Valona, a town in Albania, ii. 165.
Vaquerie, Jean de la, i. 346.
Vaudray, Monsieur de, ii. 22.
Vaudray, Claude de, ii. 388.
Venafro, Marquis de, ii. 163.
Vendôme, Francis, duke of, his death, ii. 237.
Vendôme, Jacques, vidame of, ii. 245.
Venetians, their designs against the Turks, ii. 15;
French embassy to the, 119;
their contest with the Turks, 120 _n._;
their title to the kingdom of Cyprus, 121;
cessions made to the, 121 _n._;
subdue Padua, 138;
cabal against Charles VIII., 178;
enter into a league with the pope and other confederates against
France, 179;
their number of forces brought against the French, 203;
Charles VIII. sends an embassy to invite them to accept terms of
peace, which are refused, 248, 249;
towns possessed by, in Apulia, 259;
compelled to surrender them, _ib._ _n._;
enemies opposed to them, 282.
Venice, opinions of the senate of, on the government of Naples, ii.
100;
one of the three powers of Italy, 130;
on the government of, 168 _et seq._;
entry of Commines into, as ambassador of France, 169;
his description of, 170, 171;
naval expeditions of, 172;
her civil polity, _ib._;
the objects of Commines’ embassy to, 173 _et seq._;
various embassies sent to, 173, 174;
her friendly intentions towards Charles VIII., 176, 177;
doges of, 267.
Vercelli, or Verceil, town of, ii. 233;
treaty of, between Charles VIII. and the League, i. xxxv.; ii. 245.
Verdun-sur-Saône, town of, rebels, ii. 23;
captured, 24.
Verdun, Guillaume, bishop of, imprisoned, i. 165.
Vere, Wolfert, lord de la, i. 359.
Vergy, Guillaume, lord de, i. 76, 362;
his various appointments, 362 _n._;
swears allegiance to the king, 363.
Vermandois, revenue of, i. 139.
Vermandois, Herbert II., count of, i. 120.
Vers, sir Stephen de, ii. 70, 108;
seneschal of Beaucaire, 93, 94, 96;
made governor of Gaeta, 184.