Chapter IX: Jehanne De Laval--“the Lady of the Crest” (2)

René had been in early life remarkable for his simple tastes and abstemiousness in food and drink, and Queen Isabelle was equally careful in personal matters. Their lives were passed in strenuous times when self-denial required great sacrifices of individual indulgences. Isabelle was a soldier’s wife, Jehanne the consort of a statesman when life’s battle had given way to the ease of peace. Both were attractive women, few their superiors, but Isabelle’s hand was upon the hilt of the sword and the snaffle of the charger. Jehanne’s held the mirror of fashion and the goblet of pleasure. After René and Jehanne had arranged their domestic settlement in Provence, at once their Court became noted for its magnificent hospitality. René employed the first master-cook of the day, Maestro Guillaume Real, as his Master of the Household. People nicknamed him “_Courçon_,” as marshal of the courses of a banquet, rather than “_Soupçon_,” the secret of each! The royal repasts were arranged as spectacles; at the cross high table were placed the hosts and guests of honour, and at tables down the hall other guests were accommodated. The walls were hung with silver and crystal sconces full of torches or tapers, and the trophies of war and the chase belonging to the house were there displayed. The covers and the service were as rich and costly as could be. Gold, enamels, crystals, rare faience, and other art treasures, were used with lavish taste.

Each course was proclaimed heraldically by blasts of horns and _motets_ from the music gallery. The high table was served by knights and men of rank, who bore the splendid bowls and dishes upon napery of cloth of gold. The richer viands were enclosed in golden caskets, and the keys offered to the guests, who in turn unlocked them and took or refused their contents. Some of the confections have not their parallel to-day. One table, for example, was made to represent a stag-hunt, another a village revel, one a castle with a moat of rare vintage, another an abbey church with bells pealing and hidden children singing. Small animals and birds, and actually growing trees and flowers, were used. The roast and the dessert were the _pièces de résistance_; each was carried up the hall in gay procession with much ceremonious bowing, and guarded by archers of the guard in gorgeous liveries. At the sight of any very splendid and appealing course the whole lordly company were wont to burst out into song--a well-known and lengthy _chanson_; it was called “_Le Sauve-garde de ma Vie_.”

Over the anticlimax of the feast the kindly chroniclers usually draw a discreet veil, for warriors in the field were vanquished in the hall, and beauties beloved in the boudoir were forgotten in the debauch. We may suppose rightfully, however, that the hospitalities of René and Jehanne never caused a flush of shame or a prick of scorn. They aimed at and happily succeeded in proving that “_il n’y pas au monde de royauté comparable au bonheur d’être aimé d’elle_,” as the King prettily termed it.

For twenty-five years the simple delights of a useful domestic life were serenely enjoyed by the happy King and Queen. Their spirit of contentedness hallowed the homes of their people, and Provence became a paradise of peace. Certainly the want of children caused Jehanne many a pang, but the devotion of a good husband, one so accomplished, so unselfish, and so universally beloved, was a real compensation, and she had learned the lesson of mingled weal and woe. She found congenial occupation in furthering the good intentions of the King and in ministering to all in need around her. She had, nevertheless, quasi-maternal cares, for in the palace at Aix and in other royal residences were several children and young people of both sexes, besides the three acknowledged bastards by convention, who could lay claim to royal parentage. Some of these are mentioned in _Les Comptes_ as receiving alimony and gifts from René. An entry on July 8, 1466, records the gift to Demoiselle Odille of a pelisse of marten fur. She was then somewhere about twenty years of age, but had charge of the King’s rings and jewellery under the eye of Sieur Guillaume de Remerville, the Treasurer of the Household. René had married her, in 1460, to Gaspare Spinola, a Genoese attendant in his train, who died in 1465, leaving his child-widow to the care of her father. Another child is also named, Hélène,--“_la petite Hélène_,” as René called her,--an attractive little creature, “singing like a lark and dancing like a gazelle,” who died on her fifteenth birthday, in the year 1469. The King liked to have her near him at meal-times, when he fondled her affectionately, “_comme ma vraie fille_.”

Besides these family cares, Queen Jehanne devoted much of her time to feminine industries. In the convents, in the workshops, in the fields, were poor girls and women needing assistance and encouragement. The example of “good Queen Yolande” was ever before her eyes, and she strove to make herself not only mistress of their hearts, but of their occupations. Spinning, weaving, embroidering, and generally all needlework, found her an accomplished executant. She, too, could use her brush and palette, in miniature and in large, and her chisel and mallet both in wood and stone, and she was a very excellent artificer in gold and silver work. Her benefactions were on the most liberal and most catholic scale; no good cause was overlooked, and when she came to make her will, paragraph after paragraph was taken up by bequests to charitable institutions and to cherished needy individuals. If less devout than her sister-in-law, Queen Marie, and less religiously exercised, Queen Jehanne was a model daughter of the Church, and none recognized this more completely than His Holiness the Pope, who bestowed upon her the precious decoration of the Golden Rose, “for virtue as a spouse and benevolence as a Queen.”

Approaching her jubilee,--an anxious period for many women,--the good Queen fell away in health, and appeared to be sickening for her end. Poison was hinted at, but in all probability she suffered, not from poison designedly administered, but from the poison of the atmosphere, laden time out of mind, in those low-lying lands near the mouths of the Rhine, with the seeds of disease--the dreaded plague and black-death.

Happily, Jehanne was able, through her robust constitution and abstemious way of life, to throw off the evil effects of her malady; but no sooner had she regained her accustomed vigour than a crushing sorrow came to her--the mortal illness of her cherished spouse, King René. His was a green old age, with his venerable but erect figure and his winning if somewhat melancholy expression. His blue eyes and gracious aspect drew forth confidence all round, and his gentle voice and genial manners excited true affection. Dressed almost with monkish severity in a great long coat of black silk or velvet, with a heavy collar and revers of brown squirrel fur, and wearing a girdle with a crucifix and beads, his long white hair was capped by a simple velvet _berretta_, and he displayed neither jewels nor decorations, only his Sovereign’s badge and chain of gold. He was a typical father of his people.

Struck down mysteriously one day at Mass in the Cathedral of Aix by a stalking epidemic,--he had not spared himself in visits of condolence to the stricken and bereaved,--in the springtide of 1480, the King was borne tenderly to the palace. No more tender nurse could there be than his devoted consort. She took her station at once at his bedside, and, laying her head upon his pillow, she cheered and solaced him as none other could; only did she rouse herself for needful ablutions, for food, and for the saying of the “Hours” in the oratory. With her was a little maiden, René’s grandchild Marguerite, thirteen years of age, Yolande de Vaudémont’s daughter, a great pet of Queen Jehanne. The child had the sweetest of sweet voices,--a quality very precious in the estimation of the King,--and she soothed his sufferings and refreshed his weaknesses by childish songs and minstrelsy, whilst she stroked his withered hands and in them placed her own.

