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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 VILLENEUVE: 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.
Chapter 11—The Gilded Shroud
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 FRANCE: 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.
Chapter 12—Double Allegiance
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