Henry VI by Bertram Wolffe

Author:Bertram Wolffe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780300089264
Publisher: Yale University Press

1 Stevenson, Wars, I, 151–2.

2 Ibid., 118.

3 Ibid., 109.

4 Ibid., 116.

5 Over two dozen examples of this correspondence are recorded in print, most of them by Beaucourt in his edition of the Chronique de Mathieu D’Escouchy, vol. III (Preuves).

6 Stevenson, Wars, I, 164–7, signed Marguerite (MS fr. 4054, f. 37).

7 Ibid., 183–6, signed Marguerite (MS fr. 4054, f. 33).

8 Ibid., II, pt. ii, 639–42.

9 Ibid., 87–159.

10 i.e. Gascony, which the French normally called Guienne and the English indifferently Gascony or Aquitaine. The French defined this as the three seneschalries of Bordeaux, Landes and Bazadais.

11 B.N. MS fr. 18442, f. 173, subsequent instructions to the French negotiators; Beaucourt, op. cit., IV, 285 n. The allegation that the undertaking to surrender Maine was first made ‘de bouche’ by Henry is repeated in B.N. MS fr. 4054, f. 71, printed in Eschoucy (ed. Beaucourt), III (Preuves), 194 (letters from French ambassadors to their English opposite numbers, 1448).

12 B.N. MS fr. 18442, f. 173.

13 Lecoy de la Marche, op. cit., II, 258–60 (see above p. 172); Arch. Nat. P. 133418 no. 106.

14 Beaucourt, op. cit., IV, 208, no. 8

15 Foedera, XI, 106–7, 108–14.

16 See above p. 185.

17 Escouchy (ed. Beaucourt), III (Preuves), 151–3. Parliament was dissolved on 9 April 1446.

18 He received the temporalities on 3 December 1445.

19 Stevenson, Wars, II, pt. i, 368–71.

20 Ibid., I, 178–82.

21 First unequivocally styled count of Maine on 23 September 1447 (below p. 194n), but see above pp. 163–4 for evidence of a grant and authority exercised there before 1443.

22 Before 21 September: ibid., 163.

23 R.P., V, 102–3.

24 Escouchy (ed. Beaucourt), III (Preuves), 156–7.

25 P.P.C., VI, 46–9, 52–3.

26 Ibid., 53, 54.

27 Foedera, IX, 138–9.

28 P.P.C., VI, 51.

29 Foedera, XI, 138–9.

30 Beaucourt, op. cit., IV, 289, citing B.N. MS Clairambault, 307, pp. 570–61; Foedera, XI, 152–3, 14 December 1446.

31 Beaucourt, op. cit., IV, 290; Foedera, XI, 153–5.

32 Stevenson, Wars, I, 147, his final words, through Cardinal Kemp to the embassy of July 1445.

33 By the death of his brother John, 27 May 1444.

34 His commission delivered 24 December 1446: Burney, op. cit., 145.

35 Philippe de Commynes, Memoirs, ed. & trans. Michael Jones (Harmondsworth 1972), 141–5; two great princes of equal power should meet each other only when they were both very young and had thoughts only for their pleasures.

36 Jules Delpit, Collection générale des documents français, i, 263; Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London, Letter Book K, ed. R. R. Sharpe (London 1911), 320.

37 Foedera, XI, 175–6.

38 Ibid., 193–6.

39 Stevenson, Wars, II, pt. ii, 693, 694. According to the French (see below p. 195) these were the duke of Buckingham, the duke of Suffolk, Adam Moleyns, lords Scrope and Dudley and Thomas Kent.

40 Foedera, XI, 172–4.

41 Ibid., 184.

42 Stevenson, Wars, II, pt. ii, 692–702, 704. Somerset is there styled count of Maine, captain general and governor of the counties of Anjou and Maine on 23 September 1447.

43 Printed by J. Quicherat in his edition of T. Basin’s Histoire des règnes de Charles VII et de Louis XI, IV, 286–9, from the original B.

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