At dawn of day, July 10, amid the rustling of the summer foliage outside the wide-open windows of the palace, came whisperings from the sick-room--soft, low, and sad: “_Le bon Roy est mort!_” It was gently told to the weeping Queen by the royal physicians, but her Ladies of Honour in the anteroom caught the ominous news besides. They stole outside the heavy arras and told the terrible secret to the valets and men-at-arms; then it flashed out through the galleries and across the courtyards, and stayed the janitors of the gates as they prepared to open them as usual for the new day’s life. “_Le bon Roy est mort!_” soon was echoed through the city streets, and tears and protestations of affection and tender souvenirs of regret found full utterance. “_Le bon Roy is mort!_” was like the knell of doom. No one could realize it or prophesy.

III.

No one has told us of Queen Jehanne’s sorrow--better so. No stranger ever shares a full heart’s loss. Broken, but submissive and self-sustained, her consort’s fortitude in distress had come to her as well; she failed not at the moment of her trial. With her own hands she led the last offices of reverent duty to the dead. Shrouded in a simple white linen shift, but covered with the crimson and ermine mantle of state, they laid their deceased Sovereign upon the canopied bed of Estate, moved to the centre of the great hall. The Queen herself had closed his eyes, and now she arranged his hands. In them she placed a costly ruby cross he had given her at her marriage; at his feet she laid the “_Livre des Heures_,” which was also his nuptial gift; and then she placed around his neck the Sovereign’s jewel,--there was no heir to wear it, alas!--and last of all she knelt and sprinkled holy water on his corpse.

Every door and window was set wide ajar that, night or day, all might see and pray and bless. Dusk fell on that long, long day, but the crowd of loving servants and subjects still surged along reverently to pay their last respects; and so night fell and passed, not in the peaceful hush of slumber, but with smothered tread of painful feet and the smothered sob of woe.

All Aix was hung in black, and on July 14 the streets were lined by weeping citizens as the funeral cortège of “_le bon Roy_” passed to the Cathedral of St. Sauveur. The burial casket, after the requiem and Court ceremonies, was placed, not in a tomb direct, but in a _chapelle ardente_, and watches of religious mounted guard and prayed. Soon the wish of their venerated Sovereign was made public property, and then, amid fresh lamentations lest Aix should lose his remains, appeals were made to Queen Jehanne. She was deeply affected, but remained quiet and resigned. She could not reverse her husband’s will, but she could allow his body to remain awhile where it was. With this the authorities had to be content, and forthwith, to strengthen their hold upon that sacred casket, steps were taken to erect a splendid monument and tomb. An embassy was sent off at once to Rome to ask for a “Bull” whereby the late Sovereign’s directions as to the place of sepulture might be laid aside. Aix was not so much jealous of Angers as she was devoted to her King.

In accordance with the marital customs of the time, King René had a mistress--perhaps more than one, but one at least whose name has been preserved by chroniclers, Marie de la Chapelle, a respectable middle-class woman of Provence. Whether “de la Chapelle” was a sobriquet or not is not clear; probably it was so, and given her later on in life after the artist King had painted her wearing a _chapelle_, or black velvet hood, in a diptych, wherein he faces her, which he kept secretly in his own studio. It is said that she did not really love René, but liked to rule him and to direct the royal household. She was exigeant, too, for the legitimatizing of the three children she bore the King, whom René had always duly acknowledged as his. These were Jean, “_le Bâtard d’Angers_,” created, after the premature death of Prince Louis, Marquis de Pont-à-Mousson and Seigneur of St. Cannot; Blanche; and Madeleine. Jean married Isabelle, daughter of Raymond de Glandevez, Ambassador to the Pope, pro-Governor of Genoa, and Grand Master of France. Blanche d’Anjou married Bertrand de Beauvau, Seigneur de Precigny, Master of the Court of Angers and Seneschal of Anjou. He was in 1462 appointed President of Provence. His father was Seigneur de Rochette. René gave his daughter the estate of Mirabeau in Poitou, which he purchased in 1488. In the _Comptes du Roy René_ is the record of a gift to Blanche of a gold mirror worth 20 _écus d’or_, under date January 12, 1488, and the same year, on March 18, she received a large table diamond from her father, which unfortunately she lost when playing in a farce before the Court on the following _Jour de l’An_. The precious bauble was found by a monk, Alfonso de la Rocque, Prior of the monastery of Les Anges d’Aix, and restored on payment of a tun of red wine. The discovery was only made known, it appears, through the confessional; the good friar had qualms about not making known his find. This Blanche d’Anjou was educated at Beaucaire by Demoiselle Collette, a worker in furs, who received many costly gifts from King René. It has been sought to prove that Marie de la Chapelle was this Demoiselle Collette. Among the King’s gift were homely objects, too. His _Comptes_, under April 4, 1447, record “three cannes of fine holland cloth; two ditto fine muslin, and five black silk velvet for a head-dress.” Another gift to Blanche d’Anjou, on May 16, 1447, was hair for a _rigotter_, a _coiffure postiche_ for which the King paid 7 florins to Marguerite, wife of Jehan Augier, at Beaucaire. Again Blanche was the recipient of her father’s generosity, for on June 7 the same year he gave her a cincture of wrought silver which cost 11 florins.

Before Blanche married the Seigneur de Precigny he had buried three wives, and he himself was buried with them at Angers in October, 1474. She died prematurely in giving birth to a child, April 11, 1470, no more than twenty-one years of age. Madeleine, René’s second illegitimate daughter, married Louis Jehan, Seigneur de Belleneve, Chamberlain to Charles VIII. of France when Dauphin. He gave him for his marriage 15,000 florins, that he might “espouse worthily _ma cousine_,” as he calls her. Louis XII. gave her on her widowhood a sum of 12,000 florins.

On the death of King René, his eldest daughter, Yolande, Countess of Vaudémont, claimed and assumed the title of Queen of Sicily, Jerusalem, Naples, and Aragon, but took no steps to enforce her claim upon that vulture monarch, Louis XI., who at once seized upon the lands of his uncle, and styled himself Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence. Countess Yolande was her father’s child, tender and retiring. She craved the charms of the quiet life, and consequently, at the convocation of the Estates of Anjou and Provence, she renounced her title, and made it over to her son René. He had already taken up the gauntlet of his grandfather, and given proof of the sterling qualities of his ancestry. The duchy of Lorraine and that of Bar were his through his mother also, and as Duke of Lorraine René II. is known to historians. Countess Yolande died at Nancy February 21, 1483. René II. was the Prince whom his father, Ferri de Vaudémont, insisted should make a pilgrimage from Vezelay,--famous in the history of Thomas à Becket,--the capital of Le Morvan, to Jerusalem with one foot booted, the other bare, and, as he went, to distribute to every poor person he met 12 _livres_ by way of satisfaction for small sums he himself had borrowed and had not paid back--surely a wide stretch of fatherly authority and the law of substitution!

