Pontoise. The attack commenced at day-break, when great part of the
garrison, consisting of about four hundred combatants of the lord de
l'Isle-Adam and de Warembon's men, saved themselves by flight, leaving
their baggage and effects behind them: which conquest was very hurtful
to the country of the Isle de France and the adjoining parts, for the
English placed a very strong garrison in Pontoise, whence detachments
made excursions, and frequently to the very gates of Paris.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 53: Sir Richard Woodville paid a fine of £1000 to the
king for marrying the duchess of Bedford without a licence. He
was afterwards created earl of Rivers, and was father to the lady
Elizabeth, queen to king Edward IV.--_Parl. Hist._]
[Footnote 54: Princhy,--Princy, in the Gatinois, near Montargis.]
[Footnote 55: Louye,--in Maine, diocese of Mans.]
END OF VOL. VII.
H. Bryer, Printer, Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, London.
NOTES AND EMENDATIONS.
Page 1. line 3. _Simon de Lalain._] Either Simon de Lalain lord of
Montigny, younger brother of the lord de Lalain, or another Simon de
Lalain, lord of Chevrain, son of a great uncle of the former, who
married a lady of the house of Luxembourg, daughter to the count de
Ligny.
Page 1. line 4. _Enguerrand de Crequi._] Enguerrand de Crequi, called
_le Begue_, second son of John II, lord of Crequi, and uncle of John
IV, who was killed at Agincourt.
Page 3. line 15. _Rambures._] Andrew II, master of woods and waters in
Picardy, son of David who was killed at Agincourt and was master of the
cross bows of France.
Page 3. line 20. _Ferry de Mailly._] Ferry de Mailly, 4th son of John
Maillet de Mailly, lord of Talmas, &c. who on the death of all his
brothers without issue, succeeded to their lordships and also to the
lordship of Conti, which came into the family by the marriage of
Colart, third son of John Maillet, to the heiress Isabel. The lords of
Talmas were a younger branch of the house of Mailly.
Page 4. line 5. _Bousac._] Jean de Brosse, descended from the ancient
viscounts de Brosse in the Angoumois, was lord of St Severe and
Boussac, and a marshal of France. He signalized himself in many
actions, particularly at the siege of Orleans, and at the battles of
Patai and la Charité, and died in 1433. His son, of the same name, who
succeeded him, was equally celebrated in the history of the day. He
married Nicole de Blois only daughter and heir of Charles, last count
of Penthievre, and transmitted her large possessions to his descendants.
Page 8. line 7. _Lord de Chargny._] Peter de Bauffremont, lord of
Chargny, a noble Burgundian, knight banneret, and of the golden fleece.
See post, p. 222.
Page 8. line 8. _Lord de Humieres._] Matthew II, second son of Philip
lord of Humieres, who was made prisoner at the battle of Agincourt.
Page 9. line 19. _Lord de Crevecoeur._] James lord of Crevecoeur, and
Thois, chancellor and chamberlain to the duke of Burgundy.
Page 12. line 6. _Anthony de Chabannes._] Anthony, third son of Robert
lord of Charlus killed at Agincourt. Stephen, his eldest son, was
killed at Crevant in 1423. James the second, was lord of La Palice;
seneschal of Toulouse, and grand master of France, and was killed at
Castillon in 1453. This Anthony was at first, lord of S. Fargeau. He
was born in 1411, and served as page to the count of Ventadour and to
the great La Hire. He was at the battle of Verneuil 1424. In 1439, he
married Margaret de Nanteuil, countess of Dammartin, and assumed the
title of count de Dammartin by virtue of that marriage. He was grand
master, governor of Paris, &c., and died in 1488.
Page 13. line 20. _Lord de Châtillon._] Perhaps Charles de Chàtillon
lord of Sourvilliers, son of Charles lord of Sourvilliers killed at
Agincourt.
Page 13. line 20. _Lord de Bonneul._] Another Charles de Châtillon, of
a younger branch, was lord of Bonneuil.
Page 29. line last. _Quarrel._] Renè claimed the duchy of Lorraine in
right of his wife Isabella, only daughter of Charles the late duke;
and Heuterus, relating the cause of this quarrel, says that Anthony
count of Vaudemont, brother of the deceased refused to admit Renè's
pretensions, alledging that the duchy could not descend to the heirs
female. For some reasons, however, it would appear probable that
Heuterus is mistaken, and that the dispute related to the affairs of
the county of Vaudemont only.
