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
Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Sources; France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
[61] Charles de Mouroufle. Q.
[62] The author of ‘An Account of Livonia, with a Relation of the Rise,
Progress and Decay of the Marian Teutonic Order,’ London, 1701, relates
these transactions in the manner following:
‘The order was now on the highest pinnacle of prosperity and honour,
exceeding great kings and potentates of Europe in extent of dominions,
power and riches, when Ulricus à Jungingen was chosen great master; but
he being of a boisterous, fiery temper, soon broke the peace concluded
between Poland with his brother Conradus à Jungingen, whereupon
king Uladislaus Jagellon joining forces with his father Witoldas of
Lithuania, formed an army of 150,000 fighting men and marched into
Prussia. To stop the progress of this formidable army, the great master
drew up as many forces as he could, and, after the Livonians had
joined him, found his army consisted, in a general muster, of 83,000
well armed stout combatants; and thus, with an undaunted spirit, he
marched forth to meet his enemy. Such a battle as this was never heard
of before in these parts, and was given the 15th day of July 1410 in
Prussia, near the town Gilgenbourg, between the two villages Tannenberg
and Grunwald, on a large plain, with such obstinacy that, according
to an exact computation, there were actually killed, on both sides,
100,000 on the spot. The Poles got the victory, but lost 60,000 men.
The order lost 40,000,--but among them almost all their generals and
commanders. The great master himself, and the chief of the order, with
600 noble german marian knights, were there slain. There is still
kept every year a day of devotion upon that plain, in a chapel built
to the remembrance of this battle, marked with the date of the year
it happened, and this inscription, _Centum mille occisi_. The king of
Poland was so weakened by this dear-bought victory that he very readily
agreed to a peace. This memorable battle is called The Battle of
Tannenberg.’
[63] Moreri says, that the good duke Louis died at Monbucan on the 19th
of August 1410. By his wife Anne, dauphiness of Auvergne and countess
of Forez, he left John count of Clermont, his son and successor:
his other children, Louis and two daughters, died without issue and
unmarried. He left also a natural son, named Hector, who was killed at
the siege of Soissons in 1414.
[64] Boulogne, the property of the duke of Berry, by marriage with
Jane, heiress of Auvergne and Boulogne.
The county of Estampes belonged to the duke of Berry,
Valois, I believe, to the count d’Alençon,
Beaumont to the duke of Orleans,--and
Clermont to the duke of Bourbon.
[65] Vinchestre, or rather Winchester,--now called Bicêtre, was a
palace built by a bishop of Winchester 1290. For further particulars,
see ‘Sauval Antiquitès de Paris’, vol. ii. book vii.
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