Amaury III de Craon

Amaury III de Craon (c. 1280–1333), lord of Craon, Créon, Mareuil and Sablé, served the English crown as Seneschal of Gascony in 1313–1316 and again in 1320–1322, and in 1315 obtained leave from Edward II to found the bastide of Créon.

He held the hereditary seneschalties of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, which the French crown bought back in 1323 and 1331. By Isabelle de Sainte-Maure he had a son, Maurice VII, and by his second wife Béatrice de Roucy more children, among them Jean III, Archbishop of Reims. Amaury died in 1333 and was buried at the Cordeliers convent in Angers.