de Chalençon, viscount of Polignac, married Isabel, second daughter of
Bertrand III. lord of la Tour and his wife Mary countess of Auvergne
and Boulogne.
Page 121. line 7. _Lord de Laval._] Guy XIV., lord, and in 1429 count
of Laval, son of John de Montford lord of Kergolay, who by his marriage
with the sister and heir of Guy XII, became lord of Laval, assumed the
name of Guy XIII, and died in his passage from the holy land in 1415.
Guy XIV. married first, Isabel daughter of John VI. duke of Brittany,
and secondly Frances the widow of the lord Giles, of whom see page 136.
vol. ix.
Page 121. line 9. _Lord de Touteville._] Qu. Estouteville. Louis, grand
butler of France.
Page 133. line 4 from the bottom. _Maine._] Charles of Anjou, count of
Maine and Provence, mentioned before.
Page 128. line 10. from the bottom. _Duke of Somerset._] Edmund
Beaufort, younger brother of John duke of Somerset, (who died in 1444,
leaving no male issue) was in 1431 made earl of Mortaigne (under which
title he is named in some preceding parts of this history) earl of
Dorset in 1442, marquis of Dorset the year following, and duke of
Somerset in 1448. He was the great support of the Lancastrian party,
and was beheaded after the fatal battle of Hexham in 1463.
Page 134. line 9. _Andrew Troslet._] Andrew Trollope and Thomas Cotton,
esquires, were captains of Falaise, for the earl of Shrewsbury,
according to Stowe.
Page 136. line 5 from the bottom. _Death._] Francis I. duke of
Brittany, left two daughters by his second wife Isabel, daughter of
James I. of Scotland. The eldest of these was Margaret, married to
Francis II, her cousin; the youngest Mary, married to the viscount de
Rohan. Francis I. was succeeded by his next brother, duke Peter II.
Page 133. line 3. _Arthur of Montauban._] Arthur of Montauban, bailiff
of the Cotentin, &c. second son of William lord of Montauban,
chancellor to queen Isabel of Bavaria. So far from being hanged, (which
must be a mistake of the chronicle from which the following account
has been taken) this Montauban having professed at the convent of
the Celestins, at Marcoussis, advanced himself in the church, became
archbishop of Bordeaux, and died in 1468. (See Moreri art. Montauban.)
Page 138. line 11. _Others._] This is perhaps, a more probable
statement, as well as more favourable to the memory of the duke, than
that given by some other chroniclers, and hinted at in the ensuing
paragraph. The lord Giles of Brittany, the youngest of the children of
John VI., was brought up in the court of England; and he was accused,
perhaps justly, of having imbibed prejudices contrary to the French
interest from his earliest years. On his return to Brittany in 1442,
his wife, (the beautiful heiress of Chateaubriant and Beaumanoir) is
said to have excited the desire of Arthur de Montauban, the wicked
favourite at court; who, finding all attempts to subdue her chastity
ineffectual, contrived by intrigues, insinuations, and at last by
open charges, to render the lord Giles suspected by his brother. On
the other hand, he stimulated that unfortunate prince to demand an
extension of revenue and of power, which he took care the duke should
deny him. The two brothers being by these arts alienated from each
other, an open rupture ensued, which the constable de Richemont, their
uncle, in vain endeavoured to heal. The lord Giles, apprehensive
for his personal safety, fled to the castle of Guildo; and most
imprudently trusted its defence to a company of English men at arms.
