[528] Schiltberger, p. 2.
[529] Froissart, pp. 251, 262-3, 310, 329. ‘Miscreant’, of course, in its original sense.
[530] Ibid., p. 310.
[531] Ibid., pp. 311-17; Relig. de St.-Denis, pp. 490-7. Schiltberger, p. 3, attributes this initiative to Jean de Nevers, whom, like many other writers on Nicopolis, he calls, by anticipation, Duke of Burgundy. Cf. Donado da Lezze, p. 9, who says: ‘Il signor Carlo, prima Duca di Borgogna.’ Also Morosini, p. 6. Sigismund is frequently spoken of as German emperor at the time of Nicopolis. Cf. Chalc., ed. Migne, col. 76: ἡγουμένου Σιγισυούνδου Ῥωμαίων βασιλέως τε καὶ αὐτοκράτορος.
[532] Rabbi Joseph, i. 252.
[533] Froissart, pp. 313-16; Relig. de St.-Denis, pp. 490 f.; Rabbi Joseph, p. 253; Schiltberger, p. 3; Seadeddin, i. 184; Neshri, in ZDMG., xv. 345-8. Cf. authorities cited in Bibliography.
[534] Froissart, p. 317. Hermann de Cilly and the Burgrave of Nürnberg are said by some authorities to have thrown themselves in front of Sigismund, and to have saved him and carried him off to the boat.
[535] The bitterness against and contempt for the Hungarians is expressed in the following verses:
‘Nichopoly, cité de payennie,
Au temps là où li sièges fut grans,
Fut delaissés par orgueil et folie;
Car les Hongres qui furent sur les champs
Avec leur roy, fuitis et récréans,
Leur roy meisme enmainent par puissance,
Sans assembler.’
Œuvres inédites d’Eustache des Champs, ed. Tarbé, 1849, i. 166.
[536] Schiltberger calls him ‘der hertzog auss der Sirifey, der genant despot’: Bibl. des Lit. Vereins (Tübingen), clxxii. 4.