[Footnote 20:] [It] was in June, 1434, that this alliance had been made. Sigismund claimed that Philip had no right in Brabant, Holland, Zealand, and Hainaut, which in his opinion were lapsed fiefs, of the empire.]

[Footnote 21:] [Putnam,] A Medieval Princess.]

[Footnote 22:] [Monstrelet,] La Chronique, v., 344.]

[Footnote 23:] [La] Marche, Mémoires, ii., 50.]

[Footnote 24:] [Reiffenberg,] Essai sur les enfants naturels de Philippe de Bourgogne.]

[Footnote 25:] [Meyer,] Commentarii sive Annales rerum Flandricarum, p. 296.]


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