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3 unusual facts about Gilles de Rais


Darkeden

Vlad Tepes, Elizabeth Bathory, and Gilles de Rais, three of the twelve master vampires, form an alliance and enter the mountainous area of Helea, killing every person they find.

Maxwell the Magic Cat

Maxwell the Magic Cat was a comic strip written and drawn by Alan Moore under the pseudonym Curt Vile (a pun on the name of composer Kurt Weill), with a friend Steve Moore under the pseudonym 'Jill de Ray' (in parody of Gilles de Rais, a French murderer).

Satanism

Gilles de Rais (15th century, France) was a French nobleman who was tried and executed for the murders of hundreds of children in quasi-Satanic rituals.


Jean François Paul de Gondi

Gilles de Rais, a Laval and comrade in arms of Joan of Arc, was executed without an heir, so the barony passed successively to the families of Tournemine, Annebaut and Gondi.


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