A Distant Mirror (122 page)

28
ff.
MONTFORT
-clisson
AFFAIR
: Froissart, Berners ed., IV, 440–59; Lefranc, 279, 304–24; Moranvillé,
Mercier
, 112–13.

29
COUCY’S INSISTENCE ON RESTITUTION
: KL, XIII, 84.

30
GUELDERS AFFAIR:
Chron. C6
, I, 523–25.
VASSAL FOR MONEY
: Perroy,
Hundred Years
, 191;
GUELDERS’ LETTER TO CHARLES VI
: text in Douet-d’Arcq, I, 78.

31
COUCY ARGUES IN COUNCIL:
KL. XIII, 84.

32
DEATH OF CHARLES OF
N
AVARRE:
Chron. C6, I
, 473, and Froissart.

33
COUCY’S MISSION TO MONTFORT
: KL, XIII, 136, 337 ff.

34
KING’S GIFT OF A BIBLE
: Lacaille,
thèse
, 117, from Delisle.
FROISSART’S TRIBUTE
: Berners ed., V, 163.

As before, events and quoted statements not otherwise identified may be presumed to come from
Chron. C6, I
, or Froissart.

1
DESCHAMPS, “NOT ON THE GRAND PONT
”: Queux ed., I, 156–57.

2
MÉZIÈRES QUOTED
: Coopland ed., 524–25.

3
SOFT BEDS AND PERFUMED BATHS
: preachers q. in Owst, 412.
GERSON
: q. Kilgour, 184.

4
SACCHETTI
: q. Jacob Burckhardt,
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
, New York, 1960 (paperback ed.), 262. 441
DESCHAMPS ILL ON CAMPAIGN
: Raynaud in Deschamps, Queux ed., XI, 296. An excellent analysis of Deschamps’ life, work, and opinions may be
found in this long essay by Queux’s editorial successor. Ballads discussed here are in II, 214–26, 226–35. See also Kilgour, 64. p. 442
LOUIS D’ORLÉANS:
Chron
. C6; Jorga, 505; Collas, 143, 296.

5
CAMAL
: Evans in notes to Díaz de Gómez, 153.
VERSE
: q. Mary Duchaux (Darmesteter),
A Short History of France
, 1918, 86.

6
BURGUNDY VISITS COUCY
: Petit,
Itinéraires
, 203; Prost, 475.

7
RICHARD DESCRIBED:
Vita R. Ricardi II
, ed. Hearne, 1729, q. Locke, 110.
HANDKERCHIEF
: Hutchison, 239.

8
GRAND BOUTEILLER
and
PRIVILEGE OF TWO FAIRS
: Duplessis, notes, 121; Duchesne, 268–69; Lacaille,
“Vente,”
574–75; DBF, IX, 873. Text of the King’s grant in Lépinois, 209–11.
ON THE OFFICE OF GRAND BOUTEILLER
: Lot & Fawtier, 54.

9
COMPLAINT OF
1388: q. Denifle, 594.

10
MARKS OF DECLINE
: Denifle, 594; Jusserand, 43–44. The Benedictine abbey was St. Nicolas-aux-Bois, diocese of Laon: Denifle, 706.

11
DON PERO NIÑO AT
SERIFONTAINE: Díaz de Gómez, 134–38. The host served as Admiral of France from 1397 to 1405, which places the date of the visit about 1405–6.

12
DESCHAMPS’ BALLAD ON RAUCOUS EVENING
: Queux ed., VII, 253.
ON BALDNESS
: Ballade 867. Obscurities in the language of this ballade were elucidated by Prof. Howard Garey of Yale.

13
BROMYARD ON FOPPERY:
q. Owst, 408.

14
DESCHAMPS’ AILMENTS, SINS HE CONDEMNED, COMPLAINT OF COURT LIFE:
Raynaud in Deschamps, Queux ed., XI, 296–97, 303–5.

15
COUCY SENDS MESSAGE TO PHILIPPA
: Green, 227, from Rymer.
NAMED CAPTAIN OF GUIENNE
: KL, XIV, 25.

16
MARCIAL LE VÉRIT
: from text of pardon in Douet-d’Arcq. N
OTTINGHAM’S CHALLENGE
: text in KL, notes, XIV, 398–99.

17
BOUCICAUT AT
Roosebeke: KL, notes, X, 481.

18
COUCY PROPOSED FROISSART FOR CANONRY AT LILLE
: Shears, 55–56.
VERSE ON COUCY AS PATRON
: KL, la, 345. The meaning of
rouge eseaille
was suggested in consultation by Profs. Howard Garey and Harry Miskimin of Yale.

