'In the Corpus MS. these knights are called in a side-note Bertheu_n_ Clayky_n_ (which was one of the many curious ways in which Du Guesclin's name was spelt) and Olyu_er_ Mawny; in MS. Harl. 1758 they are called Barthilmewe Claykeynne and Olyuer Mawyn; and in MS. Lansdowne 851 they are called Betelmewe Claykyn and Oliuer Mawnye. Mauni or Mauny was a well-known Armorican or Breton family. Chaucer's epithet of "Genilon" for Oliver de Mauny is specially happy, because Genelon was the Breton knight who betrayed to their death the great Roland and the flower of Charlemagne's knights to the Moors at Roncesvalles. Charles's or Charlemagne's great paladin, Oliver, is too well known to need more than a bare mention.'--F. J. Furnivall, in Notes and Queries, 4th Series, viii. 449. PETER, KING OF CYPRUS. 3581. In a note to Chaucer's Prologue, A. 51, Tyrwhitt says--'Alexandria in Egypt was won, and immediately afterwards abandoned, in 1365, by Pierre de Lusignan, king of Cyprus. The same Prince, soon after his accession to the throne in 1352, had taken Satalie, the antient Attalia; and in another expedition about 1367 he made himself master of the town of Layas in Armenia. Compare 11 Mémoire sur les Ouvrages de Guillaume de Machaut, Acad. des Ins. tom. xx. pp. 426, 432, 439; and Mémoire sur la Vie de Philippe de Maizières, tom. xvii. p. 493.' He was assassinated in 1369. Cf. note to A. 51. BARNABO OF LOMBARDY. 3589. 'Bernabo Visconti, duke of Milan, was deposed by his nephew and thrown into prison, where he died in 1385.'--Tyrwhitt. This date of Dec. 18, 1385 is that of the _latest circumstance_ incidentally referred to in the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer had been sent to treat with Visconti [241] in 1378, so that he knew him personally. See Froissart, bk. ii. ch. 158; Engl. Cyclopaedia, s. v. _Visconti_; Furnivall's Trial Forewords, p. 109. And see vol. i. p. xxxii. UGOLINO OF PISA. 3597. 'Chaucer himself has referred us to Dante for the original of this tragedy: see Inferno, canto xxxiii.'--Tyrwhitt. An account of Count Ugolino is given in a note to Cary's Dante, from Villani, lib. vii. capp. 120-127. This account is different from Dante's, and represents him as very treacherous. He made himself master of Pisa in July 1288, but in the following March was seized by the Pisans, who threw him, with his two sons, and two of his grandsons, into a prison, where they perished of hunger in a few days. Chaucer says _three sons_, the eldest being five years of age. Dante says _four sons_. 3606. _Roger_; i. e. the Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini, who was Ugolino's enemy. 3616. This line is imperfect at the caesura; accent _but_. Tyrwhitt actually turns _herde_ into _hered_, to make it dissyllabic; but such an 'emendation' is not legitimate. The Harl. MS. has--'He herd it wel, but he _saugh_ it nought'; where Mr. Jephson inserts _ne_ before _saugh_ without any comment. Perhaps read--he [ne] spak.