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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 11 [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. 11 [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. 11 [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

For full particulars of this transaction, see Burchard's very curious
diary of pope Alexander, a fragment of which was published by Leibnitz.]

[Footnote 139: A Turk. Zizim, the unfortunate brother of Bajazet. He
was given up to the king of France by pope Alexander; but not until (as
it was believed) he had had a slow poison administered to him.]




CHAP. LIII.

 KING CHARLES DEPARTS FROM ROME WITH HIS ARMY FOR NAPLES.--WHAT PASSED
 ON HIS MARCH.


The king of France breakfasted and dined with the pope on the 28th
of January; and after they had long conversed together on certain
particular affairs, the pope gave him his benediction,--when he set out
from Rome, carrying the Turk away with him. The cardinal of Valencia,
son to the pope, accompanied the king, as a hostage for the pope, who
went that night not further than Marina, a small town seven or eight
miles from Rome. On the morrow, he lay at Veletri, which is a city, and
was lodged in the bishop's palace: he staid there some days,--during
which, the cardinal, like a traitor, abandoned the king. The king,
while at Veletri, received, on the last day of January, by a messenger,
certain intelligence, that the lord Angilbert of Cleves, a renowned
german captain, had won by assault, in spite of all resistance, the
town and castle of Monte Fortino[140], belonging to the lord James
Conti, who had broken his engagements with the king,--and on this
account, the place was destroyed by fire and sword. Many prisoners were
made there by the lord Angilbert, and in the number were two sons of
James Conti.

The king remained in Veletri on Sunday, the first of February, and
also on Monday, as it was the feast of the purification of the
Virgin, attended by four cardinals and six archbishops. On Tuesday
and Wednesday following, he passed through Valmontone, to La Botine.
On the 5th, he came to Fiorentino, where he halted, because a jew had
humbly supplicated him that he might be baptised. The king therefore,
instantly led him by the hand to the church, had him baptised by his
confessor, the bishop of Angers, the king giving his own name Charles,
and settled a handsome income on him. In this town is an abbey, in
which it is said lies the body of St Amboise.

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