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Jean Bureau (c. 1390 – 1463) was a French artillery commander active primarily during the later years of the Hundred Years' War. Along with his brother, Gaspard, he is credited with making French artillery the most effective in the world. [1]
Jean Bureau, né à Semoine vers 1390 et mort à Paris le 5 juillet 1463 1, seigneur de Montglat (ou Montglas), de La Houssaye-en-Brie (1450), de Fontenay-en-France, de Thieux et Noisy-le-Sec, de Marle et la Malmaison, est un Grand maître de l'artillerie du roi Charles VII qui, en utilisant massivement l' artillerie pour la première fois en ...
Bureau immersed himself in the study of artillery. Thanks to his sharp mind and good education, he easily grasped the revolutionary developments in gunpowder and gun manufacture and the implications they held for land warfare.
Jean Bureau (* um 1390 in Semoine; † 5. Juli 1463 in Paris) war Seigneur de Montglat (oder Montglas), Maître de l’Artillerie des Königs Karl VII. von Frankreich und der erste abendländische Militär, der durch den massiven Einsatz von Artillerie einen Sieg auf dem Schlachtfeld davontrug.
Jul 1, 2024 · Jean Bureau (c. 1390–1463) and Gaspard Bureau (c. 1393–1469), developers of French artillery. Born in the Champagne province of France, Jean and Gaspard Bureau were sons of Simon Bureau, a ...
Jean Bureau (ca. 1390–1463) was a French artillery commander active primarily during the later years of the Hundred Years' War. Along with his brother, Gaspard, he is credited with making French artillery the most effective in the world. [1]
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In the following summer French forces, powerfully armed with Jean Bureau’s recently introduced field artillery, approached for a second reconquest of Guyenne—to start with the siege of the pro-English stronghold of Castillon, on the lower Dordogne River upstream from Libourne.
