[Footnote 59: Bourget,--within a league of Paris.]
[Footnote 60: Count de Roussy,--Anthony of Luxembourg, son to the
constable.]
[Footnote 61: It was a codicil he now added to a will he had just
before made at Peronne. See the particulars of both, and his trial, in
the third volume of Comines,--_Preuves_.]
[Footnote 62: Comines says, that he lost but seven men at arms. Louis
de Châlons, lord of Château Guyon, was the only man of note killed.]
[Footnote 63: The spoils of the duke greatly enriched the poor Swiss,
and would have been of more advantage had they known the value of the
prize. They sold his silver plates and dishes for pewter. The largest
diamond then in the world, having an immense pearl fastened to it, was
picked up by a Swiss, replaced in its case, and thrown under a cart,
and sold afterward to a priest for a florin, who again resold it for
three francs. This diamond was, for some time, the first in the crown
of France: it is now the second, and known under the name of Sanci,
from having been last in the possession of Nicholas de Harlai, lord of
Sanci, celebrated in the reigns of Henry III, Henry IV. Sanci bought it
of don Antonio, prior of Crato, who died at Paris, and his pretensions
to the crown of Portugal with him. Varillas in his Hist. of Henry III.
makes a fine but false story of this diamond.--COMINES.
It used to be said that this diamond was called _cent-six_, from
weighing 106 carats. I believe the emperor Napoleon has it attached to
his sword.]
[Footnote 64: Count de Campo Basso. 'Every author who mentions him
calls him by this name; but his true one was Nicholas de Montfort. He
probably descended from some lord of the house of Montfort l'Amaury,
several of whom established themselves in the kingdom of Naples, and
took the title of Campo Basso from lands situated in the province
of Molissa of that kingdom. Cifron, maitre d'hôtel to the duke of
Lorraine, when made prisoner by the duke of Burgundy, who caused him
to be hanged, would have told him of the intended treachery of Campo
Basso, but he would not hear him. Louis XI. informed him that Campo
Basso was a traitor; but he refused to believe it, thinking it only a
device of the king to gain Campo Basso to his service.'--COMINES.]
[A.D. 1476.]