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	Rais - LoveToKnow 1911
		RAIS (or [[Retz), Gilles De]] (1404-1440), marshal of France and the central figure of a 15th-century cause celebre, whose name is associated with the story of Bluebeard, was the son of Guy de Montmorency-Laval, the adopted son and heir of Jeanne de Rais and of Marie de Craon.
		Chief among his great possessions was the barony of Rais (erected in the 16th century into the peerage-duchy of Retz), south of the Loire, on the marches of Brittany.
		Gilles hoped to redeem his fortunes by alchemy; he also spent large sums on necromancers, who engaged to raise the devil for his assistance.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rais (1142 words)

	Gilles de Rais alias Blue Beard
		Gilles was born in 1404 in the château of Machécoul.
		At the height of his power, Gilles de Rais was the richest noble in Europe, and in 1420 his fortune increased by his marriage to an extremely wealthy heiress, Catherine de Thouars.
		Gilles decided that something had to be done, and sent his cousin to explain that the boys had been given as part of a ransom for his brother, who was being held by the English; they would be trained as pages...
	vampires.monstrous.com /gilles_de_rais_alias_blue_bear.htm (3104 words)

	Gilles de Rais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rais was born in 1404 at Machecoul, near the border of Brittany.
		Gilles de Rais is the villain in The Dead Boy Detectives (by Ed Brubaker), a spin-off of the graphic novel The Sandman (by Neil Gaiman).
		Gilles de Rais is the subject of the song 'Into the Crypts of Rays' by Celtic Frost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilles_de_Rais (2190 words)

	Aint No Way to Go: Gilles de Rais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Gilles committed his final murder in August 1440 —; it is a reasonable assumption that he would have gone on indefinitely if he had not been arrested — but was arrested soon after, and brought before the judges on 13 October, 1440.
		Gilles was at first arrogant and defiant; but after being threatened with excommunication and torture, he suddenly gave way, and made a full confession.
		Certainly Gilles, scion of a wealthy house, abandoned by his mother and ignored by his grandfather, was afforded the freedom of resources and undersupervision that might allow such a personality to develop.
	www.aarrgghh.com /no_way/gilles.htm (3784 words)

	Serial Killers A-Z; Giles De Rais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Gilles De Rais achieved fame and fortune after leading a division of knights in the army of famed heroine Joan of Arc during the mid-fourteenth century.
		For his part De Rais claimed his sacrifices were an attempt to acquire even more power than he already possessed, which did not entirely explain why he felt it necessary to practice sadistic sexual acts on his victims before, during, and after their deaths.
		De Rais and his servants confessed that he had sodomized many of the youngsters before cutting off their heads, which usually excited him to further sexual degredations on the lifeless bodies.
	www.geocities.com /verbal_plainfield/a-h/derais.html (225 words)

	Gilles de Rais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Proceedings initiated against de Rais by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes and Chancellor of Brittany, alleging sodomy and murder of children.
		Gilles de Rais, one of the wealthiest noblemen in France, is executed for heresy after he is found to have engaged in the kidnap, sodomization, and murder of 200 young boys from the lower classes.
		Rais enjoyed masturbating on the stomachs of the boys as they suffered excruciating deaths, sometimes also enjoying necrophilia with their corpses.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/historical/gilles-de-rais (115 words)

	Gilles de Rais: Marshal & Monster
		On October 26th 1440 Gilles de Retz (Rais), otherwise known as Gilles de Laval — Marshal of France and relation to the ruling house of Brittany — was hanged on a gibbet above a roaring fire in the meadow of Biesse outside Nantes.
		The great dichotomy with de Rais is that for the most part he was a deeply religious man, excessively fond of the priestly life, and regularly saying prayers and litanies for the souls of those he killed.
		Early reporters of the case suggest that Gilles de Rais suffered from a lycanthropic disease, or werewolfism, which made him feral, sexually depraved and bloodthirsty only at times, which certainly ties in with his everyday purity and devotion to his faith, whilst allowing a reason for his evil deeds.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/louxsie/gilles.html (1600 words)

	The Hellbound Web \| Encyclopædia \| Biography: "Gilles de Rais" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		De Rais was interested in fl magic and alchemy.
		De Rais was arrested for heresy after attacking a priest.
		His servants were tortured into confessing and de Rais was found guilty.
	www.cenobite.com /encyc/def-rais.htm (171 words)

