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Jean le Maingre "Le Boucicault"

Scale: 54mm
Material: White Metal
Sculpted by: Stefano Sartorello
Painted by: Enea Rovaris

Jean le Maingre "le Boucicault" a French marshal born in 1365. Governor of Languedoc & Guyanne, under the French King Charles VI, he fought the English and later the Teutonics in Poland. Captured at Adrianople in 1396 during a Crusade. He governed Genoa for the King of France (1401-1409). In 1403 another Crusade led him to Beirut. In 1415, heavily defeated as field commander at Agincourt, he was found alive and captured by the English. Nobody paid his ransom & he died a prisoner in England in May 1421. Marshal le Maingre was renowned for the foundation in 1399 of the knightly order "Emprise de l'Escu vert à la Dame Blanche" and as author of the book "Heures de Boucicault" (1405). At Agincourt, the Marshal wore armour covering his whole body with the iron mail camail substituted by a fixed plate (gorget). The heraldic emblem of Jean le Maingre was a two-headed red eagle on a white background. The figure can be painted with other French heraldry since the garment's cut with sleeves was a typical French trend.