Jean III de Grailly, Captal de Buch, KG, illustration from the Bruges Garter Book, c.1430The castle of Benauges was hereditary in the Grailly family after having been granted to Jean I de Grailly in the early 1260s.Gold signet ring belonging to Jean III de Grailly in the British Museum, late 14th century.[1]
Jean III de Grailly (aka. John De Grailly, died 7 September 1376), Captal de Buch, KG, was a Gascon nobleman and a military leader in the Hundred Years' War, who was praised by the chronicler Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry.