constable and military governor of lower Normandy. He unexpectedly became duke
himself in 1457 but died a year later without legitimate heirs.
Paul D.Solon
[See also: BRITTANY; CHARLES VII; HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR;
RECONQUEST OF FRANCE; TRÉMOILLE, LA]
Gruel, Guillaume. Chronique d’Arthur de Richemont, ed. Achille Le Vavasseur. Paris: Renouard,
1890.
Beaucourt, Gaston du Fresne de. Histoire de Charles VII. 4 vols. Paris: Librairie de la Société
Bibliographique, 1881–91.
Cosneau, Eugène. Le connétable de Richemont. Paris: Hachette, 1886.
Pocquet du Haut-Jussé, B.A. “Le connétable de Richemont, seigneur bourguignon.” Annales de
Bretagne 7(1935):309–36; 8(1936):7–30, 106–38.
Vale, Malcolm G.A. Charles VII. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
RIGAUT DE BERBEZILH
(fl. 1150s–1160s). Long misassigned to the late 12th century, the troubadour Rigaut de
Berbezilh’s extant work—consisting of nine cansos, including the famous Atressi con
l’orifanz—stands out for its overt reference to Ovid, its allusion to Perceval and the Grail,
and its striking animal imagery.
Elizabeth W.Poe
[See also: TROUBADOUR POETRY]
Rigaut de Berbezilh. Liriche, ed. Alberto Varvaro. Bari: Adriatica, 1960.
——. Le canzoni, testo e commento, ed. Mauro Braccini. Florence: Olschki, 1960.
RIGORD
(ca. 1150–ca. 1209). Chronicler. Born in Languedoc, this monk of Argenteuil and then of
Saint-Denis, who gave up practicing medicine in 1186, described himself as Regis
francorum chronographus. Besides a brief chronicle of the kings of France from the
earliest times, only fragments of which survive, he wrote the Gesta Philippi Augusti,
covering the period 1179–1206, of which the later part flatters the king much less than
the earlier part. Rigord inserted in his chronicle Philip’s arrangements of June 1190 for
the government by his mother and the archbishop of Reims during his absence on
crusade, indicating that baillis, who were ordered to hold monthly assizes and to
supervise the prévôtés, already administered the royal domain. Guillaume le Breton
abridged and continued the Gesta to 1220.
Pedro J.Suarez
Delaborde, Henri-François, ed. Œuvres de Rigord et de Guillaume le Breton, historiens de
Philippe-Auguste. 2 vols. Paris: Renouard, 1882–85.
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