Namur, to be bestowed by the king on his own subjects, i. 351.
Nancy, battle of, i. xxiii.;
siege of, 295;
surrender of to the duke of Burgundy, 296 _n._;
besieged by the duke of Lorraine, 322;
surrender of, 324;
besieged by the Burgundians, 325 _et seq._;
the duke of Burgundy defeated and slain near, 336, 337;
numbers slain at, 337 _n._
Nancy, _Jean de Troyes’_ notices of, ii. 384;
surrendered to the duke of Lorraine, _ib._;
to the duke of Burgundy, 385;
retaken, 386.
Nanni, Alexander, bishop of Forli, i. 241.
Nantes, treaty of, i. 6.
Nanteuil, Margaret de, i. 82.
Nantouillet, Charles de Melun, lord of, i. 14;
high steward of France, 46.
Naples, expedition of Charles VIII. against, ii. 93 _et seq._, 119,
122, 125 _et seq._;
the kingdom of, rebels against Ferrand (Ferdinand), 97;
the rebels offer the throne to René II. duke of Lorraine, 98;
cruelties committed in, 99;
difficulties of her position, 100 _et seq._;
state of, at the time of Charles VIII.’s expedition against, 123;
one of the three powers of Italy, 130;
royal tyranny in, 152;
five kings crowned in less than two years, 156;
Alphonso flies from, at the approach of Charles VII., 153;
three kings of, died in one year, 154;
entered by Charles VIII., 161;
its surrender, 162;
flight of king Ferrand from, 163;
Charles is crowned king of, _ib._;
submission of the nobility to Charles, _ib._;
the castle of, bombarded, and captured, 164, 165;
position of affairs at, 184;
departure of Charles VIII. from, 186;
castle of, evacuated by lord de Montpensier and the French, 230,
231;
great difficulties attending, _ib._;
re-occupied by king Ferrand, 230, 231 _et n._;
the whole kingdom of lost to the French, 232;
Charles VIII. receives intelligence of its capture, 257;
Ferrand the fifth monarch who sat on the disastrous throne of, 263;
plots of the Italian princes for the recovery of, 264 _et seq._;
their miscarriage, 266, 267.
Naples, kings of. (See Frederic, Charles, Alphonso, Ferdinand, and
Ferrand.)
Narbonne, Jean, viscount of, i. 284.
Nassau, Engelbert, count of, ii. 33.
Nations, on the balance of power in, i. 379.