Page 3. line 19. _Bastard of Bourbon._] Joanna, youngest of the king's
four natural daughters, married to Louis de Bourbon, count of Rousillon
afterwards admiral of France.
Page 7. line 2. _Sir John de Lorraine._] Qu. John count of Harcourt,
brother of Frederic count of Vaudemont? See before, vol. x. page 303.
Page 7. line 19 from the bottom. _Mehun._] The first place of his
confinement was Sully sur Loire, from whence he was removed to the
castle of Usson in Auvergne. He was afterwards restored to favour and
made governor of Rousillon.
Page 20. line 7. _Lord des Bordes._] Philip de Melun lord des Bordes,
was governor of the bastille, and father of Charles de Melun the grand
master before mentioned. Both father and son were involved in the same
disgrace. But the former, more fortunate in being less elevated, was
only dismissed from his office, while the latter was soon afterwards
brought to the scaffold. The government of the bastille was now
committed to Hugh de Chavigny Seigneur de Bloc.
Page 46. line 12. _Stevenot de Vignoles._] This Stevenot de Vignoles
was probably a son of Amadour de Vignoles the brother of La Hire who
was killed at Creil in 1434 and continued the posterity of the lords de
Vignoles in Languedoc.
Page 48. line 14. _Him._] He was accordingly displaced, though not till
some years after, and the reason assigned was the opposition he made in
the affair of the pragmatic sanction. Du Clos.
Page 49. line 9. _Thiron._] Many historians speak of the number of
secret executions performed at the command of Louis by this Tristan
l'Hermite, whom he usually called by the familiar appellation of
"mon Compère." This cruel man, not content with mere obedience,
executed every mandate in the most barbarous manner. Louis may well be
reproached for the favour with which he honoured this minister of his
wrath whom he should not have looked upon in any other light than that
of a necessary instrument of justice. Du Clos.
Page 54. line 13. _Cardinal of Evreux._] Balue obtained the cardinal's
hat at the earnest solicitations of his master, and as a recompense
for his services in the affair of the pragmatic sanction when he was
so nobly checked by St Romain. Pope Paul the second was afterwards
thoroughly ashamed of having been prevailed on to elevate to the sacred
dignity a person of so thoroughly scandalous and depraved a character,
and excused himself on the ground of compulsion. Du Clos.
Page 67. line 6 from the bottom. _Lyon._] The archbishop of Lyons. See
after, p. 284.
Page 75. last line. _Him._] The progress of the war with the Liegeois
is detailed very much at length in the second book of Philip de
Commines, where also the reader will find all the particulars of an
affair which is not even hinted at in this place. The king had himself
excited the commotions in Liége, the intelligence of which is here said
to have so disturbed him by means of his secret envoys. After having
done this, he had the imprudence (most unaccountable in one of his
consummate craft) to come and meet the duke of Burgundy in the duke's
own town of Peronne. The treaty between them was already far advanced
when news arrived of this disturbance, and then also intelligence
was brought to the duke of the infamous intrigues by which it had
been occasioned. The duke immediately ordered the gates of the town
to be closed and made Louis his prisoner, and in this state the king
remained for some days in hourly apprehension of the death which
his duplicity and treachery towards the duke had richly merited. But
next to the folly of the king, the most extraordinary circumstance in
the whole transaction is the weakness of the duke; who, as if he had
never known by experience that the king was neither to be bound by
treaties, nor by obligations, had no sooner suffered his first rage
to cool than he humbled himself on his knees before his prisoner, and
asking forgiveness of him whom on the contrary he ought not himself
to have forgiven, permitted him to depart in safety upon his simple
engagement to renounce the league he had made with the inhabitants of
his rebellious city.
Page 79. line 6. _Cardinal of Angers._] Balue, who at this time held
both the bishopricks of Angers and Evreux. The former he obtained from
the Pope by means of the most treacherous proceedings against Jean de
Beauveau, its bishop, and his former patron and benefactor. See Du Clos.
