Charles, Duc d'Orléans
Poet
Charles, Duc d'Orléans
1394 - 1465Charles of Orléans was Duke of Orléans from 1407.
He is now remembered as an accomplished medieval poet owing to the more than five hundred extant poems he produced, written in both French and English, during his 25 years spent as a prisoner of war and after his return to France.