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Updated: September 13, 2025
When the King found out that she was to be mother of his child, he loved her so well that, though he must respect her prayers, he must needs respect her person also. The King thought within himself, "I have promised Madame de Saint-Pol that I will never strive with her in love; and I will not. Now must I promise Almighty God that, in her life, I will not strive so at all." Alas, Madame, and alas!
The Count of Saint-Pol, going to the Castle, to the Queen's side, found the Marquess with her. She also lay white and twisting on a couch, crisping and uncrisping her little hands. Montferrat stood at her head; three of her ladies knelt about her, whispering in her own tongue, proffering orange water, sweetmeats, a feather whisk. Saint-Pol knelt in her view.
And so she did until one day, as she was walking back from mass with her ladies, she saw her brother Saint-Pol on horseback, him and William des Barres. Timidly she would have slipped by; but Saint-Pol saw her, reined up his horse in the middle of the street, and stared at her as if she had been less than nothing to him. She felt her knees fail her, she grew vividly red, but she kept her way.
I had him unarmed before me at Messina, and he looked me down, and I could not do it. 'Have at his back, then. 'I hope it may not come to that, said Gilles; 'and yet it may, if it must. 'Come with me to-night to the Tower of Flies, said Saint-Pol. 'Here is my shameful sister brought out of church. I cannot stay. 'I stay, said Gilles de Gurdun.
'And I, Count of Poictou ; but King Philip held out his sceptre, he too very much a king. 'And we, Count of Poictou, he said, 'command you by your loyalty to tell us what Saint-Pol dared say of our sister Dame Alois. Although his thin boy's voice quavered, he seemed the more royal for the human weakness. Richard was greatly moved, thawed in a moment.
'My lord, he said, 'I cannot obey you. My duty is to take Madame to Paris. That is my master's command. 'Well, said Richard, 'then I shall go alone. Once more I shall go. I am sick to death of this business. 'My lord Richard, cried Saint-Pol, 'I am no man to command you. Yet I say, Go. I know not what has passed between your Grace and my sister Jehane; but this I know very well.
'Your villain is six foot two inches, and hath arms to agree, said the Viscount, a dry man. 'We will lay him by the heels, Viscount; we will lop those long arms, cold-blooded, desperate tyrant. He has brought two lovely ladies to misery. Now let him know misery. Thus Saint-Pol, feeling very sure of himself.
A few non-royal princes, such as Armagnac, or Saint-Pol, or Brittany, remain and will go down with the others; the "new men" of the day, the bastard Dunois or the Constables Du Guesclin and Clisson, grow to greater prominence; it is clear that the old feudalism is giving place to a newer order, in which the aristocracy, from the King's brothers downwards, will group themselves around the throne, and begin the process which reaches its unhappy perfection under Louis XIV.
'Lord Christ, Alain, what shall we do? says he, as white as a cheese-cloth. They fell talking of this or that, that might or might never be done, when in burst King Philip, Saint-Pol, Des Barres, and the purple-faced Duke of Burgundy. King Philip ran up to John and clapped him on the back. 'King John!
The Duke still looked at the Bishop. Driven again to say something, the latter began 'Sire, your words are injurious; but I have spoken advisedly. The Count of Saint-Pol 'Ah, said Richard, 'the Count of Saint-Pol? Now I begin to understand you. Please to fetch in your Count of Saint-Pol. Saint-Pol was sent for, and he came, darkly smiling, respectful, but aware.
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