Jean V de Bueil
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Jean V de Bueil (1406 – 1477), called le Fléau des Anglais "plague of the English", count of Sancerre, vicount of Carentan, lord of Montrésor, Château-la-Vallière, Saint-Calais, Vaujours, Ussé and Vailly, son of Jean IV de Bueil and Margarete Dauphine of Auvergne.
He was made captain of Tours in 1428, later captain general in Anjou and Maine. Together with Joan of Arc, he successfully completed the siege of Orleans. In September 1432 he assaulted Les Ponts-de-Cé but failed to take it from the routiers of Rodrigo de Villandrando. He participated in the battles as St. Jakob an der Birs and Castillon. He became admiral of France in 1450.
He is the author of Le Jouvencel (c. 1466), an autobiographical roman on the siege of Orleans.
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