Rupert, or Robert, elector palatine (see the genealogy, p. 12.) was elected emperor upon the deposition of Wenceslaus king of Bohemia.
John Galeas Visconti, first duke of Milan, father of Valentina duchess of Orleans. During the reign of Wenceslaus, he had made the most violent aggressions on the free and imperial states of Lombardy, which it was the first object of the new emperor to chastise. The battle or skirmish here alluded to was fought near the walls of Brescia.
This chapter presents a most extraordinary confusion of dates and events. The conclusion can refer only to the battle of Shrewsbury, which took place more than two years afterwards,—and is again mentioned in its proper place, chap. XV.: besides which, the facts are misrepresented. Monstrelet should have said, ‘The lord Thomas Percy (earl of Worcester) was beheaded after the battle, and his nephew Henry slain on the field.’ The year 1401 was, in fact, distinguished only by the war in Wales against Owen Glendower, in which Harry Percy commanded for, not against, the king. The Percies did not rebel till the year 1403.
This John de Werchin, seneschal of Hainault, was connected by marriage with the house of Luxembourg St Pol.
Enguerrand VII. lord of Coucy and count of Soissons, died a prisoner in Turkey, as related by Froissart. Mary, his daughter and co-heiress, sold her possessions, and this castle of Coucy among the rest, to Louis duke of Orleans. His other daughters were, Mary wife of Robert Vere, duke of Ireland (the ill-fated favourite of Richard II.) and Isabel, married to Philip count of Nevers, youngest son of the duke of Burgundy.
Jodocus marquis of Moravia and Brandenburg, cousin-german to the emperor Wenceslaus, appears to be here meant. See the following
1. Isabel, = John, king of Bohemia, = 2. Beatrix, heiress of | killed at Crecy. | daughter of Bohemia. | | Louis duke | | of Bourbon. | | +----------------------+-------+-------------+ +-----------+ | | | | | | | | Charles IV. emperor. John-Henry, 1. Margaret, Wenceslaus, | marq. of m. duke of duke of | Moravia. Bavaria. Luxemburg, | | 2. Bona, m. Joan | | m. K. John duchess of | | of France. Brabant & +----+---------+ +-----+-----+ 3. Anne, Limburg, | | | | m. Otho D. d. s. p. | | | | of Austria. | | | | Wenceslaus, John, Jodocus, Procopius, emperor. duke of marq. of marq. of d. s. p. Luxemburg Brand. Brand. & Goritia. & Moravia, & Moravia, | d. 1411. after Jodocus. | Elizabeth, m. Antony D. of Brabant. 2dly, John of Bavaria, bishop of Liege.