A Distant Mirror (119 page)

16
JACOBA FELICIE
: Power, 422.
NOVELLA D’ANDREA
: Will Durant,
Story of Civilization
, V, 4.

17
MARCIA ORDELAFFI:
Emerton, 177–87.

18
217CHRISTINE DE PISAN
: Coville, 410–11.
POEM ON WIDOWHOOD
: ibid, (trans. BT).

19
OTHER WORKS AND POEMS
: Huizinga,
Waning
, 111–12, 123, 286.

20
CONTROVERSY ON
Roman de la Rose:
Kilgour, 136; Masson, 174.

21
ON
J
OAN OF ARC
: Jarrett,
Social
, 86.

22
MARRIAGE OF ENGUERRAND AND ISABELLA
: documents in Rymer, 773, 778.
A LADY’S CARRIAGE
: Avenel, 49–50; Jusserand, 48–49.

23
ENGUERRAND MADE EARL OF
B
EDFORD
: Issue Rolls, 40 Edw. Ill, q. Green, 206; also Barnes, 667, 670.

24
COUCY ACQUIRES SOISSONS
: KL, VII, 232–34.

1
ONE OF THE WORST OF THE CAPTAINS
, he was Anichino Baumgarten: Cox, 138–40.

2
PHILIP OF BURGUNDY AND ARNAUT DE CERVOLE
: Zurlauben,
Cervole
, 162.

3
BERTUCAT D’ALBRET:
KL, XI, 228.
SEGUIN DE BADEFOL:
ibid., XX, 232–36.
AIMERIGOT MARCEL:
ibid., XIV, 164.

4
INNOCENT
vi,
PASTORAL LETTER
: M. Mollat,
Vie
, 5, 30.
“IF GOD HIMSELF WERE A SOLDIER
”: q: Kilgour, 26.
COMPANIES DEMAND PAPAL ABSOLUTION
: Denifle, 185.

5
HAWKWOOD
: Leader-Temple & Marcotti and Gaupp, passim, “
NOTHING WAS MORE TERRIBLE
”: q. Leader-Temple & Marcotti, 27.
“Perfidi sceleratissimi”:
ibid., 14.
“DID NOT ROAST AND MUTILATE
”: q. Stanley, 401.

6
“AN ITALIANIZED ENGLISHMAN”:
q. Gaupp, 308.

7
CUVELIER
ON DU GUESCLIN
: i, 5. In the opinion of Edouard Perroy
(Hundred Years
, 148), Du Guesclin “enjoyed a popularity out of all proportion to his talents and exploits.… [He was] a mediocre captain, incapable of winning a battle or being successful in a siege of any scope … swollen with self-importance.” See also Michelet, IV, 4.

8
BATTLE OF COCHEREL
: Luce-F, VI, 131; Lot, 436.

9
DU GUESCLIN AND ASTROLOGERS
: Lewis, 26; Thorndike, III, 586.
CHARLES V AND SAME
: Campbell, 128; Pernoud, 224.

10
THOMAS OF PISANO
: Thorndike, II, 801–2; III, 611, 615.

11
ENRIQUE ELDEST OF FATHER’S TEN BASTARDS:
Chron. Jean de Venette
. Notes, 304, n. 2.

12
“THE TYRANNY OF RHYME
”: Delachenal, III, 455.

13
DU GUESCLIN, CARDINAL, ET AL. AT
V
ILLENEUVE
: Cuvelier, verses 7530–7620, trans, in D. F. Jamison,
Life and Times of Bertrand du Guesclin
, 1864, 260–65.

14
BLACK PRINCE ENCOURAGED TROOPS “UNDERHAND
”: Froissart, Johnes ed., I, 383.
“DID SO MUCH DAMAGE
”: ibid.

15
“HE DID NOT VALUE A KNIGHT
”: Cuvelier, q. Sedgwick, 195–97.

1
COUCY’S CHARTER OF LIBERTIES
: text in Melleville, 103–6.

2
CHÂTEAU OF HESDIN, MECHANICAL JOKES:
Vaughan, 205.

3
SWAN FESTIVAL OF PICARDY
: Le Grand d’Aussy, II, 23.

4
FORKS
, listed in an inventory of Charles V’s household in 1379: Le Grand d’Aussy, III, 179.

5
TROUSSEAU OF BLANCHE DE BOURBON
: Evans,
Flowering
, 174.

6
“BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH OTHER THINGS
”: q. Coulton,
Life
, I, 204.
COMMUNION WAFERS’ MAGICAL POWERS
: Lea, I, 50.

7
COMMUNION AND CONFESSION ONCE A YEAR:
M. Mollat,
Vie, 72
.
“THIS I

8
KNEW NOT
”: Jacques de Vitry, q. Coulton,
Life
, I, 57.
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE IN NORTHERN
F
RANCE
: M. Mollat,
Vie
, 72–73.
CHARLES
v: Christine de Pisan,
Charles V
, passim; Coville, 183–85.
TAILLEVENT
: Evans,
Flowering
, 172

9
47
JEWELED CROWNS
: Vaughan.

