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Hersend

Flourished mid-13th century, Paris

When Louis IX launched the Seventh Crusade in 1249, he took several physicans with him to tend his family and the troops as they marched to the Holy Land. Among them was a surgeon named Hersend, wife of the king’s apothecary.