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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 04 [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. 04 [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

Name: The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 04 [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
Author: Monstrelet, Enguerrand de

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de

Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Sources; France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453

'I Lievin Nevelin, doctor en decret, ambassador from the sacred college
of cardinals, to the most mighty and puissant prince my lord the duke
of Burgundy, have presented to him, on the part of the sacred college,
letters sealed with three seals, namely, that of the dean of the
cardinal-bishops, of the dean of the cardinal-priests, and of the dean
of the cardinal-deacons, which are my credential letters, and which I
have explained to my lord the duke, by offering to him from the sacred
college the words of the holy prophet David, 'Domine refugium factus
es nobis;' that is to say, 'Lord, in times of trouble we seek refuge
in thee.' In continuing my discourse from the above text and for many
reasons comparing the sacred college to king David, I have laid before
my said lord of Burgundy the state of the holy council of Constance,
and the labours of the cardinals to restore union to the church.

'I afterward explained to him, that all Christendom was now united,
except as it were a single grain in a bushel of wheat, namely, the
dominions of the count d'Armagnac, who still obey Pietro della Luna,
and whose adherents have been declared schismatics and guilty of
heresy. I then explained, that I was sent by the sacred college
as ambassadors to him, not simply as duke of Burgundy, but as the
representative of the crown of France, and to whom the government of
that country legally belonged, to make to him certain requests and
propositions from the sacred college; and I mentioned the reasons why
I was deputed to him, and not to the king, to my lord the dauphin, the
count d'Armagnac, or to the king's ministers. These reasons were, as
the sacred college bade me inform him, because my lord the king was
overwhelmed with a sore disorder, because my lord the dauphin was too
young in years, and because the count d'Armagnac had relapsed into
schism, and some of the king's ministers, adherents to the count, were
suspected of being schismatics also.

'True it is, that the said count d'Armagnac has not been pronounced
schismatic; but at the public sessions of the council, when Pietro
della Luna was dethroned and declared schismatic and heretic, he was
personally accused by the king of the Romans, and the procureur-fiscal
of the said council, and has since relapsed into schism,
notwithstanding the frivolous excuses made in his behalf by master John
Gerson.

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