32 Lionel's Journey to Italy 



87 miles in six days^ — Monday to Saturday — this would be at 

 the rate of 14^^ miles a day, which corresponds pretty nearly 

 to what we have assumed for the journey, Calais to Abbeville. 

 Now the ferriage across from Dover to Calais would have 

 required a day, April 4. At the rate of I4>4 miles, it would 

 require a day from Canterbury to Dover, and four more for a 

 leisurely progress from London to Canterbury.^ On the basis 

 of this calculation, the array may have left London early on 

 Wednesday, March 29, arrived at Canterbury on Palm Sunday, 

 April 2, and thus reached Dover on April 3. If, however, they 

 made a leisurely and showy progress from London, they may 

 easily have consumed more time on the road, and thus have made 

 an earlier start, perhaps as early as Monday, March 27. 



At Paris, or rather St. Denis,^" Lionel was met by the brothers 

 of King Charles V (1337-1380), the Dukes of Berry" (1340- 

 1416) and Burgundy^^ (1342-1404) ; the king's brother-in-law. 



^Froissart says: 'chevaucha tant par ses journees.' Albert von Stade 

 (13th century) reckons five days from Abbeville to Paris (Jahrbuch fiir 

 Schweiz. Gesch. 4. 284-6). 



° See Hist. Background, p. 166, note 3. 



"There at least by the two brothers of the king (Grandes Chroniques, 

 as above). 



"John, Duke of Berry, was hostage in England 1360-66; in 1396 he 

 negotiated a truce with Richard II. and arranged for the latter's marriage 

 with Isabella, his niece, then only a child of six; when the future 

 Henry IV was banished in 1398, a match was considered between him and 

 Berry's daughter, and Berry was deep in his counsels respecting his return 

 to England (Diet. Nat. Biog. 26. 34). At his death he left vast treasures 

 of jewelry, objects of art, and especially illuminated MSS., many of 

 which have been preserved, one of the finest being his Livre d'Heures 

 (Encyc. Brit., nth ed., 3. 809). At the time of Lionel's visit, he was on 

 leave from Edward III to June 24 of that year (Kervyn 7. 517)- Cf. 

 Froissart, Dit dou Florin 317-330. 



^" Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, had distinguished himself at 

 Poitiers (1356) ; on the defeat of his father, King John, he accompanied 

 him (1357) into captivity in England, where he mostly remained till his 

 release in 1360. After the death of Charles V in 1380, Philip for a time 

 occupied the most powerful position in France. A contemporary described 

 him as kindly and amiable to men of every degree, liberal and magnificent. 

 His splendid tomb is in the museum of Dijon {Encyc. Brit., nth ed., 24. 

 493). Cf. Froissart, Dit dou Florin 3I7-330- 