10
PCHARLES
v’s
ILLNESSES AND ABSCESS
: KL, IX, 280–82; Delachenal, I, 14; II, 306–11. Froissart’s account, according to Delachenal, V, 389, is a “tissue of fables.”

11
PCHARLES
v’s
LIBRARY
: Christine de Pisan,
Charles V
, II, 13; Coville, 189.

12
CLARENCE’S RETINUE
: Cook (a study in detail of the entire affair),
CLARENCE IN PARIS:
Chron. J. & C.
, II, 41; Rymer, 845.
VISITED BY COUCY
: Green, 208.

13
AMADEUS’ PURCHASES
: Cordey, 184–85.

14
VISCONTI FAMILY
: Chamberlin, 15–30, 67–70; also Cook, 16, 18; Muir, 70.

15
CASTLE OF PAVÍA
: Corio,
Storia di Milano
, q. Chamberlin, 119.
“FINEST DWELLING
”: J. A. Symonds,
Age of Despots
, q. Cook, 43.
PETRARCH:
Correspondence
, 323–25.

16
MILAN
: Mesquita, 2–3; Chamberlin, 13–15; Molho, 30.

17
WEDDING
: Cook; Chamberlin, 42–43. For presence of Froissart and Chaucer, see Jarrett,
Charles IV
, 5, and Coulton,
Chaucer
, 48, 50.

18
KING EDWARD’S OFFER TO PLEDGE CALAIS
: Vaughan, 5.

19
COUCY SELLS BURGUNDY PEARL NECKLACE
: Luce,
Cent ans
, I, 96.

20
PHILIP OF BURGUNDY’S HABITS
: Luce,
Cent ans
, II, 206; Petit,
Itinéraires
,

21
Vaughan, 6, 197.

22
COUCY “FINEST SHOWING
”: Luce-F, VII, 130.

23
PETRARCH TO BOCCACCIO:
Correspondence
, 213–14.

1
CHARLES CONSULTS UNIVERSITIES
: Chaplais, 55.

2
“SORE TROUBLED IN THEIR MYNDES
”: Froissart.
BONET ON DOUBLE ALLEGIANCE:
167–68.

3
COUCY’S HAPSBURG INHERITANCE
: Duplessis, 119–20; Zurlauben,
Enguerrand VII
, 170–73, has collected the evidence; also Lacaille,
thèse
, 17–20.

4
COUCY’S SEAL OF
1369: AN,
Service des sceaux;
No. 308 in Demay,
Flandre
, attached to a document of 14 November 1369 stamped
Sigillum Engueranni filii ducisse Austrie domini de Couciaco et comitis Suessionensis et Bedfordis
. Bears the device
Semper
. A similar seal of 1376 (No. 8644 in Demay,
Clairembault)
bears the device
Sans plus
and shows a shield quartered 1 and 4
vairé
and 2 and 3
fascé
. Anselme, 542, gives a further description of Coucy’s seals with the upright figure.

5
CONTRACT WITH MONTBÉLIARD
, and
MANIFESTO TO
S
TRASBOURG AND COLMAR:
KL, VIII, cxxx, n. 3; Bardy, 13–14.

6
DOCUMENT DATED PRAGUE
: mentioned by Galbraith in notes to
Anonimalle Chron.
, 117. Copied for the author at the Public Record Office (Memoranda Roll, 13 Richard II, Michaelmas Communia, Recorda, fourth
membrane after 19), the document is an “inspection” made in 1390 of earlier letters patent to Robersart, and repeats the full text of Coucy’s letter given under his seal “at Prague in Bohemia on the 14th day of January of the year 1369 [1370].” p. 248 I
TALY INFESTED BY BRIGANDS
: John Bromyard, q. Owst, 174; Origo, 153, 275–76.

7
BERNABÒ VERSUS THE PAPACY
: Gregorovius, 408; Milman, VIII, 14–16.
PUBLIC ATTRIBUTED URBAN’S ELECTION TO GOD
: Milman, VIII, 13.

8
URBAN’S RETURN
: ibid., 20; Jarrett,
Charles IV
, 156.
CONDITION OF ROME:
Pirenne,
Europe
, 23–24; Flick, 213.

9
ENGUERRAND WITH COUNT OF SAVOY IN ITALY:
Cox, 264–68; Cognasso, 197; Gabotto, 201–2.

10
PASSAGE OF THE ALPS
: Cox,
The Eagles of Savoy
, Princeton, 1974, 339–43.

11
VILLANI ON HAWKWOOD’S COMPANY
: This is Filippo Villani, q. Cook, 25.

12
ORDERS OF
visconti’s
PARENTS
: q. Chamberlin, 58.

13
PAPAL CORRESPONDENCE AND CONTRACTS WITH COUCY
: Lacaille,
An. Bull. SHF
, 187–206, gives the full texts from the Vatican Archives.

