Note 140 — Chapter I · —The Occasion of the Wars between Louis XI. and the Count of Charolois, afterwards Duke of Burgundy.—1464. (continued 2)
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Guillaume Bische, a native of Molins Engilbert, in the Nivernois, was, according to Philip the Good, “the worst and subtlest fellow under the sun.” This subtlety was not injurious to him in the opinion of Louis XI., who made him Bailiff of St. Pierre-le-Moustier and Governor of Soissonnois, and honoured him with his confidence and friendship. In 1472, he was Lord of Clery, and chief steward of Duke Charles of Burgundy: and in 1478, he received the additional titles of “knight, councillor and chamberlain of the king, Governor of Peronne, Montdidier and Roye.”