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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 08 [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. 08 [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. 08 [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

Page 359. line 5. _Duchy of Luxembourg._] The cause and progress
of this war respecting the duchy of Luxembourg, may deserve some
explanation. After the death of Wenceslaus duke of Brabant and
Luxembourg (the patron of Froissart) the duchy reverted to the emperor
Wenceslaus, as head of the elder branch of the family; and on the
marriage of Elizabeth of Gorlitia, his niece, with Anthony duke of
Brabant, the emperor made a mortgage of the duchy to the said Anthony
to secure the payment of his wife's portion amounting to 120,000
florins. This sum was never paid; and possession of the duchy was
retained by Elizabeth after the death of Anthony, and until some
time after the death of her second husband, John of Bavaria, bishop
of Liege, so often before mentioned. At this period, however, both
Wenceslaus and Sigismund, and also the empress Elizabeth daughter of
Sigismund, being no more, and the rights of the elder branch having
descended on William III. marquis of Thuringia and Casimir IV, king of
Poland, in right of their wives Elizabeth and Anne, the daughters of
the empress Elizabeth, those princes took advantage of the apparently
unprotected state of the province to claim the privilege of redemption;
to enforce which, they sent a powerful army under the command of the
count of _Click_ of the house of Saxony. To oppose the invaders,
Robert, count of Wirnemburg collected what troops he was able from the
duchy itself; and duke Philip sent considerable supplies under the
command of his bastard son Cornelius, of the count of Estampes, and
other nobles, by whose assistance the Saxons were at length expelled.
_In gratitude for this signal service_, Elizabeth soon afterwards
conveyed the duchy and all its dependancies in absolute possession to
duke Philip and his heirs for ever; and the vanquished claimants were
forced to purchase peace by a solemn ratification of her cession. The
king of Poland, however, did not deliver his confirmation till after
the death of Philip, when the transaction was completed in favour of
Charles the warlike. See Bertelius and Heuterus.

The short table annexed will render this affair more intelligible.

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