Oliver, 4th son of Alan III. lord of Coetivy, and brother of the
Admiral, was lord of Taillebourg and seneschal of Guienne &c. He
married Mary, one of the natural daughters of Charles VII, in 1458,
with a portion of 12,000 crowns of gold. His descendants were counts of
Taillebourg and princes of Mortagne and Gironde.
Page 284. line 13. _Lord de Graville._] John Malet V. lord de Graville,
grand pannetier of France.
Page 297. line 9 _Two brothers of Lord Stafford._] They were
half-brothers by the same mother.
Eleanor, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock duke of Glocester, married
two husbands--first Edmund earl of Stafford, (by whom she had Humphry,
afterwards duke of Buckingham,) and, secondly, William lord Bouchier,
created for his services earl of Eu in Normandy, whose two sons, here
mentioned were Henry earl of Eu, married to Isabel sister of Richard
duke of York; and William lord Fitzwarin. There were two younger sons,
besides these, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, and John lord Berners,
ancestor to the translator of Froissart.
Page 334. line 3 from the bottom. _Count de Foix._] Archambaud
de Greilly, Captal de Buche, who became count de Foix (as before
mentioned) in right of his wife Isabel, sister and heir to Matthew de
Chateaubon, died in 1412, leaving five sons, of whom John, the eldest
was count de Foix, and died in 1437, leaving Gaston IV, his successor,
and Peter, lord of Lautrec and Villemur, his two sons. Gaston IV. (the
count of Foix here mentioned) had for his mother a daughter of the
count d'Albret, and marrying Eleanor, daughter of John king of Arragon
by his first wife the queen of Navarre, transmitted to his grandson
Francis Phœbus, the title to that kingdom. Of the four remaining sons
of count Archambaud, Peter was a cardinal; Archambaud was lord of
Noailles, killed by the dauphin at Montereau, in company with John
duke of Burgundy; Gaston was Captal de Buche, count of Longueville and
Benanges; and Matthew was count of Comminges in right of his wife,
Margaret the heiress of that county. This Matthew died in 1453, leaving
by his second wife, Catherine de Coras, two daughters only. The title
of Comminges was then given by Louis XI, (who claimed it as a male
fief) to the bastard of Armagnac commonly called De Lescun.
Page 335. line 1. _Lords de Lohéac._] Andrew de Laval, lord de Lohèac,
second son of Guy XIII, and brother of Guy XIV, lord of Laval. He was
admiral of France after Louis de Culant, but resigned that office to be
made a marechal in 1439. He married Mary de Laval, lady of Retz, widow
of the admiral de Coetivy, by whom he had no issue, and died in 1486.
Page 335. line 2. _Jaloignes._] Philip de Culant, lord of Jaloignes,
seneschal of the Limousin, created a marshal of France the year
before, on occasion of the siege of Pontoise. He died in 1454 without
issue. He was nephew to Louis lord de Culant, admiral of France, and
younger brother to Charles de Culant, lord of Chateauneuf, &c. grand
master in 1449.
Page 335. line 5. _Lord de Mongascon._] Godfrey, second son of Bertrand
de la Tour IV. count of Auvergne and Boulogne, bore the title of
Montgascon. He was betrothed to Jane de Brezè, daughter of Peter count
de Maulevrier; but afterwards married Anne de Beaufort daughter of the
marquis de Canillac.
