[178]. The Bishop referred to is Simon Bonnet, Bishop of Senlis at that time, not the partisan of the English who occupied the seat in 1429.
[179]. Yolande, daughter of John I. of Aragon; wife of Louis XI., Duke of Anjou, and titular King of Sicily. She was the mother of Mary, wife of Charles VII., and grandmother of Margaret, afterwards wife of Henry VI.
A receipt is recorded, in Quicherat (III. 93), for the carriage of corn, on her behalf, from Orleans to Blois.
[180]. A captain of some repute, exchanged for Talbot after the Battle of Patay.
[181]. In the Accounts (formerly kept in the Chambre des Comtes at Paris), of Maître Hemon Raguier, Treasurer of War, there is an item relating to this suit of armour: “To the Master Armourer, for a complete harness for the said Pucelle, 100 livres tournois.”
[182]. A street in Orleans is still called after d’Illiers, then Captain of Châteaudun.
[183]. Jeanne, daughter of the Duke d’Orléans.
[184]. The Duke d’Alençon, at the age of eighteen, had been taken prisoner at the battle of Verneuil, in 1424, and kept for five years in the Castle of Crotoy, where Jeanne herself was afterwards imprisoned.
[185]. Head-covering without visor, “chapeline casque léger en forme de calotte sans masque.”
[186]. Jargeau was taken on June 11th, 1429.