Louis de Laval

Louis de Laval (1411 – 21 August 1489) was a French nobleman, soldier, politician and bibliophile.

[5] He later served Duke Peter II and the Constable Arthur de Richemont.

[6] According to Guillaume Gruel [fr], he was one of Richemont's squires at his second wedding to Jeanne II d'Albret in 1442.

[7] In a letter to the city of Reims, the king praised Louis as "a man of great conduct, wise and expert in warfare and other things.

[9] Although he spent his career in royal service in various parts of France, Louis still frequently joined his elder brother for hunts on his Breton estates.

[3] He maintained a pro-French attitude throughout the Mad War of 1485–1488 and, in one of his final letters, dated 16 October 1488, urged Charles VIII to marry the Breton heiress, Anne of Brittany, thereby uniting the duchy with the crown.

[16] The six are: Louis's chaplain Sébastien Mamerot translated many texts from Latin into French for his patron.