Page 87. line 12. _Observe._] See before page 75. The circumstance of
the king's imprisonment seems to be most studiously avoided by this
historian. Perhaps he did not know of it; for Louis who, to the latest
hour of his life, reflected on his extreme imprudence and imminent
danger with the utmost shame, not only was careful never to mention it
himself but was highly offended if he heard or suspected that it was
ever mentioned by others. Comines, who gives the relation, was present
at Peronne and in the very chamber next to that where the king was
confined at the time of the adventure.
Page 89. line 10 from the bottom. _Sir Tanneguy du Châtel._] Youngest
son of Olivier lord du Châtel, and nephew of Tanneguy du Châtel provost
of Paris who died in 1449. Tanneguy the younger was viscount of
Belliére in right of his wife Jane de Raguenel, lady of Malestroit, and
viscountess of Belliére. He is celebrated in history for his generous
attention to the funeral of Charles the seventh, which was shamefully
neglected by his attendants. Louis the eleventh rewarded this service
by a suitable care of his obsequies. He was killed at the siege of
Bouchain in 1477, and left issue two daughters.
Page 91. line 7. _Long preserve it!_] From this expression it should
appear that the writer of this chronicle committed every event to
writing as soon as he was informed of it and never afterwards revised
his annals with a reference to subsequent affairs.
Page 96. last line. _Viscount of Villars. Q. if not Thouars._] Louis
d'Amboise viscount of Thouars dying without issue male, his daughter
brought the titles Thouars and Talmont into the family of Tremoille by
marriage with Louis I. count of Guînes, &c. who died in 1483.
Page 106. line 6. _Behind._] This sudden revolution seems to have been
effected solely by the over-powering influence of the Nevils. The
marquis of Montacute, who had been lately forced to resign the earldom
of Northumberland on the reconciliation between Edward and the house
of Percy, and who was too fond of actual power to think the title of
marquis a compensation for one of the greatest earldoms of England,
was easily persuaded to join the party of his brother, and on his
defection, Edward was seized with a panic, and leaving his army at
Nottingham fled beyond seas. Stowe, 1470.
Page 113. line 4. _Combrodes._] Combrodes, Qu. Comborn? John I.
viscount of Comborn, counsellor and chamberlain to Charles the seventh,
married Jane of Rochechouart and died about 1482. Who was count or lord
of Charente I cannot tell. But qu. does this mean James de Bourbon lord
of Charency? He married into the family of la Tour d'Auvergne, which
renders it the more probable.
Page 116. line 5. _King._] It is evident that these events are related
in a very confused and hurried manner. Edward landed in the Humber
during the winter of 1470. On the 14th of April, being Easter-day,
1471, was fought the battle of Barnet in which Warwick fell, and with
him Bouchier lord Cromwell, sir John Lisle, and others. Montacute
also was killed by his brother's men, being detected in a treacherous
manœuvre to join king Edward's party. Holland, duke of Exeter, was left
for dead on the field; but he found means to escape and got over to
Burgundy where he was seen by Philip de Commines following in the train
of duke Charles from place to place, a barefooted mendicant. On the
4th of May following queen Margaret having landed with a considerable
force in Devonshire and thence marched up the country, was met by king
Edward at Tewkesbury when the decisive battle was fought, which as
is well known, terminated with the utter overthrow of all the hopes
of the Lancastrian party. Besides prince Edward (who is said to have
been murdered in cold blood after the engagement was over) there fell
Courtney earl of Devonshire, lord John Somerset, (a brother of the
duke's) lord Wenlock, and many knights and gentlemen of name. The
duke of Somerset (with several others) was treacherously made to quit
sanctuary under promise of pardon and afterwards beheaded; but he at
least deserved his fate for having fled from the prince of Wales's side
during the battle and left him to be made a prisoner. Stowe.
Page 116. line 12. _Died._] By this must be meant Amadeus IX. count
of Savoy, who succeeded his father Louis in 1465 and died this year.