This circumstance was soon conveyed with all possible aggravation to
the king of France, who thereupon gave orders to the admiral de Coetivy
to arrest him. The admiral for some time neglected this order, but at
last was obliged to perform it; and the lord Giles was brought before
the parliament, or assembly of the states at Rennes, where his case
was fairly investigated, and himself about to be honourably acquitted,
when a letter to the king of England (said to be artfully forged by
Montauban himself) was found on his person, and he was immediately
committed to the castle of Moncontour. While a prisoner in this
place, his persecutor resorted to every wicked contrivance to remove
him without suspicion of violence. But his constitution resisted the
effects of repeated poisons, and a charitable old woman found means
long to preserve him from those of starvation. At length however
his health gave way to the continual assault of his enemies, and he
charged a priest (who attended privately to receive his confessions)
to repair to the duke his brother, and summon him within 40 days to
appear before the tribunal of God and answer for all his injustice
towards him. Still his gaolers thought the end of their charge too
slow in its approaches. They therefore strangled their unhappy victim,
already dying, and gave out to the world that he had died of a cold. He
was at that time not thirty years of age. The confessor executed his
commission as he met the duke returning from the siege of Avranches;
and Francis, struck to the heart by terror and repentance, actually
died on the 40th day from the date of the summons. Montauban and
Olivier de Mêele, his principal agent in the murder, fled upon the
duke's death, to a convent of Celestins; but they were both dragged
from their sanctuary by the orders of duke Peter, and of the constable,
and hanged at Vannes. Frances, the widow of the murdered prince, and
the innocent cause of his death, brought him no children and was
afterwards married again to Guy XIV, lord of Laval. Such is the account
of some chronicles, as abridged by Moreri in his dictionary, art.
Bretagne.
Page 139. line 10 from the bottom. _Sir Pregent de Coetivy, lord of
Rais._] Pregent de Coetivy, admiral of France, was lord of Retz in
right of his wife, Mary the daughter of the marshal de Retz. (See
before page 211. vol. viii.)
Page 140. line 12. _Thomas Gouvel._ _Q._ Thomas Gonville, esq. captain
of Cherbourg. Stowe.
Page 160. line 11 from the bottom. _Captal de Buch._] Gaston, count
of Longueville and Benanges, second son of Archambaud count of Foix,
enjoyed this title and transmitted it to his son John, who married a
niece of the great William de la Pole duke of Suffolk, and was created
by king Henry VI. earl of Kendal.
Page 160. line 6. _La Bessiere._] Descended from a younger son of
Matthew, lord of Beauvau, who died about 1400. He was killed soon
afterwards at the siege of Castillon.
Page 163. line 4 from the bottom. _Count d'Albreth._] Charles II.
count of Dreux, &c. of the house of Albret, son of the constable;
John viscount of Tartas, his eldest son, (who died before his father,
leaving Alan, lord Albret, his only son and heir) and Arnaud Amanjeu,
lord of Orval, his third son, afterwards lieutenant general for the
king in Roussillon. The second son of the count, was Louis cardinal
bishop of Cahors.
Page 168. line 7 from the bottom. _Viscount de Turenne._] Agne III. de
la Tour, lord of Oliergues, of a younger branch of the family of la
Tour counts of Auvergne, &c. became viscount of Turenne and count of
Beaufort, in 1444, by marriage with Anne, daughter of Peter count of
Beaufort, who possessed those dignities by the donation of his cousin
Eleanor, heiress of the famous marshal Boucicaut.
Page 168. line 21. _Lord de la Rochefoucault._] Foucault III, lord de
la Rochefoucault who married the sister of the lord of Rochechouart.
Page 168. line 23. _Sir John de Rochedrouard._] Rochedrouard. Q.
Rochechouart? Foucault, lord of Rochechouart was about this time
governor of la Rochelle.
Page 168. line 5 from the bottom. _Lord de Grimaux_] Grimaux. Qu.
Grimoard? Antoine du Roure lord of Grimoard, and Guige de Grimoard de
Roure, lord of Beauvoir in the Gevaudan, were the heads of two distant
branches of this family.
Page 168. line 4 from the bottom. _Sir Pierre de Montingrin._]
Montingrin. Q. Montmorin? Peter lord of Montmorin, bailiff of S. Pierre
le Moustier, and a chamberlain of the king, was one of the knights made
on his occasion.
