death had been hastened; and one of her ladies called Ourse, wife to
Coppin de la Viefville, born in Germany, was suspected of having done
it. She had been the great confidante of the duchess, who had intrusted
her signet to her, but, during her illness, had dismissed her from her
service; and she had retired to the town of Aire. The municipality of
Ghent sent six score men thither to arrest and bring her back; but, on
their arrival at Aire, they were met by sir Gauvain de la Viefville,
and some other gentlemen of name, friends to her husband, who promised
to deliver her up to the duke of Burgundy, for him to deal with her
as he pleased. On receiving a solemn promise to this purpose, the
Ghent men returned to their town; but the municipality were very angry
that their orders had not been obeyed, and confined several of them
prisoners. They were also much displeased with the mayor, sheriffs and
jurats, for not having delivered up the said Ourse, according to their
mandate.
Notwithstanding the lord de Roubaix had never quitted the duke since he
first set out for Burgundy, the Ghent men banished him their town and
Flanders, believing him to be concerned in the above business. When the
duke returned, he restored to him his lands, and soon after made his
peace with those of Ghent; for he had not the least suspicion of the
lord de Roubaix, knowing that he had never left his company.
Thus ended this affair, and nothing more was done in it, nor were any
further inquiries made.
By authority from the kings of France and of England, and their
grand council, the duke of Bedford was appointed regent of France,
in consequence of the duke of Burgundy not wishing to undertake that
office.
A little prior to this, the following castles had been razed to the
ground by royal command, namely, the castle of Muyn, Cressensac,
Mortemer, Tilloy, Araines, Hericourt, Louvroy, and others, to the great
vexation of their owners,--but they could not any way prevent its being
done.
END OF VOL. V.
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Blackfriars, London.
NOTES AND EMENDATIONS.
Page 11. line 25. _Bourbon._] Charles, eldest son of John duke of
Bourbon, prisoner in England.
Page 12. line 15. _Bar._] Named Guy de Bar in the list of officers of
the crown.
Page 14. line 11. _Rieux._] Peter, marshal de Rieux, third son of John
lord of Rieux and Rochefort, who died marshal in 1417. His brothers
were, John III. lord de Rieux, Giles, and Michael lord of Chasteauneuf.
Page 17. line 14. _Crevecoeur._] James de Crevecoeur, lord of Thois,
Thiennes, &c. gentleman to the duke of Burgundy, son of John lord of
Crevecoeur and Blanche de Saveuse, and educated to arms under Robert de
Saveuse.
Page 18. line 8. _Roye._] John III. lord of Roye, son of Matthew lord
of Roye, mentioned by Froissart.
Page 18. line 15. _Ventadour._] James count de Ventadour, grandson of
Bernard, in whose favour the viscounty was enlarged into a county. It
was a very ancient family descended from the viscounts of Comborn of
the tenth century, and the yet older counts of Quercy.
Page 26. line 11. _L'Isle-Adam._] John de Villiers, lord of l'Isle-Adam.
Page 26. line 12. _Chastellus._] Claud de Beauvoir, lord of Chastellus,
brother of George de Chastellus, admiral in 1420.
Page 26. line 13. _Mailly._] I do not find the name of Mailly in the
catalogue of grand butlers; but John de Neufchastel, lord of Montagu,
seems to have enjoyed the office from this year 1418.
Page 26. line 14. _Lens._] Charles de Rècourt, lord of Lens, admiral in
1418.
Page 46. last line. _Orange_.] John de Châlons, lord d'Arlay, and
prince of Orange in right of his wife Mary des Baux. He was succeeded
in his estates by his son Louis, surnamed The Good, and in his office
of _grand chambrier de France_ by William lord of Chasteau-vilain.
Page 48. line 6. _Mommor._] Q. Montmaur?
Page 50. line 9. _Cohen._] John de Berghes, lord of Cohen, grand
huntsman of France.
Page 51. line 5. _Château-villain._] William lord of Chasteau-villain,
grand chambrier de France.
Page 74. line 5. _Monstieriller._] Montivilliers.
Page 74. line 6. _Argues._] Arques.
Page 74. line 7. _Monchaulx._] Q. Chaumont?
Page 74. line 10. _Abrechier._] Q. Evreux?
Page 74. line 12. _Nogondouville._] Q. Nonancourt?
