Jeande Vienne

Jean de Vienne, French naval hero, was born in 1341, and in 1373 became a sea-commander. In the same year he was appointed Admiral of France, and at once set to work to create a French navy. In 1377 he landed and occupied Rye, and took and plundered Lewes. Later in the same year he sacked Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight, Poole, and Hastings. In 1385 he made an expedition to Scotland. He fell in action while co-operating with English allies at Nicopolis in 1396.