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
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de
Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Sources; France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
Page 315. line 17. _King of Poulaine._] Who this imaginary personage
may be intended for I cannot tell. If for Maximilian, it is entirely a
mistake. He was not made prisoner. Nor was there any other prince or
son of a king present at the engagement.
Page 332. line 10. _Niece to the duke of Bourbon._] Her death was
occasioned by a fall from her horse while hunting. Maximilian was
really much attached to her. But if he had not been so, his sorrow
for her loss could scarcely have been the less sincere as the death
of their natural sovereign left him with very little personal claim
on the affections of the states of Flanders and other parts of her
remaining dominions. Her only son was Philip of Austria duke of
Burgundy who, by his marriage with Joanna the heiress of Castille
and Arragon, transmitted the kingdom of Spain to his posterity. Her
daughter Margaret was first affianced to the dauphin, but afterwards
most imprudently rejected by him for Ann of Bretagne. She was then
affianced to John prince of Spain; but he died before the solemnization
of the nuptials. At last she found a husband in Philibert the fair,
duke of Savoy, but had no children by him, and after his death (which
happened within three years from the time of their union) she retired
to the court of the emperor her father, and became, towards the end of
her life, justly celebrated as the governess of the low countries. She
died in 1532.
Page 337. line 15. _Sir William de la Mark._] Third son of John the
first, count of Aremberg and brother of Robert de la Marck, first duke
of Bouillon. He married Jane of Arschot baroness of Schonhouen, by whom
he had John baron of Lumain who died 1526.
Page 339. line 16. _Thing._] Louis XI. is exculpated by Du Clos, in
the account which he gives of this transaction, from any concern in
the bishop's murder other than that of having furnished "the Wild
Boar" with the means of raising a force for the purpose of securing a
passage through the territories of Liege for the French armies in any
future attempts to subdue the country of Brabant. When the bishop was
so treacherously abandoned by his followers, "the Wild Boar" advanced
directly to him and thus addressed him. "Louis of Bourbon, I have
sought thy friendship and thou hast refused it to me." Saying this,
he clove his head with a battle-axe and ordered his body to be thrown
into the Meuse. The crime did not pass unpunished, the murderer being
executed at Utrecht two years afterwards by order of Maximilian.
Page 349. line 3. _Lord d'Albret._] Alan, lord of Albret, father of
John who was afterwards king of Navarre.
Page 355. last line. _Amen._] The only surviving children of Louis XI,
were Charles VIII, Anne the wife of Peter de Bourbon lord of Beaujeu,
and Jane the wife of Louis duke of Orleans, afterwards Louis XII.
Page 385. line 5 from the bottom. _Lord des Querdes._] Philip de
Crevecoeur lord des Querdes marshal of France in 1483.
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