He was succeeded by his son Philibert I. who died 1476 without issue
by Blanche of Milan his wife. Philibert was succeeded by his brother
Charles I. who died in 1488 leaving issue by Blanche of Montferrat one
son, Charles II, who died without issue in 1495, upon which Philip
count of Bresse the brother of Amadeus the ninth, (mentioned before,
vol. x. p. 158) succeeded to the dukedom, and died shortly after. See
p. 35.
Page 117. line 8 from the bottom. _Count d'Eu._] Charles count d'Eu,
the last prince of the blood of the line of Artois. His character
is thus given by Du Clos. "Il avoit toutes les vertus solides, sans
en affecter l'éclat; peu touché d'une fausse gloire, il pensoit que
celle d'un prince qui n'est pas né sur le trone, est d'en être l'appui
et trouva sa véritable gloire dans sa fidelité pour son roi, et ses
services pour l'etat." It is a strange mistake to call the count de
Nevers his brother, in which case there could have been no pretence for
the king's giving away his honours and estates. The count de Nevers was
his nephew, being the son of Bona of Artois and Philip count of Nevers
her husband.
Page 120. line 16. _Years._] He died of a stroke of apoplexy brought
on, as Platina says, by good living, suddenly in his chamber. This
historian, (who, however, suffered from some persecution under his
authority) is not very favourable to his memory. His luxury and pride
he represents to have been inordinate. Among other stories told of
him, it is said that he prided himself excessively on his comeliness
of person and wished at his accession to have assumed the name of
Formosus, but was deterred by some of his cardinals who, being more
conversant in history than himself, reminded him of the miserable
fate of the only pontiff who had borne that name. He then chose that
of Paul, but could never afterwards esteem himself completely happy,
from his wish in that important particular having been frustrated. It
was reported of him that he used to paint his face like the ladies,
whenever he appeared in public. He wished, at another time, to issue a
papal bull ordaining that all cardinal's hats for the future should be
made of silk: but in this also he was over-ruled by the common sense
of those about him. He was at least as great an enemy to learning and
learned men as his predecessor had been a promoter and encourager of
both; but here again it is the _learned_ Platina who speaks. He was
notorious for having one living witness at least of his amours, which
became the subject of an epigram somewhat more pointed than is usual
on such occasions.
Pontificis Pauli testes ne Roma requiras.
Filia quam genuit, sat docet, esse marem.
Sanctum non possum, patrem te dicere possum,
Cum video natam, Paule secunde, tuam.
Page 126. line 18. _Lord de Malicorne._] Guy de Sourches, lord of
Malicorne.
Page 128. last line. _Butchers_] Audi alteram partem. "The duke of
Burgundy sent a trumpet to the inhabitants of Nesle commanding them to
open their gates to him. They ask a truce for a few days to consult
concerning the terms of capitulation to be proposed. But leave being
granted, while the business was still in agitation, they rise upon the
duke's trumpeter and his companions and murder them when peaceably
walking in the streets. Moved to excessive anger by this act of
treachery, the duke commands the lady of Nesle to quit the place,
and no sooner was she departed than he gave orders for a general
massacre." Heuterus. Thus, though the historian of Burgundy admits
the massacre, (stating at the same time a provocation by which it is
almost justified) he says not a word about the violation of sanctuary,
or about the savage expressions which the duke is here said to have
uttered.
Page 130. line 11. _Lord de Crussol._] Charles de Crussol, seneschal
of Poitou, grand pannetier, and knight of St Michael; one of the few
servants of Louis who were faithful to the king without abusing their
trusts. He was made governor of Dauphiné the ensuing year and died soon
after. As grand pannetier he was succeeded by his son James de Crussol,
and in his new government by John de Daillon seigneur du Lude. Du Clos.
In Morery he is called Louis.
