Note 493 — BOOK THE FOURTH. (continued 2)

Molinet thus states the reasons which induced the Count of Campobasso to betray his master. That nobleman, he says, “was captain of 400 lances, which he had brought from Italy; but on New Year’s Day, Duke Charles gave 100 of the lances to Signor Angelo, the count’s son, to command, and as many to the count’s younger son, at which the said Campobasso was greatly displeased.” Molinet, i. 77. Oliver de la Marche (ii. 420) says it was because the duke owed him money.