Note 372 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Buchon, pp. 539, 545.—Bernier, Monuments inédits de France, Senlis, 1833, p. 18.—Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, an 1429.—Chronique, pp. 446-7.—Mémoires de Saint-Remy, ch. 152.—Thomassin, p. 540.—Nider Formicar. v. viii.—Procès, p. 479.
Christine de Pisan says of her:
“Que peut-il d’autre estre dit plus Ne des grands faits du temps passé: Moysès en qui Dieu afflus Mit graces et vertus assez; Il tira sans estre lassez Le peuple Israël hors d’Egypte; Par miracle ainsi repassez Nous as de mal, pucelle eslite.” Buchon, p. 542.
The question which troubled Armagnac was a last struggle of the Great Schism. Benedict XIII., who had never submitted to the Council of Constance, died in 1424, when his cardinals quarrelled and elected two successors to his shadowy papacy—Clement VIII. and Benedict XIV. In 1429, the Council of Tortosa suppressed them both, but at the moment it was a subject on which Armagnac might imagine that heavenly guidance was desirable.