Tristan l'Hermite

See also François Tristan l'Hermite

Portrait of Tristan l'Hermite

Tristan l'Hermite (died c. 1478) was a French political and military figure of the late Middle Ages. He was born in Flanders near the beginning of the century.

He was provost of the marshals of the King's household under Louis XI of France. Prior to this, he was also a provost marshal to Charles VII.^[1] He had also become captain of Mussy-l'Évêque in 1431^[2][3] and then Grand Master of Artillery in 1436.^[4] He was awarded knighthood in 1451.^[5]

The mystique surrounding his name caused the 17th-century French poet and playwright François l'Hermite to take his name as a pseudonym.

He appears as a figure in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris,^[6] in Walter Scott's Quentin Durward,^[7] in the Justin Huntly McCarthy play If I Were King,^[8] and in the operetta made from the play, Rudolf Friml's The Vagabond King.^[9] He is also a character, as a young man still in the service of Arthur III of Brittany, in Juliette Benzoni's "Catherine" novel, Les Routes incertaines.

References

1. Viriville, Auguste Vallet de (1872). Mémoire sur les institutions de Charles VII (in French). Librairie Renouard, Henry Loones successeur. p. 76. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
2. Positions des mémoires présentés à la faculté des lettres pour l'obtention du diplôme d'études supérieures: (histoire et géographie) session de juin 1897 (in French). Université de Paris. 1897. p. 55. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
3. Contamine, Philippe (25 September 2017). Guerre, état et société à la fin du moyen âge: Études sur les armées des rois de France 1337–1494 (in French). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 411. ISBN 978-3-11-133064-8. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
4. Mandrot, Bernard Édouard de; Samaran, Charles (1920). Dépêches des ambassadeurs milanais en France sous Louis XI et François Sforza (in French). Renouard, H. Laurens, successeur. p. 240. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
5. Moréri, Louis (1759). Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, Ou Le Mélange Curieux De L'Histoire Sacrée Et Profane (in French). Libraires Associés. p. 349. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
6. Hugo, Victor (1888). Notre-Dame de Paris. Little, Brown and Company. p. 378. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
7. Scott, Walter (1823). Quentin Durward. Archibald Constable and Company ... and Hurst, Robinson, and Company London. p. 102. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
8. McCarthy, Justin Huntly (1901). If I were king. New york: Grosset & Dunlap. p. 18. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
9. Dietz, Dan (2 February 2015). The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-4422-4528-0. Retrieved 31 May 2024.