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At the height of his power, Gilles de Rais was the richest noble in Europe, and in 1420 his fortune increased by his marriage to an extremely wealthy heiress, Catherine de Thouars. Over the next 20 years he personally captured and murdered dozens of people, taking great joy in his power over life and death. On October 26, 1440, at Nantes, Gilles de Rais was strangled and his body was placed on the pyre with two of his associates, Henri Griart and Poitou. Gilles de Rais was theatrically executed. His corpse was placed on a pyre, but his relatives were allowed to remove his body before the flames reached it, and he was interred in the nearby Carmelite church. His two companions were less lucky; they were burned alive.