What is "craon"

Usage examples of "craon".

The robber, who ten years later was to commit another crime of historic consequence, was Pierre de Craon, a knight of noble birth and large estates who had accompanied the Duke to Italy.

Sent by Anjou to fetch the money, Craon returned via Venice where he dissipated most of it in extravagant parties, gambling, and debauchery, supposedly from a desire to display himself in a style suitable to the sovereign he represented.

When Craon returned to France, however, he did escape punishment through the protection of Burgundy to whose wife he was related.

The funds contributed by the crown and by Anjou himself, not to mention the sum stolen by Pierre de Craon, were squeezed from the people of France for a cause which could in no way, present or future, benefit them.

On the arrival of Anjou’s widow to establish her son’s claims in Provence, he visited her several times (presumably in a litter), ad­ vised her in the matter of Pierre de Craon, and “comforted her as best he could.

Louis had even taken Craon to visit the beautiful, if too virtuous, lady who had resisted an offer of 1,000 gold crowns for her favors.

In Craon the Duke found the agent for another attempt to ruin Clisson.

On this basis Craon already suspected, and the Duke of Brittany easily persuaded him, that Clisson’s hand was behind his banishment—which may have been true.

Clisson is said to have dis­covered secret correspondence between Craon and the Dukes.

With Craon in the darkness was a party of forty armored followers, enough to ensure overwhelming odds against an opponent in civilian circumstances.

Rather than challenge his enemy to open combat, Craon preferred to strike in the dark.

Learning that, unbelievably, Clisson lived, Craon escaped from the city, galloped as far as Chartres and thence to Brittany.