Page 74. line 13. _Logempré._] Q. Louviers?
Page 77. line 6. _La Hire._] Stephen Vignole, called La Hire, a
distinguished partizan of the dauphin, and a soldier of fortune.
Page 100. line 15. _Sir Archambault de Saxe, the lord de Nouaille._] Q.
Is not this one person, Archambaud de Foix, lord of Noailles?
Roger Bernard II. viscount of Chateaubon married Giraud, lady of
Noailles, and had issue Matthew count of Foix, who died s. p. and
Isabel, married to Archambaud de Greilly, afterwards count of Foix.
This Archambaud died in 1412, leaving issue, 1 John count of Foix; 2
Gaston captal de Buche; 3. Archambaud lord of Noailles, killed at the
bridge of Montereau faut Yonne. He left only a daughter, married to the
viscount of Carmain.
Page 100. line 19. _Bauffremont._] Bauffremont, an ancient fief of
Champagne, in the house of Montagu by marriage. Peter de Bauffremont,
lord of Charny and knight of the Golden Fleece, married Mary, a
legitimated bastard of Philip the good.
Page 107. line 14. _Captal de Buch._] Gaston, second son to Archambaud
count of Foix, rewarded for his services to the English with the
earldom of Longueville, 7 H. 5. and of Benanges, 4 H. 6. His son John
de Foix, being also attached to the English, married a niece of William
de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, and became earl of _Kendal_ (called by the
French _Candale_.) Both father and son were knights of the Garter.
Page 115. last line. _Barne_.] La Baûme. Jacques de la Baûme Montreval
was grand master of the cross-bows from 1418 to 1421.
Page 116. line 6. _Vergy._] Anthony du Vergy, afterwards count of
Dammartin.
Page 116. line 7. _D'Ancre._] Ancre. Q. If not Autrey? John du Vergy,
lord of Autrey, was certainly present at this conference.
Page 118. line 1. _Giac._] This lady of Giac was the favourite mistress
of the duke of Burgundy; and her treason, which Monstrelet hints, is
expressly charged by the historians of Burgundy, who give her the name
of Dalila. At the siege of Montereau, she was punished by the loss of
all her property, and reduced to the extremes of poverty.
Page 156. line 16. _Huntingdon._] John Holland, son of John earl of
Huntingdon and duke of Exeter, beheaded in 1 H. 4. He was restored
to the earldom of Huntingdon in 4 H. 5., and in 11 H. 6. was created
duke of Exeter, with precedence over all the nobility except the duke
of York. He died in 25 H. 6. and was succeeded by his son Henry, who
died in banishment. After the death of the first duke of Exeter, his
widow, Elizabeth, sister of king Henry IV. and mother of the earl of
Huntingdon here mentioned, married for her second husband sir John de
Cornewal, who was afterwards summoned to parliament by the title of
lord Fanhope, 11 H. 6.
Page 164. line 13. _Roos._] John lord Roos of Hamlake, who for his
services obtained a grant of the lordship of Bacqueville, in Normandy,
from Henry V.,--but he was never marshal of England. Probably the
sentence ought to run thus: 'the lord Roos, the marshal of England,'
(viz. John lord Mowbray, afterwards earl of Nottingham and Norfolk)
'and sir Louis de Robesart.'
Page 164. line 15. _Robesart._] Sir Louis de Robesart was son of
John de Robesart, who also served king Henry, and was rewarded with
the lordship of St Sauveur le Vicompte in Normandy. He was heir to
the famous canon de Robesart so often mentioned by Froissart. Louis
afterwards married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Bartholomew lord
Bourchier, and was called to parliament by that title. He died in 9 H.
6. He was a knight of the Garter.
Page 169. line 1. _Mailly._] These were four brothers, the sons of
John Maillet de Mailly, lord of St Huyn; first, Robert de Mailly,
called Robinet, grand butler, killed as here described; second, John
de Mailly, master of requests, &c. &c.; third, Colard de Mailly lord
of Blangy, seneschal of the Vermandois; fourth, Ferry de Mailly,
frequently mentioned among the Burgundians of this period. This family
was a branch of the stock of the lords de Mailly, killed at Agincourt.
Page 200. line 7. _Pierre._] Q. If not William de Chaumont, lord of
Guitry, counsellor and chamberlain to the king, and captain of Sens and
Auxerre? He was made count de Chaumont, and grand master of waters and
forests, in 1424, by Charles VII. His son Charles was killed at the
battle of Verneuil in 1423.
