Tristan l'Hermite

Tristan l'Hermite (died c. 1478) was a French political and military figure of the late Middle Ages.

He was provost of the marshals of the King's household under Louis XI of France.

[5] The mystique surrounding his name caused the 17th-century French poet and playwright François l'Hermite to take his name as a pseudonym.

He appears as a figure in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris,[6] in Walter Scott's Quentin Durward,[7] in the Justin Huntly McCarthy play If I Were King,[8] and in the operetta made from the play, Rudolf Friml's The Vagabond King.

[9] He is also a character, as a young man still in the service of Arthur III of Brittany, in Juliette Benzoni's "Catherine" novel, Les Routes incertaines.