Page 145, line 6 from the bottom. _Lord de l'Escou._] Should be Odet
Daidie, lord de Lescun. He has been mentioned before in the course of
this work. As bailiff of the Cotentin he rendered considerable services
to the crown in the wars of Charles VII. Among the sweeping changes
made by Louis on his accession, Lescun was deprived of his office and
retired into Bretagne where he was much in the confidence of the duke
and also of the unfortunate duke of Guienne. But it does not appear
that in a single instance he acted contrary to the interests of the
crown. He has been charged by some writers with (and sometimes as an
instrument, at others as a principal in) the supposed poisoning of the
king's brother. But besides that there is no good reason to believe
that this prince was poisoned at all, it is not consistent with any
other action of Lescun's life to imagine him in any manner concerned
in such an act of villainous iniquity. He was afterwards in favour
with the king who gave him the county of Comminges on the death of the
bastard d'Armagnac; and this, perhaps, was the only motive for the
absurd suspicion.
Page 147. line 6 from the bottom. _Count d'Armagnac._] John V. count of
Armagnac, whose life was but a tissue of crimes, of murder, incest, and
treason. His sister he seduced, and afterwards pretended to make his
wife, under circumstances of scandalous imposition. He was killed by a
soldier named Gorgia whom the king afterwards promoted to the office
of archer de la garde. A writer of the reign of Charles VIII. pretends
that he was assassinated while the treaty was on foot; but the present
account seems to contradict that report. See Du Clos.
Page 148. line 2 from the bottom. _John Joffroy then bishop of Alby._]
Joffredy. See note, vol. x. p. 139.
Page 149. line 10 from the bottom. _Count d'Albret._] Charles d'Albret
lord of St Basile, commonly called le cadet d'Albret. It seems there
was sufficient proof of his guilt; but James de Lomagne lord of
Montignac, the governor of Leitoure, though the principal person
concerned in the same transactions, was pardoned in consideration of
the testimony he could produce against others.
Page 153. line 6. _Duchy of Lorraine._] Nicholas, only son of John duke
of Calabria (who died, greatly regretted for his princely virtues,
three years before) and grandson of René king of Sicily. For some time
before his death, this young prince had been in treaty with the duke of
Burgundy, for a marriage with Mary his only daughter and presumptive
heir to his vast dominions. This negotiation was most obnoxious to
Louis; and the interruption of it by the young man's death just then
when there appeared to be no farther obstacle to its accomplishment
gave occasion to the suspicion of another poisoning which on some
accounts seems to be attended with greater probability than that to
which the death of the king's brother was attributed. By the death of
this duke of Calabria, the male line of René became extinct and the
inheritance of Lorraine passed to Iolante the daughter of René who by
her marriage with Frederic count of Vaudemont (dead in 1470) had issue
René count of Vaudemont and afterwards duke of Lorraine; whom the duke
of Burgundy (probably enraged at the failure of his hope of uniting
the duchies of Burgundy and Lorraine by the marriage of his daughter)
imprudently as well as unjustly contrived to make prisoner as related
in the text; but he was very shortly obliged to set him at liberty.
Page 154. line 6. _It._] The cause of this expedition was briefly
as follows. Some years before, Adolphus the son of Arnold duke of
Gueldres rebelled against his father, deposed and imprisoned him and
took possession of his estates. Complaint of this outrage being made
at the papal and imperial courts, the duke of Burgundy was appointed
umpire and awarded to the old duke a portion only of the hereditary
state for his maintenance, with which he seemed to be well satisfied.
His son on the contrary swore "that he would rather throw the old man
into a well and himself afterwards than acquiesce in such a sentence."
Justly indignant at this monstrous ingratitude, the duke upon this
deprived the unnatural villain of his estates which he thereupon
purchased of the father at the price of 92,000 florins. Arnold died
five years afterwards, having by his last will disinherited his son
and confirmed his sale to the duke of Burgundy. The duke of Juliers
however, had some claims to the succession which it was more difficult
to compromise; and these, together with the opposition made by some of
the towns of Guelderland and Zutphen to the duke's possession involved
him in an expensive and sanguinary warfare. Du Clos.