Page 36. line 7. _Count de Fribourg._] The county of Freyburg became
united with that of Neufchàtel by the marriage of Egon XIV, count of
Furstenburg and Freyburg, with Verena heiress of Neufchàtel. Their
grandson John count of Freyburg, &c. married a daughter of the prince
of Orange, but died 1458 without issue.
Page 36. line 7. _Lord de Mirabeau._] Henry de Bauffremont married
Jane, sister and heir to John last lord of Mirabeau of the family of
Vergy, about 1388.
Page 75. line 11. _Gilles de l'Aubespine._] Giles baron d'Aubespine
was of a noble family in Beauce, and ancestor of the marquisses of
Chateauneuf, Verderonne, and Aubespine, many of whom were distinguished
characters in the two following centuries.
Page 78. line 19. _Lord d'Orville._] Robert d'Aunoy Seigneur d'Orville,
master of the woods and waters in the year 1413, who died the year
following, was son of Philip d'Aunoy, Maitre d'Hotel to king Charles V,
and present at the battle of Poitiers. John, the son of Robert, is the
lord here mentioned; he was grand echanson of France, and died in 1489.
_Le Galois_ was a common surname of the lords d'Orville.
Page 89. line 17. _Magistrates._] The cause of this commotion was the
baseness of the gold and silver coin struck in the duke's name. The
sedition lasted twelve, not two days only, and was appeased by the
promise of a new coinage. _Pontus Heuterus_ in vit: Philippi boni.
Page 92. line 14. _Blanchefort._] Perhaps, Guy III. de Blanchefort,
lord of St Clement, &c. a chamberlain of the king, and seneschal of
Lyons, who died in 1460.
Page 93. line 9. _Lord d'Amont._] This must be James lord of Aumont,
counsellor and chamberlain to the duke of Burgundy, son of John lord of
Aumont, grand Echanson, who was slain at Agincourt.
Page 98. line 14. _Flanders._] Monstrelet appears to have been but
imperfectly informed of these transactions. In the year 1428, the
countess being besieged in Gouda by the Burgundian forces, submitted
to a peace, by which she acknowledged Philip as her heir to Hainaut,
Holland, Zealand, and Friezland, appointing him protector of the said
states during her life-time. It was also stipulated that she should not
marry without the consent of Philip and her states. Upon the conclusion
of this treaty, the duke departed, leaving Francis de Borselle, a
nobleman of high rank attached to the Burgundian party, lieutenant of
the provinces. _In July 1433_, says, the historian of Holland, the
countess married this gentleman in violation of her engagement, upon
which the duke entered the country, caused him to be apprehended, and
confined him in the tower of Rupelmonde. It was rumoured that he would
be beheaded; and Jacqueline alarmed for his safety, conveyed absolutely
the whole of her estates to Philip for his liberation, in consideration
of which the _generous_ robber assigned to his late prisoner the county
of Ostervant, the lordships of Brill and south Beveland, with the
collection of certain tolls and imposts, on which they lived together
but a short time before death put a period to her eventful history,
in the month of October 1436. _Barlandi Hollandiæ comitum historia et
Icones._
Page 98. line 18. _Thomas Conette._] This unfortunate heretic was a
Breton by birth. Being seized with an inordinate desire of reforming
the dress of the ladies and the manners of the clergy, he left Rennes
and travelled into the low countries where he preached with so much
success that the towers of gauze and ribbons called _hennins_, which
were then the rage, disappeared wherever he went. Perhaps he was
spared the mortification of hearing that they were resumed several
_stages_ higher, immediately after his departure. From Flanders he
travelled into Italy, reformed the order of Carmelites at Mantua, and
made himself famous for his zeal and eloquence at Venice. The papal
ambassadors reported his praises at Rome; but his ardour for reform
which had captivated many others alarmed pope Eugenius, who justly
dreaded the consequences of his strenuous assertions, that marriage
ought to be allowed to the clergy, and that flesh might be eaten by
them without risk of damnation. It was not long after his arrival at
the pontifical city, that a process was instituted against him for
these and other heretical doctrines, and father Thomas was at last
burnt for not knowing how to confine his eloquence to the harmless
subject which first called it forth. He suffered with great constancy,
and was by some, even among the catholics, reputed a martyr. For
further particulars, consult Bayle, Art. Conecte.
Page 105. line 13. _Daughter_.] Frederick and Iolante. The marriage
thus agreed upon was concluded; and the duchy of Lorraine and county of
Vaudemont were afterwards united in their persons.
