Part 22
Mary of Anjou his wife, died in childbirth of the effects of the shock which she experienced on hearing of his captivity. Of his three sons, Louis only lived to the age of manhood. He was restored to his father's honours and fell at the battle of Cerignole on the 28th of April 1503. Of his daughters, Margaret was the wife of the mareschal de Gié, Catherine married John duke of Bourbon, and Charlotte, Charles de Rohan.
Page 281. line 19. _Expired._] This improbable story is, I believe, satisfactorily refuted and justly ridiculed by historians.
Page 287. last line. _With._] Heuterus relates a story, something similar, of a governor of a town under Charles duke of Burgundy, upon whom that prince afterwards caused exemplary punishment to be inflicted for his crime. The alleged crime of Kirke, is, I believe, now pretty generally admitted to be a fabrication, and was probably founded on the Burgundian anecdote by some anti-jacobite writer.
Page 313. line 19. _Brother._] Say rather, "Should have been charged with the murder of their brothers." The duke of Guienne is believed by the best historians to have died a natural death; and the earl of Mar (youngest brother of James III.) met his fate, according to the account adopted by Drummond of Hawthornden, in a manner merely accidental. The execution of George duke of Clarence, though it may well be said that the king ought to have pardoned his brother, yet, as it was the consequence of actual treason fully proved in the regular course of law, certainly does not merit the appellation of a murder.
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.
Page 386. line 7 from the bottom. _Lord de Baudricourt._] John de Baudricourt lord of Choiseul, marshal of France in 1418.
Page 386. line 5 from the bottom. _Lord d'Avaugour._] Francis bastard son of duke Francis the second of Bretagne, count of Vertus barons of Avaugour, lord of Clisson.
Page 386. line 5 from the bottom. _Rohan._] John viscount de Rohan married to Mary daughter of Francis I. duke of Bretagne.
Page 387. line 4 from the bottom. _Lord d'Orval._] John d'Albret, lord of Orval, who by his marriage with Charlotte daughter of John count of Nevers, and sister of Elizabeth duchess of Cleves acquired the county of Rethel in Champagne as her coparcenary share.
Page 390. line 9 _King of Romans._] Louis II. de la Tremouille, viscount Thouars and prince of Talmont, grandson of George count of Guisnes and Boulogne. He was killed at the battle of Pavia.
Page 390. line 14. _Lord d'Argenton._] Philip de Comines, the historian.
Page 320. line 20. _Lord de Montpensier._] Gilbert de Bourbon, lord of Montpensier, father of Charles duke of Bourbon and constable of France. He married the daughter of the marquis of Mantua and died in 1496.
Page 390. line 7 from the bottom. _Lord de Vendôme._] Francis de Bourbon count of Vendôme married to a daughter of the constable de St Pol. He died in 1496, and was father of Charles, and grandfather of Anthony, duke of Vendôme and king of Navarre.
Page 390. line 6 from the bottom. _Lord Angiliebert of Cleves._] Engilbert, second son of John duke of Cleves, and Elizabeth heiress of Nevers, afterwards called duke of Nevers.
Page 390. line 6 from the bottom. _Lord John Jacques._] John James Trivulzio, marquis of Vige-vano, one of the greatest generals of his age.
Page 390. line 5 from the bottom. _Prince of Salerno._] Anthony de San Severino prince of Salerno, son of the famous Robert de San Severino.
Page 390. line 3 from the bottom. _Marquis de Saluces._] Louis II. marquis of Saluces died in 1504.
Page 390. line 3 from the bottom. _De Vienne._] Vienne. This family was divided into so many branches that I cannot fix on the person here meant.
Page 390. line 2 from the bottom. _Marshal de Gié._] Peter de Rohan, lord of Gié, marshal of France, in 1475.
Page 390. line 2 from the bottom. _De Rieux._] John V. lord of Rieux and Rochefort, marshal of France.
Page 390. last line. _Seneschal of Beaucaire._] Stephen de Vers, seneschal of Beaucaire, chamberlain to the king, a native of Languedoc of mean extraction, through whose instigation principally, this extravagant expedition was undertaken. Brissonnet, another court favourite, afterwards a cardinal, was the second promoter of the enterprise. See Comines.
Page 390, last line. _Seneschal of Normandy._] Louis Després, lord of Montpezat, seneschal of Normandy.
Page 391. line 6. _De Bourdillon._] Qu. Imbert de la Platière, youngest son of Philibert de la Platière lord des Bordes? He was a great favourite with Francis I. and Henry II. and was mareschal of France in 1562. He died in 1567 s. p. But more probably this was his uncle or some other relation.
Page 391. line 6. _De la Palice._] James de Chabannes, lord of la Palice, marshal in 1515.
Page 391. line 16. _Perot de Beché._] Perron de Baschi, Maître d'hôtel to Charles VIII, one of the sons of Berthold de Baschi lord of Vitozzo, squire to king Louis III. of Sicily, and lineally descended from Hugolino de Baschi, sovereign lord of Orvieto, who in 1322 was driven from his seignory and afterwards entering into the service of the republic of Pisa, beat the Florentines at the battle of Bagno in 1363. The descendants of this family settling in France, became marquisses of Aubais in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Page 391. line 7 from the bottom. _Lord de la Brosse._] René de la Brosse, count of Penthievre, son of John count of Penthievre, and son-in-law to the historian Philip de Comines. He was killed at the battle of Pavia in 1524.
Page 392. line 3. _Duchess of Savoy._] Blanche, daughter of William the ninth marquis of Montferrat, and widow of Charles the first duke of Savoy, protectress of the dukedom for her son Charles the second, then an infant.
Page 398. note. _Frederic--was brother to Alphonso king of Naples._] But it is entirely a mistake that he died of the fright, since he outlived both his brother and his nephew, and enjoyed for a short time the title of king of Naples. He did not die before the year 1504.
Page 401. line 7. _Marquis of Montferrat._] Boniface the fifth, of the house of Palæologus, died in 1493, and was succeeded by his eldest son William IX. The marchioness, his widow, here mentioned, died at the age of 29, while these negotiations were going on; and upon her death the marquis of Saluces and Constantine prince of Servia, her brother, disputed the tutelage of the young marquis. Philip de Comines was sent to Casal for the purpose of accommodating this dispute; and his decision was in favour of Constantine. That prince is, in the text, erroneously called the second son of the marchioness, when in fact, he was her brother. John George, who was himself marquis of Montferrat after the death of William, was the only younger son of Boniface the fifth. See Guicciardini. lib. 2.
Page 405. line 4. _Pavia._] The king went to Pavia to visit the young duke of Milan, John Galease, who was then lying dangerously ill in the castle of that place. He had lately married Isabel of Arragon who (with her only child, Francis, then but a few months old) went out to meet the king as here mentioned. The death of the duke which happened before the king left him was universally attributed to poison, administered by Ludovico Sforza his uncle who had long governed the dukedom in his nephew's name, and upon his death assumed the title also of duke, in prejudice of the infant son of John Galease. See Guicciardini, lib. i.
Page 416. line 12. _Naples._] Q. Nepi, half way between Viterbo and Rome?
Page 416. line 14. _Lord Virgilio d'Orsini._] Count of Tagliacozzo, ancestor of the dukes of Bracciano. He was a general in the Neapolitan service and died in 1497.
Page 416. line 9 from the bottom. _Ligny._] Ligny. See note p. 109. vol. xii.
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