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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: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and waited until a procession com-posed of priests with their crosses, of cityofficials of distinguished burghers, and oftrade gilds, with banners flying, marchedout to greet their new sovereign. If shearrived late in the day and spent the nightin a town, she had to leave on the morrowby the same gate which she had entered.As she rode in she was saluted by the ring-ing of all the bells and by shouts of welcomefrom the populace. This was her joyousentry. Flags streamed from the towers,the streets were strewn with flowers, thehouses decked with hangings and garlands.Here and there gay-coloured cloths, oftenembroidered in gold and silver, werestretched across the street. The windows ducum Lotharingice et Brahantice ac regum Francorum auctoremagistro Edmundo de Dynter, lib. vi., Cap. 140,-etc. (Frenchtranslation of De Ram bound in same volume.) Dynter was in thecourt of John IV of Brabant. See Bibliography; also CartuJaire,iv., p. 85; also, Loher, i., p. 291, elaborated with some fantasy.
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RETABLE IN CHURCH OF ST. WALTRUDE. Mons. ^be Iberitage 23 were filled with ladies who held chains offlowers which reached over to the oppositehouses. Maidens threw wreaths overJacquelines arm. Sometimes certain par-ticipants who joined in the procession werepersonce non gratce to the towns. These wereoutlaws and exiles who had lurked withoutthe walls, anxiously awaiting the coming ofthe new ruler, to take the opportunity ofreturning home under her wing at a mo-ment when feuds were in abeyance, withthe hope that she would mediate betweenthem and their judges, so that the banagainst them would be removed. At thetime of Jacquelines progress, some of thecities took the precaution of issuing in ad-vance a prohibition against the return of allsuch undesirable gentry. Once within the walls the processionwould advance slowly until it reached thegreat church. Jacquelines first action onentering the edifice was to kneel before theholy relics and kiss them. Then, before thehigh altar, she swore

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