The Chronicle of Enguerrand de Monstrelet

Chapter L

The queen of Spain dies during the sitting of the council at Pisa.
The marriage of the king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.



In this year died the queen of Spain1, sister to Henry king of England, and mother to the young king of Spain and queen of Portugal. The Spaniards after her death sent home all the English servants, male and fermale, belonging to the late queen, who returned to England in much grief and sorrow at heart.

At this same season, great numbers of prelates, archbishops, bishops and abbots, set out from various countries of Christendom to attend the council at Pisa which was assembling to restore union to the church, which had for a long time suffered a schism, to the great displeasure of many princes and well-inclined persons.

About this same period, Henry2, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, took to wife the daughter of Henry king of England. These kingdoms were put into the hands of the king of Denmark by their queen, who divested herself of all power and profit over them in favour of king Henry,

Notes:

1: Catherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III. and mother of John II. kings of Castile. I do not find a queen of Portugal in the catalogue of her children; but this event seems to be here strangely misplaced. Timjuet says, 'L'an suyvant, 1418, deceda la royne D. Catherine, agee de cinquante ans, de mort soudaine, ef iut enterree a Tolede, en la chapelle des roys derniers.”

2: Eric X. king of Denmark, &c. son of Wratislaus duke of Pomerania by Mary of Mecklenburg, niece to Margaret, the Seramis of the north. His great aunt Margaret, was still alive.


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