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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 10 [of 13]

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By Enguerrand de Monstrelet
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A chapter-by-chapter chronicle recounts prolonged dynastic conflicts, foreign occupation and expulsion, political trials and sentences, coronations, sieges, diplomatic missions, deaths and funerals, factional quarrels, and localized disturbances. Entries blend battlefield reports, court proceedings, ambassadors' missions, and civic matters, tracing how shifting alliances, noble rivalries, and royal decisions reshape territorial control and governance. The work is organized chronologically into concise episodes that emphasize military action, legal rulings, ceremonial events, and administrative measures, providing a close, event-driven record of tumult and statecraft in the late medieval era.

Page 392. line 5. William Charretier.] Chartier. This prelate was celebrated for his virtue and probity; but did himself no good by meddling in affairs of state for which he was by no means fit. When the confederate princes menaced Paris previous to the battle of Montlehery, he gave his advice to admit them within the walls of the city. His opinion, fortunately for Louis was over-ruled; but the king never liked him from that time, and when he died in 1472, Louis took the whimsical measure of sending his complaints against him to the provost of Paris in order to have them recorded in his epitaph. Du Clos. See also, vol. ix. p. 124. where this incident is mentioned.

Page 403. line 9. Lord de Rambures.] James son of Andrew II; died after 1488 leaving by Mary de Berghes daughter of John lord of Cohan, Andrew the third, lord of Rambures his son and successor.

Page 404. line 8 from the bottom. Lord de Craon.] This lord de Craon was George de la Trimoille, second son of George count of Guines and Boulogne and brother of Louis, first prince of Talmont. He was governor of Burgundy in 1474 and died without issue in 1481.

Page 410. line 19. Poncet de Riviere.] Poncet de la Riviere, Bailli de Montferrand, commander of franc-archers, &c. &c. an officer of distinguished merit, but not connected as some have supposed, with either the ancient house of the viscounts de Riviere in Gascony, or with that of Rivers in England. See Morery.

Page 424. line 9. Staves.] It was in coming out of the house of a lady of bad fame (probably this very Jeanne du Bois) that the bishop was thus attacked. The trimming he received proved of some service to him; for from this time he addicted himself wholly to business and assumed a gravity of deportment which was more suitable to his ecclesiastical dignity. Du Clos.

Page 424. line 19. Lord de Villier-le-bôcage.] Raoul, lord of Villiers-au-bocage, third son of John the fourth, lord of Crequy. He died in 1472 without issue.

Page 429. line 4. Lord de Broquemont.] Qu. Braquemont? William de Braquemont lord of Campremis died some time after 1480, and in him the family was extinct.

Page 430. line 2 from the bottom. Bishop of Evreux.] A mistake—the bishop of Evreux was the most unlikely person in the world to be concerned in this business. It is evidently the bishop of Bayeux who is here meant.

H. Bryer, Printer, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, London.

Transcriber's note: Original spelling, including possible inconsistencies, has been retained.