◆Christophe Jouvenel des Ursins, lord of La Chapelle, died in 1588.
◆Henri II.
[26] P. 44:
◆Ipolita Fioramonti, married to Luigi di Malaspina, of the Padua branch; she was general of the Duke of Milan’s armies. (Litta, Malaspina di Pavia, t. VIII., tav. xx.)
◆Famous fortified city and seaport on the Atlantic coast of France; 800 miles S. W. of Paris, capital of the modern Department of Charente-Inférieure.
[27] P. 45:
◆The interview between François de La Noue, surnamed Bras-de-Fer (iron arm), and the representatives of Monsieur, François, Duke d’Alencon, took place February 21, 1573. The scene that Brantôme describes happened Sunday, February 22.
[28] P. 46:
◆What Brantôme advances here is to be found in Jacques de Bourbon’s La grande et merveilleuse oppugnation de la noble cité de Rhodes, 1527.
◆The siege took place in 1536.