19
COUCY OWNED OLDEST FROISSART MS
.: KL, notes, lb, 224. This copy passed from Coucy’s great-granddaughter Jeanne de Bar to the royal library when Louis XI confiscated the books of her husband, Louis of Luxemburg. Listed as ms. II 88 in the Royal Library of Brussels (and as #6941 in the
Catalogue des Mss
. by Van den Gheyn), the copy has the Coucy coat-of-arms on fo. 16 r.

20
PETRARCH’S COMPLAINT:
Correspondence
, 28.

21
BOOKS GIVEN TO COUCY
: Lacaille,
thèse
, 117, from Delisle,
Cat. de la librairie du Louvre
, III, nos. 19, 1160.

22
VALENTINA VISCONTI
: Chamberlin, 89–91, 109–12; Collas, 48 O
RLÉANS HOUSEHOLD
: Lacroix, 74–75.

23
QUEEN’S ENTRY
: Both Froissart and the Monk of St. Denis were eyewitnesses.

24
BURGUNDY’S CLOTHES
: Vaughan, 43.
ON THE “BED OF JUSTICE
”: Bapst.

1
TREASURY OFFICIALS, “HE HAS HAD TOO MUCH”:
Chron. C6
, I, 609.

2
CHARLES
vi
IN
A
VIGNON
: Froissart;
Chron. C6
, I; Valois, II, 152–54.

3
Cent Ballades:
Pannier, passim; Raynaud, xxxvi–xlix, li–v, lxiv–viii, 226–27.

4
BASTARD OF COUCY
: La Chesnaye-Desbois.

5
KING’S TOUR OF
L
ANGUEDOC
and Bétizac
AFFAIR:
Chron. C6
, I;
Chron. Bourbon;
Froissart; Coville, 304–5.

6
GENOESE AMBASSADORS:
Chron. C6
, I, 653; Mirot,
“Politique” 10
.

7
FRESCO IN THE CLOISTER OF CARMES
: Vaissète, IV, 396; Sabine Coron-Lesur, unpublished dissertation on the
Couvent des Grands Carmes de Toulouse
, 140–43, supplied through the kindness of Prof. Philippe Wolff of Toulouse. A copy of the fresco, generally known as “The Vow of Charles VI,” exists as an engraving in the Musée Paul Dupuy in Toulouse, and is reproduced in Vaissète, IV, plate XX-C, in G. Lafaille,
Annales de la ville de Toulouse
, 1687, I, 143, and in a number of later volumes. Lacking differentiation of faces, it is of little interest.

8
ff.
SPANISH MISSION
: That Coucy could have gone to Spain in the course of the tour of Languedoc is unlikely but not impossible. The documents show him to have been with the King at Toulouse for the founding of the Ordre de l’Espérance on an unknown date in December, and again (or still) there on January 5 when his signature was added to the King’s treaty with the Count of Foix (Vaissète, ed. of 1885, IX, 938–51, X, notes, 125–29; Lacaille,
thèse
, 127–28). He reappeared at Avignon on January 28 to testify in the
Processus
of Pierre de Luxemburg. This allows two intervals—one of unknown length in December and one of 23 days in January—when he might have gone to Barcelona and back, although the time element is very tight. No evidence exists to support Froissart’s version of his role in the Anjou-Aragon marriage. According to R. Oliver Bertrand,
Bodas Reales entre Francia y la Corona de Aragon
, Barcelona, 1947, 203, a marriage contract
was
concluded and a dispensation from Clement VII obtained in 1390, but the contract itself was not found. Researches by Richard Famiglietti at the BN and AN and in the published French and Spanish sources, and a search of the documents in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon at Barcelona (commissioned through the kindness of Prof. J. N. Hillgarth) found no evidence of a journey by Coucy in connection with the Anjou-Aragon marriage.

9
PIERRE DE
L
UXEMBURG
: Baring-Gould,
Lives of the Saints
, VII, 85–88; Jorga, 460–62; Valois, II, 300, 362–66; Huizinga,
Waning
, 179–80. Testimony in the
Processus
for canonization occupies 133 double-column folio pages in
Acta Sanctorum
, Paris, 1863–1940, vol. XXVIII, in which Coucy’s testimony appears on pp. 464–65, 468, 472, 476, 488.

10
THE ROYAL VISIT TO DIJON
: Petit,
Entrée
, passim; KL, la, 556.

11
“FOR THE SOUL’S SALVATION
”: q. Cartellieri, 29.

12
COUCY’S FOUNDATION OF CÉLESTIN MONASTERY
: Roussel, 19–24.

13
FOIX’S “BOOK OF PRAYERS
”: Pierre Tucoo-Chala,
Gaston Febus
, Pau, 1976, 103.

14
P COUCY’S CHARTER
: BN,
Fonds Latins
, 5149, published in Roussel, 193–96, and (in part) in Duplessis,
158–59
.

15
ff.
THE ENTERPRISE AGAINST BARBARY:
Chron. Bourbon
, 218–57, is the chief primary source, taking precedence in this episode over Froissart (KL, XIV) and
Chron. C6
, I, 650–57 et seq. Secondary accounts: Delaville le Roux, 166–200; Mirot,
“Politique”;
Atiya,
Crusade in Later Middle Ages
.

