The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet
Chapter CLXXVII
Louis de Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, Espouses Joan of Bar, Countess of Marle and of Soissons.


On Sunday the 16th day of July, in this year, Louis de Luxembourd, count of St. Pol, of Conversan, of Braine, and lord of Anghein, espoused Joan of Bar, only daughter of sir Robert de Bar, countess of Marle and of Soissons, lady of Dunkirk, of Varneston, and of many other valuable places, niece to sir John of Luxembourg, count of Ligny, uncle to the said count of St. Pol. The marriage was celebrated in the castle of Bohaim, and attended by at least one hundred knights and esquires, relatives of friends of the parties, but not one prince of the royal blood of France, to which the countess was very nearly connected. At this feast were the dowager countess of St. Pol, mother to count Louis, with several of her children.
The count of Ligny was reported to have paid all the expenses of this feast, which was most abundantly served with every delicacy in food and liquors, - to which were added justings and all kinds of pastimes.


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