Edmond-René Labande

Edmond-René Labande was born in Paris on June 11, 1908.[1][2] He was orphaned at the age of ten and raised by his maternal grandfather, Alfred Jeanroy.[2] His paternal uncle, Léon-Honoré Labande, was a museum curator and archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco.[3]

Labande graduated from the University of Paris in 1928.[2] He also graduated from the École pratique des hautes études and the École Nationale des Chartes.[2]

Labande started his career as an archivist in Rome, Algiers, Florence, Toulon, and La Flèche.[2]

Labande started teaching medieval history at the University of Poitiers in 1947.[2] Two years later, in 1949, he was promoted to professor.[2] He was a co-founder of the Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, an academic journal.[2]

Labande was the first scholar to offer a skeptical interpretation of Eleanor of Aquitaine, debunking the myth of her persona and researching primary sources about her life.[4]

Labande married Yvonne Mailfert in 1932.[2] Labande joined the Third Order of Saint Francis in 1942.[2]

Labande died in Poitiers on July 22, 1992.[1][2]

• Rinaldo Orsini, comte de Tagliacozzo (1390) (1939).
• Étude sur Baudouin de Sebourc. Chanson de geste (Droz, 1940).
• Sainte Catherine de Sienne et le duc d’Anjou (Annales de l’Université de Poitiers, 1949).
• Florence, Paris, Arthaud (coll. Les beaux pays, 1950).
• Rome, Paris, Arthaud (coll. Les beaux pays, 1950).
• L'Italie de la Renaissance. Duecento - Trecento - Quattrocento. Évolution d'une société (Payot, 1954).
• Clément V et le Poitou (1957).