	Blood, Fuck, God: The Prodigal Crimes of Gilles de Rais, an essay by Jason DeBoer (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Gilles de Rais was perhaps the most infamous sexual criminal in history, responsible for the rape, mutilation, and murder of more than 150 children (some estimates put the figure as high as 800).
		Always the aesthete, Gilles looked upon his victims with the eye of a connoisseur, remarking on the boys with the finest skin or the prettiest limbs; he would keep the most handsome of the decapitated heads and kiss them with adoration.
		But, for all his bloodlust, Gilles was a gullible coward when it came to the fl arts: Prelati was consistently able to invent stories about summoning Barron, encounters which were always fruitless—needless to say—yet he was never suspected by Gilles of trickery.
	www.absinthe-literary-review.com.cob-web.org:8888 /archives/fierce9.htm (1088 words)

	Old Curiosity Shop - Gilles de Rais, Grand Marshal of Hell
		Gilles would have loved it, and his passion for pageantry was to play a pivotal role in the doomed aristocrat’s career.
		At the height of his career Gilles de Rais was a man of vast wealth and status, whose military prowess and ostentatiously noble bearing attracted admiration and accolades from his king and peers.
		Machecoul, whose children once fell victim to this medieval monster, to recreate de Rais’ life using his ruined castle as a backdrop for their macabre performance.
	www.oldcuriosityshop.net /quilpsden/articles/rais/rais.html (352 words)

	Gilles de Rais: The Pious Monster
		History tells us that Gilles hid a dark and sinister side for many years, during which he kidnapped, tortured and murdered hundreds of peasant children (mostly young boys) while working with alchemists who used fl magic in their attempts to turn base metal into gold.
		Gilles confessed (under threat of torture) to being a pedophile and homosexual in a time when either of these two activities could result in the forfeiture of life and property.
		Gilles de Rais was a kingmaker and fearless, cunning soldier whose exploits saved France from utter defeat in the Hundred Years War.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/rais/index_1.html (1070 words)

	Serial Killer Gille De Rais
		De Rais was fascinated with the beauty of children and the pain they were capable of experiencing.
		ITEM: after the said Gilles de Rais committed his horrible debauches and his sins of the flesh with the said boys and girls, he killed them at once or caused them to be killed.
		Baron de Rais was wracked by alternating pangs of desire and contrition.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/serialkillers/rais.htm (829 words)

	Gilles de Rais, Baron Biography \| World of Criminal Justice
		Only his accomplices and victims knew that de Rais had tortured, raped, and killed anywhere from 150 to 800 children, keeping their corpses in his castle towers.
		De Rais had his accomplices lure boys and girls to the castle,or else kidnap them from the homes and fields of the peasants.
		De Rais' evil might have continued longer had he not been too loose with his money.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/gilles-de-rais-baron-cri (535 words)

	Gilles de Rais: The Pious Monster
		Gilles had several near-misses in terms of being caught, and historians speculate that Rene de Rais and other close family members were quite aware of what Gilles was doing.
		Gilles’ fear that Rene was on the march and intended to occupy Machecoul was well-founded and correct.
		Gilles de Sille and a servant had been charged with making sure the castle was clear of evidence — the alchemy tools had been destroyed earlier when Louis, the Dauphin, came to visit.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/rais/downfall_11.html (1600 words)

	ARMEDIEVAL
		At the end of the Hundred Years' War it was owned by Gilles de Rais, a recognized military leader and one of the 'companions' of Jeanne d'Arc.
		De Rais withdrew from active service before the war was over and retired as a very wealthy lord to his favorite dwelling, Tiffauges.
		De Rais was later charged with cruel crimes and executed.
	www.xenophongroup.com /mcjoynt/armed_en.htm (1553 words)

	SurLaLune Fairy Tales: History of Bluebeard
		The history of the tale is debated, but the popular opinion is that the tale developed from the legend of Gilles de Rais (aka de Retz) (Murphy 1996).
		Gilles de Rais (1401?-1440) was a Marshal of France and served under Joan of Arc before her execution.
		Other critics do not think the story is based upon the story of Gilles de Rais, but is actually based on older stories such as "Conomor and Triphine" and "Cupid and Psyche." These stories are addressed more on the Tales Similar to Bluebeard page.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /bluebeard/history.html (573 words)

