"An authoritative historical study of Olivier IV, Lord of Clisson, the influential royal commander of France during the Hundred Years' War. Henneman (Princeton U.) draws on recent discoveries of documentation and also traditional accounts to portray the complex figure whose story is also one of French royal politics, connecting to court politics, the aristocracy of Brittany, and the nobility of the royal household, in particular the Marmousets and Charles V. Includes maps and illustrations and appendices supplying information on the leaders of French military society, and a genealogy of the Clisson family."