Vulgar words in Charles the Bold - Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 (Page 1)
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For his obedient knights did not refuse to open their ranks to these great bastards of Burgundy, who carried a bar sinister proudly on their escutcheon.
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Among his pupils were also Anthony, Bastard of Burgundy,[24] son of Philip, and the Marquis Hugues de Rottelin.
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Among those slain in the course of the war, were Cornelius, Bastard of Burgundy, and the gallant Jacques de Lalaing.
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Toison d'Or was followed by two maidens, Mademoiselle Yolande, bastard daughter of the duke, and Isabelle of Neufchâtel, escorted by two gentlemen of the Order.
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Among the knights was Charles and one of his half-brothers; among the ladies was Margaret, Bastard of Burgundy, and the others were all of high birth.
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"As for this bastard," Philip added, turning to the other son, destitute of status in the eyes of the law, "if I find that he counsels you to oppose my will, I will have him tied up in a sack and thrown into the sea.
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Morvilliers used very bitter terms in his assertion that Charles had illegally stopped a little French ship of war and arrested a certain bastard of Rubempré on the false charge that his errand in Holland, where the incident occurred, was to seize and carry off Charles himself.
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As to the bastard of Rubempré, true it was that he had been apprehended in Holland,[5] but there was adequate ground for his arrest as his behaviour had been strange, at least so thought the Count of Charolais.
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But notwithstanding" [quoth he] "that myself never were supicious, yet if I had been in my son's place at the same time that this bastard of Rubempré haunted those coasts I would surely have caused him to be apprehended as my son did."
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La Marche is less detailed in his record[6] of the Rubempré incident: "The bastard was put in prison and the Count of Charolais sent me to Hesdin to the duke to inform him of the arrest and its cause.
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Demands were made that I should be delivered to him to be punished as he would, because he claimed that I had been the cause of the arrest of the bastard of Rubempré and also of the duke's departure from Hesdin without saying adieu to the King of France, but the good duke, moderate in all his actions, replied that I was his subject and his servitor, and that if the king or any one else had a grievance against me he would investigate it.
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Recognised by the French, he might have been taken or slain in his resistance, when the Bastard of Burgundy rode in and rescued him.
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It was late in the evening when the Bastard of Burgundy marched in.
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At the time of the duke's death, Olivier de La Marche was in England, whither he had accompanied the Bastard of Burgundy on a mission to King Edward.
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The Bastard of Burgundy, wearing the Burgundian coat-of-arms with a bar sinister, made a fine record for himself.
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You may believe how great was the bastard's mourning when he heard of his father's death, and how the nobility who were with him mourned too.
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The Bastard of Burgundy took leave of the English court and hastened to Bruges to join his brother, the Count of Charolais, who received him warmly.
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It was on this business that La Marche and the great Bastard were engaged when Philip's death interrupted the discussion, which Charles did not immediately resume on his own behalf.
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And the same Sonday my Lord the Bastard took upon hym to answere xxiiij knyts & gentylmen within viij dayis at jostys of pese & when that they wer answered, they xxiiij & hymselve shold torney with other xxv the next day after, whyche is on Monday next comyng; & they that have jostyd with hym into thys day have been as rychly beseyn, & hymselfe also, as clothe of gold & sylk & sylvyr & goldsmith's werk might mak hem; for of syche ger & gold & perle & stonys they of the dukys coort neyther gentylmen nor gentylwomen they want non; for with owt that they have it by wyshys, by my trowthe, I herd nevyr of so gret plente as ther is.
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Sorry return was this from one recognised as Bastard of Burgundy and brought up in the ducal household.
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Jehan de Chassa promptly issued a rejoinder: "As Charles, soi-disant Duke of Burgundy, has sent to divers places letters signed by himself and his secretary, Jehan le Gros, written at Hesdin, December 13th, falsely charging me with plotting against his life with Baldwin, Bastard of Burgundy, and Jehan d'Arson, I, considering that it is matter touching my honour, feel bound to reply.... By God and by my soul I declare that these charges against me made by Charles of Burgundy are false and disloyal lies"[26] Baldwin, too, expressed righteous indignation at the slur on his character, but he remained in the French court as did many others who had formerly served Charles.
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There was reproach for Anthony the Bastard for taking a gift of 20,000 crowns from Louis XI.
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Broeck, M. van der Bruchsal Bruges _Brunette_ Brussels Bureau, Jehan Buren, castle of Burgundy, duchy of; Estates of Burgundy, Franche-Comté of Burgundy, Anthony, Grand Bastard of Burgundy, Baldwin, Bastard of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, (Count of Charolais), Duke of; birth of; elected knight of the Golden Fleece; description of; ancestry of; imperial ambitions of; education of; weds Catherine of France; takes official part in public affairs; character of; first campaign of; entrusted with regency of Holland; English sympathies of; weds Isabella of Bourbon; judicial methods of; rejoices over birth of daughter; strained relations with his father; enmity between Louis and ; at coronation of Louis XI; fears plots against his life; joins League of Public Weal; allies of; letters of, to cities; to Louis; to Duchess Isabella; to French council; to Duke of Brittany; to Sigismund; to Edward IV.
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; to Duke of Milan; at battle of Montl'héry; armies of; dictates terms of treaty of Conflans; marches against Liege; destroys Dinant; underestimates character and strength of enemies; accedes to the dukedom; invested with titles; unpopularity of; punishes Ghent; reforms of; weds Margaret of York; ducal state of; demands _aides_; receives Louis at Peronne; crushes revolt of Liege; makes treaty of Peronne; proposed sons-in-law for; signs treaty of St. Omer; takes lands from Sigismund; relations of, with Swiss; invested with Order of the Garter; _Remonstrance_ presented to; embassies to; truces of, with Louis XI; besieges Beauvais; reverses of; acquires duchy of Guelders; negotiations between Emperor Frederic and; interview of, with emperor at Trèves; becomes "protector" of Lorraine; interferes in Cologne affairs; visits Alsace; troubles with Alsace; besieges Neuss; war declared against; makes truce with Frederic; defeated at Héricourt; besieges Nancy; allies desert; defeated at Granson; at Morat; convenes states-general; last battle of; death and burial of Burgundy, Cornelius, Bastard of Burgundy, David of, Bishop of Utrecht Burgundy, Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of; ancestry of; English sympathies of; retires to convent; burial of Burgundy, John the Fearless, Duke of; death of Burgundy, Margaret, Bastard of Burgundy, Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, Mary of (Duchess of Austria; godfather of; proposed marriages for Burgundy, Philip the Good, Duke of, marriages of; institutes Order of Golden Fleece; children of; alliance of; signs treaty of Arras; territories acquired by; suppresses revolt in Bruges; wealth and magnificence of; crushes rebellion of Ghent; gives Feast of the Pheasant; plans crusade; chooses second wife for Charles; character of; interferes in affairs of Utrecht, of Liege, and of Cologne; hospitality of, to dauphin; influenced by the Croys; attends coronation of Louis XI; illnesses of; witnesses punishment of Dinant; death and burial of; epitaph of; description of; popularity of Burgundy, Philip the Hardy, Duke of Burgundy, Yolande, Bastard of C Cagnola Calabria, Duke of, _see_ Lorraine Calais Calixtus III.
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