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Title: A mediaeval Princess; being a true record of the changing fortunes which brought divers titles to Jacqueline, countess of Holland, together with an account of her conflict with Philip, duke of Burgundy ( 1401-1436)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931
Subjects: Jacoba, countess of Hainault and Holland, 1401-1436
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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ebla^val princess costs of the suit at Rome, and cede Hal,Heusden, and Geertruidenberg to Brabant.No decisive verdict was pronounced. Allthat the arbitrators decided was that thewhole suit, with the new issues made clearat the trial, must be again submitted to thePope. Humphrey had gained one point. Thelegality of his marriage was not expresslydenied. That was all, and that was insuffi-cient to satisfy the pair. Nor did Humphreyand Jacqueline intend to be satisfied. Theyhad indeed pledged themselves to acceptthe decision of the arbitration. But theyheld that this postponement was no judg-ment and that there was nothing to abideby. When the opinion was rendered theyhad already begun to take matters into theirown hands and were en route for Hainaut.Owing to the French wars and the state ofthe English exchequer, the Privy Councildecided that no troops should be furnishedto Humphrey. Englands duty was to keepevery man and penny for her own immediateneeds. But by hook and by crook the Duke
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ANNE OF BURGUNDY, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. Bedford missal. Photo from original.British INIuseum MS. Add., 18S50. Sacqueline In iSnglanb m succeeded in recruiting a respectable force athis own expense. In September an embassy sent from Mons^to England found tlie adventurous and errantpair encamped at Dover waiting for a favour-able wind. ^ When it blew they sailed pleas-antly over to Calais and rumours of theirenterprise spread here and there, reachingThe Hague on October 21st, where the coun-cil were sitting.^ In Mons the council werealso in session and they had more accu-rate advices than rumour. This day,Saturday (October 21st), after dinner werereceived two letters which our heraldbrought us, one from Monsieur of Gloucesterand the other from our excellent hereditaryLady, mentioning that they had arrived atCalais in good disposition and that theyintended to come to Hainaut to takepossession. De Potter, p. 99. *See Kroniek (Hist. Gen. te Utrecht, 1851), p. 260. Geschied-kundige hy^onderhe

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