The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet
Chapter V
The duke of Burgundy, by orders from the king of France,
goes into Brittany, and the duke of Orleans to Luxembourg.
A quarrel ensues between them.
This same year, the duke of Burgundy went to Brittany to take possession of it in the king's name for the young duke. The country soon submitted to him, and he continued his journey to Nantes to visit the duchess-dowager, sister to the king of Navarre1, who had entered into engagements speedily to marry Henry IV. of England. The duke was her uncle, and treated with her successfully for the surrender of his dower lands to her children, on conditionthat she received annually a certain sum of money in compensation. When this had been concluded, and the duke had placed garrison in the king's name in some of the strong places of the country, he returned to Paris, carrying with him the young duke and his two brothers, who were graciously received by the king and queen.
The duke of Orleans had at this time gont to take possession of the duchy of Luxembourg2, with the consent of the king of Bohemia, to whom it belonged, and with whom he had concluded some private agreement. Having placed his own garrisons in many of the towns and castles of this duchy, he returned to France, - when shortly a great quarrel took place between the duke of Orleans and his uncle, the duke of Burgundy; and it rose to such a height that each collected a numerous body of men-at-arms round Paris. At length, by the mediation of the queen and the dukes of Berry and Bourbon, peace was restored, and the men-at-arms were sent back to the places to the places whence they had come.
Notes:
1: Joan, daughter of Charles the bad, third wife of John V. Her mother was Joan of France, sister of Charles V. the duke of Burgundy, &c. Joan, duchess dowager of Bretagne, afterwards married Henry IV. of England.
2: After the death of Wenceslaus duke of Brabant and Luxembourg (the great friend and patron of Froissart), the latter duchy reverted, by right, to the crown of Bohemia. But during the inative and dissolute reign of the Emperor Wenceslaus it seems to have been alterately possessed by himself, by governors under him nominally, or by Jodocus M. of Brandenburg and Moravia, his cousin. In the history of Luxembourg by Bertelius, several deeds and instruments are cited, which tend rather to perplex than to elucidate. But he gives the following account of the transaction with Louis duke of Orleans: "Wenceslaus, being seldom in those parts, and greatly preferring Bohemia, his native country, granted the government of Luxembourg to his cousin, the duke of Orleans, and moreover, for the sum of 56,337 golden crowns lent him by Louis, mortgaged to him the towns of Ivoy, Montmedy, Damvilliers, and Orchiemont, with their appurtenances." In a deed of the year 1412, the duke of Orleans expresses himself as still retaining the government at the request of his dear cousin Joducus; but this appears to be a mistake, since Joducus was elected emperor in 1410, and died six months after, before his election could be confirmed. He was succedded by his cousin Procopius.
