lorrayne

Updated: May 22, 2025

In return for this concession, Francis would make over to England, Gravelines, Newport, Dunkirk, a province of Flanders, and "the title of the Duke of Lorrayne to the town of Antwerp, with sufficient assistance for the recovery of the same." Henry was not to press Francis to part from the papacy; and De Bryon seems to have indicated a hope that the English king might retrace his own steps.

James Anthony Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.