P. 54: Henri I., Prince de Condé, died in 1588 (January 5), poisoned, says the Journal de Henri, by his wife Catherine Charlotte de la Trémolle.
P. 54: Isabella of Austria, daughter of Philip II.
P. 54: Jeanne de Flandres.
P. 55: Jacquette de Montberon, Brantôme's sister-in-law.
P. 55: Macchiavelli, Dell'arte della guerre, Bk. V., ii.
P. 56: Paule de Penthièvre, the second wife of Jean II. de Bourgogne, Count de Nevers.
P. 57: Richilde, Countess de Hainaut, who died in 1091.
P. 57: Hugues Spencer, or le Dépensier.
P. 57: Jean de Hainaut, brother of Count de Hainaut.
P. 57: Cassel and Broqueron.
P. 57: Edward II. of Caernarvon, King of England, was the fourth son of Edward I. and Queen Eleanor. Ascended the throne 1307, and married Isabel of France the following year. A cowardly and worthless Prince, and the tool of scandalous favourites, such as Piers Gaveston. Isabel and Mortimer landed at Orwell, in Suffolk, in 1326, and deposed the King, who was murdered at Berkeley Castle, 1307.
P. 58: Eleonore d'Acquitaine.
P. 59: Thevet wrote the Cosmographie; Nauclerus wrote a Chronographie.
P. 60: Vittoria Colonna, daughter of Fabrizio Colonna and of Agnes de Montefeltro, born in 1490, and affianced at the age of four to Ferdinand d'Avalos, who became her husband. The letter of which Brantôme speaks is famous; he found it in Vallès, fol. 205. As for Mouron, he was the great Chancellor Hieronimo Morone.
P. 61: Plutarch, Anthony, Chap. xiv.
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