Gilles de Rais, French knight (born 1404)

Gilles de Rais

Medieval French nobleman and convicted serial killer

Gilles de Rais, Baron de Rais was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' War, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of…