Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch
Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch (1343 - 1377), was a cousin of the
Count of Foix and a military leader in the
Hundred Years' War who was praised by the chronicler
Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry. Fighting for the English, he commanded an English relief force when the French attacked
La Rochelle in 1372. While attempting to lift the siege of
Soubise his force was surprised by a French force led by
Owain Lawgoch, a Welsh soldier of fortune in the French service. The Captal and Sir Thomas Percy, seneschal of
Poitou, were captured. The Captal spent the remainder of his life as a prisoner at the Temple in
Paris.
See also
Captal de Buch