	Gilles de Rais
		Gilles de Rais was once former follower of Joan of Arc's.
		De Rais was a marshal of France and the lord of the Breton marches.
		In 1440 de Rais at 36 years of age, was executed after confessing to the murder of 40 children.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/bailey/65/rais.html (149 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		"Gilles de Rais," a radio-play based on the notorious child mollester/serial killer who rode at the side of Joan of Arc and was later mythologized into the bloodthirsty Blue-Beard, was first published in Films sans images by Editions Denoël in 1959.
		Gilles is practicing archery with his cousin Gilles de Sillé, who is also fifteen.
		Gilles has decided to generously give in to the beauty and the pity, by establishing a collegiate chapel dedicated to the Holy Innocents, the young victims of Herod, their bodies stained by blood.
	www.corpse.org /issue_9/stage_screen/cendrars.htm (9188 words)

	Aint No Way to Go: Presumed Innocent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		If de Rais was indeed falsely accused, it would explain the weakness of Wilson's analysis of de Rais' character.
		Wilson in turn seems to have relied in some degree on H.G. Wells, who admitted de Rais' reported behavior to be "unanalysable".
		De Rais will always be a bone of contention and yes I also agree that Colin Wilson is not a man to jump to conclusions in this matter but Gilles De Rais must be given the benefit of the doubt.
	www.aarrgghh.com /no_way/gillesQuestion.htm (318 words)

	Blood, Fuck, God: The Prodigal Crimes of Gilles de Rais, an essay by Jason DeBoer
		A fifteenth-century French nobleman, noteworthy as a brave lieutenant to Joan of Arc during the sieges of Orléans and Paris, Gilles de Rais experienced significant renown and prestige before his eventual downfall, trial, and execution in 1440.
		Wide-eyed and childlike, Gilles was mesmerized by the act of dying, and this fascination spawned erotic perversions: he often stabbed a child in the neck and watched transfixed as the blood streamed down the tiny neck.
		Despite being a learned man, his childish nature seems quite apparent, and, to be sure, his vicious acts often resemble the same mindless attraction to evil that a young boy shows when stirring the guts of a murdered frog.
	www.absinthe-literary-review.com /archives/fierce9.htm (1085 words)

	Gilles de Rais: The Pious Monster
		Pierre de L’Hopital, chief judge of Brittany began the process by having interviews with the parents and relatives of the lost children of Machecoul.
		The next day, as the boy and the murderers were preparing to leave, the mother had second thoughts and begged de Rais to return her boy.
		Gilles then went on to admit to many of the crimes he was accused of, except the summoning of demons.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/rais/inquisition_12.html (1147 words)

	Amazon.com: Trial of Gilles De Rais: Books: George Bataille,Richard Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		This late work consists of a sober essay on the French nobleman Gilles de Rais and the documents from Gilles' trial in 1440.
		The locals were scared because Gilles was a rich and powerful nobleman, Marshal of France, and the nobility tolerated the rumours for exactly the same reason.
		On the evidence of the trial documents, it's hard to doubt that Gilles was either mad or evil.
	www.amazon.com /Trial-Gilles-Rais-George-Bataille/dp/1878923021 (1133 words)

	Gilles de Rais
		Born into the ruling family of Brittany, Gilles de Rais was the companion of Joan of Arc, Marshal of France and a national hero before he turned 26.
		In his later years he was accused of torturing, sodomizing, and disemboweling as many as 800 children at his country estate.
		"I think, then, it is not altogether unfair to assume that Gilles de Rais was to a large extent the victim of Catholic logic.
	www.nndb.com /people/281/000112942 (338 words)

	Gilles de Rais (Castlevania) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Lantern held aloft, he makes his way to the Castle Keep, where Actrise and Death are performing Dracula's 1844 resurrection ritual.
		In homage to Dracula boss battles of past games, Gilles only takes damage when struck in the head.
		Unlike the first fight with him, the time of day does not affect the power of his attacks or max hit points.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilles_de_Rais_(Castlevania) (836 words)

	Crescent Blues Book Views \| Ann Benson: Thief of Souls
		Rumor contends de Rais is a serial sex killer of young boys.
		Like the Gilles de Rais portrayed by Benson, older relatives sexually abused the young Durand, making it easy to understand the origins of his psychopathy.
		For example, we can recognize Jean de Malestroit as an intelligent and sensitive man even though, in accordance with his era, he evidences no qualms about calling in the torturers of the Inquisition to facilitate the gathering of evidence.
	www.crescentblues.com /7_3issue/bk_benson_theif.shtml (809 words)

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		A Fifteenth Century French war hero, Gilles was also one of medieval Europe's worst killers.
		An ally of Joan of Arc during the Hundred Year War, de Rais was instrumental in driving the English out of France.
		On October 26, 1440, Gilles was simultaneously burned and hanged.
	www.crimezzz.net /serialkillers/R/RAIS_gilles_de.php (238 words)

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