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Troye, count de, ii. 163.

Troyes, Jean de, Scandalous Chronicle attributed to, ii. 293 _et
seq._;
his inducements for writing it, 297, 298.

Truce between Louis XI. and the duke of Burgundy, i. 224 _et seq._;
between the kings of France and England, 263 _et seq._;
terms of the, 267.

“Truth, with its secret counsel,” a book written by bishop St.
Cotade, ii. 154.

Turin, Charles VIII.’s arrival at, ii. 229.

Turks defeated at Belgrade, ii. 88 _n._;
the number of their conquests, 90, 91;
dreaded by the Venetians, 120, 121;
their treaty of peace with Ferdinand of Arragon and the king of
Hungary, 120 _n._;
design against the, by the Venetians, 165;
they capture the whole of Albania, 166;
send an embassy to Venice, 173.

Tyranny of princes, i. 383, 384.

U.

Ulrich, bishop of Trent, ii. 174.

Unicorn’s horn belonging to the Medici family, ii. 143.

University of Paris, its quarrel with the Court of Aids, ii. 300.

Unterbilk, town of, i. 242.

Urbin, Federigo, duke of, ii. 30;
memoirs of, _ib._ _n._

Urbino, Anthony d’, ii. 209.

Urfé, Pierre, lord of, i. 114; ii. 134;
his gallantry, i. 149;
his advice for war, 208.

Ursini, lord Charles, surrenders his territories to Charles VIII.,
ii. 145.

Ursini (Orsini), Giordano, lord of Bracciano, ii. 262 _n._

Ursini, Paul, lord of Lomentana, ii. 140;
his death, 140 _n._

Ursini, lord Virgil, ii. 125, 262.

Ursins, William Juvenal des, ii. 336;
arrested, 310.

V.

Vallée, William de, i. 220.

Vallori, Francisco, murdered, ii. 287.

Valois, Louis of. (See Louis XI.)

Valona, a town in Albania, ii. 165.

Vaquerie, Jean de la, i. 346.

Vaudray, Monsieur de, ii. 22.

Vaudray, Claude de, ii. 388.

Venafro, Marquis de, ii. 163.

Vendôme, Francis, duke of, his death, ii. 237.

Vendôme, Jacques, vidame of, ii. 245.

Venetians, their designs against the Turks, ii. 15;
French embassy to the, 119;
their contest with the Turks, 120 _n._;
their title to the kingdom of Cyprus, 121;
cessions made to the, 121 _n._;
subdue Padua, 138;
cabal against Charles VIII., 178;
enter into a league with the pope and other confederates against
France, 179;
their number of forces brought against the French, 203;
Charles VIII. sends an embassy to invite them to accept terms of
peace, which are refused, 248, 249;
towns possessed by, in Apulia, 259;
compelled to surrender them, _ib._ _n._;
enemies opposed to them, 282.

Venice, opinions of the senate of, on the government of Naples, ii.
100;
one of the three powers of Italy, 130;
on the government of, 168 _et seq._;
entry of Commines into, as ambassador of France, 169;
his description of, 170, 171;
naval expeditions of, 172;
her civil polity, _ib._;
the objects of Commines’ embassy to, 173 _et seq._;
various embassies sent to, 173, 174;
her friendly intentions towards Charles VIII., 176, 177;
doges of, 267.

Vercelli, or Verceil, town of, ii. 233;
treaty of, between Charles VIII. and the League, i. xxxv.; ii. 245.

Verdun-sur-Saône, town of, rebels, ii. 23;
captured, 24.

Verdun, Guillaume, bishop of, imprisoned, i. 165.

Vere, Wolfert, lord de la, i. 359.

Vergy, Guillaume, lord de, i. 76, 362;
his various appointments, 362 _n._;
swears allegiance to the king, 363.

Vermandois, revenue of, i. 139.

Vermandois, Herbert II., count of, i. 120.

Vers, sir Stephen de, ii. 70, 108;
seneschal of Beaucaire, 93, 94, 96;
made governor of Gaeta, 184.

Versé, Pierre, bishop of Amiens, ii. 74 _n._

Vervins, treaty of, between Louis XI. and the duke of Burgundy, i.
285, 287.

Vidame of Amiens, i. 72.

Vienne, Angelo Cato, archbishop of, the work dedicated to, i. xlv.

Vigevano, town of, ii. 197.

