[Footnote 6:] [One] of Guienne's retinue who, later, passed to Louis's service.]

[Footnote 7:] [Louis's] sister Yolande.]

[Footnote 8:] [The] Duke of Brittany had married the third daughter of the Count de Foix.]

[Footnote 9:] [This] was an allusion to a proposed marriage between Guienne and Jeanne, reputed daughter of Henry IV. of Castile. Vaesen cannot explain the use of Aragon. Various documents relating to this negotiation are given. (Comines-Lenglet, iii., 156.)]

[Footnote 10:] [Vaesen] gives femmes, Duclos filles. The king was above all afraid that his brother might marry Mary of Burgundy.]

[Footnote 11:] [Lettres] de Louis XI.., iv., 286.]

[Footnote 12:] [There] was a pestilence raging at Amboise.]

[Footnote 13:] [At] Orleans, in the last days of October and the first of November, there was a conference wherein the king apparently promised to restore St. Quentin and Amiens to Charles, if he would renounce his alliance with the dukes of Brittany and Guienne and would betroth his daughter to the dauphin.]

[Footnote 14:] [Ythier] Marchant negotiated the proposed marriage between Guienne and Mary of Burgundy. He had received "signed and sealed blanks" from the two princes in order to enable him to hasten matters. (Lettres de Louis XI., iv., 289.)]

[Footnote 15:] [III]., ch. viii.]