Charles the Bold eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 423 pages of information about Charles the Bold.

Charles the Bold eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 423 pages of information about Charles the Bold.

[Footnote 1:  Journal de Jean de Roye, i., 258.]

[Footnote 2:  Commynes-Dupont, iii., 202.]

[Footnote 3:  Plancher, iv., cccvi., May 28th.]

[Footnote 4:  Rymer, Foedera, xi., 735. Pro Ducissa Burgundiae super Lana claccanda.]

[Footnote 5:  Lettres de Louis XI., iv., 256.]

[Footnote 6:  One of Guienne’s retinue who, later, passed to Louis’s service.]

[Footnote 7:  Louis’s sister Yolande.]

[Footnote 8:  The Duke of Brittany had married the third daughter of the Count de Foix.]

[Footnote 9:  This was an allusion to a proposed marriage between Guienne and Jeanne, reputed daughter of Henry IV. of Castile.  Vaesen cannot explain the use of Aragon.  Various documents relating to this negotiation are given. (Comines-Lenglet, iii., 156.)]

[Footnote 10:  Vaesen gives femmes, Duclos filles.  The king was above all afraid that his brother might marry Mary of Burgundy.]

[Footnote 11:  Lettres de Louis XI._., iv., 286.]

[Footnote 12:  There was a pestilence raging at Amboise.]

[Footnote 13:  At Orleans, in the last days of October and the first of November, there was a conference wherein the king apparently promised to restore St. Quentin and Amiens to Charles, if he would renounce his alliance with the dukes of Brittany and Guienne and would betroth his daughter to the dauphin.]

[Footnote 14:  Ythier Marchant negotiated the proposed marriage between Guienne and Mary of Burgundy.  He had received “signed and sealed blanks” from the two princes in order to enable him to hasten matters. (Lettres de Louis XI., iv., 289.)]

[Footnote 15:  III., ch. viii.]

[Footnote 16:  “Cette paix jura le Due de Bourgogne et y estois present.”]

[Footnote 17:  The king’s envoys who had spent the winter in the Burgundian court. See letter to them in December.]

[Footnote 18:  See Kervyn, Bulletin de l’Academie royale de Belgique, p. 256. Also Kirk, ii., 160; Commynes-Mandrot, i., 234.]

[Footnote 19:  Louis to the Vicomte de la Belliere, Lettres, etc., iv., 319.]

[Footnote 20:  Louis to Dammartin, Ibid., 325. Mars was written first and then replaced by Mai.]

[Footnote 21:  Odet d’Aydie, younger brother of the Seigneur de Lescun.]

[Footnote 22:  Lettres, XI., iv., 328.  Louis to Dammartin, 1472.]

[Footnote 23:  Lettres, iv., 331.  Louis to the Duke of Milan.]

[Footnote 24:  Lettres, etc., v., 4.  Louis to Dammartin. See also Duclos, v., 331.  There are slight discrepancies between the two texts, but the differences do not affect the narrative.]

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