The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 02 [of 13] : $b containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countriesMonstrelet, Enguerrand de
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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 02 [of 13] : $b containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de
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A few days after, the king, by the advice and entreaties of the duke
of Burgundy, bought the greater part of the prisoners made at the late
battle, by paying their ransoms to those who had taken them. In the
number was Colinet, thus surnamed by many, who had betrayed the bridge
of St Cloud to the duke of Orleans; and on the 12th day of November, he
and five of his accomplices were beheaded in the market-place at Paris:
his body was quartered, and the five others were hung up by the arms on
the gibbet at Montfaucon.
On the 13th of the same month, a sermon was preached in the
church-square, before the porch of Nôtre Dame in Paris, by a Friar
Minor, in the presence of the duke of Burgundy, many princes, and a
great concourse of people,--in which he said that the bulls given by
pope Urban V. had been of the utmost efficacy against the rebellious
subjects of the king, and publicly denounced the duke of Orleans and
his party as excommunicated. They were also thus denounced in many
other succeeding sermons.
The ensuing day, the king heard mass in Nôtre Dame, and returned to the
Louvre to dinner, when he most graciously received the earl of Arundel,
and caused him to be seated at his table next to the duke of Burgundy.
Many councils were held at Paris respecting this war, and on the
measures the king should now adopt. It was at length determined, that
on account of the winter, neither the king nor the princes should
attempt any thing more until the ensuing summer, but only have some
able captains with a sufficient force on the frontiers, to harrass
and pursue the enemy, and keep him in check. In consequence, the lord
Boucicaut marshal of France, the lord de Heilly marshal of Acquitaine,
Enguerrand de Bournouville, Aymé de Vitry, the lord de Miraumont and
others, were ordered on this service with a very considerable force.
They marched toward Estampes and Bonneval, and those parts, having with
them the lord de Ront.
Bonneval, on the first summons from the above captains, surrendered to
the king’s obedience, and the greater part of them were lodged in the
town, and in an adjoining abbey of some strength. Those of Estampes
refused to surrender, for it was garrisoned by the duke of Berry, and
began to make war on the troops of the king and the duke of Burgundy,
by the instigation of the lord Louis de Bourbon, governor of Dourdan,
who resided there.
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