Maixent Poitevin

Maixent Poitevin (a.k.a. Maixent de La Bidollière), was a 16th Century French squire and jurist.^[1]

Landscape of Poitiers in 1569, besieged by the Protestant army of Gaspard de Coligny.

Barrister and alderman (avocat and echevin [fr]) of Poitiers in Poitou, France since September 9, 1559, he eventually became mayor of the town in 1564. He served two one-year terms.^[2]

But he had gone down in history for his role as the town's captain [fr] when it was besieged in 1569 during the French Wars of Religion - his idea of overflowing the Clain allowed Catholics to keep the city under control.^[3]

La Bidollière, died after 1595, was brother of the poet Jean Poitevin [fr].