The widowed Queen lost little time in settling her affairs in Provence, for she was minded to go to Anjou with her precious dead; indeed, René had expressed a wish to that effect. She carefully surveyed the names of all the people René loved and of those who loved him most nearly too. To each and all some token was sent or given; she spared few things for herself. Churches, institutions, schools, guilds, and all public bodies, received mementoes of the dead monarch. To Jehanne came many pangs at parting. She had learned to love the gentle Provençals, and they had not failed to return her regard most warmly. At last her preparations were completed, and she spent a day and night in the cathedral by the casket of her dear dead, and then sorrowfully she took her journey to distant Anjou, home to her kith and kin.

(_Circa 1470_)

Painted by himself on wood. Aix Library

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King René in his will speaks thus of his beloved Queen: “Because Jehanne has loved me, so I do and shall love her as my dearest wife till death. Her virtues and her goodness to me I cannot forget, nor her loving services which she has rendered me for so long a time. I will that she shall have unrestricted liberty of action to settle, when I am dead, where she will.… I give to her the county of Beaufort; the castle and estate of Mirabeau; the town of Aubagne; the castles of San Remy, Pertuis, and Les Baux, with my _bastides_ in and about Aix and at Marseilles, with all their furniture and appurtenances.” King René also specially bequeathed to Jehanne his most valuable jewels: collars of diamonds; “_le grand et le petit bulay_,” rubies, with sprays of gold and gems;[A] his diamonds “_à la cesse_,” uncut and strung (?); his plates and caskets of gold; his great bowls of gold; his great trays of silver; and his precious goblet and ewer of gold encrusted with jewels; and many other splendid precious objects.

[A] “_Le grand bulay_” was a famous ruby, richly mounted, which
he had bought for 18,000 florins (= £7,000).

With respect to the body of King René, it has been chronicled that the Queen before leaving Aix made secret arrangements for its translation to Angers. She feared a hostile demonstration if open measures were taken. She took into her confidence a priest belonging to the cathedral chapter, and they together worked out a plan which was put into operation after Queen Jehanne had arrived at Angers. She sent two of her most trusty attendants, Jehan de Pastis and Jacquemain de Mahiers, with an imposing suite, conveying a letter to the Archbishop of Aix asking for the heart of René. The priestly confidant was at the service of the envoys, and they very cleverly contrived to secrete the casket with the King’s body in a royal chariot which the Queen had commanded to be laden with certain dresses and properties she had left behind, and in particular the pall she had worked with her own hand, and which was still covering the dead King’s coffin. The precious burden was driven to a secluded backwater of the Rhone, and there embarked upon a great royal barge; and so King René’s body passed through France once more, as he had so often done in life. The disembarkment of the royal corpse was effected at Ponts-de-Cé, across the Loire, a few miles out of Angers, and thence the second obsequies were conducted with splendid ceremonies and amid universal tokens of joy and sorrow of his Angevine subjects. The heart was with the body, but the entrails were left at Aix in the cathedral.

This was the last public appearance of Queen Jehanne. She retired to her Castle of Beaufort, and there she spent the residue of her life, eighteen long and solitary years--years never idle, never self-indulgent, years loyal to the fond memory of her spouse, years yearning for reunion. The day Jehanne entered her new home was St. Luke’s festival, 1481, the second summer of the year, when the last grapes hang ripened upon the vines, and the year’s vintage is gathered in. Perhaps the simile from Nature enforced itself upon the widowed Queen’s sympathetic mind. Her harvest was now that of the quiet eye; its growth had been when eye met eye--hers and René’s; now was approaching the winter of her life, when her work was to be finished and her rest full-garnered.

Jehanne chose as the companions of her widowhood three trusty servitors--René de Breslay, her Seneschal; Thibault de Cossé, her Master of the Household; and Bernard de Praneas, her Confessor. She spent her time in prayer and charity. She established hostels for poor people, for pilgrims and the sick; schools for children left orphans, and for those cast upon the world by miserable parents. Besides these pious works, the good Queen preserved her interest in such arts and crafts as she and René had encouraged in Provence. She studied once more books and sciences he had loved, she painted miniatures, composed madrigals and hymns, and sang and played as she had done for him, and her pen became that of the ready writer. She translated Guillaume de Guillerville’s tragedy, “The Pilgrimage of Human Life”; “The Soul separated from the Body,” a poem by Jehan Galoppez, a priest of Angers and her Private Secretary; and a moralization upon “The Certainty of Paradise.” All her works were, however, in prose, which, she said “_conservez le sens et les images, mais déliverez moi du martelage et des grimaces de ce baragouin!_”[A]

[A] “Preserve the sense and the shape, but protect me from
forced metaphor and gibberish!”

Perhaps the action which most endeared the memory of the good Queen to the hearts and minds of the people about her was the extraordinary pains she took to alleviate taxation and to readjust tribute. When René took over the estate in 1471, he made vast reductions in the imposts on land and stock and crop. These were confirmed by Queen Jehanne ten years later, and further reductions were conceded. Her plea to herself was: “Now René is no more, I have no other rôle to play but to do as he would have wished me.” The Forest of Beaufort, where René and she had followed the chase in princely fashion, now no longer echoed the blast of hunting-horns and the cracks of hunting-whips, but with the gentle notes of the _Angelus_, and when the curfews rang out in neighbouring village and homestead, they carried with them the refrain, “_Priez pour la bonne Jehanne_.”

These soft nocturnes and sweet visions of ancient days still linger in Anjou. The memory of the Queen of Sicily, Jehanne, is cherished, and almost a proverb it has become, that all good things done in that rich province are due to the watchful spirit of the Queen. In this connection a very weird narrative may be told. In 1469 Guillaume de Harancourt, Bishop of Verdun, invented a cage of wood and iron for refractory criminals. One such was sent to Angers, which after Jehanne’s death became known as the “cage of the Queen of Sicily.” It was said that Jehanne had been put therein wearing wooden sabots. The why and wherefore of her incarceration was perfectly uncertain, but the sabots are to-day in Angers Museum; the cage has disappeared. Another version has it that King René had among his wild creatures at Reculée and elsewhere a very ferocious eagle which he could not tame, and so the bird was sent to Angers and placed in the Bishop’s wood and iron cage, and dubbed “_La Reine_”--“The Queen”! This bird of prey deserved the name; its appetite was prodigious. In _Les Comptes_, among other entries referring to “her Majesty,” is--“June 3, 1474, ‘La Reine’ has a whole sheep day by day.” This is quaint indeed, but characteristic of stories and storytellers!

Queen Jehanne died at the Castle of Beaufort, December 19, 1498,--as the chroniclers tell us,--“in the odour of sanctity and with all the consolations of Holy Church.”

