Noble Dames of Ancient Story

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lie ONE day, late in the autumn of 1341, when an armistice had secured a cessation of hostilities between Edward, King of England, and Philip of Valois, an exciting scene was enacted at Rennes, in Brittany. A lady, young and beautiful, holding a boy in her hand, and looking every inch a heroine, appeared in the midst of the knights and fighting men who guarded the city, and in eloquent and inspiriting language exhorted them to maintain the rights of her husband, who had just been taken prisoner by the French. The lady was the Countess of Montfort; the boy was her son; and the feudal magnate whom the French had led into captivity was John, Earl of Montfort, who, in opposition to Charles of Blois, asserted his claim to be Duke of Brittany. It appears that Arthur, Duke of Brittany, who lived at the beginning of the fourteenth century, was twice married. By his first wife, a daughter of Guy, Count of Limoges, he had two sons, John and Guy; by his second wife, Jolande, daughter of the Count of Dreux, and widow of Alexander, King of Scotland, he had one son, John, who being descended, on the female side, from Simon de Montfort, the conqueror of the Albigenses, figured as Earl of Montfort. John, who was Duke of Brittany, died in April, 1341, without issue; having previously taken measures to exclude his half-brother from the duchy. In fact, in spite of the interpretation so recently given to the Salic law, he had nominated as his heir, Joan, daughter of his brother Guy, and, in order to secure her succession, united her in marriage to Charlesof Blois, who, being a nephew of Philip of Valois, was supposed to have sufficient influence to make good his young wife's claim to the province. Everything seemed favourable to the claims of Charles of Blois and hia spouse, when the Duke o...

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