Jean Richard

Jean Barthélémy Richard (7 February 1921 – 25 January 2021) was a French historian, who specialized in medieval history. He was an authority on the Crusades, and his work on the crusades has been qualified as "unsurpassed". Richard was a member of the Institut de France. He was President of the prestigious Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002. He was born in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France in February 1921. Richard died in January 2021 in Dijon, two weeks shy of his 100th birthday.

Publications Le comté de Tripoli sous la dynastie toulousaine (1102-1187), 1945

Les ducs de Bourgogne et la formation du duché XIe-XIVe siècle, 1954 (thèse) Le cartulaire de Marcigny-sur-Loire (1045-1144), 1957 (thèse complémentaire) Histoire de la Bourgogne, 1957 Chypre sous les Lusignans. Documents chypriotes des Archives du Vatican (XIVe et XVe siècles), 1962 Simon de Saint-Quentin. Histoire des Tartares, 1965 L'esprit de la croisade, 1969 La papauté et les missions d'Orient au Moyen Âge, 1977 Histoire de la Bourgogne, 1978 (dir.) Les récits de voyages et de pèlerinages, 1981 Le livre des remembrances de la Secrète du Royaume de Chypre (1468-1469), 1983 (en coll. avec T. Papadopoullos) Saint Louis, roi d'une France féodale, soutien de la Terre Sainte, 1983 The Crusades: c. 1071 - c. 1291 (1999), Cambridge University Press, , translated by Jean Birrell Histoire des croisades, Fayard, (1996)