Page 109. line 3. from the bottom. _Chasteau-vilain._] William lord of
Chateauvilain held the office of _Chambrier de France_ in 1419 and died
in 1439.
Page 130. line 1. _John de Hingsbergh._] John son of the lord de
Hynsberch Lewenborch, archdeacon of Champagne. He was an adherent to
the duke of Burgundy, was present at some of his campaigns, and is
celebrated as a prelate of vast magnificence.
Page 130. line 2. _William de Lalain bailiff of Hainault._] Of this
family, "a family," says Comines, "of great and brave men, who for the
most part found their deaths in fighting for their native princes"
was Otho lord de Lalain, who died in 1441 at the advanced age of 108
years. His eldest son William, who succeeded him in his honours, and
was bailiff of Hainault and Holland is the person here mentioned. He
died in 1444. Sansay, the second son of Otho, married the heiress of
the family of Robesarte: and Simon the third son, has been already
mentioned at the commencement of the volume, unless that be another
Simon, the first cousin of Otho. See ante p. 1.
Page 132. line 13. _Sir John Talbot._] This is the great Talbot,
created earl of Shrewsbury in 1442.
Page 114. line 12. _Lord Willoughby._] Robert, lord Willoughby of
Eresby, one of the greatest heroes of the English army--present at the
battles of Agincourt and Verneuil, and at almost all the celebrated
actions of the day, was in 1432, dignified with the title of earl of
Vendosme, Beaufort, &c. and died in 1442, leaving only a daughter Joan
the wife of sir Richard Welles knight. Dugdale.
Page 137. line 15. _Viscount de Thouars._] Louis d'Amboise, viscount of
Thouars, prince of Talmont, &c. &c., had been deprived of his lands
for adherence to the English party, but was afterwards restored to
them, and served the king of France in his conquest of Guienne. He was
grandson of Ingerger, surnamed the great, who married Isabel, heiress
of Thouars, and widow of the marshal de Nesle, and was made prisoner at
the battle of Poitiers.
Page 137. line 2 from the bottom. _Lord de Bueil._] John V, count
of Sancerre, son of John lord de Bueil, killed at Agincourt, and of
Margaret countess of Sancerre. He was a celebrated commander, and
called _le Fleau des Anglais_.
Page 137. line last. _Pregent de Coetivy._] Coetivy, the name of an
ancient family of lower Brittany. Pregent VII, lord of Coetivy, was
eldest son of Alan III. killed at the siege of St James de Beauvron
in 1424, and of Catherine daughter of Hervè lord of Chàtel, killed at
Jersey. This Pregent married Mary de Laval, daughter of the infamous
marshal de Retz. He was chamberlain in 1424, governor of La Rochelle,
and in 1439 promoted to the high office of admiral of France. He was
killed at Cherbourg in 1450. "Ce fut un gran dommage et perte notable
pour le Roi, car il etoit tenu des vaillans chevaliers et renommé du
royaume, fort prudent et encor de bon age." Hist. du Roi Charles VII.
Page 139. line 4. _Count de Penthievre._] Oliver de Bretagne, or de
Blois, grandson of the famous competitor of John de Montfort, had been
deprived of his large counties of Penthievre, Limoges, &c. &c. but
never of the duchy of Brittany, to which he pretended no claim. His
brother John lord de l'Aigle was restored to Penthievre soon after, and
died 1454. Charles, the third brother succeeded, whose only daughter
and heir, Nicole de Blois, marrying Jean de Brosse, the county of
Penthievre passed into that family.
Page 139. line 3 from the bottom. _William de Coroam._] Should be Coram.
Page 140. line 15. _Sir Pierre de Beausalt._] Peter de Montmorency,
lord of Plessis Cacheleu, son of John II, lord of Beausalt, and uncle
of Anthony, who was slain at Verneuil, and of John in whom the direct
line of this younger branch ended in 1427.
Page 148. line 5 from the bottom. _King of Cyprus._] Lewis, count of
Geneva, eldest son of Amadeus duke of Savoy, married Charlotte, only
daughter of John king of Cyprus and Helen of Montferrat.
Page 149. line 10 from the bottom. _Count de Nevers._] Charles, count
of Nevers, eldest son of Philip count of Nevers killed at Agincourt,
was born in the year preceding his father's death, and died in 1464.
His mother was Bona d'Artois, daughter of Philip count of Eu.
