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Philip had an only son, born and reared in the midst of that ostentatious greatness which he looked on as his own by divine right; whereas his father remembered that it had chiefly become his by fortuitous acquirement, and much of it by means not likely to look well in the sight of Heaven. This son was Charles, count of Charolois, afterward celebrated under the name of Charles the Rash.
The adventure was so extremely shocking, that when it was related by the Count de Charolois to the Dauphin, afterwards Louis XI., the latter would not allow his secretaries to publish it in his collection, out of respect for his great uncle the Duke d'Orleans, and for Dunois his old comrade, the son of the same.
He counted on the support of Paris, and was trying to reach that city when the hostile armies encountered one another at Montlhery . It was an absurd battle, where at night both parties thought themselves beaten. The king secured his place of refuge. He deemed it prudent to make peace on the terms demanded by the Count of Charolois, and the other nobles.
The Count de la Roche did so, but was not sent by his brother amongst the knights whom Charolois despatched to England, and the combat had been suspended to the present time. The only one amongst the courtiers who seemed dissatisfied with the meditated visit of the doughty Burgundian champion was the Lord Montagu.
What mischief doth that crafty queen, the proud duchess, devise? Um! They are thinking still to match the young princess with the hot Count of Charolois. Better for trade, it is true, to be hand in hand with the Flemings; but there are two sides to a loaf. If they play such a trick on the stout earl, he is not a man to sit down and do nothing.
Save this poor scholar, conceal this correspondence. Hark ye, lord! frown not so haughtily, that correspondence names thee as one who hast taken the gold of Count Charolois, and whom, therefore, King Louis may outbuy. Look to thyself!"
But she the poor maiden she looked so haughty and so happy. This is early May; will she wear that look when the autumn leaves are strewn?" And now the one topic at the court of King Edward IV. was the expected arrival of Anthony of Burgundy, Count de la Roche, bastard brother of Charolois, afterwards, as Duke of Burgundy, so famous as Charles the Bold.
On the 30th May the Infanta executed a procuration by which she gave absolute authority to her future husband to rule over the provinces of the Netherlands, Burgundy, and Charolois, and to receive the oaths of the estates and of public functionaries. Compare Herrera, iii. 766-770.
'Hist! hist! said a familiar voice, 'all is right, lady but why did you not answer us? 'Ah! Theodore, where is my Lothair? 'Lord Branchimont is shaded by the trees give me thy hand, sweet lady. Courage! all is right; but indeed you should have answered us. Imogene de Charolois is in the arms of Lothair de Branchimont. 'We have no time for embraces, said Theodore; 'the horses are ready.
Various opinions were entertained upon the preference given to France in this alliance over the rival candidate for the hand of the princess, namely, the Count de Charolois, afterwards Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. "By 'r Lady," said a stout citizen about the age of fifty, "but I am not over pleased with this French marriage-making!
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