Gilbert de Lafayette
| Gilbert Motier de La Fayette | |
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| Other name(s) | Gilbert III de Lafayette |
| Born | 1380 Auvergne |
| Died | February 22, 1462 (aged 81) Auvergne |
| Buried at | Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu (45°19′20″N 3°41′51″E / 45.32222°N 3.69750°E) |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of France |
| Years of service | 1409-1449 |
| Rank | Marshal of France |
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Gilbert Motier de La Fayette (1380 – 22 February 1462) seigneur of La Fayette, Pontgibaud, Ayes, Nébouzac, Saint-Romain and Montel de Gelat was a Marshal of France and an ancestor of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
Gilbert Motier de La Fayette was brought up at the court of Louis II, Duke of Bourbon. He served under Marshal Boucicaut in Italy and on his return to France after the evacuation of Genoa in 1409 became seneschal of the Bourbonnais.
He was the comrade of Joan of Arc. In the English wars he was with John I, Duke of Bourbon, at the capture of Soubise in 1413 and of Compiègne in 1415. The duke then made him lieutenant-general in Languedoc and Guienne. He failed to defend Caen and Falaise, for the dauphin (afterwards Charles VII.) against Henry V of England in 1417 and 1418, but in the latter year he held Lyons for some time against Jean, duke of Burgundy. A series of successes over the English and Burgundians on the Loire was rewarded in 1420 with the governor of Dauphiné and the office of marshal of France. He was chamberlain of the king, bailli of Rouen (1417), and Seneschal of Beaucaire and Nîmes.
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