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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 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

Name: 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
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Monstrelet, Enguerrand de

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

Page 348. line 14. from the bottom. _Gloucester._] There was _no_ duke
of Gloucester at this time; for Humphrey duke of Gloucester, the king's
uncle, died under arrest, in the year 1447, and Richard third son of
the duke of York, was not created till the 1st of Edw. IV. Stow in ann.
1454.--"The duke of Yorke with his friends wrought so effectually,
and handled his busines so politikly, that the duke of Somerset was
arrested in the queenes great chamber, and sent to the Tower, where
he kept his Christmas without great solemnity, against whom in open
parliament, were laid divers articles, beginning thus, &c."

Page 348. line 9 from the bottom. _Duke Charles of Bourbon._] On the
13th of November. She was already his first cousin, being daughter of
duke Charles by Agnes, sister of Philip the good. Her name was Isabella.

Page 348. line 4 from the bottom. _Prince._] John II. king of Castile,
&c. succeeded his father Henry III. in the year 1406, and died 1454.
By his first wife, Mary of Arragon, he had one son, Henry IV. his
successor. By his second marriage with Isabella of Portugal, he had a
son Alphonso, who died without issue, and a daughter, Isabella, who
succeeded her half brother, Henry, and, by her marriage with Ferdinand
of Arragon, united the two principal crowns of Spain.

Page 350. line 4. _Duchy._] "Whilest king Henry lay sick, Ric. d. of
Yorke bare all the rule, and governed as regent, and did now discover
the sparkes of his hatred hid under dissimulation, against the duke
of Somerset; but when the king had recovered his strength again, and
resumed to him his princely government, he caused the duke of Somerset
to be sett at libertye, and preferred him to be captain of Calais,
wherewith not only the commons, but many of the nobility, favorers of
Richard duke of Yorke, were greatly grieved and offended, saying, that
he had lost Normandy, and would lose also Calais."

  _Stow_, ub. sup.

Page 355. line 6. _Bishop, of Utrecht._] Adolphus of Diepenholt. Upon
his death, the electors being solicited on one side by this duke for
his son David, and on the other by the duke of Gueldres for Stephen
of Bavaria, in order to offend neither exasperated both, by chusing
Guisbert, a brother of Reginald lord of Brederode, for their bishop.
But, upon endeavouring to get their election confirmed by the pope,
they found themselves anticipated by the duke, who had already obtained
the papal sanction in favour of his son. The matter was afterwards
compromised as related in chapter LXV. and David held the bishoprick of
Utrecht for forty years. [Heuterus.]

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