Le Roux de Lincy, Chants historiques et populaires du temps de Louis XI.]
[Footnote 33:] [Commines] also mentions here "the confessor of the Duke of Guienne and a knight to whom is imputed the death of the Duke of Guienne." (iii., ch. xi.)]
[Footnote 34:] [Kirk] (ii., 156) thinks that this confiscation was only Louis's way of prodding him up to act.]
[Footnote 35:] [Dupont] (Commynes, iii., xxxvi). The fugitive did not enter immediately into his new possessions. The king's gift of the principality of Talmont, dated October, 1472, was not registered in Parlement until December 13, 1473, and in the court of records May 2, 1474. Prince of Talmont did Commines become at last, and as such he married Helen de Chambes, January 27, 1473.]
[Footnote 36:] [It] is strange that La Marche does not mention this defection.]
[Footnote 37:] [See] document quoted by Gachard, Études et Notices, etc. ii., 344. The original is in the Croy family archives preserved in the château of Beaumont.]
[Footnote 38:] [See] also Comines-Lenglet, i., xcj., for discussion of this event. He asserts that the court of Burgundy was too corrupt for honest men to endure it.]
[Footnote 39:] [See] Stein. Étude, etc., sur Olivier de la Marche. (Mém. Couronnés) xlix.]
[Footnote 40:] [Letter] of Louis XI. in Bibl. Nat.: Ibid., p. 179.]