a fabled existence to incredibly wealthy parents with much, much wealthier and well-connected families. Such is the case with Gilles de Rais. His mother, the former Marie Craon, had married his father, Guy de Rais, who, at the time, was the heir to the exceedingly rich Jeanne la Sage. Though this purely strategically planned marriage was engineered exclusively to merge three powerful and wealthy families. Guy and Marie did not get married until Guy changed his name from Laval to de Rais strictly for the purpose of inheriting the estate of Jeanne la Sage, who was the last heiress of the de Rais family. However, la Sage reneged on the promise to make Guy her heir and instead gave her inheritance to Catherine de Machecoul, the mother of Jean Craon, Marie’s father. To prevent a major feud between Guy, the la Sages, and the Machecouls, the ever-so-astute Jean Craon proposed a marriage between Guy and Marie. It was done, and the de Raises inherited la Sage’s holdings.
Gilles would lose both parents in 1415, but his life afterward was rather non-eventful, but being the son and heir of a distinguished and rich nobleman had its perks. While as young as seven, as a distinguished child, he was treated as a young adult as all children of his class were. Gilles didn’t see his parents much but was an excellent student by all accounts, excelling in subjects such as the humanities and classic art, along with training in courtly ways and the military arts. [2] 8 His Part in France’s Hundred Years’ War Siege of Orleans: The Watershed Moment of the 100 Years War The fact that the French finally won the Hundred Years’ War against her despised mortal English enemies is common knowledge, right along with the fact that during the siege of Orleans in 1429, it was the iconic Joan of Arc entering the conflagration that ended up both saving the city and...
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