The Queen’s will--a most lengthy document--contains many affecting and many quaint bequests. She first of all commends herself conventionally to the Almighty, and then goes on to indicate her desire to be laid not far from “Marie of blessed memory”--her consort’s grandmother, Marie de Blois-Châtillon--“before the altar where is laid my lord and consort,” and she warns all and sundry against laying any other bodies there. Her heart she bequeaths to the Chapel of St. Bernardin, within the Church of the Cordeliers at Angers, to be placed beside that of René. She directs that her body shall be covered with a pall of black silk, and that at her funeral six poor religious should attend habited in black, and each bearing a flaming torch. Her heart and René’s should repose upon a pall of cloth of gold embroidered in crimson, and bearing their joined shields of arms. Lights shall always burn in front of the tomb and the cardial reliquary. She instructs her brother and nephew, Seigneurs de la Roche and de Montafiland, to hand over to the Chapter of St. Maurice in Angers 200 _livres tournois_ (_circa_ £120) to pay for her burial cortège, and for Mass, absolutions, vespers, and bells. Particularly she notes her preference for flags of _bougran_--stuff (?)--over silken banners.

The day after her interment the Queen directs that with reverent ritual a crown shall be placed over her head like that she placed over René’s, upon their monument. Certain saintly relics which he and she had been the means of rescuing from sacrilege, and had deposited in the Church of St. Tugal de Laval, shall be displayed gratuitously to “such _dames comtesses_ as may wish to become mothers.” Her “Breviary,” “Psalter,” “Hours,” and other books of devotion, she bequeaths to the Church of St. Tugal de Laval, for the use of daughters of her father’s house at their marriage or when residing in Laval. Two gold rings she particularly desires to be placed upon the relics of St. Nicholas d’Angers, within his reliquary: “one, my wedding-ring, which my very redoubtable lord and consort,--whom God absolve,--placed upon my finger at our nuptials, with a small heart of diamonds and enamelled with deep red roses.” The other ring had a large diamond mounted on a fleur-de-lis, and the band bore the enamelled arms of Anjou. Queen Jehanne did not forget her friends and attendants; for example, among very many legacies, she left 200 _livres tournois_ each to three ladies: Jacqueline de Puy du Jour, Catherine Beaufilz, and “_ma petite_” Gindine de la Jaille, to provide them with trousseaux upon marriage.

The body of the Queen was reverently shrouded in a plain linen chemise, such as that with which she herself had assisted to cover King René’s corpse, and over it was placed his robe of state. Hers was the last lying in state of a Queen of Sicily, and every mark of homage and respect was rendered her remains by high and low. Peasants and citizens conspired together to show their grateful sense of her virtues and her benefactions, and the country road from Beaufort to Angers was lined with sympathetic crowds of mourners. Her passing was in the night time,--so consonant with her love of seclusion and simplicity,--and the whole country-side was ablaze with torches and bonfires. The Queen’s burial was at St. Maurice’s Cathedral, in the tomb of her consort; whilst her heart,--“so full of love and so tenderly beloved,”--in a golden casket exactly like that of the King, was placed next his in the Chapel of St. Bernardin. Upon a memorial tablet was inscribed the epitaph: “Here lies the Heart of the very high and puissant Princess, Jehanne de Laval, second wife of King René, and daughter of Guy, Count de Laval.”

The monument to King René, which she at last came to share in blessed memory, had his effigy reclining, and at his feet a sculptured lion, symbol of courage; at Jehanne’s feet were carved two hounds, emblematic of fidelity. The Chapel of St. Bernardin thus became the royal mausoleum of the last Anjou dynasty--René, with his father and mother, his two wives, his eldest son, and his two daughters, in holy company; and so they remained for 300 years, until that cataclysmatic year 1793, when every holy stone was tumbled down and every reverent memorial defaced. The memorial chapel was for centuries a thing of beauty. King René himself painted the glass windows and designed the tomb. Soon after his marriage with Jehanne de Laval he employed Francesco Laurana and Pietro da Milano to decorate the chapel.

Soon after the death of King René, Sieur Guillaume de Remerville,--his Treasurer at Aix,--voiced the universal sorrow and permanent regret of all the royal servants of his lord in a beautiful funeral ode, which he dedicated to “Queen Jehanne, his worshipful mistress”:

“Pleurez, petits et grands! Pleurez!
Car perdu avez le bon Sire.
Jamais ne le recouverierez--
Sa mort sera grief martyir.”

“Weep little, weep great, weep all!
For we have lost our good Lord.
Ne’er more his form to recall--
Hearts broken by his mord.”

Such was the refrain. The same loving dirge of woe was re-echoed through Anjou and Provence when Jehanne passed royally to her burial.

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“Revue d’Anjou.” Vol. xv.

“Revue Historique d’Angers.” Vol. xviii.

“Revue Numismatique d’Anjou.” Vol. i.

“Bulletin Société Industrielle d’Angers.” Vol. x.

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“Bulletin Mensuel de la Société d’Archéologie Lorraine.” Vol. i.

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“Recherches Historiques sur le Saumur.” Vols. i. and ii.

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INDEX

“A Henry! A Henry!” 296, 298

Alagni, Lucrezia d’, 251

Alliance, A great, 262

Animals and birds, Love of, 213, 214, 352

ANJOU, Anne of (daughter of King René), 141
Blanche of (natural daughter of King Louis II.), 68
Blanche of (natural daughter of King René), 68, 254, 267
Charles, Duke of (brother of King Charles VI. of France, the elder
Anjou line), 24, 25
Charles of, Duke of Maine I. (brother of King René), 24, 57, 86, 87,
92, 93, 307
Charles of, Duke of Maine II. (son of above), 57, 165, 328, 329
Foulques-Nerra, Count of, 92
Hélène of, “La Petite” (natural daughter of King René?), 341
Isabelle of (daughter of King René), 141
Jean of (son of King René), Duke of Calabria and Lorraine, King of
Catalonia, 85, 90, 91, 104, 108, 113, 114, 124, 127, 134, 140,
244-254, 264, 270, 279, 280, 291
Jean of (natural son of King René), 254
Louis I., King-Duke of, see Kings
Louis II., King-Duke of, see Kings
Louis III., King-Duke of, see Kings
Louis de Maine of (natural son of King Louis II.), 68
Madeleine of (natural daughter of King René), 254
Margaret of (daughter of King René), see Queens
Nicholas of (son of King René), 85, 141, 254-258, 328
Odille of, “La Demoiselle” (natural daughter of King René?), 341
René, King-Duke of, 17-356
René of (son of King René), 141
Yolande of (sister of King René), see Brittany
Yolande of (daughter of King René), see Vaudémont

ARCHITECTS:
Leon Battista Alberti, 20, 236;
Francesco Brunellesco, 20;
Giovanni Capistrani, 340;
Cennino Cennini, 20

