Balance of power, i. 379.
Ballaigny, Louis, lord of, governor of Beauvais, i. 218.
Ballassat, lord de, plunders the palace of Peter de Medicis, ii. 143.
Balue, Cardinal, bishop of Angiers, i. 94;
appointed king’s ambassador, 111;
imprisoned, 165;
his release, ii. 39;
assault on, 330;
persuades Louis XI. to an ignominious peace, 356, 357;
his treason discovered, and his property confiscated, 358.
Bar, duchy of, claimed by René II., ii. 94, 95.
Bar-sur-Seine, village of, i. 136.
Barberigo, Agostino, doge of Venice, ii. 170.
Barnet, battle of, i. 201.
Bashe, Peron de, ii. 109.
Bashe, Peter de, ii. 146, 147.
Bastard of Rubempré, seizure of, i. 2;
his release demanded, 3.
Bastard of Burgundy, i. 28.
Battle, miseries of those who are defeated in, i. 159.
Battles, of Montlhery, i. 21;
of the civil wars in England, 181;
and their evil consequences, 182;
of Barnet, 201;
of Tewkesbury, 202.
Baudouin, bastard of Burgundy, his revolt, i. 171, 172.
Baudricourt, John, lord of, i. 44.
Bavaria, divisions in the house of, i. 380.
Bear, story of the, i. 246.
Beatrice d’Este, daughter of the duke of Ferrara, ii. 106.
Beaujeu, Madame de, i. xxxiii., xxxiv., 394.
Beaujeu, lord of, i. 16, ii. 69, 394.
(See Bourbon.)
Beaune, rebellion of, ii. 23;
captured, 24;
surrender of, 390.
Beauvais, Louis XI. at, i. 177, 178;
attacked by the Burgundian forces, 218;
siege of, 219;
the besiegers repulsed, 221;
the siege raised, _ib._;
its successful defence against Charles of Burgundy, ii. 369-371.
Beauvoisis, provostship of, i. 132.
Becchi, Gentile, bishop of Arezzo, ii. 127.
Bedford, John of Lancaster, duke of, account of, i. 47.
Begar, Abbé de, i. 207.