14
ff.
CAMPAIGN OF THE PAPAL LEAGUE
and
BATTLE OF MONTICHIARI:
Annales Mediolanensis
in Muratori’s
RIS
, chaps, cxxxv–vi, 752–56 (trans, for the author by Phyllis G. Gordan); Corio,
Historia di Milano
, q. Mazas, 187–90; Servion, 198–205; Leader-Temple & Marcotti, 72–78; Lacaille,
thèse
, 26–31; Cox, 276–77; Chamberlin, 58–60; Cognasso, 208.

15
TITLE OF SIRE DE COUCY HELD HIGH:
KL, Ib, 17, n
. 5
.

16
APPOINTED MARSHAL
: Luce-F, VIII, cxxxii.

17
NEUTRALITY HELD HONORABLE:
KL, VIII,
291
–93.
CHEVALIER DE CHIN:
ibid., 21, 24.

18
BATTLE OF ENRIQUE AND PEDRO:
Luce-F, VII,
XXXII, N
. 1
.

19
BLACK PRINCE’S ILLNESS
: That it was dropsy is stated by Denifle, 497, and Lefranc, 108. English biographers avoid naming this unheroic malady.

20
BATTLE OF LA
R
OCHELLE
: In addition to Froissart and
Chron. 4 Valois
, Roncière, 15–16; Sherborne; Runyan.

21
CAPTAL DE BUCH HELD IN PRISON:
Chron. J. &
C., III, 62–78; Keen,
Laws
, 90; Delachenal, III, 186–87.

22
COUCY INTERCEDES
: KL, VIII, 401–2.

23
LANCASTER’S LONG MARCH
: Walsingham, q. MacKinnon, 552; Lot, 367–68; Delachenal, III, 302.

1
BURGUNDY’S EXPENSES
: Delachenal, IV, 568.

2
PROPOSAL TO COUCY TO LEAD COMPANIES
: KL, VIII, 369, 372.
RIVIÈRE, MERCIER
: Lefranc, 217–18; Coville, 220.

3
COUCY LENT MONEY TO BERRY
: Lehoux, I, 358, n. 3.

4
BRETON COMPANIES AND THE POPE
: Mirot,
“Budes,”
590; Denifle, 583.

5
OWEN OF WALES
: Chotzen.
COUCY’S CONTRACT WITH HIM
: ibid., 236.

6
CANNON AT SIEGE OF ST. SAUVEUR:
Chron. 4 Valois
, 253; Delachenal, IV, 527–28.

7
PALSATIAN CHRONICLE
: Koenigshofen, 334–35.

8
COUCY’S CHANTRIES AT NOGENT
: BN,
Fonds fr., nouv. acq
. no. 3653, no. 293, and a later “vidimus” of this document,
nouv. acq. fr
. 20510,
pièce
48.
CAPTAL’S MASSES
: Lewis, 204.

9
PRINCESS OF WALES’ THREE PRIESTS
: Rosenthal, 15.

10
COUCY’S LETTERS TO IMPERIAL VICAR AND CITIES
: Bardy, 17; Zurlauben,
Enguerrand VII
, 177.

11
RAVAGES IN ALSACE
: Bardy, 23–25.

12
ff.
INVASION OF THE
A
ARGAU
: Sources for the Swiss campaign are: Dierauer, 287–92; Dandliker, 547–52; Muller, 201–18 (translated for the author by Kathie Coblenz); also Bardy, 17–29; Chotzen, 234–38; Laguille, 309–10; Zurlauben, 177–80. Chotzen includes a list of the original Swiss chronicles.

13
MORGARTEN AND LAUPEN:
Oman, 235–46.

14
FROISSART’S VERSION
: KL, VIII, 376–78.

15
FRAUBRUNNEN, BALLADS ON THE BATTLE
: R. Liliencron, ed.,
Die Historischen Volkslieder des Deutschen vom 13 bis 16 Jahrhundert
, Leipzig, 1865, I, 88–90; Chotzen, 238.

16
FRAUBRUNNEN, INSCRIPTION ON STONE MONUMENT
: copied by the author and translated by Prof. E. A. R. Brown.

17
HAPSBURG SETTLEMENT WITH COUCY
: Delachenal, IV, 583, n. 5; Zurlauben,
Enguerrand VII
, 180 (who undertakes to dispose of the errors of all previous historians).

18
COUCY COMMISSIONED TO ACT AGAINST COMPANIES
: Delachenal, IV, 584, n. 1; Lehoux, I, 380, n. 9.

19
EDWARD’S GRANTS TO ISABELLA
: Green, 213–16.
ALICE PERRERS:
Chron. Angl.
, Thompson, xlviii.

20
“LADY OF THE SUN
”: q. Green, 210, n. 2.

21
COUCY’S FRIENDS URGE HIM TO TURN FRENCH
, and
HIS MISSION TO ENGLAND:
KL, VIII, 378–80. On double allegiance, see Keen,
Laws
, 89–91.