Armagnac, Mahaud d’, 34, 38
Three Graces of, 260

Banquet, A sumptuous, 129, 211

BAR, Bonne of, wife of Nicholas de Ligny, 34, 80
Édouard of, 34, 69
Frederic, Count of, 32
Henry IV., Count of, 32
Iolande of Flanders, Countess of, 32-34
Jehan of, 34, 69
Louis, Cardinal of, 69, 77-81, 86, 98-103, 162, 191
Marie of France, Duchess of, 32, 34, 49, 69, 80
Robert I., Duke of, 32, 69, 78
Violante (Yolanda), see Queens

Barragana, A, 30

Bare breasts, 56, 186, 188, 262

Bare feet, A Duchess’s, 97

BATTLES:
Azincourt, 34, 64, 69, 96;
Arienzo, 20, 130, 131;
Baugé, 82;
Bulgneville, 88, 109-115, 130, 192, 238, 256;
Gaeta, 241;
Montpiloir, 168;
Rocca-Secca, 219;
Rosebach, 96;
Sarno, 335;
Troia (I.), 250;
Troia (II.), 252, 335
Wars of the Roses:
Barnet, 297;
Bloreheath, 282;
Hexham, 287;
Northampton, 282;
St. Albans, 281, 284;
Towton, 285;
Wakefield, 280

Beaufort, Cardinal, 261, 262, 264, 275

Beauty, A village, 83, 147

“Belles, La Belle des,” see Agnes Sorel

“Better die right out!” 297

“Bloody Edward,” 298, 304

Blushing maids, 45

Bois Chènus, Le, 144, 173, 190

“Bourges, The little Queen of,” 174

“Bourges, The little King of,” 188, 279

“Box her ears!” 147, 198

Bride burnt to death, A, 88

BRITTANY, Arthur de Richemont of, 126, 133, 207
Charles, Duke of, 127, 185
Francis, Duke of, 286
Francis, Count of Montfort, 86
Isabelle of, 72, 88
Jean VI., Duke of, 71, 88, 116, 207, 307
Yolande of Anjou, Countess of Montfort, 86

BURGUNDY, Catherine of, 62, 70, 71, 76, 79
Isabelle of Portugal, Duchess of, 65, 126
Jean, Duke of, 62, 70, 71, 91, 99, 182-184
Philippe, Duke of, 25, 96, 102, 108, 111, 113, 115, 116, 120, 126,
127, 138, 159, 163, 184, 236, 243-254, 258-260, 288-290, 329

Burlesque, A royal, 289

CASTLES:
Aix, 19, 333, 340;
Amboise, 294, 295;
Angers, 19, 43, 44, 51, 60, 67, 72, 169, 191, 258, 293, 295, 309, 331;
Auray, 307;
Aversa, 227;
Bar-le-Duc, 88, 103, 254, 291;
Bastile, 183;
Baugé, 82;
Beaufort, 335, 350, 352;
Bisclin, 40;
Blois, 179;
Bonconville, 336;
Bourges, 64, 165, 181, 192, 201, 215;
Bourmont, 81, 113;
Bracon (Tour-de-Bar), 112, 119, 120, 138, 192, 193, 238, 242, 249;
Breauté, 196, 197;
Capua, 232, 257;
Castel Nuovo, 232;
Châtille, 113;
Charmes, 113;
Châteaudun, 182;
Chinon, 134, 154, 160, 189, 194, 201, 214, 253, 261, 286, 309;
Clermont, 113, 139, 173, 259, 336;
Coucy, 88, 95;
Dampière, 304;
dell’ Ovo, 222;
Dourdan, 177;
Forcalquier, 76;
Gaeta, 245;
Gerona, 46;
Gien, 192;
Harlech, 283;
Koeurs, 336;
Kuerere, 291;
La Ferté, 81;
Launay-les-Saumur, 318;
Laval, 307;
Les Baux, 320, 321, 348;
Loches, 170, 171, 181, 199, 201;
Louppy, 336;
Marseilles, 19, 333;
Maulevrier, 196;
Mehun-sur-Yèvre, 63, 184, 214;
Mesnil-la-Belle, 198;
Middleham, 292;
Montpellier, 45;
Muro, 217;
Nancy, 19, 95, 106, 109, 114, 133, 134, 149, 150, 254, 265;
Nantes, 270;
Nesle, 177;
Pertuis, 349;
Pierrepoint, 103;
Plessis-lès-Tours, 203;
Pont-à-Mousson, 253;
Queniez, 304;
Reculée, 19, 214, 302, 303, 334, 352;
Renancourt, 81;
Renne, 259;
Sarry-le-Château, 313;
Saumur, 19, 91, 136, 185, 258, 261, 296, 309;
St. Mihiel, 101;
St. Pol, 289;
San Remy, 349;
Talant, 110;
Tarascon, 19, 50, 134, 137, 256, 258, 333;
Toulouse, 44, 57;
Tourg, 101;
Tours, 201, 203, 211;
Troyes, 184;
Val-de-Cassel, 34;
Varennes, 259;
Vienne, 254;
Zaragoza, 31

Cathedral, A magnificent, 163-168

“Cell, Fit for a,” 279

Champion of champions, 265, 312

Chapelle, Marie de la, 21, 345, 346

Châtelaines, 54, 59, 139, 180, 181, 196, 320, 329

Chemises, 195

Child marriages, 94

Claimants for a throne, 41, 42, 62, 63, 245, 246

Coffin, Golden hair in a, 321

“Comptes de Roy René, Les,” 28, 29, 60, 182, 213, 266, 331, 336, 337, 346

Conclave, A sacred, 157

“Confrèrerie de la Passion, La,” 256

“Conquête de la Doulce Mercy, La,” 23, 324-326

Cooking, Art of, 53, 211, 339

Coronations, Royal, 41-43, 165-168, 237, 274, 275

Correcte, Friar Thomas, 186-188

Country life, Joys of a, 318, 321, 322, 340

Court, A frivolous, 190

“Courts of Love,” 35, 37, 42, 320

Courtiers, see Nobles

CRAFTSMEN:
Colin d’Angers, 302;
Juan d’Arragona, 27;
Jean Butort, 60;
François Castargis, 267;
Jehan Dueceux, 60;
Julien Guillot, 60;
Henri Henniquin, 27;
Jehan le Gracieux, 27;
Jehan de Nicholas, 27;
Guillaume le Pelletier, 27;
Guillaume de la Planche, 266;
Luigi Rubbotino, 27;
Guillaume Real (chef), 339;
Jean Tubande, 271

CRAFTSWOMEN:
Marguerite Chamberlayne, 273;
Demoiselle Collette, 346;
Jehanne Despert, 27

