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Louis de Bourbon^^ (1337-1410) ; Enguerrand/* Lord of Coucy 

 (1338-1397), brother-in-law of Lionel, and Count Amedeo VP^ 



'^Bourbon was a hostage in England 1360-66 (Kervyn 7. 517-8). 

 Though, on the death of Charles V, he, with the Dukes of Anjou, Berry, 

 and Burgundy, assumed the guardianship of Charles VI, he had never 

 had the opportunity to play a part befitting his high birth (Le Roulx, 

 p. 170"), until, in 1390, he assumed command of the expedition directed 

 against Mehediah, in northern Africa (see the account in Le Roulx, 

 pp. 166-200; cf. Hist. Background, p. 209, notes 5 and 6). See Froissart, 

 Btiisson de Jonece 291-3. 



^* Sometimes known as Ingelram de Coucy. The pride of his house 

 appears in the well-known lines : 



Je ne suis roi, ni prince aussi ; 



Je suis le seigneur de Couci. 



He was related to the Green Count b}^ their common descent from 

 Amedeo V of Savoy (d. 1323), of whom Coucy was the great-grandson, 

 and Amedeo VI the grandson. He was married to Isabella (1332-1379), 

 eldest daughter of Edward III, in 1365, she being six years older than 

 her husband ; in the same year he received the Order of the Garter. 

 'On the eve of the renewal of the war between England and France in 

 1368, Enguerrand, unwilling' either to break with his father-in-law or to 

 fight against his lord the French king, went to Italy, and served in the 

 wars of Urban V and Gregory XI against the Visconti' {Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 29. 68; cf. Muratori 8. 361; R. I. S. 15. 497; 16. 518; Giulini 5. 559, 

 560), remaining there till about 1374 (see also Beltz, Memorials of the 

 Order of the Garter, pp. 149-153; Kervyn 7. 419-420). Cf. Kervyn 14. 3, 

 4; Froissart, Dit dou Florin 442-4; Btiisson 278-281; Le Roulx, Index; 

 Mem. de I' Acad, des Inscr. 25. 168-186. 



'' Symonds (Age of the Despots, chap. 2) says that the rulers of Savoy 

 and Montferrat are in the highest class of despots, and Gabotto (Atti 

 della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 34. 215) calls Amedeo 

 'that giant among the sovereigns of Savoy' (from which, of course, the 

 reigning house of Italy is descended). Referring to his exploits in the East 

 in 1366 (see below), Gregorovius (Gesch. der Stadt Athen. 2. 163) speaks 

 of 'how much a heroic man could accomplish, even with meagre forces.' 

 For the romantic story of the origin of his name (the Green Count) in 

 1348, see Cordey, pp. loo-ioi, and M. H. P. 3 (Script, i). 275-8. (For 

 a Spanish green knight at the siege of Tyre by Saladin in 1187, see 

 Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Tresorier, ed. Mas Latrie, pp. 

 237-8, 251-2; Rohricht, Gesch. des Konigreichs Jerusalem, p. 468; for 

 seven green knights who tourneyed in 1305 on the site of the Isthmian 

 games, see Miller, p. 203; Rodd 2. 54; Clironique de Morec, ed. Longnon, 

 p. 397; in Malory there is a green knight. Sir Pertilope, besides a black 

 (see also Chretien de Troyes, Cliges), a red, and a blue knight; Tristram 

 is a green knight in Tennyson's Last Tournament 169-170). For the 



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