Page 151. line 15. _Sect._] Here is a vast confusion of names, as
usual, in the affairs of distant countries. Tabouret is evidently an
invention of Monstrelet's derived from Taborite, the general name by
which the religious insurgents were then distinguished, from Tabor a
town in Bohemia, founded by their leader John Zisca. Protestus may,
very probably, be a mistake for Procopius, surnamed "of the shaven
crown," a celebrated leader and bishop among these Taborites during the
reign of Sigismund, who was slain in a bloody battle near Prague. Of
Lupus I can say nothing.
Page 153. line 11. _Lord de la Grange._] John de la Grange, ancestor
of the lords of Vesvre and Montigni, and of the marquisses of Arquien.
Marshal de Montigni, celebrated under Henry the third, was fifth in
descent from him.
Page 156. line 6. _John._] John of Burgundy, a posthumous son of
Philip, and brother to Charles, count of Nevers. He succeeded to the
estates of his brother in 1464, assumed the title of duke of Brabant,
and died in 1491. Elizabeth his daughter married the duke of Cleves,
and brought the earldom of Nevers into that family. His first wife was
daughter of the vidame of Amiens mentioned immediately afterwards.
Page 156. line 16. _Vidame of Amiens._] Raoul d'Ailly, sieur de
Pequigny, and vidame of Amiens.
Page 174. line 8. _Mathagon._] This can be no other than Matthew Gough,
an English captain of those days, and one of the commanders in the town
of St Denis when it was won by the French.
Page 176. line 5 from the bottom. _Fled._] John bastard son of the
great earl of Salisbury, to whom in his will he bequeathed 50 marks.
See _Dugdale_.
Page 182. line 2 from the bottom. _Sir Christopher de Harcourt._]
Christopher de Harcourt lord of Avrech, grand master of the woods and
waters in 1431, was third son of James de Harcourt lord of Montgomery.
Page 202. last line. _Woodville._] Richard de Widvile, was seneschal
of Normandy under Henry V; constable of the tower in 1425; lieutenant
of Calais in 1427; and 1429, served the king in his wars with 100 men
at arms and 300 archers. In 1437, he married the duchess of Bedford
(Jacqueline de Luxembourg) without license, for which he was condemned
to pay a fine of 1000_l._ In 1448 he was created lord Rivers; and in 6
Edward IV. (his daughter being then queen of England) was advanced to
the dignity of earl Rivers, constable of England. Three years after he
was beheaded by the Lancastrian insurgents at Northampton. _Dugdale._
Page 202. line last. _Restandif._ Q.] Restandif, is sir Ralph Standish,
who was killed in this battle. _Stow_ and _Holinshed_.
Mondo Domonfarrant is only an error of the press for Mondo de
Montferrant, who occurs again vol. 8. p. 28.
Page 223. line 3. _Bishop of Ache._] There came to this convention
according to Stowe, Nicholas Albergat, a Carthusian friar, entitled a
priest cardinal of the holy cross, and Hugh de Lusignan, a _Cyprian_ (I
presume he means Cypriot) Greek, bishop cardinal of Præneste: which, or
whether either of these, was the person meant by Monstrelet under the
fanciful name of "bishop of Ache," the reader may determine. Q. Auch.
Page 215. line 7. from the bottom.] Sir John Ratcliffe was constable of
Fronsac in Aquitaine, under Henry V, and seneschal of Aquitaine in 1 H.
6. knight of the garter, &c. He died before 1441 and left a son, John,
who succeeded him, and in 1 H. 7. was summoned to Parliament as lord
Fitzwalter.
Page 215. line 5 from the bottom. _Lord Hungerford._] Walter lord
Hungerford of Heytesbury, treasurer of England, and of the executors
to the will of Henry V. He had summons to parliament from 4 H. 6, to 26
H. 6 inclusive, and died in 1449, leaving Robert lord Hungerford, his
son and successor, who during his father's life-time served in the wars
of France with 29 men at arms and 80 archers, and died in 1459.
Page 216. line 5. _Duke of Gueldres._] Arnold earl of Egmont succeeded
to Gueldres on the failure of the direct line in 1423. His son Adolph
(by Margaret daughter of Adolph IV, duke of Cleves) made war upon him,
in consequence of which he was disinherited, and his father made over
the duchy to Charles duke of Burgundy.
Page 216. line 6. _Count de Vernambourg._] Vernambourg i.e. Virnemburg,
or Wirnemburg, the title of a noble house of the duchy of Luxemburg,
of whom Robert count of Wirnemburg governed the duchy in the name of
Elizabeth of Burgundy.