Cry, A piteous, 173

Cupid’s ways, 87, 140, 310

“Curse on life! A,” 313, 314

Dame de Courrages, La, 180, 181

Dancing fool, A, 251

Dare-devils, 221-223

Day, An ill-omened, 296

Delicacies, 48, 53

“Devils at home,” 315

Devils and hobby-horses, 338

Disguise, A royal, 34, 47

Divorce, A royal, 218, 219

Dowries, Royal, 49, 70, 76, 114, 127, 196, 198, 218, 259, 317, 346, 347

Dress, A reformer of, 186-189

Dresses, Gorgeous, 233, 234, 266, 267, 311

Elopement, A royal, 138, 139

EMPERORS:
Charlemagne, 282, 307;
Lothair, 95;
Otto III., 32;
Robert III., 95;
Sigismund, 118, 119, 253;
Wenceslas, 212

Erotic ascendancy, 197

Farewell, A sad, 269

Fashions, 48, 49, 55, 56, 67, 186, 187, 194, 195, 202, 267

FAVOURITES, ROYAL:
Pandolfo Alopo, 222, 223;
Sergianni Caracciolo, 223, 228-231, 237, 238;
Sforza da Colignola, 222, 223, 228-232;
Bartolommeo Colleone, 224;
Braccio Fortebraccio, 229-232

Feast of Folly, 37

Fête Dieu at Aix, La, 337, 338

Fête des Fous, La, 210

Fêtes and sports, see Merrymakings

Fierbois, The sword of, 154, 160, 166

Flagellations, 181

Foix, Cardinal de, 317

Foul deed, A, 298

Foul-play, 182-184, 205, 206, 218

GARDENS:
Lovely Tarascon, 50;
Bar-le-Duc, 80;
Aversa, 234, 235;
Les Baux, 320, 321

Garters, Chained, 267

“Gaya Ciencia, La,” 31, 36, 37, 46, 53

Genoa, Maiden offering at, 314

Girls, Character of, 45;
tribute of, 128

“Give me René d’Anjou!” 143

Glee-maidens, 31, 35, 256, 274

Glory of France, Everything for the, 200

Golden Rose, The, 119

“Grey wolf of Anjou, The,” 304

Grotto, Voices in a, 235

Hard-heads, 36

Hairdressing, 49, 67, 148, 164, 187, 194, 195, 202, 204, 261, 266,
267, 268, 311

Hair in a coffin, Golden, 321

Harvest of a quiet eye, 350

Heart, A pierced, 290

Herring, Only one, 290

Highwaymen, 33, 132

“Hold your tongue!” 230

Honour, Dames and Maids of, 186, 222, 226, 234, 264

“Hope of England, The,” 298

Horsewoman, A splendid, 150, 151

Hostages, Royal, 113-116, 120

Jacques d’Arc, 143, 144, 167

Jeanne d’Arc, “La Pucelle,” 83-87, 143-173, 189-192, 236, 253

“Jeanne soit bonne,” 145

Jehanne de Laval, see Queens

Jehanne the Inspirer, 330

Jewels, 35, 43, 49, 56, 80, 128, 196, 202, 203, 234, 247, 266-268, 275,
276, 289, 309, 315, 335, 346, 349, 354

Jews, 240

Joke, A royal, 61

KINGS:
Alfonso, “The Magnanimous,” of Aragon-Sicily-Naples, 75, 117, 124, 126,
128, 130, 224, 225, 227-235, 241-258, 280, 334
Andrew of Hungary, 217, 246
Charles IV., “The Fair,” of France, 177
Charles V. of France, 82
Charles VI. of France, 40, 44, 55, 63-65, 68, 179-181, 193, 209, 265,
276, 308
Charles VII. of France, 63-65, 81-85, 88, 91, 109-111, 117, 126, 132,
154-199, 200-215, 236, 239, 251-254, 260-264, 269-279, 331
Charles VIII. of France, 294, 347
Charles II. of Naples, 333
Charles III. of Naples, 216, 217, 220
Edward IV. of England, 281-286 292-304
Ferdinand of Aragon, 221, 227
Ferdinand I. of Naples, 252, 335
Henry IV. of England, 295
Henry V. of England, 56, 65, 72, 181, 184
Henry VI. of England, 138, 260-263, 272-304, 363
Henry II. of France, 196
Iago II. of Aragon, 36
James III. of Scotland, 285, 290
Jean II., “The Good,” of France, 29, 32, 44, 65, 67, 73, 80, 127
Juan I. of Aragon, 32-49, 334
Juan II. of Aragon-Catalonia, 334
Juan III. of Aragon-Catalonia, see Jean d’Anjou
Ladislaus of Naples, 216-220
Louis IX. (St. Louis) of France, 51, 176
Louis XI. of France, 85, 175, 197-205, 214, 232, 264, 286-296, 300-304,
326, 335, 347
Louis I. of Sicily-Anjou, 29, 39-44, 58, 73, 118
Louis II. of Sicily-Anjou, 29, 39, 40-46, 55-67, 73, 85, 93, 99,
174-176, 207, 217-219, 332
Louis III. of Sicily-Anjou, 57-64, 68-76, 82-89, 117, 121, 165-169,
185-188, 212, 225-246, 320
Martino of Aragon-Sicily, 30, 42, 62
René of Sicily-Anjou-Naples, 17-356
Robert of Naples, 217
Philip V., “The Tall,” of France, 177

King, A libertine, 218;
meagre fare of a, 182;
Most Valiant (?), 195;
skit on a, 201

Kisses, 47, 52, 75, 137, 152, 195, 201, 208, 209, 226, 255, 257, 269, 335

“L’Abuzé en Court,” 24, 327, 328

“Lady of his thoughts, The,” 310

Lady of the Crest, 306, 310, 311

“La Française,” 275, 279, 280

“La Royne Blanche,” 85, 112, 161, 166, 173

LAVAL, Françoise de Dinan, Countess of, 308
Guy XIII., Count of, 68, 87, 135-137, 162, 170, 307-312, 316, 317, 355
Guy XIV., Count of, 307
Isabelle of Brittany, Countess of, 307
Jehanne of, see Queens
Pierre of, 307, 309, 317
Yolande of, 307

“Le Bon Roy,” 318, 321, 322, 324, 326, 332, 338, 343

LEGENDS:
Nôtre Dame de Sousterre, 35;
St Catherine les Baux, 320, 321;
St. Frisette de Reims, 164;
St. Martha of Bethany, 50, 51, 333;
St. Maximin d’Aix, 333;
St. Radegonde de Tours, 157;
St. Renatus d’Angers, 59, 60

Leonora, Fair, 225, 231-235

“Le Sauve-garde de ma Vie,” 340

LES BAUX, Alix, Countess of, 319
Cécile of, “La Passe Rose,” 320
Douce of, 320
Étiennette of, 320
Jehanne of, 319
Raymond, Count of, 320
Robert Beaufort, Count of, “Le Fléau de Provence,” 319

