Note 207 — BOOK THE SECOND.
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The Liegeois, in 1462, put themselves under the protection of Louis XI. and refused to obey their bishop, a nephew of the Duke of Burgundy; upon which the duke solicited and obtained from the Pope a bull of excommunication against them, by which he was ordered “to crusade against them as against the infidels, and against a people disobedient to the holy apostolical see.” The sentence of excommunication is dated December 23. 1465.