Page 218. line 12. _Du Châtel._] Oliver lord du Châtel, chamberlain of
Bretagne; son of Hervè lord du Châtel, killed at Jersey, and brother to
the famous Tanneguy.
Page 218. line 14. _Sir Paillard du Fiè_.] Q. Fai? John Genevois
Bouton, lord of Fai, chamberlain of Burgundy, _bailiff_ of Dole, was
a commissary sent by the duke on this occasion. It is not impossible
that an error of the press may have converted his office of _bailli_
into the disgraceful appellation of _paillard_.
Page 219. line 3 from the bottom. _Cleves._] John, who succeeded his
father Adolph IV. duke of Cleves in 1445.
Page 237. line 5. Duke of Milan.] The death of Joan queen of
Naples followed closely upon that of Louis of Anjou, king of Sicily,
in 1434. The following year, Alphonso passed over from Arragon and
commenced the siege of Gaeta; and during that siege the battle was
fought of which this account is given. The personages here mentioned to
have been taken prisoners, are the king Alphonso, his brothers, John
king of Navarre, and Don Henry grand master of St James, the prince of
Tarento, John Anthony de Marzan, duke of Sessa, Christopher Gaetano,
count of Fondi, &c. The name of Garganeymé, I conjecture to be a
blunder for Gaetano; but it is a gross mistake to call him son to the
prince of Tarento.
Page 302. line 15. _Lord de Bloseville._] Qu. Bonvile? Sir William
Bonvile served under Henry V, and again under Henry VI, in the year
1443 with 20 men at arms and 600 archers. He was then seneschal of
Guienne, but may possibly have been in Normandy at this time. In 1450,
he was summoned to parliament as lord Bonvile of Chuton. He afterwards
joined the York party, and was beheaded after the second battle of St.
Alban's.
Page 306. line 3. _Lord de Torsy._] William d'Estouteville, lord of
Torsy, made prisoner at the siege of Harfleur, in 1429, ransomed
himself by the alienation of great part of his estates, and died in
1449. John d'Estouteville, here also mentioned, was his son, and
succeeding him in his lordship was made provost of Paris and master of
the cross-bows.
Page 323. line 6. _Duke of Burgundy._] This prince, the second son of
Charles VII. died in his infancy.
Page 332. line 4. _Commercy._] Robert de Sarbuck, lord of Commercy,
(son of Amé lord of Commercy and Mary daughter of John lord of
Chateauvilain) married in 1417 Jane countess of Roucy and Braine; and
John, their eldest son, here called the heir of Commercy became count
of Roucy and Braine by the donation of his mother in 1439.
Page 332. line 3 from the bottom. _Everard de la Marche._] Everard
III, de la Marck, lord of Aremberg, &c. and, by marriage of Sedan, was
of a younger branch of the family of the counts of la Marck, dukes of
Cleves, &c.
Page 339. line 13. _Lord d'Aussi._] John IV, son of David, _sire et
ber_ d'Auxi, killed at Agincourt, and of Margaret de la Trimoille. He
was lord of Fontaines sur Somme, _seneschal of Ponthieu_, knight of the
golden fleece, and finally master of the cross bows of France.
Page 340. line 5. _Everard de la Marche._] Everard de la Marck. See
before.
Page 348. line 11. _Sir Louis de Thieubronne._] Should be Louis lord of
Thiembrune.
Page 363. line 14. _Lord de Croy._] Anthony lord de Croy and Renti,
count of Porcean, Guisnes, &c. son of John II, killed at Agincourt, was
grand chamberlain of Burgundy and grand master in 1463.
Page 364. line 4. _Sir John de Croy._] Brother of Anthony lord de
Croy, made count of Chimay in 1473, before which he was lord of Thou
sur Marne.
Page 365. line 12. _Seneschal of Brabant._] John de Hornes, lord of
Baussignies, &c. admiral and grand chamberlain to the duke of Burgundy,
descended from the grandfather of William lord of Hornes, who was
killed at Agincourt.
Page 398. line 3. _Franche de Borselline._] Francis, or Frank de
Borselle. See above.
Page 398. line 7. _Duke of Anjou._] Renè, duke of Bar, who had been
made prisoner as related to p. 42: soon afterward succeeded to the
duchy of Anjou and to the claims of this house on Sicily and Naples, by
the death of his brother, Louis III.
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Original spelling has been retained.