Renaud de Vivonne, lord of Thors (d. 1392/3)

Renaud de Vivonne (c. 1340 - 1392 or early 1393), lord of Thors, son of Savary IV de Vivonne and Marie Chasteigner. He had married Catherine d'Ancenis. Renaud de Vivonne was a founding member and the head of the Poitevin order of the Tiercelet, 'an alliance of fraternity between equals, graced with the title of an order’. Renaud de Vivonne also fought for both the English and French sides: he supported the Black Prince until 1369, but presumably returned to French obedience by December 1372 (Vale, 'The 'Tiercelet', p. 335.

Bibliographic References:

Malcolm Vale, 'A Fourteenth-Century Order of Chivalry: The 'Tiercelet', in The English Historical Review, 82 (1967), 332-341 (p. 333). Vale’s article also contains a transcription of the statutes of this order, archived today in the Archives Départementales des Basses-Pyrénées at Pau.

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