Page 181. line 16. _Lord de Noailles._] Francis, lord of Noailles
and Noaillac, who died after the year 1472, had but one brother of
whom Moreri, makes mention, viz. John de Noailles lord of Chambres
and Montclar, who became also lord de Noailles after the death of his
nephew, the son of Francis, in 1479.
Page 190. line 8. _Emperor Frederic._] The emperor Frederic III.
married to Eleanor, eldest daughter of Edward king of Portugal. Their
only issue were Maximilian, afterwards emperor, and Cunegunda married
to Albert duke of Bavaria.
Page 197. line 12. _Realm._] Jacques Coeur son of a merchant at
Bourges, whose enterprising commercial genius raised for him within a
short time a prodigious fortune. The ignorance of the age attributed
his success to the discovery of the philosopher's stone. He was made
_Argentier_, that is to say, _superintendant of the finances_, to
Charles VII. and master of the mint at Bourges. Through his influence
his son obtained the archbishoprick of his native city, and his brother
the bishoprick of Luçon. The conquest of Normandy was atchieved, in
great measure, by the sums which he supplied out of his private purse.
All these services did not guard him against the consequences of
malevolence and envy. Besides the accusations here mentioned, he was
charged with having procured the death of Agnes Sorel by poison, but
although his principal accuser on this point, Jane de Vendôme, lady
of Mortagne, was condemned to perpetual banishment for her calumny,
which was fully proved, Jacques Coeur did not escape from the charges
of peculation, &c. which were probably equally unjust with the former.
He was condemned, chiefly, as was supposed, through the influence of
Anthony de Chabannes count of Dammartin, the court favourite of the
time, who certainly enriched himself considerably by his fall. By a
decree of the 19th of May, 1453, he was amerced in a sum of 400,000
crowns, equal, says Du Clos, to 4,228,360 livres tournois of his time.
"On prétend, peut-être sans fondement, que Jacques Coeur, après sa
condamnation, passa dans l'Isle de Chypre, où son crédit, son habileté,
et sa reputation, que ses malheurs n'avoient point ternie, lui firent
faire une fortune aussi considérable que celle qu'il venoit de perdre."
Du Clos.
Page 204. line 5 from the bottom. _Thibaut and James._] Thibaud, second
son of Peter, and brother of Louis, count of St Pol, was lord of
Fiennes, and married Philippa of the house of Melun. James, the third
brother, was lord of Richebourg, and married Isabel de Roubaix.
Page 204. line 4 from the bottom. _Duke Cornille._] This is falsely
stopped. It should run thus, "Adolphus of Cleves, nephew to the duke
Corneille, bastard of Burgundy; and sir John de Croy." Cornelius,
the eldest of the numerous illegitimate progeny of duke Philip, died
unmarried, but left a bastard son, John lord of Delverding. See the
genealogical tables affixed to Pontus Heuterus.
Page 212. line 3 from the bottom. _Sir Philip de Lalain._] Afterwards
killed at Montlehery.
Page 213. line 3. _Sir James._] Killed soon after at the siege of the
castle of Poulcres, p. 262.
Page 213. line 17. _Bastard de Cornille._] Not the bastard de
Cornille, but "Corneille the bastard." See before p. 204.
Page 214. line 11. _Lord de Fiennes._] Brother of the count of St Pol.
See before p. 204 note.
Page 244. line 7. _Sir Anthony the bastard._] Anthony, second of the
illegitimate sons of duke Philip, by Iolante de Presle, was lord of
Beveren, and married Mary de Viefville, by whom he had two sons the
lords of Vere and of Chapelle, and from these followed a long line of
descendants. See Pontus Heuterus, genealogical tables.
Page 259. line 16. _Lord de Rubempré._] Anthony, lord of Rubempré, a
great favourite of Philip duke of Burgundy, married Jacqueline de Croy
lady of Bievres, daughter of John lord de Croy, grand butler of France,
by whom he had issue John de Rubempré lord of Bievres, who was strongly
attached to duke Charles, and perished by his side at the battle of
Nancy.
