Identifier: mediaevalprinc00putn (find matches)
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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n that its bearer was the heir, either apparent or presumptive, to the sovereignty of the count-ships. During the thirty-five years that Lord Frank survived his wife, he was, as Count of Ostrevant, a prominent figure in the Burgundian court, addressed by the Duke as cousin, and finally admitted among the elect in the Order of the Golden Fleece. Whether from devotion to Jacquelines memory or from reluctance to sever his connection with her name, he remained a widower. ^ The reason for Borselens renunciation of Jacquelines personal estate is plain. It was barely sufficient to cover her bequests and the task of her executors was no sinecure. Countess Margaret asked and obtained per-mission to have Jan van der Mije act as her attorney, because she could not be present continually, while Lord Frank appointed Jan * Coinage of Philip of Burgundy. Certain estates not touched by his oath also fell to him as provided in the marriage settlements. He died 1471. Reckoning of his estate, Codex Dip., 1852,p. 147.
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THE STATUE OF JEANNE DARC AT COMPIEQNE. Iber Xaet Mill 271 Ruyschrock to help in his name as best he could. ^ The testament was confirmed without delay by Philip, who chanced to be at Damme. His letters patent, declaring that the last wishes of his late rival should be fulfilled, are dated October nth, and a copy was filed with the will. There were thus no protests to encounter, no laws delays, yet eight years elapsed before the business of settlement was completed and the account filed away in The Hague archives,where it has rested, over four and a half centuries. The first act of the executors was to realise the cash value of the testators possessions in order to give peace to her soul by doing Gods will and by satisfying her poor servants. ^ The inventory of the personal property is almost pitiful in its minuteness,laying bare every recess of Jacquelines household. Significant of the loose and uncertain state of the currency is the list of * Codex Dip., p. 167. ^ Om dair off ter ^yelen troes

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