“Les Tards-Venus,” 319

Library, A famous, 120

“Ligue de Quatre, La,” 73

Likeness in a lance, A, 331

“Like Queen Giovanna!” 217

Lioness at bay, Like a, 303

LORRAINE, Adelebert, Duke of, 95
Charles II., Duke of, 88, 95, 96, 98-104, 121, 143, 148-151, 163,
171, 244, 245
Isabelle of, see Queens
Jehan, Count of, 95
Margaret of Bavaria, Duchess of, 95-100, 104, 105, 110-115, 118, 121,
148-153, 254
Marie of, Dame de Soissons, 95
Raoul, Duke of, 105
René II., Duke of, 336, 347, 348
The Pride of, 94, 98, 151, 156

Love of all the boys, 257

LOVE, COURTS OF:
Bar le Duc, 35;
Zaragoza, 37;
Barcelona, 42;
Les Baux, 320

Love, The Chamber of, 320

Love Lady-Day, 281, 282

Loves of Louis and Yolanda, 46
Charles and Agnes, 192-200
Charles Dunois and Marie d’Anjou, 208, 209
Louis and Leonora, 225-235

Love’s rosebush, 97

“Magali,” 330

Maiden tribute, 316

Maids of Honour, 186, 222, 226, 234, 264

Maignelais, Antoinette de, 193, 198
Catherine de, 193

Malady, A terrible, 276

Margaret d’Anjou, see Queens

Margaret, Truce of, 281

Marguerites, 268, 271, 274

“Mariage, Quinze Joyes de,” 77

Marriage ring torn off, 219

Martyrdom, A royal, 172, 173

Matchmaking, 35, 39, 64, 65, 70-73, 76, 86-88, 91, 127, 218, 220, 256,
257, 259, 293, 294

Matrimonial pros and cons, 99, 100

Matrons, A panel of, 83, 157, 158, 191

Mermaid, A Sicilian, 226

“Merrie Mol, Une,” 289

Merrymakings, 31, 35-37, 46, 48, 50-54, 61, 72, 91, 104, 134, 135, 139,
234, 256, 265, 338

Millionaires, Royal, 58, 62, 182, 212

Montereau, Derouillée de, 206

“Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance, Le,” 23, 317

MOTTOES:
“Amour et foy” (Isabelle de Lorraine), 142;
“Ardent désir” (King René), 134;
“Fides vitat servata” (King René), title-page

Murder, 222, 223, 298, 299

Mystery plays, 38, 52, 265, 274, 337, 338

Natural children, 30, 68, 196, 220, 227, 252

NOBLES AND COURTIERS:
Agout, Raymond d’, 44, 45
Aigle, Jean, Lord de l’, 60
Amboise, Louis d’, 206
Andrews, William (Private Secretary to Henry VI.), 268
Avellino, Robert, Count of, 245
Barbazan, Armand, 109, 158, 162, 168
Baudricourt, Robert de, 147, 148
Beauvais, Pierre de, 68
Beauvau, Bertrand de, Lord of Precigny, 267, 346, 347
Beauvau, Louis de, 20, 26, 137, 312, 317
Beauprémont, Pierre de, 258
Belleneve, Louis Jehan, Lord of, 347
Biège, Pierre de, 68
Brézé, Jacques de, Count of Maulevrier, 196
Brézé, Louis de, 196
Brézé, Pierre de, 287, 288
Breslay, René de, 350
Cabarus, Vidal di, 244
Capua, Andrea di, 219
Champchevier, Jules, 261
Charantais, Jehan, 225
Charny, Adolphe de, 258
Châtel, Tanneguy de, 20, 182, 184
Clifford, Lord, 283, 284
Cœur, Jacques, 182, 212
Coëtivi, Olivier de, 196
Cossé, Thibault de, 350
Couldray, Lord of, 316
Courrages, Lord of, 180, 181
Coyrant, Yovunet, 61
Crepin, Jehan, 76
Dunois, Count Charles (le Bâtard d’Orléans), 159, 161, 168, 207-211
Escose, Jean d’, 274
Falstaff, Sir John, 261
Fenestranger, Jehan de, 125
Flavy, Guillaume de, 81
Fortescue, Sir John, 292
Gaudel, Antoine de, 258
Gris, Jehan de, 180
Harancourt, Gerard de, 125
Harancourt, Jacques de, 125
Hérault, Alain le, 28
La Hire, 159, 161, 168, 182
Lenoncourt, Philippe de, 30
Laval, Guy de, 87
Louvet, Étienne, 207
Luxembourg, Jehan de, 78
Maçon, Robert de, 83
Mahiers, Jacquemain de, 349
Maignelais, Raoul de, 193
Mailly, Hardoin de, 186
Mattaincourt, Jehan de, 81
Maulevrier, Jacques Odon de, 186
Metz, Jehan de, 148
Mezières, Louis de Maine, Lord of, 68
Montague, Lord, 284
Montelar, Charles di, Baron, 244
Moraens, François de la Vignolles de, 304, 305
Morien, Jehan de, 44, 45
Oxford, Earl of, 293
Pastis, Jehan de, 349
Pulligny, Hugues de, 32
Remerville, Guillaume de, 355
Roche, Philippe de Pot, de la, 288
Roches, Guillaume Chevalier des, 60
Ruthen, Lord Guy de, 282
St. Aubin, Pierre, Abbé de, 60
Salisbury, Earl of, 281, 282, 284
Sancerre, Antoine de Benil, Count of, 196
Sarrebouche, Robert de, 78
Sérancourt, Jehan de, 28
Somerset, Duke of, 279, 281, 287, 297
Sorel, Jehan de, 193
Suffolk, Earl of, 132, 138, 262, 264, 270
Toreglia, Giovanni di, 251
Toulongeon, Antoine de, 109, 110
Trémouille, Pierre de, 158, 161, 168, 207
Valorey, Barthélèmy de, 68
Valorey, Gabriel de, 68
Villerequier, André de, 198
Warwick, Earl of, 281-284, 292-297
Wenlock, Lord, 297
Westmoreland, Earl of, 295
Xaintrailles, Pothon de, 207

Nuptials, Royal, 41, 48, 49, 81, 86, 87, 91, 101, 123, 138, 179, 181,
204, 217, 218, 221, 256, 264, 272, 273, 295, 317

Obsequies, Royal, 40, 41, 57, 58, 66, 67, 68, 72, 92, 121, 122, 132,
135, 214, 219, 241, 258, 300, 314, 315, 344, 345, 349, 354

Ode, A funeral, 356

“Oh fie! Oh fie!”, 262

ORDERS:
of the Sturgeon, 26;
of the Plough, 26;
de la Fidélité, 79;
Toison d’Or, 115;
du Croissant, 136;
Golden Rose, 119, 342

