| LC control no. | n 79142948 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rais, Gilles de, 1404-1440 |
| Variant(s) | Raiz, Gilles de, seigneur de, 1404-1440 Gilles de Laval, seigneur de, 1404-1440 Gilles de Rais, seigneur de, 1404-1440 Laval, Gilles de, seigneur de, 1404-1440 Retz, Gilles de Laval, seigneur de, 1404-1440 De Laval Rais, Gilles, seigneur de, 1404-1440 Rais, Gilles de Laval, seigneur de, 1404-1440 Gilles de Rays, 1404-1440 Gilles de Retz, 1404-1440 Barbablù, 1404-1440 |
| Associated country | France |
| Birth date | 14041200 |
| Death date | 14401025 |
| Place of birth | Maine-et-Loire (France) |
| Place of death | Nantes (France) |
| Field of activity | Crime--France Trials (Heresy)--France |
| Found in | Vincent, A. S. Gilles de Rais, 1926. Barbablù : Gilles de Rais e il tramonto del Medioevo, 1998: p. 11 (Gilles de Rais (or Retz, or Rays), marshal or warrant officer of France; companion of Joan of Arc; a.k.a. "Barbablù, 1404-1440) The trial of Gilles de Rais, 2004, ©1991: title page (Gilles de Rais) page 13 (as some affirm, his crimes was the most abject of all time) page 70 (near the end of the year 1404, he was born on the bank of the Loire, the Black Tower of the castle at Champtocé) page 4 of cover (began his career as lieutenant to the devout martyr and saint Joan of Arc after her execution, he fled to his estate in Franch countryside, where he began to ritually slaughtered hundreds of children. In Oct. 25, 1440, he was hanged and burned at Nantes, France after the trials) |
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