- Guillebert de Lannoy
Guillebert de Lannoy (also "Gilbert de Lannoy" or "Gilbert of Lannoy", 1386–1462), was a Flemish traveler and diplomat, chamberlain to the
duke of Burgundy , governor of the fort ofSluys , and aknight of the Golden Fleece .He discharged several diplomatic missions in
France ,England ,Teutonic Knights ,Poland ,Grand Duchy of Lithuania , andGrand Duchy of Moscow and was one of the negotiators of theTreaty of Troyes (1420). In 1421 he was sent byHenry V of England toPalestine to inquire into the possibility of reviving theKingdom of Jerusalem , and wrote an account of his travels, "Les Plerinages de Surye et de Egipte", which was published in 1826 and again in 1842.His travels in the Baltic region and Russia are recounted in his book "Voyages et Ambassadeur", published in Mons in 1840 with subsequent editions.
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* Oscar Halecki, "Gilbert de Lannoy and His Discovery of East Central Europe" "Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences in America", 2:2 (1944), 314-31.
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