Page 260. line 3 from the bottom. _Dormnast._] Qu. Dommart? Anthony
de Craon, lord of Dommart, son of James lord of Dommart and Jane des
Fosseux, was laid under confiscation by Louis XI, for his adherence to
the duke of Burgundy.
Page 262. line 4 from the bottom. _Dead._] See vol. vii. p. 130. James
lord of Lalain, killed at this siege, was the eldest son of William
lord de Lalain there mentioned. He was succeeded in his title and
estates by his next brother, John who sold Lalain to Josse the son of
Simon lord of Montigny, younger brother of the lord William. Philip,
the third son of William, was killed at the battle of Montlehery;
and Anthony, the 4th son, lost his life in Switzerland, both under
the command of duke Charles the bold, so that there is no want of
foundation for the honourable testimony given by Comines to the merits
of the family.
Page 267. line 17. _Sir John de Hout._] Q. Sir John Holt?
Page 291. line 17. _Sir Adolphus of Cleves._] Son of the duke of
Cleves, and often mentioned before. He was lord of Ravestein, and
not only nephew, but also son-in-law to the duke of Burgundy, having
married Anne, one of his bastard daughters, the lady of Ravestein
mentioned below.
Page 299. line 9. _La Marche._] Louis de Puy, lord of Coudraimorlin,
baron of Bellefaye, &c. son of Geoffry du Puy who was killed at
Agincourt. He married a daughter of Antoine de Prie, lord of Buzancais,
before mentioned.
Page 299. line 15. _Lord de Montauban._] See before, note to p. 133.
Page 303. line 4. _Sir Hedoual Haul._] Sir Edward Hull. Stowe.
Page 303. line 14. _The lord l'Isle._] The children of the great lord
Talbot were, by his first marriage with Maud Neville, three sons, viz.
Thomas, who died in his life time; John who succeeded him as earl of
Shrewsbury, &c.; and sir Christopher Talbot, knight. By his second
marriage with Margaret daughter of Richard Beauchamp earl of Warwick,
he had John (viscount l'Isle, so created in reference to the titles
of his mother's family), who being already signalized by his valour
on many great occasions, fell gloriously, together with his father on
this day. He served with two bannerets, 4 knights, 73 men at arms, and
800 archers. He left issue Thomas Viscount l'Isle who, in 1470, was
slain in a private feud with the lord Berkeley, at Wotton-under-edge in
Staffordshire.
Page 303. line 8. _Prisoner._] William lord Molyns, who was killed
before Orleans in 1429, left only a daughter, who was married to Robert
Hungerford, esq. grandson of Walter lord treasurer Hungerford, in 1441.
This Robert Hungerford, lord Molins in right of his wife, was eldest
son to Robert lord Hungerford, son of Walter, and served in this year
(1453) with one banneret, 2 knights, 56 men at arms, and 600 archers.
He remained a prisoner for seven years, after which, siding with the
Lancastrians, he was attainted 1 Edw. 4. and beheaded after the battle
of Hexham, two years afterwards.
Page 304. line 1. _Count de Candale._] John Captal de Buche, (see
before p. 160.) was created earl of Kendal by king Henry VI.; and his
descendants retained the title metamorphosed into that of _Candale_
for several generations after they had submitted to the crown of France.
Page 306. line 12. _Lord de Lavedan._] Probably, Raymon-Garcias, lord
of Lavedan, who married Bellegarde daughter of Arsien V, lord of
Montesquieu.
Page 310. line 10. _Lord Cameise._] Probably, Camois. The male line of
this _barony_ was extinct in the time of Henry V; but Dugdale adds,
"of this family (without doubt) was also sir Roger de Camoise knight,
who in 22 H. 6 (1444) was taken prisoner in the wars of France, and
there detained in great misery. Whereupon, Isabel his wife, had an
assignation of 40l. per annum for her life, to be paid by the mayor and
commonalty of the city of London." Qu. Is this the same sir Roger de
Camois, released from captivity?
