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A Distant Mirror_ The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman [407]

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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 STRASBOURG 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 ITALY 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.

14ff. 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 ROCHELLE: 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.

Chapter 13—Coucy’s War

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 AARGAU: 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.

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