Page 359. line 5. _Duchy of Luxembourg._] The cause and progress
of this war respecting the duchy of Luxembourg, may deserve some
explanation. After the death of Wenceslaus duke of Brabant and
Luxembourg (the patron of Froissart) the duchy reverted to the emperor
Wenceslaus, as head of the elder branch of the family; and on the
marriage of Elizabeth of Gorlitia, his niece, with Anthony duke of
Brabant, the emperor made a mortgage of the duchy to the said Anthony
to secure the payment of his wife's portion amounting to 120,000
florins. This sum was never paid; and possession of the duchy was
retained by Elizabeth after the death of Anthony, and until some
time after the death of her second husband, John of Bavaria, bishop
of Liege, so often before mentioned. At this period, however, both
Wenceslaus and Sigismund, and also the empress Elizabeth daughter of
Sigismund, being no more, and the rights of the elder branch having
descended on William III. marquis of Thuringia and Casimir IV, king of
Poland, in right of their wives Elizabeth and Anne, the daughters of
the empress Elizabeth, those princes took advantage of the apparently
unprotected state of the province to claim the privilege of redemption;
to enforce which, they sent a powerful army under the command of the
count of _Click_ of the house of Saxony. To oppose the invaders,
Robert, count of Wirnemburg collected what troops he was able from the
duchy itself; and duke Philip sent considerable supplies under the
command of his bastard son Cornelius, of the count of Estampes, and
other nobles, by whose assistance the Saxons were at length expelled.
_In gratitude for this signal service_, Elizabeth soon afterwards
conveyed the duchy and all its dependancies in absolute possession to
duke Philip and his heirs for ever; and the vanquished claimants were
forced to purchase peace by a solemn ratification of her cession. The
king of Poland, however, did not deliver his confirmation till after
the death of Philip, when the transaction was completed in favour of
Charles the warlike. See Bertelius and Heuterus.
The short table annexed will render this affair more intelligible.
Charles IV. (Emperor)
died 1378.
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| |
Wenceslaus Sigismund John of Gorlitia, marquis
(Emperor) (Emperor) of Brandenburg,
died 1419. died 1438. died 1395.
| |
Elizabeth d. 1440, married Elizabeth duchess of Luxembourg,
Albert of Austria, married 1 Anthony duke of Brabant,
emperor. 2 John of Bavaria.
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| |
Elizabeth married Anne married William
Casimir IV, king III, marquis of
of Poland. Thuringia.
Page 361. line 1. _Duke William of Saxony._] William marquis of
Thuringia, youngest son of Frederic the warlike, elector of Saxony.
Page 367. line 7. _Sir Gouvain Quieriet._] Gauvaine Quieret, lord of
Heuchin, son of James Quieret who was distinguished in the conquest of
Normandy, and grandson of Guy who was made prisoner at Agincourt.
Page 380. line 15. _Anjou._] Peter II, the father of James count of
Maulevrier, who married Charlotte the daughter of Charles VII, and
Agnes Sorel, and killed her as is more particularly mentioned in a
note to vol. ix. p. 99. This Peter was appointed to the command of an
expedition sent to England in support of queen Margaret of Anjou, and
was afterwards killed at the battle of Montlehery in 1465. (See, Bayle.
Art. Brezé.)
Page 380. line 16. _Lord of Precigny._] Second son of John III. lord
of Beauvau, grand maître d'hotel to Renè king of Sicily and Naples. He
died in 1474.
Page 396. line 3. _Count Blanquemain._] Blanquemain--Qu. Blankenheim;
William de Loz, count of Blankenheim married Mary a daughter of Anthony
de Croy count of Poreien who afterwards had for her second husband
George count of Wirnemburg.
Page 407, line 4 from the bottom. _Regent._] Pregent. See before.
Page 408. line 4. _Prison._] See more of this extraordinary
transaction, (vol. 9. p. 136.)
Page 414. line 14 _Helye de Pompadour._] One of the sons of John I.
lord of Pompadour and of Margaret de Ventadour, his wife; and mother
of Golfier lord of Pompadour who died in 1441, leaving John II his son
and successor, a councellor and chamberlain of the king Louis XI. This
Helie de Pompadour, entering into the church, became bishop of Alet in
1448, and of Pamiers in 1454.
Page 418. line 10. _Life._] Philip Maria, last duke of Milan of the
house of Visconti died in 1448, leaving no issue by either of his wives
Beatrix de Tende, (the widow of the famous Facino Cane) and Mary,
daughter of the duke of Savoy. His natural daughter Bianca Maria was
married to Francis Sforza, who, in her pretended right, succeeded to
the duchy and transmitted it to his descendants.
H. Bryer, Printer, Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, London.
TRANSCRIBERS NOTE:
Original spelling, including any inconsistencies in spelling of names and
place-names, has been retained.