The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 09 [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. 09 [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
Page 121. line 9. _Lord de Touteville._] Qu. Estouteville. Louis, grand
butler of France.
Page 133. line 4 from the bottom. _Maine._] Charles of Anjou, count of
Maine and Provence, mentioned before.
Page 128. line 10. from the bottom. _Duke of Somerset._] Edmund
Beaufort, younger brother of John duke of Somerset, (who died in 1444,
leaving no male issue) was in 1431 made earl of Mortaigne (under which
title he is named in some preceding parts of this history) earl of
Dorset in 1442, marquis of Dorset the year following, and duke of
Somerset in 1448. He was the great support of the Lancastrian party,
and was beheaded after the fatal battle of Hexham in 1463.
Page 134. line 9. _Andrew Troslet._] Andrew Trollope and Thomas Cotton,
esquires, were captains of Falaise, for the earl of Shrewsbury,
according to Stowe.
Page 136. line 5 from the bottom. _Death._] Francis I. duke of
Brittany, left two daughters by his second wife Isabel, daughter of
James I. of Scotland. The eldest of these was Margaret, married to
Francis II, her cousin; the youngest Mary, married to the viscount de
Rohan. Francis I. was succeeded by his next brother, duke Peter II.
Page 133. line 3. _Arthur of Montauban._] Arthur of Montauban, bailiff
of the Cotentin, &c. second son of William lord of Montauban,
chancellor to queen Isabel of Bavaria. So far from being hanged, (which
must be a mistake of the chronicle from which the following account
has been taken) this Montauban having professed at the convent of
the Celestins, at Marcoussis, advanced himself in the church, became
archbishop of Bordeaux, and died in 1468. (See Moreri art. Montauban.)
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