Page 310. line 20. _Lord Clinton._] William, lord Clinton, (cousin and
heir of John lord Clinton, who distinguished himself, on the expedition
of Thomas Woodstock, 1380, and is noticed by Froissart) was in all the
wars of Henry IV, V, and VI; in 4 H. 6 he served in France with 25 men
at arms and 78 archers, in 9 H. 6 with one knight 38 men at arms and
300 archers. He died 10 H. 6 (1432) leaving his son and heir, John lord
Clinton, the nobleman here mentioned; who was made prisoner in the
year 1441, and after remaining in prison for six years, was ransomed
at the sum of 6000 marks. He afterwards took part with the house of
York during the civil wars and served king Edward in many of his
expeditions. Dugdale.
Page 332. last line. _Sagripoch._] Q. Salonichi.
Page 332. last line. _John Waiwoda._] Q. John Corvinus Hunniades,
Waivode of Transylvania; who is also, most probably the person meant by
"le Blanc, knight marshal of Hungary," in the following chapter.
Page 335. line 7. _Sambrine._] If in a narrative so full of confusion
and so crowded with errors, it is allowable to form a conjecture that
may tend to reconcile it any degree with fact, I should suppose this
knight marshal to be the great Hunniades, and the action to refer to
the famous siege of Belgrade which was raised by the exertions of that
heroic general. John Corvinus Hunniades was of ignoble birth, the
son of a Wallachian father by a Greek mother; so far the account of
Monstrelet tallies with the reality. He was appointed by king Ladislaus
to the government of upper Hungary, and the command in chief of his
armies. The operations for the relief of Belgrade were carried on by
a fleet on the Danube, as well as by land; so that the mistake is
natural enough, of calling the place a port; unless, from the greater
similitude of name, the reader should prefer _Zarna_, (to which
Mahomet afterwards retreated) as the representation of _Sambrina_. See
Bonfinius Rer. Ungar.
Page 337. last line. _Hecuba._] Rather I should imagine, Hesione.
Page 347. line 12. _Sir Guillot Destan._] This should be d'Esteing or
d'Estaing, the name of a very ancient and noble family in Rouergue.
William the second son of John I. viscount d'Esteing et de Cheilane,
was distinguished in the English wars, and rewarded by the government
of Rouergue, and by the posts of counsellor and chamberlain to king
Charles VII. His will bears date 1471. His grandson, William d'Estaing,
succeeded to the possessions of the elder branch of the family about
A.D. 1500, and became ancestor of the counts of Estaing of later date.
Page 348. line 14. from the bottom. _Gloucester._] There was _no_ duke
of Gloucester at this time; for Humphrey duke of Gloucester, the king's
uncle, died under arrest, in the year 1447, and Richard third son of
the duke of York, was not created till the 1st of Edw. IV. Stow in ann.
1454.--"The duke of Yorke with his friends wrought so effectually,
and handled his busines so politikly, that the duke of Somerset was
arrested in the queenes great chamber, and sent to the Tower, where
he kept his Christmas without great solemnity, against whom in open
parliament, were laid divers articles, beginning thus, &c."
Page 348. line 9 from the bottom. _Duke Charles of Bourbon._] On the
13th of November. She was already his first cousin, being daughter of
duke Charles by Agnes, sister of Philip the good. Her name was Isabella.
Page 348. line 4 from the bottom. _Prince._] John II. king of Castile,
&c. succeeded his father Henry III. in the year 1406, and died 1454.
By his first wife, Mary of Arragon, he had one son, Henry IV. his
successor. By his second marriage with Isabella of Portugal, he had a
son Alphonso, who died without issue, and a daughter, Isabella, who
succeeded her half brother, Henry, and, by her marriage with Ferdinand
of Arragon, united the two principal crowns of Spain.