Page 190. line 19. _Lord de L'isle._] Qu. William de l'Isle lord of
Marivaux, &c. maître d'hôtel to the cardinal of Bourbon in 1484, who
died in 1511.
Page 190. line 5 from the bottom. _Count de Joigny._] John de Châlons
lord of Viteaux was second son of John, and brother of Louis prince
of Orange. He married Jane sister and heir of Louis de la Tremouille,
count of Joigny who died s. p. in 1467; and his eldest son by this lady
had the title of count de Joigny in right of his mother.
Page 192. line 5. _Count of Savoy._] James, one of the youngest sons of
Louis count of Savoy, was count of Romont. He married Mary daughter of
Peter de St Pol and of Margaret of Savoy his sister. Philip de Comines
exclaims against these incestuous marriages, which he says, were very
common in the house of Savoy.
Page 199. last line. _Sir John Cheam and Chaney._] "Sir John Cheyney."
Stowe.
Page 216. line 8. _Cordeliers._] The posterity of the constable de St
Pol will be best understood by the following table.
{ Eldest son, 1 {Mary, countess of St Pol
{Peter II. married Margaret {who by her second marriage
{of Savoy, dowager {with Francis count
{of Montferrat and died in {of Vendôme, brought the
{1482. {county of St Pol, &c.
{ {into the house of Bourbon.
{ {
{ 2 {Frances, married to
{ {Philip of Cleves count of
{ {Ravenstein.
{
The { {By the first marriage.
CONSTABLE. { Second son, {
{Anthony, count of Brienne, {Philiberta, countess of
{and Roussy, married {Charny, married John
{Antoinette de Bauffremont {prince of Orange.
{countess of Chargny {
{and 2ndly, Frances de {By the second marriage.
{Croy daughter of the prince {
{of Chimay. {Charles count of Brienne,
{ {Ligny, Roussy, &c.
{ {died 1530. Ancestor of
{ {the house of Piney-Luxembourg.
{
{ Third son,
{Louis, count of Ligny,
{married Eleanor, princess
{of Altamura, and died
{in 1503, without issue.
Besides these three sons, who were temporal princes, the constable
had two others, John his eldest, who was called count of Marle and
Soissons, and killed at the battle of Morat, in the life-time of his
father, and Charles bishop of Laon who died in 1509. His daughters were
Jacqueline the wife of Philip de Croy, count of Porcien, Helen the wife
of Janus of Savoy count of Geneva, Philippa abbess of Moncel, and Jane
a nun. Of all these children, Louis and Jane were the offspring of his
second marriage with Mary of Savoy, the sister of Margaret the wife of
his eldest surviving son Peter. The constable had besides, a numerous
illegitimate progeny--John bishop of Angouleme, Jane married to Anthony
d'Ailly lord of Varennes, Margaret the wife of Philip d'Inchy castellan
of Douay, &c. &c.
Page 229. line 11. _Obstinacy._] To explain the occasions and
consequences of the several wars in which the duke of Burgundy was
engaged down to the period of his death, would be to overload this
meagre chronicle with a profusion of commentary which it hardly seems
to deserve. It is better to refer generally to the histories of the
times, especially to Comines, for all these particulars.
Page 233. line 10. _Life._] This is entirely a mistake. Queen Margaret
had been set at liberty in November 1475 and on the 7th of March
following, she renounced all her claims to the county in favour of
the king. This was two months before the treaty with king René was
concluded. Du Clos.
Page 249. line 8. _Lucerne._] The army of the duke of Lorraine is thus
divided according to Du Clos. The infantry commanded by Guillaume
Harfer, general of the Swiss, the cavalry by the count of Tierstein.
The corps de Bataille consisted of 8000 infantry supported by 1500
horse on the right, and 500 on the left wing. The rear-guard was
composed of only 800 foot. René commanded the whole army in person
and had with him the counts of Linange and Salins, the lords of
Bassompierre, Blamont, &c. &c.
