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SIR JOHN FROISSART Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.10

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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.10
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more melancholy one relative to the count Guy de Blois, whom I have before mentioned in this hif-tory as my great patron and matter. CHAP. XXVI. THE DEATH OF TflE YOUNG COUNT JLOUfS P£ CHASTILLON» SOS TO COUNT CP Y Bl PXOIS..— THE SUDDEN DEATH Of GASTON COUNT D* roix. T HAVE already fpoken of the marriage that * took place between Louis de Châiillon. fon pJF the count de Blois, and the lady Maxy, daughter of the duke of Berry. In the fettlements of this marriage, the duke managed well for his daughter; for (he had a dower of fix thoufand livres, French money (which are well worth the fame fin» .of francs, reckoning them as florins) aligned her on the county of Blois, to that, if fhe furvived her huiband, the county of Blois would be obliged to pay her this fum annually during her life. Now it fell out, that about St. John BaptilVs day, in the year of oiir Lord 1391, the boy whom I have called Louis de Blois, fon to the count de Blois, left his father at the château dés Moutils*, fitn- * LES Moutîls,—A village in the Blefofe, diocefe of Blois. „ ated. 288


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