Oriflamme, “The Maid’s” white, 153, 167, 169

Pack of cards, A famous, 212

Pageant of the Peasant, The, 329

PAINTERS:
Fra Angelico, 20;
Petrus Christus, 79;
Hubert Van Eyck, 19, 20, 79;
Jan Van Eyck, 19, 20, 79;
Jean Focquet, 19;
Colantonio del Fiore, 20;
Angiolo Franco, 20;
Hans of Antwerp, 260;
Fra Filippo Lippi, 20;
Jehannot le Flament, 19, 312;
Antonio Solario (“Il Zingaro”), 20, 242;
Paolo Ucello, 20

Pastoral, A royal, 322

Payments, Quaint, 271-273

Peach, Bite a, 206

Pilgrimage, A warlike, 159-161

Plot, A royal, 231

“Plucking the turkey,” 36

Poison, 89, 205, 206, 218, 313, 342

“Polluyon,” Ceremony of the, 105

Poniard, A jewelled, 238;
a stealthy, 320

POPES:
Benedict XIII., 69;
Boniface IX., 219;
Clement VII., 40;
Eugenius IV., 125, 130, 250;
John XXIII., 80;
Martin V., 229;
Nicholas V., 332;
Sixtus IV., 25

Porta, Giovanni de la (King René’s confessor), 332

Poverty, Royal, 181, 182

Presents, Extraordinary, 273, 274;
splendid, 186, 346, 347

Preux chevaliers, 87, 96, 236, 287, 314

Prince, An ugly, 175, 176, 203

PRINCES:
Alençon, Jehan, Count of, 86
Alençon, Charles, Duke of, 264, 270
Anjou, see Anjou
Aragon, Juan of, 221
Aragon, Pedro of, 124
Armagnac, Henri, Count of, 183, 260
Austria, Ladislaus, Archduke of, 211
Austria, Leopold III., Duke of, 218
Austria, William, Duke of, 218
Baden, James, Marquis of, 96, 107
Bavaria, Louis of, 109, 123
Bar, see Bar
Bedford, John, Duke of, 161, 169
Berg, Arnould, Duke of, 77
Berry, Charles, Duke of, 205, 206
Bourbon, Charles, Duke of, 91
Bourbon, Louis, Duke of, 62
Bourbon, Jacques of, 221, 222
Brittany, see Brittany
Brunswick, Otto of, 217
Burgundy, see Burgundy
Castile, Ferdinand of, 40, 63
Charolois, Count of, 289
Clarence, Duke of, 295
Foix, Gaston de, Count, 211
Gaunt, John of, 295
Gravina, Charles Durazzo, Count of, 217
Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 262, 274, 275, 277, 279
Lorraine, see Lorraine
Luxembourg, Henri, Count of, 27
Luxembourg, John, Duke of, 171
Luxembourg, Pierre of, 256, 259, 265
Marche, Robert, Count de la, 259
Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of, 241, 250
Milan, Francesco Sforza, Duke of, 130, 250, 280
Montfort, see Brittany
Nevers, Charles of Bruges, 259, 262, 309, 312
Nevers, Philippe, Count of, 259
Orange, Louis of, 81
Orsini, Raimondo of, 219
Savoy, Amadeo VIII., Duke of, 211, 238
Taranto, Charles III., Prince of, 176
Taranto, Jehan de Beaux-Taranto, 176
Taranto, Lodovico of, 217
Vendôme, Antoine, Duke of, 62
Wales, Edward, Prince of, 277-279, 282-288, 293-300
Würtemberg, Ulric VII., Count of, 123
York, Edward, Duke of, 264, 270, 275-280

PRINCESSES:
Anjou, Blanche of, 68, 254, 267
Anjou, Margaret of, see Queens
Anjou, Yolande of, Countess of Montfort, 86
Anjou, Yolande of, Countess of Vaudémont, see Vaudémont
Aragon, Juanita of, 30, 35, 38
Armagnac, Isabelle of, 260
Austria, Anne, Duchess of, 259
Baden, Catherine, Marchioness of, 96
Bar, Bonne of, 34, 80
Bar, Marie of France, Duchess of, 32, 34, 49, 69, 80
Bar, Violante of, see Queens
Bavaria, Elizabeth of, 118
Beaufort, Joanna, of Ghent, 295
Bourbon, Anne, Duchess of, 289, 290
Bourbon, Marie of, see Queens
Brittany, Isabelle of, 72, 85
Brittany, Yolande, Countess of Montfort, 86
Burgundy, Catherine of, 62, 70, 71, 76
France, Catherine of (daughter of Charles VII.), 214
Catherine of (natural daughter of Charles VII.), 196
Jeanne of (daughter of Charles VII.), 173, 211, 214
Jeanne of (natural daughter of Charles VII.), 196
Madeleine of (daughter of Charles VII.), 211, 214
Margaret of (natural daughter of Charles VII.), 196
Margaret of (daughter of King Philippe V.), 176
Yolande of (daughter of Charles VII.), 211, 214
Harcourt, Marie of, 28
Laval, Françoise de Dinan, Countess of, 308
Laval, Yolande of, 307
Les Baux, Alix, Countess of, 319
Cécile of, 320
Douce of, 320
Étiennette of, 320
Jehanne of, 319
Lorraine, Isabelle of, see Queens
Lorraine, Margaret of Bavaria, Duchess of, see Lorraine
Lorraine, Marie of, Dame de Soissons, 95
Luxembourg, Blanche of, 177
Luxembourg, Jehanne of, 177
Marche, Jeanne de la, 259
Provence, Beatrix, Countess of, 216
Vaudémont, Anna, Countess of, 125, 138
Vaudémont, Margaret of (granddaughter of King René), 343
Vaudémont, Yolande of Anjou, Countess of, see Vaudémont
Wales, Anne Neville, Princess of, 294-299
Würtemberg, Sophie, Countess of, 95

“Priez pour la Bonne Jehanne,” 352

Prisoner, A royal, 115, 116

Progresses, Royal, 33, 40, 44, 46, 47, 62, 107, 127, 185, 269-271, 274,
296, 319

Quatrain, A royal, 179

QUEEN:
Bath of, 242;
begs alms, 247;
borrows a farthing, 290;
bountiful, 351;
dances on highway, 33;
day in the life of a, 242;
Epitaph on a, 305;
“great,” 93, 141, 143, 150, 305;
handiwork of a, 341;
heroic, 189, 290;
intrepid, 253;
knighted, 285;
last words of, 205;
leprous, 304;
letters of a, 213, 244;
noblest of France, 215;
of beauty, 135, 309, 311;
of hearts, 42, 195;
of Queens, 310;
of roses, 306;
prisoner, 232;
robber and, 288;
speech of a, 185, 290;
state entry of Queens, 35, 50, 81, 103, 105, 106, 202, 257, 274, 317