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Jean III de Grailly
Military leader in the Hundred Years' War
Jean III de Grailly, Captal de Buch, KG, illustration from the Bruges Garter Book, c.1430The castle of Benauges was hereditary in the Grailly family after having been granted to Jean I de Grailly in the early 1260s.Gold signet ring belonging to Jean III de Grailly in the British Museum, late 14th century.[1]
Jean III de Grailly (aka. John De Grailly, died 7 September 1376), Captal de Buch, KG, was a Gascon nobleman and a military leader in the Hundred Years' War, who was praised by the chronicler Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry.