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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Correspondence of Emperor Maximillian is in Tudor Books.
Tudor Books, Correspondence of Emperor Maximillian Volume 2
The ladies and maids of honour of Marguerite1 were not strangers to the literary and poetic movement that Marguerite inspired around her. One of them, Marguerite de Croy, Countess of Hornes, whose familiar letters testify to a very cultivated mind, occasionally included a couplet that escaped from the witty gaiety of this woman who made such good preserves for the Emperor. The Archduchess herself, as we have shown earlier, cultivated poetry with as much and perhaps even more success than the official poets to whom she paid a pension. The Burgundy Library owned three volumes of songs composed by her, with musical notation. On one of these volumes, an artist had painted daisies on all the margins, and on the frontispiece, the portrait of the princess kneeling.
Note 1. The ladies and maids of honor of Marguerite
The Archduchess [Marguerite of Savoy] referred to them as well from Spain, France, England, as from her own lands. Mr. de Reissenberg, in the curious additional remarks in his edition of the Metrical Chronicle of Molinet (154), provides a list2 of Marguerite's eighteen maids of honor. Among these names, one can spot the rather insignificant name "Bullan," and Miss Bullan is none other than Anne Boleyn (age 13), later to become Queen of England. Here is an excerpt from the letter in which Marguerite thanks Thomas Boleyn (age 37) for entrusting his daughter to her care.
I received your letter from the squire Bouton, who presented your daughter to me, and she was very welcome. I hope to treat her in such a way that you will have a reason to be satisfied. At the very least, I believe that upon your return, there will be no need for any intermediary between you and me other than her. I find her so well-mannered and pleasant, considering her young age, that I am more indebted to you for sending her to me than you are to me, etc.
Les dames et demoiselles d'honneur de Marguerite
L'archiduchesse les appelait aussi bien d'Espagne, de France, d'Angleterre, que de ses propres pays. M. de Reissenberg, dans les curieuses remarques additionnelles à son édition de là Chronique métrique de Molinet, 154, donne une liste2 des dix-huit filles d'honneur de Marguerite. Parmi ces noms, on aperçoit le mot fort peu significatif Bullan; or mademoiselle Bullan n'est autre qu'Anne de Boleyn, depuis reine d'Angleterre. Citons un extrait delà lettre par laquelle Marguerite remercie Thomas Boleyn de lui avoir confié sa fille:
J'ai reçeu vostre lettre par l'escuyer Bouton qui m'a présenté vostre fille que m'a esté la très bien-venue, et espère la traicter de sorte que aurez cause vous en contenter du moings tiens que à vostre retour ne fauldra aultre truchement entre vous et moi que elle; et la treuve si bien adressée et si plaisante suivant son josne eaige, que je suis plus tenu à vous de la m'avoir envoyée que vous à moi, etc.
Note 2. See Chronique Metric Page 154.
Note. With regard to Note 2 the author appears to have mistaken "Bullan" for "Bulleux" as described in the Note to the Chronique Metric.
