Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
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Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
See decrees of Henry VI. against fugitives, “_terrificatos
incautionibus puellae_.”
Footnote 163:
Nevertheless, his name appears as having agreed with the Abbot of
Fécamp in his opinion of the Condemnation.
Footnote 164:
Not mentioned elsewhere.
Footnote 165:
Secretary to the King of England.
Footnote 166:
It is, however, stated that, on being consulted, he did advise the
extreme measure of putting Jeanne to the torture.
Footnote 167:
Louis de Contes was brother-in-law of Beauharnais, the Bourgeois of
Orleans. He was a son of Jean de Contes, Captain of Châteaudun, and
Chamberlain to the Duke d’Orléans.
Footnote 168:
Jacques Bouchier.
Footnote 169:
[“_Ha! sanglant garçon, vous ne me dyriez pas que le sanc de France
feust repandu!_”]
Footnote 170:
_Cœlestinorum_, in the text.
Footnote 171:
John de la Pole, Captain of Avranches, brother of the Earl of Suffolk.
Footnote 172:
Jeanne’s hatred of swearing is noticed by many of her followers, and
in her hearing they endeavoured to abstain from it. La Hire, whose
language was apparently the most violent, was permitted by her to
employ the mild expletive ‘Par mon martin,’ ‘By my baton,’ an
expression she herself is constantly reported to have used.
Footnote 173:
A nickname of Poulengey.
Footnote 174:
These three forts were on the left bank of the Loire; the fort of the
Tourelles, of the Augustins, and of Saint-Privé were further west.
Footnote 175:
A woman called “la gasque d’Avignon,” whose predictions made much stir
at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Footnote 176:
The devoted Margaret of Bavaria, who was separated from him on account
of his evil life.
Footnote 177:
Jean, Duke d’Alençon, son of the Duke killed at Agincourt. He was of
the Blood Royal, descended from Philip II.
Footnote 178:
The Bishop referred to is Simon Bonnet, Bishop of Senlis at that time,
not the partisan of the English who occupied the seat in 1429.
Footnote 179:
Yolande, daughter of John I. of Aragon; wife of Louis XI., Duke of
Anjou, and titular King of Sicily. She was the mother of Mary, wife of
Charles VII., and grandmother of Margaret, afterwards wife of Henry
VI.
A receipt is recorded, in _Quicherat_ (III. 93), for the carriage of
corn, on her behalf, from Orleans to Blois.
Footnote 180:
A captain of some repute, exchanged for Talbot after the Battle of
Patay.
Footnote 181:
In the Accounts (formerly kept in the Chambre des Comtes at Paris), of
Maître Hemon Raguier, Treasurer of War, there is an item relating to
this suit of armour: “To the Master Armourer, for a complete harness
for the said Pucelle, 100 livres tournois.”
Footnote 182:
A street in Orleans is still called after d’Illiers, then Captain of
Châteaudun.
Footnote 183:
Jeanne, daughter of the Duke d’Orléans.
Footnote 184:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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