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50 JUBILEE YEAR: Gregorovius, 323–25. “A PONTIFF SHOULD MAKE HIS SUBJECTS HAPPY”: q. G. Mollat, Papes, 86.
51 TREASURY OF MERIT: Jusserand, 170.
52 A MILLION VISITORS: Meiss, 80.
53 BEQUESTS, ST. GERMAIN: Ziegler, 78. SIENA: Bowsky, 26. FLORENCE: Meiss, 78.
54 CARDINAL-LEGATE ATTACKED IN ROME: Gregorovlus, 325.
55“Bene quidem”: Coulton, Black Death, 59.
56 “WICKEDER THAN BEFORE”: Chron. Jean de Venette, 51. CLEMENT, “WHAT CAN YOU PREACH”: ibid., 55–56. LOTHAR OF SAXONY: q. Campbell, 144. 124 TRAINI’S FRESCO: Meiss, “Traini”; Supino, 73–80.
Chapter 6—The Battle of Poitiers
1 EXECUTION OF COMTE D’EU: This affair, generating a mass of gossip and speculation, is treated at length by all the chroniclers—Jean le Bel, Chron. J. & C., 4 Valois, Gilles li Muisis, Normande, and Froissart, with extensive notes in Luce-F, IV, and KL Biog. Index, and discussion in Cazelles, Société pol., 249–52.
2“Ung bien hastif homs”: Chron. 4 Valois, 16–17.
3 “A VERY CRUEL LADY”: KL, IV, 202.
4 GIRARD D’ORLÉANS, COURT PAINTER: Dupont & Gnudi, 134. ORDINANCE OF 1351: Lot; Tourneur, Poitiers.
5 GILLES LI MUISIS ON MONEY: q. Lewis, 58.
6 GARTER’S HISTORIAN: Elias Ashmole, The History of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, London, 1715.
7 ORDER OF THE STAR: Michelet, III, 294–95; Goville, 92; Contamine, 186–87; Huizinga, Men and Ideas, 204; Anquetil, 402. For the Battle of Mauron, in which the members were slaughtered, see Chron. normande, 106, and Luce-F, IV, notes.
8 COMBAT OF THIRTY: KL, V, 514.
9 MURDER OF CHARLES D’ESPAGNE: all the chronicles, especially Chron. 4 Valois, 25–28.
10 RIOT AT OXFORD: Trevelyan, English Social History, London, 1949, I, 49. FRANCESCO ORDELAFFI: Emerton, 170.
11 ENGLAND, CORONERS’ ROLLS: Coulton, Panorama, 371.
12 VILLAGE GAMES: Origo, 42. CITIZENS OF MONS: Huizinga, Waning, 22–23.
13 CHARLES OF NAVARRE, LETTERS TO POPE AND EDWARD III: Denifle, 99.
14 EDWARD III, “ON THE WORD OF A KING”: “In verbo regiae veritatis dicimus et contestamur fideliter coram Deo,” q. Denifle, 103–4, from text in Secousse and Rymer.
15 “HARRYING AND WASTING”: letter to Bishop of Winchester, q. Sedgwick, 117.
16 HENRY OF LANCASTER: Fowler, King’s Lieutenant, 106–10.
17 ENGUERRAND IN THE PICARDY CAMPAIGN: Chron. 4 Valois, 41. For this campaign see also Chron. Jean de Venette and Denifle.
18 JEAN’S SEIZURE OF CHARLES OF NAVARRE AND EXECUTION OF NORMAN NOBLES: all the chronicles and summary in Delachenal, I, 140–57. 143 ff. BATTLE OF POITIERS: On the English side the chief sources are Anonimalle, Chandos Herald, Godfrey le Baker; and on the French side, Grandes Chrons., Chron. 4 Valois, Chron. normande, Froissart. Hewitt’s Black Prince is the most thorough recent account; Tourneur-Aumont devotes a whole book to it, infused with a special thesis; Delachenal, Denifle, Lot, and MacKinnon give full accounts.
19 TALLEYRAND DE PERIGORD: Zacour, 8, 24.
20 SIRE DE FERTÉ-FRESNEL: Delachenal, I, 397.
21 RUINED KNIGHTS: for documents illustrating these cases, see Moisant, 59–61; Delachenal, I, 248, n.
22 “COMPLAINT OF THE BATTLE OF POITIERS”: Beaurepaire.
Chapter 7—Decapitated France:
The Bourgeois Rising and the Jacquerie
For the physical events of this chapter, from the meeting of the Estates to the death of Marcel, the chief primary source is Chron. J. & C, vol. I, with additional material from Chron. 4 Valois, Chron. normande, Jean de Venette, Jean le Bel, and Froissart. These are supplemented by the notes of their respective editors and by the modern accounts of Delachenal, vol. I, and Coville.
1 ROBERT LE COQ’S LIBRARY: Autrand, 1220.
2 DAUPHIN’S BASTARD SONS: Chron. normande, 136; Delachenal, I, no, n. 2. GOSSIP ABOUT HIS PATERNITY: ibid., 68, 69, n. 2.
3 MARCEL’S UNCLE, FATHER- AND BROTHER-IN-LAW: Cazelles, “Etienne Marcel,” 415–17.
4 FINANCE OFFICERS “WHO TRAVEL IN POMP”: Mézières, Coopland, I, 417–18. Renart le Contrefait: q. Evans, Life, 42.
5 TAX SURVEY OF 1292: Franklin, Vie privée, I, 12; Evans, ibid., 49–50.
6ff. CONDITIONS OF PARIS: Franklin, Rues, Dict., Vie priv