Edmond-René Labande (1908-1992) was a French archivist and historian.

Edmond-René Labande was born in Paris on June 11, 1908.^[1][2] He was orphaned at the age of ten and raised by his maternal grandfather, Alfred Jeanroy.^[2] His paternal uncle, Léon-Honoré Labande, was a museum curator and archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco.^[3]

Labande graduated from the University of Paris in 1928.^[2] He also graduated from the École pratique des hautes études and the École Nationale des Chartes.^[2]

Labande started his career as an archivist in Rome, Algiers, Florence, Toulon, and La Flèche.^[2]

Labande started teaching medieval history at the University of Poitiers in 1947.^[2] Two years later, in 1949, he was promoted to professor.^[2] He was a co-founder of the Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, an academic journal.^[2]

Labande was the first scholar to offer a skeptical interpretation of Eleanor of Aquitaine, debunking the myth of her persona and researching primary sources about her life.^[4]

Labande married Yvonne Mailfert in 1932.^[2] Labande joined the Third Order of Saint Francis in 1942.^[2]

Labande died in Poitiers on July 22, 1992.^[1][2]

• Rinaldo Orsini, comte de Tagliacozzo, et les premières guerres suscitées en Italie centrale par le grand schisme (Imprimerie de Monaco, 1939).
• Étude sur 'Baudouin de Sebourc', chanson de geste (Droz, 1940).
• Sainte Catherine de Sienne et le duc d’Anjou (Annales de l’Université de Poitiers, 1949).
• Florence (Arthaud, Collection 'Les beaux pays', 1950).
• Rome (Arthaud, Collection 'Les beaux pays', 1950).
• L'Italie de la Renaissance: Duecento - Trecento - Quattrocento: Évolution d'une société (Payot, 1954).
• Clément V et le Poitou (Extrait du 'Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest', Poitiers, 1957).