The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-01-30
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MARY OF BURoUNnr oRsnAnaRET
OF BURGUNDTl


NARY OF 8URouNDr ORsnAnARET
OF BuRGUNDYl
There seems TO Be N aniversai agreement
~ to tire Eaats.haf the Sonle duel< originated
In an szptession employed by the young
Duke 81 Alba At the Ffcnch Aulbassy's bali.
but, unt,gt lna.ely, that expression has been
reportedin tvs different Ways. According
TO one account ot the affair. the parsonage to
whom Mrs Soale wss likened, was "lHdrgd-
yet OF Burc1s1g, The other version de-
CARES, with equal pertinacify, that Mary Of
Barguxds' was the term employed, and not
Margaret New. Mary of Burgundy. and
Margaret of Burgundy, were two distinct in
dividuals, living. the one IN the 18th, and the
other IN tby s:h centuries, and differing AS
widely,in the general tenor of their lives and
characters as tigsess and primi ose. If Ma
ry of Burgundy wasthe personage referred to.
then the iiisinaation must have been one
Of excessive pradery. and nothing more. II
Margaret was the name made use OF, the
charge Involved in the comparison was OF a
much mare offensive nature, and one that
would eers ainlf excuse a great deal OF indig-.
nation and anger. From an attentive consid-l
Grafton gs tile different facts and statements
that have been made public in referenceto
the matter, we strongly incline to the suppo
sitioa that Mary y Bmrgundyi is the woman to
whom il Is mos. probable the luke referred
The reasons Tor this belief on our part may
he gathered from the following sketches Of
the lives OF bo.h, the materials of which we
have complied from the French history of the
periods in wiich these characters aourished.
The WORK t. which we are principally In
debted, especially for our second Biography.
is Barante's Historic des ducs de Bourgognt
de Ia NsiSoG ie Falois la vols Paris,
1882 We never read more interesting
book than this Of Barante, and we take the
liberty OF Recommending it TO every person
who wishes 10 become familiar with the re-
markable and striking events of the reign
of Louis ths Eleventh-one Of the most inn
portant epochs in the history of France.
Margaret Of Burgundy. Queen of Navarro,
was one OF The most licentieus women of a
time when RIGHTEOUSNESS was almost at its
height in tie French Court. She was one of
those complying females who like Catherine
"Could repay each amatory look you lent .a
With interest, and in turn was won't with igor
To exact Of Cupid's bills the full amount
At sight nor would permit you to discount
She was daughter of Robert the Second,
Duke OF Rarg indy, by Agnes, Grand -daugh-
ter of the French King, st. Leuis. In 1899
she was atiianced to Louis lie Hutin, but by
reason o. he- ttnder age the marriage was
postponed anil -30j. In Tradition to an extra
ordinary share of beauty, she possessed a
great deal of talent. and a strong inclination
for pleasure. The license she enjoyed in the
midst OF voluptuous Court facilitated to
her tire means 81 forming amorous intrigues.
She selected as acompanion in herdebauche-f
ries a l.,dy Blan she, Countess of Marche, who
was also her sister in-Iaw. Thes. ladies had
for their lovers two brothers, Philip and
Gaultier d Arnay or de Launay, gentlemen
of Normandy and as loosely conducted as
theintriguantes>
The parties usually met at the Abbey of
Maubuisson. rhilip the Fair, the reigning
King, Informed of their misconduct, caused
the Knights to be arrested, and had them ar
raigned for high treason. They were CON
demned TO be inutilated and fayed alive
Their heads were afterwards cut off, and the
bodies hung up by the armpits, to serve as
food for birds OF prey. This judgement was
executed at poatoise, in 1915. Inquiries were
then instituted in order to discover all the
courtiers VIII had ever lived in familiarity
with the princ9sscs. Many persons were ar
rested, pa, the torture aud on the slightest
suspicion sentenced to capital punishment.
Margaret had her head shaved, (the Punish
ment-of iii adnlteress in that day. and was
shut up with Blanche in the Chateau Cal
lard. But some months after her incarcera
ton she was strangled with a napkin. by or
der of her husband. This wretched woman
had hot attained her Goth year when she was
thus bru.aliy murdered Her remains were
inferred il the church de Cordeliers de Yer
non. Marg aret had a daughter by Louis lie
Hutin, named Jeanne, who was born on the
2sth January, -3i2. Jeanne was married in
1927 to Phiiip, Cpmte D. Evreux. andsucceed-
ed to the tl4-une of Navarro, by the death,
without Issue, o. her uncle, Charles lie Bel
She died at Uonhins, on the 9Th October,
l349;, and was buried beside her father in st.
Denis. This princess had the reputation of
being one Of the most V rtuous, as we'll as
one of the mos. witty women of her age.
Mary of Burg andy, only daughter of Charles
the Bold and o: Isabella of Bourbon, was
born at Brussels on the 18th February, last.
She had hardly arrived at the age of "a years,
when, by ths death of her father, she became
heiress TO the vast possessions of his house.
When Louis the Eleventh of France who
raised precautions to different portions of this
rich succession, learned the death of Charles,
he invaded Burgundy, and took possession
ofmany OF the villages and towns that had
belongedto the late duke. La this critical
contuncture. Mary despatched an embassy to
the King, composed of the Chancellor HUI
Comet, Lord Hmbercourt. Tor ImbercourtJ
the prothonotary Of Cluui, Lord Gruythuyse,
and some others. On their arrival they pre-
scented a letter to Louis which had been
written by the hand of Mary herself and sign
ed by the Dowager Duchess, Adolphus of
Cluni, and the Lord of Ravenstein. The
dulDssSa0oTSr consented on the part of the
young Duchess TO restore to the King all the
seigniories ordemains acquired by the Duke,
her father, in the treaties of Arras, Conflans,
and Perenne-in word, to possess nothing
more than the irst Duke, Phillip the Hardy
They farther offered tore-establish in Bur
gundy the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of
Paris, which had for long time been con
tested and unrecognised; and lastly, agreed
60 acknowledge that Burgundy, Artois and
Flanders, owed homage to the King. In re.
turn for these himiliating conditions the King
was entreated TO withdraw his army, and to
preserve honorably the nine years treaty
shaf had been concluded with the deceased
Duke Charles Louis replied that he did NOT
come to deprive Mile. de Burgogne OF her
territories-that she was bis near relation.
sndilis dear god daughter, and that SO far
from entertaining such designs. he had no
other desire than to afford her every protec.
fiet, and to take beneath his care both her.
sea- and be, possessions Above all he was
anxious any 70 bring about marriage between
Mne. % Burgundy. and his son, the Dauphin.
An awaiting tho issue of this important mat
nc was sabout to sre.Gnite to the Erancb