. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI . Matthew ir. lord de Rove and dAunov ^ol7 * *^ ^°sellor and chamberlain, grand mastet of 2. Gut/, archbishop of Rheims ^ ^!^^1^
. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI . Matthew ir. lord de Rove and dAunov ^ol7 * *^ ^°sellor and chamberlain, grand mastet of 2. Gut/, archbishop of Rheims ^ ^!^^1^ who went to Hungary with his brother 3. Matthew Tristan, lord of Busancy, &c « r , .^°t . ^ ^...„ 4. John Saudran de Oangy. Ueatnx-John do Ch/itillon, vidame of the Laonnoia. I 2 116 THE CHRONICLES OF ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET. crreat council of the king. All Christendom was now divided in rehgious opiniong, as to thehead of the church, by the contentions of the two rival popes, who could not be brought toagree on the means to put an end to this disgraceful schism. * CHAPTER XLVII —THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY ASSEMBLES A LARGE BODY OF MEN-AT-ARMSTO SUCCOUR JOHN OF BAVARIA AGAINST THE LIEGEOIS, AND COMBATS THEM. About this time, John duke of Burgundy was busily employed in collecting a body ofmen-at-arms to aid his brother-in-law, the bishop of Liege, whom, as has been said, theLiegeoishad driven out of their country, and besieged in the town of John the Intrepid, Duke of Burgundy.—From a picture in the Cliartreuse at Dijon,engraved in Vol. III. of Histoire Geuerale et Particuli^re de Bourrjogne. He sent for succour among his friends and allies, namely, to Burgundy, Flanders, Artois,and the borders of Picardy, whence came very many, and several from Savoy. The earl * This schism commenced in 1378, and was not put anend to till 1409, see chap. 53, infra. It took its risetlcm the unwillingness wth which the people of Rometeheld Avignon converted into the seat of the
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