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¹ The suit was referred to by Richardson, ‘Illustrations of English history’, 66. For the other cases involving ecclesiastical benefices, see appendix 1.

² See the account in Fauquembergue, ii, 198 204. The ecclesiastical politics of these years were described by Valois, N., La Pragmatique Sanction de Bourges sous Charles VII (Paris, 1906).Google Scholar

³ Guillaumc des Brosses, M.A., a Parisian graduate in canon law who twice served as rector of the university during the Great Schism, was a Burgundian supporter who had served both Philip ‘the Bold’ and John ‘the Fearless’, and was said to have suffered many losses during the civil troubles of the early years of the century for which he had been ‘très petitement pourveu en saincte église’. In April 1421 he was one of the envoys sent by the French nation to Henry V to seek royal help in obtaining benefices. He was later to act for ‘long temps’ as the scribe to the court of the universitys conservator of privileges; and was acting as archdeacon of Beauvais in 1435 (Fauquembergue, iii, 146, 159Google Scholar). He was said to have died by 1444 (Deniflc and Châtelain, Chartularium, iv, n^os 2163 and note. 2179, 2440 and 2597).

⁴ For Thomas Key, see appendix II.

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⁵ Chartres, Eure-et-Loir.

⁶ Martin V, pope 1417 31.

⁷ Charles VI, king of France 1380 1422.

⁸ i.e., the time of the Great Schism, 1378 1417. The legislation referred to is probably that of 1406 and 1407.

⁹ Peter de Luna was elected Benedict XIII in September 1394; he was deposed by the Council of Pisa in 1409 and by that of Constance in 1417; he died in 1422.

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¹⁰ The most precise form appears to be the bull ‘Unam Sanctam’ (Extravag. Com., I, viii, 1).Google Scholar

¹¹ The ‘alternative’ was the system of allowing the pope and local patrons to present to benefices on alternate months, as arranged in the concordat made between Martin V and the French nation in April 1418.

¹² The ‘alternative’ came to an end in the spring of 1423, after a five-year period.

¹³ This kind of argument would have been received sympathetically in the proGallican Parlement.

¹⁴ It is not clear which general council, that of Constance or Siena, is being referred to here. Neither achieved any major reform in the matter of papal provisions.

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¹⁵ In so doing, the procureur du roi was demonstrating his pro-Gallican sympathies, as this paragraph shows.

¹⁶ Philippe de Morvilliers was first président of the Parlement 1418 33.

¹⁷ 1 October 1425.

¹⁸ Jean de Longucil, conseiller 1380, third président of the Parlement 1418 31.

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¹⁹ For the earl of Suffolk, see appendix II.

²⁰ Jean de Fitigny, bishop of Chartres 1418 32.

²¹ Isabella of Bavaria, widow of Charles VI. She died in September 1435.

²² Amiens, Somme.

²³ Arras, Pas-de-Calais.

²⁴ Auxerre, Yonne.

²⁵ Chartres, Eure-et-Loir.

²⁶ Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne.

²⁷ Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire.

²⁸ Pierre Cauchon, appointed bishop of Beauvais in August 1420.

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²⁹ Guillaume Erard was, in these years, regent master in theology at Paris and onetime rector of the university. He later took part in the trial of Joan of Arc.

³⁰ Jean Hubert, of the diocese of Coutances, rector of the university of Paris in 1432, taught in the faculty of canon law from 1423 onwards.