16
BONET ON WAR AGAINST UNBELIEVERS:
126–27.

17
STRATEGY OF ABOU-’L-ABBAS
: Ibn-Khaldoun, 118–19.

18
COUCY DISAPPROVES THE CHALLENGE:
Chron. Bourbon
, 233.

19
CHARLES VI VISITS COUCY
: Jarry,
“Voie de Fait,”
224.

1
“WE CAN ENVISION NOTHING FINER
”: KL, XIV, 280–81. On the
Voie de Fait
in general, Froissart and
Chron
. C6, I, continue to be the narrative sources. Valois, II, and Mirot,
“Politique,”
are modern accounts.

2
JEAN GERSON
: Morrall, passim.
ON JOAN OF ARC:
CMH
, 810.

3
PETRARCH ON THE SCHOLASTICS:
Correspondence, 222–23
.

4
ff.
GERSON’S OPINIONS
: Copleston, 278; Thorndike, IV, 108, 114, 128.
ON CURRICULUM FOR SCHOOLS
: Gabriel,
ON CHILDREN’S SEXUAL HABITS
: Ariès, 106–7.

5
CONTROVERSY OVER
Roman de la Rose:
Bédier & Lazard, 98–99.

6
GERSON, “INTO THE FIRE
”; KL, la, 221, n. 1.

7
JEAN DE MONTREUIL AND PIERRE COL
: Huizinga,
Waning
, 113–15, 308–9.

8
BONIFACE, SALE OF BENEFICES
: Creighton,
I
16–17.
CLEMENT PAWNS TIARA:
Coville, 314–15.

9
WENCESLAS IV:
Lindner, II, 170–77; Kamil Krofta, “Bohemia in the 14th Century,” chap. 6 in
CMH;
Jules Zeller,
Les Empereurs du XIVe siècle
, Paris, 1890, 450–52.

10
DRUNKENNESS IN
G
ERMANY
: Lindner, II, 174.
POGROM OF
P
RAGUE
: Baron, IX, 160 ff., 202, 318.

11
CONTROVERSY OVER THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
: Michelet, ed. of 1840, IV, 57; Creighton, 112.

12
BERNARDINO OF SIENA
: q. G. G. Coulton,
Inquisition and Liberty
, London, 1938, 45.
WALSINGHAM ON UNBELIEF
: q. Jusserand, 224.

13
CLAMANGES AND GERSON ON IRREVERENCE
: q. M. Mollat,
Vie
, 65.

14
BRETHREN OF THE COMMON LIFE
: Hyma, passim; Southern, 331–52.

15
GROOTE AND THOMAS A KEMPIS:
ibid.

16
Imitation of Christ
ASCRIBED TO GERSON
: Coville, 416–17.
GERSON’S SERMON
: Valois, II, 395.

17
CLEMENT PREPARES FOR ROME
: Coville, 302.

18
THOMAS OF
G
LOUCESTER
: KL, XIV, 314–15, 384; XV, 165, 240.

19
GUY DE BLOIS
: KL, XIV, 370; Barante, II, 36–38.

20
COUCY’S ROLE
: Jarry,
Orléans
, 85; Lacaille,
thèse
, 138; KL, XVI, 71.

21
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN AT AMIENS:
KL, XIV.

22
COUCY AND PHILIPPA
: ibid., 378.
BURGUNDY’S CLOTHES
: Barante, II, 39.

1
ff.
THE CRAON-CLISSON AFFAIR:
Chron. C6
, II, 3 ff., and KL, XIV, 316–20, are the basic narrative sources. They are combined in a lively account by Barante, II, 46–55. Modern accounts in Coville, 305;
CMH
, 372; Lefranc, 340–56. Admiral de Vienne’s conduct: Lefranc, 356. On Craon personally, see
DBF
and Bio. Index in KL.

2
CRAON’S ASSASSINATION OF A KNIGHT OF LAON
: KL, notes, XV, 362. 495
SECRET CORRESPONDENCE OF THE UNCLES WITH DUKE OF BRITTANY
: Sismondi,
Histoire des Français
, Paris, 1828, II, 597.

3
ff.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST BRITTANY
and
THE KING’S MADNESS AT LE MANS:
Chron
.

4
C6
, II, 19–25; KL, XV, 40–49; Barante, II, 59–81; Moranvillé, 89, 124–26, 149.

5
GUILLAUME DE HARSIGNY
: Edouard Fleury,
Antiquités et monuments du département de l’Aisne
, Paris, 1882, 242–43. Also Mâle.