. A mediaeval princess : being a true record of the changing fortunes which brought divers titles to Jacqueline, Countess of Holland, together with an account of her conflict with Philip, Duke of Burgundy (1401-1436) . the pulpit at St. Pauls Cross on July25th, St. Jamess Day, she had been pub-licly accused of being the principal in thewitchs evil deed, she fled hastily to theshelter of Westminster. But the sanctuarydid not avail to protect her from arrest, nordid her husband, although it is evidentthat the end of the plot was to pave hisway to the throne. Afraid of being in-volved in her ruin
. A mediaeval princess : being a true record of the changing fortunes which brought divers titles to Jacqueline, Countess of Holland, together with an account of her conflict with Philip, Duke of Burgundy (1401-1436) . the pulpit at St. Pauls Cross on July25th, St. Jamess Day, she had been pub-licly accused of being the principal in thewitchs evil deed, she fled hastily to theshelter of Westminster. But the sanctuarydid not avail to protect her from arrest, nordid her husband, although it is evidentthat the end of the plot was to pave hisway to the throne. Afraid of being in-volved in her ruin, he took all things pa-tiently and said nothing. ^ Humphrey hadlearned patience under the affliction ofothers misfortunes. Later, it is true, hemade a futile effort to enact a law providingfor the trial of noble ladies by their peers,and he was endeavouring to secure a de-finite pardon for Eleanor when he met hisown unexplained death, out of favour withthe royal nephew to whose interests he hadruthlessly sacrificed one woman. Whateverthe decision of the Roman curia in re-gard to the invalidity of the Brabantmarriage from the beginning, there was cer- * Grafton, p. 588. See Diet. Nat. Biog., vol. xxviii. #» Q. miccfntnuftonbirffiuG B|>tTi Intns m tC)0}0 nmrrt*E ttiffnnatifanmt flfiftio HUMPHREY, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, AND ELEANOR HIS WIFE, RECEIVEDINTO THE CONFRATERNITY OF ST. ALBANS. 1431. British Museum, MS. CoL Nero, D. VII. Xa&? Forester 261 tainly no adequate obstacle to a new mar-riage after John of Brabants death ^ had leftJacqueline free to form an alliance whereshe would. This humiliating calamity to her rival,which the sometime Duchess of Gloucestermight have regarded as times revenges forher own tragic desertion, did not occuruntil 1441, when all lifes changes hadceased for Jacqueline. The statement that the Pope forbade any union between Jacque-line and Humphrey even if she were a widow seems unsustained bythe terms of the bulls. CHAPTER XV Her Last Will 1436 A BRI
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