Robert de Baudricourt (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ də bodʁikuʁ]; ca.
1400-1454), Seigneur de Baudricourt, Blaise, Buxy and Sorcy was a minor figure of 15th-century French nobility.
It was to him that Joan of Arc appealed to provide an escort to the court of Charles Valois, Dauphin of France.
Initially, Baudricourt simply did not take the sixteen-year-old peasant girl seriously, but since Vaucouleurs was not a large town, he could hardly avoid her.
Baudricourt advanced during the war against the English and over the rest of his career, rising to squire, then knight, and finally was made a lord.