In 1429, towards the end of the Hundred Years War, before the siege of Orleans, Joan of Arc and her followers came to fetch horses at Le Rivau, already renowned for the quality of its equipage and war horses who were raised there.

Brought as a dowry by Anne de Fontenay when she married Pierre de Beauvau in 1438, he (first chamberlain of Charles VII) obtained authorisation in 1442 to fortify his "hostel, and there to make pits, walls, slits, rafters, cannon emplacements and trenches".

He died at the Battle of Castillon which ended the Hundred Years War in 1453.

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