This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...more than forty years before, the then youthful Rene of Anjou had inherited the duchy of Lorraine in right of his wife and by virtue of her father's will. The house of Anjou, it will be remembered, derived its origin from the second son of John of Valois, king of France. The numerous descendants of that monarch were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...more than forty years before, the then youthful Rene of Anjou had inherited the duchy of Lorraine in right of his wife and by virtue of her father's will. The house of Anjou, it will be remembered, derived its origin from the second son of John of Valois, king of France. The numerous descendants of that monarch were the princes whose ambition and contentions gave so turbulent a flow--without, however, changing its direction--to the current of French history in the 15th century. Their internal quarrels divided and distracted the monarchy; but their separate achievements contributed to its ultimate union, stability, and grandeur. The rivalry between the eldest and the youngest branch forms the groundwork of our narrative, and the subordinate part played by the intermediate branch has been occasionally noticed.8 This family augmented its possessions and acquired its importance by somewhat different means from those to which either of the others was indebted for the elevation of its power and the extension of its dominions. The house of Anjou owed its short-lived greatness to a series of adoptions and bequests. 7 Ancienne Chronique, Lenglet, torn. ii.--Calmet, torn. vii. preuves, p. lxviii. Rene had already been declared the heir of the cardinal-duke of Bar, when he was selected as the son-irtlaw and successor of Charles the Second, duke of Lorraine. But at the moment when the settlement thus made was about to take effect, its validity was contested by another claimant, Antony, count of Vaudemont, the representative of a collateral male branch of the earlier line, whose pretensions would have been easily overborne had they not received the powerful support of Philip the Good of Burgundy, then at war with his rightful sovereign and hostile in his feelings toward...
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