Page 254. line 12. _Slain._] Among them the lords of Bievres, Contay,
and la Viefville. The two bastards, Anthony and Baldwin, the counts
of Nassau, Retel, Chimay, Oliver de la Marche, and others, were made
prisoners.
Page 265. line 15. _Duke of Gueldres._] See note to page 154. The duke
of Gueldres (Adolphus) had been confined a prisoner in the castle of
Courtray ever since the events which are there mentioned. But, on
occasion of the king's imprudent invasion of the duke of Burgundy's
territory, the Flemings brought him out of his prison to command
their forces and become the husband of their young sovereign Mary of
Burgundy. His death put an end to this design; and the competitors for
the hand of the heiress were then reduced to three, viz. the dauphin
of France, John son of the duke of Cleves, and Maximilian son of the
emperor Frederic and king of the Romans. The violent conduct of Louis
towards the states of Burgundy blasted the expectations which he might
otherwise have very reasonably entertained for his son. Mary is said
to have felt a personal repugnance to the heir of Cleves, and an equal
partiality for her imperial suitor. In his favour therefore the die
was ultimately cast; and their marriage took place on the 18th of
August in this same year, 1477.
Page 268. line 3. _Church._] This nobleman would have fallen unpitied
had it not been for the execrable inhumanity which accompanied his
execution, his children being brought to the scaffold and made to stand
there in such a position that the blood of their father might sprinkle
their bodies.
Mary of Anjou his wife, died in childbirth of the effects of the shock
which she experienced on hearing of his captivity. Of his three sons,
Louis only lived to the age of manhood. He was restored to his father's
honours and fell at the battle of Cerignole on the 28th of April 1503.
Of his daughters, Margaret was the wife of the mareschal de Gié,
Catherine married John duke of Bourbon, and Charlotte, Charles de Rohan.
Page 281. line 19. _Expired._] This improbable story is, I believe,
satisfactorily refuted and justly ridiculed by historians.
Page 287. last line. _With._] Heuterus relates a story, something
similar, of a governor of a town under Charles duke of Burgundy, upon
whom that prince afterwards caused exemplary punishment to be inflicted
for his crime. The alleged crime of Kirke, is, I believe, now pretty
generally admitted to be a fabrication, and was probably founded on
the Burgundian anecdote by some anti-jacobite writer.
Page 313. line 19. _Brother._] Say rather, "Should have been charged
with the murder of their brothers." The duke of Guienne is believed by
the best historians to have died a natural death; and the earl of Mar
(youngest brother of James III.) met his fate, according to the account
adopted by Drummond of Hawthornden, in a manner merely accidental.
The execution of George duke of Clarence, though it may well be said
that the king ought to have pardoned his brother, yet, as it was the
consequence of actual treason fully proved in the regular course of
law, certainly does not merit the appellation of a murder.
Page 315. line 17. _King of Poulaine._] Who this imaginary personage
may be intended for I cannot tell. If for Maximilian, it is entirely a
mistake. He was not made prisoner. Nor was there any other prince or
son of a king present at the engagement.
Page 332. line 10. _Niece to the duke of Bourbon._] Her death was
occasioned by a fall from her horse while hunting. Maximilian was
really much attached to her. But if he had not been so, his sorrow
for her loss could scarcely have been the less sincere as the death
of their natural sovereign left him with very little personal claim
on the affections of the states of Flanders and other parts of her
remaining dominions. Her only son was Philip of Austria duke of
Burgundy who, by his marriage with Joanna the heiress of Castille
and Arragon, transmitted the kingdom of Spain to his posterity. Her
daughter Margaret was first affianced to the dauphin, but afterwards
most imprudently rejected by him for Ann of Bretagne. She was then
affianced to John prince of Spain; but he died before the solemnization
of the nuptials. At last she found a husband in Philibert the fair,
duke of Savoy, but had no children by him, and after his death (which
happened within three years from the time of their union) she retired
to the court of the emperor her father, and became, towards the end of
her life, justly celebrated as the governess of the low countries. She
died in 1532.
