Olivier de Méel
Olivier de Méel , noble Breton († June 8th 1451, with Valves) known to have been the meutrier of Gilles of Brittany.
Vassal of the Montauban, he was rider of the Connétable of Richemont in 1442.
The April 24th 1450 with the complicity of Robert Rouxel it strangled Gilles of Brittany, brother of the duke of Brittany François Ier, representing the party pro-English in the duchy.
He had fled in France and had found asylum with the Château of Marcoussis pertaining to Jean Malet, lord of Graville, which had married Marie, sister of Montauban. He found there the elder one of the two brothers, Jean, the marshal of Brittany, suspected of some complicity in the crime whose his/her brother Arthur was the principal author - he was the rival of Gilles of Brittany.
He was removed there, out of French ground, by two riders of the Connétable of Richemont what started a conflict with the king of France.
He and its accomplice were condemned and decapitated in Vannes on June 8th, 1451.
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