Note 568 — BOOK THE FIFTH.

“The Duke of Burgundy was knocked off his black horse, and fell into a ditch near St. Jean.” Lenglet, iii. 493. “A knight named Claude de Bausemont, came up with the Duke of Burgundy, and gave him a lance thrust; others then charged him suddenly, and he was put to death in a meadow near St. Jean.” Calmet, vii. 133. “A page came to the Duke of Lorraine, and being interrogated, declared plainly that he had seen the Duke of Burgundy thrown from his horse, and killed in a certain place which he was ready to point out. On the following morning the page, with many notable personages, went to the field, and found the body of the Duke of Burgundy quite naked, lying on the ground among other corpses; and he had received three mortal wounds, one in the head from a halberd, which clove his skull in two, another with a pike in the groin, and a third in the buttock.” Molinet, i. 234. By order of the Duke of Lorraine, the body was buried with great magnificence in St. George’s Church at Nancy.