Vignolles, Thevenot de, i. 220.

Vilde, M. Jehan de, i. 147;
his death, 148.

Vilhères, Jean de, cardinal of St. Dennis, ii. 157.

Villeneuf, William de, ii. 184 _et n._

Villeneuve, Louis, baron of Sernon, ii. 147.

Villiers-le-Bel, near Paris, i. 79.

Villiers, Alain, lord de, i. 260.

Villiers, James de, ii. 336.

Villiers, William de, i. 140.

Vimeux, provostship of, i. 132.

Vincennes, castle of, meeting of Charles of Burgundy and the French
princes in the, i. 78.

Vingt Escus, the king’s guard, ii. 213 _et n._

Virtues and vices of Louis XI., i. 59.

Visen, Charles de, valet de chambre to the duke of Burgundy, i. 120.

Visconti, faction of the, ii. 160.

Visconti, the dukes of Milan descended from the family of, ii. 112.

Visconti, Bianca Maria, ii. 112 _n._

Visconti, lord Galeas de, ii. 108.

Visconti, Francesco Bernardo, ii. 174.

Vitelli, Signor Camilla, at the battle of Fornovo, ii. 218.

Viterbo, visited by Charles VIII., ii. 144.

W.

Wales, Edward, prince of, i. 188, 189;
defeated at the battle of Tewkesbury, 202;
his death, _ib._

Wales, prince of, murdered, ii. 366.

War, easily begun between two great princes, but difficult to be
composed, i. 113;
on the proclaiming of, 205.

Wars, their prevalence in France, i. 209;
those which originated from the duke of Burgundy’s siege of Nuz,
242;
permitted by God for the punishment of wickedness, 378 _et seq._

Warwick, Richard Neville, earl of, account of, i. 48;
the greatest supporter of the house of York, 183;
appointed governor of Calais, _ib._;
quarrels with Edward IV., and imprisons him, _ib._;
his great power, 184;
defeated by Edward in various battles, _ib._;
flies to Calais and is repulsed, _ib._;
opposed by the duke of Burgundy, 185, 187;
proceeds to Normandy, 187;
furnished with money by Louis XI., _ib._;
raises a fleet, and sails to England, 190;
expels Edward IV., 191;
his numerous partisans, 194 _et n._;
releases Henry VI. from the Tower, 195;
defeated by Edward, and slain, 201, 248 _n._;
his great political power, 394;
the reason of his espousing the interest of the house of York, ii.
86.

Warwick, earl of, (_continued from Jean de Troyes’ Chronicle_); he
deposes Henry VI. of England, ii. 200;
meets Louis XI. at Roan, and is sumptuously treated, 343;
flies to Normandy, 360;
his return to England, 363;
reinstates Henry VI., _ib._;
the countess and her daughter royally received at Paris, 364;
defeated and slain, 366.

Wenlock, lord John, lieutenant-governor of Calais, i. 174;
repels his captain the Earl of Warwick, _ib._;
complimented by the king of England and the duke of Burgundy, and
made governor of the place, 185;
his advice to the earl of Warwick, 186;
receives the forces sent by the earl of Warwick, 195;
entertains Commines, 196, 197.

Westmoreland, Richard, earl of, ii. 85.

Wine, pailful of, drunk by Commines’ horse, i. 32.

Wines, scarcity of, in France, in 1490, ii. 298.

Wisdom, a digression on, i. 229.

Withem, Captain Frederick de, i. 162 _n._

Women, excluded from the throne of France, ii. 14, 16.

Woodville, Elizabeth, her marriage to Edward IV., i. 396 _n._; ii. 63.

Wool, Calais the staple of, i. 198.

Y.

Yolande de France, the duchess of Savoy, i. 306, 310 _n._;
sister of René II., ii. 95 _n._;
death of, i. xxxi.

York, royal house of, in England, i. 22, 37, 38, 393;
their civil contests, 181 _et seq._
(See Edward IV., and Warwick, earl of.)

York, George Neville, archbishop of, i. 190.

York, Richard, duke of, proclaims himself king of England, i. 48;
is defeated and slain, _ib._

Yorkists, defeated at St. Albans, ii. 303.

Ypres, viscount. (See Hugonet.)

Z.

Zizim, brother of Bajazet II., delivered by the pope to Charles
VIII., ii. 159;
his misfortunes and death, 67 _n._

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