Page 209. line 1. _His brother-in-law._] Louis, called also Barbatus,
second son of the emperor Rupert, elector-palatine of the Rhine,
married Blanche, daughter of Henry IV. by whom he had issue only one
son, Rupert, who died childless. Duke Louis afterwards married again,
and had a son who succeeded to the electorate.
Page 213. line 12. _Louis._] Louis was invited by Sforza, constable
of Naples, and the chief of one of the factions which divided the
government. Giannoné, lib. 25. c. 3.
Page 249. line 12.] The events of the ensuing chapter will be better
explained by Genealogical Tables.
I.
Arthur II. duke of Bretagne, married for his first wife Mary
viscountess of Limoges, by whom he had issue.
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+----------------------------+-----------+
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1. John III. duke of Bretagne, 2. Guy, count of Penthievre and Limoges,
who died, without issue, in the married Jane lady of Avagour, and died
year 1341. before his brother, John III. leaving
issue one daughter.
|
Jane, countess of Penthievre and Limoges,
married to Charles de Blois, of the house
of Châtillon, who pretended to the duchy
of Bretagne on the death of John III.
|
John of Bretagne, count of Penthievre and
lord of Goello and Avaugour, married
Margaret de Clisson,--d. 1403.
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+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+
| | | |
1. 2. 3. |
Oliver de Bretagne, John, lord de l'Aigle, Charles lord of |
count of Penthievre, and count of Penthievre Avaugour, Goello, |
d.s.p. 1433. after the death &c. m. Jane de Vivonne, |
of Oliver, d. s. p. and had issue one daughter, |
1454. | |
Nicole, m. John de Brosse, |
count of Penthievre, |
jure uxoris. |
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4. |
William, visc. de Limoges, m.
Isabel de la Tour d'Auvergne,
and died 1455, leaving issue
two daughters.
II.
Arthur II. married, 2dly, Yoland of Dreux, dame de Montfort,
and had issue by her.
|
John count de Montfort, competitor with
Charles de Blois, married Jane, daughter
of Louis of Nevers, earl of Flanders,--d.
1345.
|
John V. surnamed The Valiant, duke of
Bretagne, married for his third wife,
Jane of Navarre, afterwards wife to Henry
IV. of England, by whom he had issue,
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+---------------+----------------+----------------+------------+
| | | | |
1. John IV. 2. Arthur, C. 3. Giles, lord 4. Richard, C. |
duke of B. of Richemont, of Chantocè, of Estampes. |
m. Jane, da. afterwards D. d. s. p. | |
of C. VI. of Bretagne. | |
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+-----+------+ | |
| | | |
Francis I. Peter II. Francis II. |
D. of B. D. of B. D. of B. |
d. s. p. d. s. p. |
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Mary, m. Blanche, m. Margaret m. Jane.
John duke of John IV. count Alan IX. visc.
Alençon. of Armagnac. of Rohan.
Page 217. line 14. _Time._] This conspiracy against the duke of
Bretagne is said, by most historians, to have been a plot of Charles
VII. who was instigated to it by his pernicious minister, Louvet, and
the lord de Avaugour, brother of the count de Penthievre. Its only
effect was for a time to attach the duke more closely to the english
interest.
Page 249. line 18. _Penthievre._] Oliver, eldest son of John de
Bretagne. See the Table.
Page 251. line 21. _Richard._] Count of Estampes. See the Table.
Page 252. line 9. _Avaugour._] Third son of John of Bretagne. See the
Table.
Page 253. line 2. _Beaumanoir._] Afterwards grand ecuyer to the king
of France. He was son of William de Beaumanoir, lord of Landemont, and
obtained the lands of Lavardin by marriage with the heiress of that
barony.
Page 254. line 13. _Châteaubriant._] Geoffry de Chasteaubriant, lord
of Lyon d'Angers, &c. married to Louisa daughter of the lord of
Montgaugier, by whom he had issue John lord of Chalain, his successor,
and Guy de Chasteaubriant.
Page 254. line 13. _Rieux._] John II. lord of Rieux and Rochefort,
marshal of France, died in 1417, leaving John III. viscount of Donges,
his successor, the same here mentioned,--besides two other sons, Peter,
afterwards maréschal of France, and Michael lord of Chasteauneuf.
