Béraud II, Dauphin of Auvergne

Béraud II the Great (1333–1399) became the eighth Dauphin of Auvergne in August 1356 and fought at Poitiers three weeks later. In 1357 he married the heiress Jeanne de Forez. Under the 1360 Treaty of Brétigny he was sent to England as a hostage for the released John II and stayed over ten years.

He served Charles VI in the 1382 Flanders campaign, and in 1390 sailed on the Barbary Crusade. He died in January 1399, succeeded by Béraud III.