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
The princes, not being able to attend sufficiently to these matters
of reform from their other occupations of greater weight, appointed
a commission to examine carefully into them, which commission was
composed of the counts de la Marche, de Vendôme and de St Pol, with
some members of the parliament.
The men at arms that had been called together round Paris by the duke
of Burgundy and others were disbanded; and each, as they returned to
the places whence they had come, devoured the substance of the poor
people, according to the custom of that time.
Sir Guichart Daulphin[45], before mentioned, was, by the princes,
appointed grand master of the king’s household in the room of the
murdered Montagu; for the king was then troubled with his usual
disorder.
The bishop of Paris now requested of the princes, that they would, in
their mercy, permit him to have the body of his brother taken down from
the gibbet, and, with many tears and supplications, petitioned for
leave to bury him. But neither of these requests was granted him by the
princes; on which the bishop, ashamed of the disgraceful death of one
brother and the flight of another, the archbishop of Sens, soon after
quitted his see, and taking with him his sister-in-law, the widow of
Montagu, and some of their children, for the duke of Berry had already
appointed another chancellor, went to the estate of his sister-in-law
in Savoy: she was the daughter of sir Stephen de la Grange, formerly
president of the parliament, and brother to the cardinal d’Amiens.
The borgne de Foucal, not answering to the proclamations that were
made for his appearance, was banished the realm of France, by sound
of trumpet in the four quarters of Paris. In like manner were the
archbishop of Sens and many other fugitives banished the kingdom.
The king of Navarre, the dukes of Berry, Burgundy and Holland, with the
counts de Vendôme and de la Marche, and several great lords, waited on
the queen of France and the duke of Acquitaine, to make them acquainted
with the reasons for the executing Montagu, and what progress they had
made in the reformation of abuses, and the measures they had pursued
against such as were criminal. The queen testified her satisfaction,
and was contented that they should proceed as they had began. She was,
however, far from being pleased with the duke of Burgundy, whom she
dreaded, from the great power he was now possessed of, more than any of
the other princes, although he treated her respectfully in his speech.
The marriage of the lord Louis of Bavaria, brother to the queen, was
again talked of with the daughter of the king of Navarre; and he was
presented with the castle of Marcoussi, with all its furniture and
appurtenances, which had lately been confiscated to the king, by the
death of Montagu, which was very agreeable to the queen.
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