Page 255. line 13. _L'Esgle._] John lord de l'Esgle, second son of John
of Bretagne, count of Penthievre. See the table.
Page 255. line 26. _William._] Viscount of Limoges, fourth son of John
count of Penthievre.
Page 258. line 6. _L'Esgle._] See the Table.
Page 259. line 5. _Châtillon._] William lord de Châtillon, brother of
Charles de Châtillon, lord of Marigny, killed at Agincourt. He was
grand queux de France in 1418, and of the english party.
Page 262. line 13. from bottom, _Dauphin_.] John Stuart earl of Buchan,
son to the regent of Scotland, Duke of Albany. Made constable of France
_after_ the battle of Baugè, lord of Aubigny and earl of Evreux.
Page 263. line 6. _Marshal of England._] Q. See before.
Page 263. line 8. _Field._] Among the rest, sir John Grey of Heton,
who, in 6 H. 5. had a grant of the earldom of Tancarville and its
dependancies, in Normandy.
Page 263. line 10. _Somerset._] John, second son of John Beaufort earl
of Somerset, and brother to Henry earl of Somerset, who died 7 H. 5.
without issue. He was also heir to his uncle Thomas Beaufort, duke of
Exeter, who died 1424.
Page 263. line 11. _Perche._] Q. Who the earl of Perche can be? The
earl of Salisbury was not made prisoner, as is evident from what
follows. Thomas earl of Salisbury was presented with the earldom of
Perche and barony of Longny by the king in 7 H. 5.
Page 263. line 12. _Prisoners._] Among others, the lord Fitzwalter,
afterwards mentioned.
Page 263. line 15. _Bouteiller._] William le Bouteiller de Senlis,
lord of St Charlier, died in 1420, leaving two sons, Charles, here
mentioned, and William, who survived his brother, and was chamberlain
to the duke of Orleans.
Page 264. line 1. _Salisbury._] Thomas Montacute earl of Salisbury.
Page 266. line 7. _Alençon._] John II. surnamed le Beau, duke of
Alençon, only son of John I. killed at Agincourt, and Mary of Bretagne.
Jane, daughter of Charles duke of Orleans and Isabel of France.
Page 270. line 15. _Clifford._] John lord Clifford, knight of the
Garter, killed at the siege of Meaux. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
Harry Hotspur, and had issue Thomas lord Clifford, killed at the battle
of Saint Albans. John lord Clifford, the son of Thomas, was surnamed
the Butcher, and killed at the battle of Towton. For the romantic
history of the son of the last-named John, and father of the first earl
of Cumberland, see Dugdale's Baronage, vol. 2.
Page 273. line 24. _Boufflers._] Aleaume lord of Bouflers, was made
prisoner at Agincourt. His sons were, 1. David, who was in the duke
of Burgundy's company in 1417, and died s. p.; 2. Peter, a celebrated
burgundian leader; 3. Nicaise, here mentioned, one of the peers of
Ponthieu.
Page 296. line 5. _Mailly._] Morery says, that the lord de Mailly
himself was killed in this engagement. He was succeeded by his brother,
also named John, and called le Jeune, also L'Estendart, who was
afterwards a very distinguished warrior on the part of Charles VII. The
lord de Viefville is mentioned to have been killed in the preceding
page.
Page 299. line 17. _Mailly._] John III. lord of Mailly, second son of
Colard lord of Mailly, killed at Agincourt. He was succeeded by John
IV. another son of Colard, surnamed 'le Jeune,' and 'l'Estendart' de
Mailly.
Page 300. line 16. _Conflans._] Probably Eustace IV. lord of Conflans a
distinguished house of Champagne.
Page 300. line 19. _Saintrailles._] John Poton lord of Saintrailles,
maréschal of France in 1454, a gentleman of Gascony, and a very
distinguished partizan of the dauphin.
Page 317. line 7. _St George._] William III. lord of St George, (of the
house of Vienne) admiral of France, married Jane daughter of the lord
of Chasteau-vilain. His son, William IV. is the lord here mentioned,
whose son, William lord of Bussy and afterwards of St George, succeeded
him in 1434.
Page 330. line 6. _Launoy._] Hugues de Lannoy, grand master of the
cross-bows, appointed in January 1421.
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