Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1

by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme

Chasteauvillain, Poisle et Levois,

Seront jugez tous d’une voix

Par un arrest aussi leger

Que fust celluy de Saint-Leger.

Car le malheur est tel en France

Que tout se juge par la finance.

(Bib. Nat., ms. français, 22563, f^o 101.)

[45] P. 70:

◆See the Annales d’Aquitaine, f^o 140 v^o.—Jeanne de Montal, married to Charles d’Aubusson, lord of La Borne. This Charles had had a liaison with the prioress of Blessac, who bore him four children. He was tried for theft and robbery in the convents of his vicinity, and hanged, February 23, 1533. (Anselme, t. V., p. 835.) A genealogy by Pierre Robert states precisely what Brantôme records here.

◆See Brantôme in the Lalanne edition, t. VIII., p. 148. There must be some mistake here. Jacques d’Aragon, the titular king of Majorca, died in an expedition in 1375, according to the Art de verifier les dates.