Oliver le Mauvais, valet de chambre of Louis XI., i. 350;
sent to treat with the citizens of Ghent, 351;
failed in his designs upon Ghent, 356;
assumes the title of Count de Meulant, 357;
secures Tournay for the king, 358.
Olivet, Mount, monks of, ii. 156.
Onofrio de Santa Croce, legate of Rome at Liege, i. 146.
Oppressors, on the punishment of, i. 391.
Orange, William VII., prince of, i. 149.
Orange, Louis de Chalon, prince of, i. 376.
Orange, John II., prince of, reduced to great distress at Novara, i.
234;
commands the French troops, 236;
in the service of Louis XI., 376;
the captured places withheld from, 377;
abandons his cause, and is banished, 376 _n._;
chosen to be lieutenant of Burgundy, ii. 18;
assists in concluding a peace between Charles VIII. and the League,
245 _et seq._;
excites a revolt, 388.
Orgemont, Charles d’, lord of Mery, ii. 309.
Orlando, Charles, cardinal of St. Malo, ii. 191.
Orleans, factions of, ii. 86.
Orleans, Louis duke of, his assassination, i. 273, 274.
Orleans, Louis duke of (afterwards Charles XII.), pretends to the
duchy of Milan, ii. 130;
captures Novara, 192, 193;
his behaviour in the city, 197;
his preparations for battle, 198;
beleaguered in Novara, 228;
reduced to great famine at Novara, 234, 235;
negotiations respecting, 240;
peace concluded for his preservation, 241;
how he was delivered from dire misery upon terms of accommodation,
242 _et seq._;
peace concluded between him and the league, 245 _et seq._;
next heir to the crown at the death of the dauphin, 254;
his inconstancy, 266;
succeeds to the French throne as Louis XII., 97 _n._, 289.
Orleans, Charles, appointed royal commissioner, ii. 341.
Orson, Jacques d’, a brave soldier, i. 222.
Orvietto, flight of the Pope Alexander VI. to, ii. 187.
Ostia, town of ii. 147;
number of troops at, _ib._
Oudet de Rye, account of, i. 45.