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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

Page 158. last line. _Arms._] The unpopularity of the old duke of
Savoy, and Amadeus, his eldest son, was principally owing to their
unwarlike and devotional temper so adverse to the notions and habits
of a martial nobility. Lewis, the second son, had married the heiress
of Cyprus after the death of her first husband, the duke of Coimbra;
and possibly the adventurous spirit of the times anticipated the glory
of an expedition for the recovery of a kingdom which had been snatched
from a female sovereign by an illegitimate usurper, aided by the
forces of the infidels. Another and more just ground of discontent was
the manifest subjection in which both father and son held themselves
enthralled to the pleasure of the king of France. On the other hand,
Philip count of Bresse, (a younger son of the duke of Savoy, not the
third as here stated, but the eighth of his numerous male issue) was
a prince of the greatest promise, of high military spirit, and a
commanding person; and the duke his father (who, in the course of his
religious exercises, had probably paid great attention to the history
of David and Absalom) was so afraid of the popularity which these
endowments ensured him, that he actually abandoned his dominions to
seek the protection of Louis XI. against this imaginary danger. He was
at this time very infirm in body; and Amadeus, his eldest son, who
followed the steps of his father in all things, was no less so from his
cradle.

Page 159. line 3. from the bottom. _Bastard._] Baldwin the eighth
son of this numerous family of bastards, was lord of Falaise and
Somergheim, and had several children by his marriage with a lady of the
house of la Cerda.

Page 161. line 10. from the bottom. _Duke._] The historians of Savoy
relate that this act of violence and injustice was committed at the
suit of the duke of Savoy, his father. He was not released till after
the old duke's death in 1465.

Page 161. line 3. from the bottom. _John._] Before called the count of
Estampes. His only daughter and heir conveyed the counties of Nevers,
&c. into the house of Cleves, by marriage with John duke of Cleves.

Page 163. line 1. _Earl of Warwick._] Stowe says that the lord
Montacute, Warwick's brother, commanded in this engagement, and that he
was rewarded by Edward with the earldom of Northumberland.

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