Editorial note — Chapter I
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[Footnote 1: The indefatigable Gachard has published an itinerary of Philip the Good, so far as he could make it. (Collection des voyages des souverains des Pays Bas, i., 71.) Unfortunately, owing to the destruction of papers, only a few years are complete. Between 1428-1441, there is nothing. But the itinerary for 1441 and for other years shows how often the duke changed his residences. Sometimes he is accompanied by Madame de Bourgogne, sometimes by M. and Madame de Charolais.]
[Footnote 2: It was also said that the woollen manufactures of Flanders were denoted by the emblem of the golden fleece.]
[Footnote 3: Reiffenberg, Histoire de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or, p. xxi.]
[Footnote 4: Hist. de I'Ordre, etc., p. i.]
[Footnote 5: All the Burgundian embassies were not as patent to the public as were Isabella's. An item like the following from the accounts of 1448-49 whets the reader's curiosity: "To Jehan Lanternier, barber and varlet of the chamber, for delivering to a certain person for certain causes and for secret matters of which Monseigneur does not wish further declaration to be made, 53 pounds 17 sous." (Laborde Les Ducs de Bourgogne, etc., "Preuves," i. xiii.)]
[Footnote 6: "Vingt-quatre chevaliers gentilshommes de nom et d'armes et sans reproches nés et procrées en léal mariage" (see description of the first list).—Hist. de l'Ordre, p. xxi.]
[Footnote 7: Jacquemin Dauxonne, a merchant of Lombardy living at Dijon, received twenty-two francs and a half for a rich cloth of black silk draped about the baptismal font. Why mourning was used on this joyful occasion does not appear. (Laborde, i., 321.)]
[Footnote 8: Summary of a register containing the acts of the Order of the Golden Fleece quoted in Histoire de l'Ordre, pp. 12, 13.]
[Footnote 9: St. Remy, Chronique, ii., 284. St. Remy is usually called Toison d'Or.]
[Footnote 10: His full name was Charles Martin. One tower alone remains of the palace where he was born.]
[Footnote 11: Hist, de l'Ordre, p. 13.]
[Footnote 12: Selden (Titles of Honor, p. 457), however, says he knows not by what authority this statement is made and that he knows nothing of it. Seven is the earliest age mentioned by Gautier for receiving knighthood.]
[Footnote 13: Deschamps, Œuvres Complètes, ii., 214.]
[Footnote 14: The ancient quarrel between the old Holland parties of Hooks and Cods continually blazed out anew. On one notable occasion, to show her impartiality, the duchess appeared in public accompanied by the stadtholder, Lelaing, a partisan of the Hooks, and by Frank van Borselen, himself a Cod, the widower of Jacqueline, the late Countess of Holland.]
[Footnote 15: Barante, Histoire des Dues de Bourgogne, vi., 2, note by Reiffenberg.]
[Footnote 16: See Catalogue des manuscrits des Ducs de Bourgogne, "Résumé historique," i., lxxix.]
[Footnote 17: Barante, vi., 2, note.]
[Footnote 18: Loomis, Medieval Hellenism.]
[Footnote 19: Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, ii., 231.]
[Footnote 20: It was in June, 1434, that this alliance had been made. Sigismund claimed that Philip had no right in Brabant, Holland, Zealand, and Hainaut, which in his opinion were lapsed fiefs, of the empire.]
[Footnote 21: Putnam, A Medieval Princess.]
[Footnote 22: Monstrelet, La Chronique, v., 344.]
[Footnote 23: La Marche, Mémoires, ii., 50.]
[Footnote 24: Reiffenberg, Essai sur les enfants naturels de Philippe de Bourgogne.]
[Footnote 25: Meyer, Commentarii sive Annales rerum Flandricarum, p. 296.]