Page 337. line 15. _Sir William de la Mark._] Third son of John the
first, count of Aremberg and brother of Robert de la Marck, first duke
of Bouillon. He married Jane of Arschot baroness of Schonhouen, by whom
he had John baron of Lumain who died 1526.
Page 339. line 16. _Thing._] Louis XI. is exculpated by Du Clos, in
the account which he gives of this transaction, from any concern in
the bishop's murder other than that of having furnished "the Wild
Boar" with the means of raising a force for the purpose of securing a
passage through the territories of Liege for the French armies in any
future attempts to subdue the country of Brabant. When the bishop was
so treacherously abandoned by his followers, "the Wild Boar" advanced
directly to him and thus addressed him. "Louis of Bourbon, I have
sought thy friendship and thou hast refused it to me." Saying this,
he clove his head with a battle-axe and ordered his body to be thrown
into the Meuse. The crime did not pass unpunished, the murderer being
executed at Utrecht two years afterwards by order of Maximilian.
Page 349. line 3. _Lord d'Albret._] Alan, lord of Albret, father of
John who was afterwards king of Navarre.
Page 355. last line. _Amen._] The only surviving children of Louis XI,
were Charles VIII, Anne the wife of Peter de Bourbon lord of Beaujeu,
and Jane the wife of Louis duke of Orleans, afterwards Louis XII.
Page 385. line 5 from the bottom. _Lord des Querdes._] Philip de
Crevecoeur lord des Querdes marshal of France in 1483.
Page 386. line 7 from the bottom. _Lord de Baudricourt._] John de
Baudricourt lord of Choiseul, marshal of France in 1418.
Page 386. line 5 from the bottom. _Lord d'Avaugour._] Francis bastard
son of duke Francis the second of Bretagne, count of Vertus barons of
Avaugour, lord of Clisson.
Page 386. line 5 from the bottom. _Rohan._] John viscount de Rohan
married to Mary daughter of Francis I. duke of Bretagne.
Page 387. line 4 from the bottom. _Lord d'Orval._] John d'Albret, lord
of Orval, who by his marriage with Charlotte daughter of John count of
Nevers, and sister of Elizabeth duchess of Cleves acquired the county
of Rethel in Champagne as her coparcenary share.
Page 390. line 9 _King of Romans._] Louis II. de la Tremouille,
viscount Thouars and prince of Talmont, grandson of George count of
Guisnes and Boulogne. He was killed at the battle of Pavia.
Page 390. line 14. _Lord d'Argenton._] Philip de Comines, the historian.
Page 320. line 20. _Lord de Montpensier._] Gilbert de Bourbon, lord of
Montpensier, father of Charles duke of Bourbon and constable of France.
He married the daughter of the marquis of Mantua and died in 1496.
Page 390. line 7 from the bottom. _Lord de Vendôme._] Francis de
Bourbon count of Vendôme married to a daughter of the constable de St
Pol. He died in 1496, and was father of Charles, and grandfather of
Anthony, duke of Vendôme and king of Navarre.
Page 390. line 6 from the bottom. _Lord Angiliebert of Cleves._]
Engilbert, second son of John duke of Cleves, and Elizabeth heiress of
Nevers, afterwards called duke of Nevers.
Page 390. line 6 from the bottom. _Lord John Jacques._] John James
Trivulzio, marquis of Vige-vano, one of the greatest generals of his
age.
Page 390. line 5 from the bottom. _Prince of Salerno._] Anthony de San
Severino prince of Salerno, son of the famous Robert de San Severino.
Page 390. line 3 from the bottom. _Marquis de Saluces._] Louis II.
marquis of Saluces died in 1504.
Page 390. line 3 from the bottom. _De Vienne._] Vienne. This family
was divided into so many branches that I cannot fix on the person here
meant.
Page 390. line 2 from the bottom. _Marshal de Gié._] Peter de Rohan,
lord of Gié, marshal of France, in 1475.
