[1314] D’Aumale at this time lay at Phalsburg and Saverne, with 4,000 reiters, 2,000 French horse, and 10,000 footmen. His penetration within the imperial frontier offended and alarmed Strasburg where a French faction had unsuccessfully plotted to betray the town.
[1315] See News-Letter from La Rochelle, January, 1569, in Appendix XVII.
[1316] C. S. P. For., No. 105, February 10, 1569.
[1317] Ibid., No. 151, March 5, 1569; Claude Haton, II, 517.
[1318] Ibid., For., No. 155, March 5, 1569; on the desertions from D’Aumale’s army see No. 172.
[1319] Ibid., No. 105, February 10, 1569.
[1320] For contemporary accounts of the battle of Jarnac see La Popelinière, Book XV; Jean de Serres, 315 ff; D’Aubigné, Book V, chap. viii; Claude Haton, II, 548 and notes. The best modern accounts are Gigon, La bataille de Jarnac et la campagne de 1569 en Angoumois, Angoulême, impr. Chasseignac (Extrait du Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de la Charente), 1896; Patry, in Bull. Soc. protest. franç., LIII, March 1902; Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, Book I, chap. i; Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, 204-9, an extremely lucid account. The evidence upon the assassination of the prince is sifted by Denys d’Aussy, “L’assassin du prince de Condé à Jarnac (1569),” R. Q. H., XLIX, 573, and summarized (with some new additions) in Whitehead, 206, note 2. The text of the famous dispatches, which were found in the gauntlet of the prince of Condé are printed in full in Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, App. iii.
[1321] C. S. P. Ven., No. 454, March 15, 1569; cf. Brantôme, III, 329.
[1322] Claude Haton, II, 549, 550.
[1323] Compare the Pope’s letter of March 6, informing Charles IX that he has sent troops to him under Sforza and has prayed to God for victory (Potter, Pie V, 28; ed. Gouban, Book III, letter 9, p. 148) with the letter of congratulation of March 28, after he had learned of the battle (ibid., p. 31; ed. Gouban, Book III, letter 10, p. 151). The duke of Anjou sent the flags and standards captured at Jarnac to Rome (Potter, Pie V, p. 54; ed. Gouban, Book III, 167, letter 17, April 26, 1569).