[Footnote 1:] [The] indefatigable Gachard has published an itinerary of Philip the Good, so far as he could make it. (Collection des voyages des souverains des Pays Bas, i., 71.) Unfortunately, owing to the destruction of papers, only a few years are complete. Between 1428-1441, there is nothing. But the itinerary for 1441 and for other years shows how often the duke changed his residences. Sometimes he is accompanied by Madame de Bourgogne, sometimes by M. and Madame de Charolais.]
[Footnote 2:] [It] was also said that the woollen manufactures of Flanders were denoted by the emblem of the golden fleece.]
[Footnote 3:] [Reiffenberg], Histoire de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or, p. xxi.]
[Footnote 4:] [Hist.] de I'Ordre, etc., p. i.]
[Footnote 5:] [All] the Burgundian embassies were not as patent to the public as were Isabella's. An item like the following from the accounts of 1448-49 whets the reader's curiosity:
"To Jehan Lanternier, barber and varlet of the chamber, for delivering to a certain person for certain causes and for secret matters of which Monseigneur does not wish further declaration to be made, 53 pounds 17 sous." (Laborde Les Ducs de Bourgogne, etc., "Preuves," i. xiii.)]
[Footnote 6:] ["Vingt-quatre] chevaliers gentilshommes de nom et d'armes et sans reproches nés et procrées en léal mariage" (see description of the first list).—Hist. de l'Ordre, p. xxi.]
[Footnote 7:] [Jacquemin] Dauxonne, a merchant of Lombardy living at Dijon, received twenty-two francs and a half for a rich cloth of black silk draped about the baptismal font. Why mourning was used on this joyful occasion does not appear. (Laborde, i., 321.)]
[Footnote 8:] [Summary] of a register containing the acts of the Order of the Golden Fleece quoted in Histoire de l'Ordre, pp. 12, 13.]
[Footnote 9:] [St.] Remy, Chronique, ii., 284. St. Remy is usually called Toison d'Or.]