Page 390. line 2 from the bottom. _De Rieux._] John V. lord of Rieux
and Rochefort, marshal of France.
Page 390. last line. _Seneschal of Beaucaire._] Stephen de Vers,
seneschal of Beaucaire, chamberlain to the king, a native of Languedoc
of mean extraction, through whose instigation principally, this
extravagant expedition was undertaken. Brissonnet, another court
favourite, afterwards a cardinal, was the second promoter of the
enterprise. See Comines.
Page 390, last line. _Seneschal of Normandy._] Louis Després, lord of
Montpezat, seneschal of Normandy.
Page 391. line 6. _De Bourdillon._] Qu. Imbert de la Platière, youngest
son of Philibert de la Platière lord des Bordes? He was a great
favourite with Francis I. and Henry II. and was mareschal of France in
1562. He died in 1567 s. p. But more probably this was his uncle or
some other relation.
Page 391. line 6. _De la Palice._] James de Chabannes, lord of la
Palice, marshal in 1515.
Page 391. line 16. _Perot de Beché._] Perron de Baschi, Maître d'hôtel
to Charles VIII, one of the sons of Berthold de Baschi lord of Vitozzo,
squire to king Louis III. of Sicily, and lineally descended from
Hugolino de Baschi, sovereign lord of Orvieto, who in 1322 was driven
from his seignory and afterwards entering into the service of the
republic of Pisa, beat the Florentines at the battle of Bagno in 1363.
The descendants of this family settling in France, became marquisses of
Aubais in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Page 391. line 7 from the bottom. _Lord de la Brosse._] René de la
Brosse, count of Penthievre, son of John count of Penthievre, and
son-in-law to the historian Philip de Comines. He was killed at the
battle of Pavia in 1524.
Page 392. line 3. _Duchess of Savoy._] Blanche, daughter of William the
ninth marquis of Montferrat, and widow of Charles the first duke of
Savoy, protectress of the dukedom for her son Charles the second, then
an infant.
Page 398. note. _Frederic--was brother to Alphonso king of Naples._]
But it is entirely a mistake that he died of the fright, since he
outlived both his brother and his nephew, and enjoyed for a short time
the title of king of Naples. He did not die before the year 1504.
Page 401. line 7. _Marquis of Montferrat._] Boniface the fifth, of the
house of Palæologus, died in 1493, and was succeeded by his eldest son
William IX. The marchioness, his widow, here mentioned, died at the
age of 29, while these negotiations were going on; and upon her death
the marquis of Saluces and Constantine prince of Servia, her brother,
disputed the tutelage of the young marquis. Philip de Comines was
sent to Casal for the purpose of accommodating this dispute; and his
decision was in favour of Constantine. That prince is, in the text,
erroneously called the second son of the marchioness, when in fact, he
was her brother. John George, who was himself marquis of Montferrat
after the death of William, was the only younger son of Boniface the
fifth. See Guicciardini. lib. 2.
Page 405. line 4. _Pavia._] The king went to Pavia to visit the young
duke of Milan, John Galease, who was then lying dangerously ill in the
castle of that place. He had lately married Isabel of Arragon who (with
her only child, Francis, then but a few months old) went out to meet
the king as here mentioned. The death of the duke which happened before
the king left him was universally attributed to poison, administered
by Ludovico Sforza his uncle who had long governed the dukedom in his
nephew's name, and upon his death assumed the title also of duke, in
prejudice of the infant son of John Galease. See Guicciardini, lib. i.
Page 416. line 12. _Naples._] Q. Nepi, half way between Viterbo and
Rome?
Page 416. line 14. _Lord Virgilio d'Orsini._] Count of Tagliacozzo,
ancestor of the dukes of Bracciano. He was a general in the Neapolitan
service and died in 1497.
Page 416. line 9 from the bottom. _Ligny._] Ligny. See note p. 109.
vol. xii.
H. Bryer, Printer,
Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London.
Transcribers note: "Text enclosed by underscores is in italics
(_italics_)." Original spelling has been retained.