2o6 Chaucer and Henry, Earl of Derby 



1366. Several noblemen came from England. Wigand^ 

 names 'Dominus Bemunt and Nortz Vewater Anglicus/ but 

 the former of these is probably Gui de Blois, Sire de Beaumont, 

 the patron of Froissart. The error of regarding him as an 

 Englishman may repose upon his recent sojourn in England 'as 

 a hostage for King John.'- 'Nortz Vewater Anglicus' may rather 

 have been a Fleming, judging from his name, and his association 

 with Gui. 



1377. Sir Ekhart of Scotland is named by Suchenwirt.^ 



138^1. Sir William Martel is mentioned as being present at a 

 table of honor.* 



1390. This, as we have seen, was the year of Henry's arrival.^ 



1391. Thomas Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, William 

 Douglas, and perhaps John Montagu, Earl of Salisbury. Many 

 Englishmen arrived in this year.^ In September the Duke of 

 Gloucester, the Earl of Derby's uncle, was commissioned to go 

 to Prussia to treat with the Grand Master.'^ It does not appear 

 that this was a martial expedition, and in any case the duke 

 encountered violent storms, and was driven back.® The same 

 year, \\'illiam Douglas of Nithsdale, who had been engaged 

 in a tilting-match with Thomas, Lord Clifford (ca. 1368-ca. 1391), 

 in the spring of 1390,^ appeared at Konigsberg, and was slain, 

 together with one of his followers, in an affray with a party of 



'In the great battle in Turkey, fought Nov. i, 1364, he took prisoner a 

 son of the King of Lithuania, whom he brought back to England, and 

 made a Christian.' Cf. Barnes, Hist. Edward III, p. 669. 



' Voigt S. 187. 



^Cf. Encyc. Brit. 11. 244. 



^ See Jonrn. E>ig. and Germ. Phil. 14. 386. 



* Voigt 5. 472, note 2 (cf. pp. 474, 7I7)- 



° See above, p. 196. 



° Voigt 5. 595- 



' Rymer, under Sept. 5, Sept. 16, and Dec. 16. 



^D. A., pp. xv-xvi; Ramsay 2. 279; Diet. Nat. Biog. 56. 155; 26. 32; 

 Walsingham, Hist. Aiigl. 2. 302; Higden, Polyehr. 9. 261-2; Hakluyt, 

 Prineipal Navigations, 1903, i. 306-7. 



"Ramsay 2. 277; Higden, Polyehr. 9. 236; Chrou. Loud. (Nicolas), 

 p. 78; Rot. Scot. 2. 103-111; cf. Diet. Nat. Biog. 11. 77. For Clifford in 

 an encounter with Boucicaut, see Le Roulx, p. 161 (cf. p. 176, note 2). 



