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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
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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 130. line 11. _Lord de Crussol._] Charles de Crussol, seneschal
of Poitou, grand pannetier, and knight of St Michael; one of the few
servants of Louis who were faithful to the king without abusing their
trusts. He was made governor of Dauphiné the ensuing year and died soon
after. As grand pannetier he was succeeded by his son James de Crussol,
and in his new government by John de Daillon seigneur du Lude. Du Clos.
In Morery he is called Louis.

Page 145, line 6 from the bottom. _Lord de l'Escou._] Should be Odet
Daidie, lord de Lescun. He has been mentioned before in the course of
this work. As bailiff of the Cotentin he rendered considerable services
to the crown in the wars of Charles VII. Among the sweeping changes
made by Louis on his accession, Lescun was deprived of his office and
retired into Bretagne where he was much in the confidence of the duke
and also of the unfortunate duke of Guienne. But it does not appear
that in a single instance he acted contrary to the interests of the
crown. He has been charged by some writers with (and sometimes as an
instrument, at others as a principal in) the supposed poisoning of the
king's brother. But besides that there is no good reason to believe
that this prince was poisoned at all, it is not consistent with any
other action of Lescun's life to imagine him in any manner concerned
in such an act of villainous iniquity. He was afterwards in favour
with the king who gave him the county of Comminges on the death of the
bastard d'Armagnac; and this, perhaps, was the only motive for the
absurd suspicion.

Page 147. line 6 from the bottom. _Count d'Armagnac._] John V. count of
Armagnac, whose life was but a tissue of crimes, of murder, incest, and
treason. His sister he seduced, and afterwards pretended to make his
wife, under circumstances of scandalous imposition. He was killed by a
soldier named Gorgia whom the king afterwards promoted to the office
of archer de la garde. A writer of the reign of Charles VIII. pretends
that he was assassinated while the treaty was on foot; but the present
account seems to contradict that report. See Du Clos.

Page 148. line 2 from the bottom. _John Joffroy then bishop of Alby._]
Joffredy. See note, vol. x. p. 139.

Page 149. line 10 from the bottom. _Count d'Albret._] Charles d'Albret
lord of St Basile, commonly called le cadet d'Albret. It seems there
was sufficient proof of his guilt; but James de Lomagne lord of
Montignac, the governor of Leitoure, though the principal person
concerned in the same transactions, was pardoned in consideration of
the testimony he could produce against others.

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