Page 350. line 4. _Duchy._] "Whilest king Henry lay sick, Ric. d. of
Yorke bare all the rule, and governed as regent, and did now discover
the sparkes of his hatred hid under dissimulation, against the duke
of Somerset; but when the king had recovered his strength again, and
resumed to him his princely government, he caused the duke of Somerset
to be sett at libertye, and preferred him to be captain of Calais,
wherewith not only the commons, but many of the nobility, favorers of
Richard duke of Yorke, were greatly grieved and offended, saying, that
he had lost Normandy, and would lose also Calais."
_Stow_, ub. sup.
Page 355. line 6. _Bishop, of Utrecht._] Adolphus of Diepenholt. Upon
his death, the electors being solicited on one side by this duke for
his son David, and on the other by the duke of Gueldres for Stephen
of Bavaria, in order to offend neither exasperated both, by chusing
Guisbert, a brother of Reginald lord of Brederode, for their bishop.
But, upon endeavouring to get their election confirmed by the pope,
they found themselves anticipated by the duke, who had already obtained
the papal sanction in favour of his son. The matter was afterwards
compromised as related in chapter LXV. and David held the bishoprick of
Utrecht for forty years. [Heuterus.]
Page 360. line 3. _Kingdom._] This battle is called by the English
historians the first battle of St Alban's, and was fought on the 22d of
May 1455. Besides Edmund Beaufort, duke of Somerset, and Henry Percy,
earl of Northumberland, there were slain, on the king's side two lords,
five knights, and many gentlemen of good account. Humphrey duke of
Buckingham, and his son Humphrey earl of Stafford were wounded besides
the king. The victory, as appears by the text, was decisive in favour
of opposition.
The duke of Somerset left issue (by his wife Eleanor, daughter of
Richard Beauchamp earl of Warwick) Henry duke of Somerset, beheaded
in May 1464; Edward duke of Somerset after the death of his brother,
also beheaded 1472, and John, killed at Tewkesbury, but none of these
left any legitimate descendants. Henry alone left an illegitimate son,
Charles Somerset, who was afterwards created earl of Worcester, and is
the ancestor of the present duke of Beaufort.
Page 362. line 9. _Season._] The relation which follows, is evidently
that of the famous siege of Belgrade; at which Huniades commanded,
and Capistranus acted as his lieutenant. The soldan of Persia here
mentioned, may very possibly mean the bashaw of Asia Minor (Basseus
Asiaticus) who is spoken of by Bonfinius as having a high command in
the Turkish army. He was killed in the siege. Huniades was attacked
by a fever, the consequence of his exertions, and with difficulty
removed as far as Semlin, where he died on the 4th of September
1456. His faithful companion, Johannes Capistranus, attended at his
bed-side during his last illness, and supported him at the moment of
his dissolution. His affection followed him beyond the tomb, for from
that hour he was never seen to smile; and, not many weeks after, was
summoned from the world himself. The great Huniades left two sons,
Ladislaus and Matthias Corvinus. The first, though deserving of a
better fate, became the victim of state intrigues, and perished on a
scaffold. The second was elected king of Hungary in 1458.
Page 365. line 16. _Battle._] This does not appear to have been the
case. Bonfinius calls his disorder a fever brought on by excessive
fatigue. See before.
Page 368. line 2. _Laurentino._ _Q._] Perhaps Larina, the name of a
town in the Molise.
Page 368. line 8 from the bottom. _Ancona. 2._] This is hardly
probable, for all the others are names of places in the Molise or one
of the Principati. _Macchia_ has the nearest resemblance in sound of
any town in this neighbourhood.
Page 368. line 2 from the bottom. _Sanguine. 2._] Castel del Sangro, in
Abruzzo? The river on which it stands is also called the Sanguine.
Page 369. line 10 from the bottom. _Sermone. 2._] Isernia, a bishopric
in the Molise? or Sulmona, another city in Abruzzo?
Page 369. line 9. _Oliveto. 2._] Alifi, in the Terra di Lavoro?