[63] Moreri says, that the good duke Louis died at Monbucan on the 19th of August 1410. By his wife Anne, dauphiness of Auvergne and countess of Forez, he left John count of Clermont, his son and successor: his other children, Louis and two daughters, died without issue and unmarried. He left also a natural son, named Hector, who was killed at the siege of Soissons in 1414.
[64] Boulogne, the property of the duke of Berry, by marriage with Jane, heiress of Auvergne and Boulogne.
The county of Estampes belonged to the duke of Berry, Valois, I believe, to the count d’Alençon, Beaumont to the duke of Orleans,--and Clermont to the duke of Bourbon.
[65] Vinchestre, or rather Winchester,--now called Bicêtre, was a palace built by a bishop of Winchester 1290. For further particulars, see ‘Sauval Antiquitès de Paris’, vol. ii. book vii.
[66] I hardly know whether this can be the celebrated archbishop of Rheims, and historian of the reign of Charles VI. who was one of the most learned men of his time, and died at an advanced age, in 1474. He had two brothers older than himself, William des Ursins, baron of Treynel, chancellor of France in 1445, and again in 1464,--and James Juvenal des Ursins, who was archbishop of Rheims before him. The history written by Juvenal des Ursins occupies the space from 1380 to 1422, and throws great light, by comparison, on Froissart and Monstrelet.
Guy III. de Nesle, lord of Offemont and Mello, was grand master of the household to queen Isabella, and was killed at Agincourt. His two sons, _John_ III. and Guy IV. followed him in succession. He had a third son, who died with him at Agincourt.
[68] Monstrelet apparently mistakes. According to Moreri, _Robert_ duke of Bar died this year, leaving issue by his wife Mary (daughter to John king of France),
1. Henry lord d’Ossy, who died in Hungary, 1396, leaving by his wife Mary de Coucy, countess of Soissons, one son, Robert count of Marle and Soissons, killed at Agincourt.
3. Edward III. marquis du Pont, and duke of Bar after his father’s death.
6. John lord of Puisaye. (Both Edward and John were killed at Agincourt.)
One striking peculiarity is discernible in this table, viz. the preference shown in the succession to Edward the third son, over Robert, son of the eldest son of the deceased duke; but this was according to the law of many feudal tenures, which took no notice of our universally-established doctrine of _representation_ in descents. The same law prevailed in Artois, and was the ground of that famous decision by which Robert d’Artois was ejected in the middle of the fourteenth century, and in consequence of which he retired in disgust to the court of our Edward III. who asserted the justice of his pretensions.