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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 10 [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. 10 [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. 10 [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

THE KING OF FRANCE SUMMONS THE TWELVE PEERS OF FRANCE TO THE TOWN OF
 MONTARGIS, TO HEAR SENTENCE PASSED ON THE DUKE D'ALENÇON.--OF THE
 DEATH OF POPE CALIXTUS.--THE KING TRANSFERS THE COURT OF JUSTICE FROM
 MONTARGIS TO VENDÔME.


In the year 1458, the king of France summoned the twelve peers of his
realm, secular as well as temporal, and the members of his court of
parliament, to assemble in the town of Montargis on the 8th day of
June, in which place he intended holding a court of justice, and for
considering other matters that greatly affected the welfare of the
realm. The most part of those summoned attended, and were there for
two months, treating on the condemnation or acquittal of the duke of
Alençon, cousin-german to the king, and one of the peers of France.

The duke of Alençon had been imprisoned for certain treasonable acts
imputed to him, and of which he was said to be guilty. There were
present at this meeting the count de Dunois and de Longueville, the
chancellor of France, master Pierre du Reffuge,[4] general of France,
and many other great lords and officers. The duke of Burgundy would not
appear, although he had been summoned, and was the first of the peers.
He had refused to come in consequence of an article in the treaty of
Arras, by which he could not be constrained to attend any meeting but
at his own free will.

The king remained at Baugency during these two months, always intending
to have gone to Montargis; but fearing the epidemic distemper which
raged there, and the badness of the air, he dissolved the meeting, and
appointed it to assemble within fifteen days afterward at Vendôme.

On the 4th of April, in this year, died pope Calixtus,--and Pius, a
native of Italy, was elected in his room.

The 15th of August, all the king's counsellors, as well laics as
ecclesiastics, of his court of parliament, who had been summoned, came
to Vendôme,--even the bishop of Paris and the abbot of St Denis, who
had not appeared at Montargis.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 4: Reffuge. Q.]




CHAP. V.

 THE DUKE OF ALENÇON IS CONVICTED, AND CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR HAVING
 INTENDED TO DELIVER UP HIS STRONG PLACES TO THE ENGLISH, THE ANCIENT
 ENEMIES OF FRANCE, AND TO INTRODUCE THEM INTO NORMANDY.

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