RICHEMONT, ARTHUR, CONSTABLE DE

born 1393, Brittany died Dec. 26, 1458 also called Earl of Richmond, or (145758) Arthur III, Duke of Brittany, French Arthur, Conntable de Richemont, or Comte de Richemont, or Arthur III, duc de Bretagne constable of France (from 1425) who fought for Charles VII under the banner of Joan of Arc and later fought further battles against the English (143653) in the final years of the Hundred Years' War. In childhood (1399) he had been given the English title of Earl of Richmond, styled in French as Comte de Richemont. In 1457 he became Duke of Brittany. Additional reading Richemont's career is addressed in douard Perroy, The Hundred Years War (1951, reissued 1965).