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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
Burgundy as a province was devoted to the League, but not in the most fanatical sense. The reasons for its Leaguer sympathies were numerous: its catholicity—the number of Huguenots, though recently proved to have been larger than at one time supposed, was always small as compared with south-west France—the proximity of the Lorraine influence, the nearness of Spain, and above all the souvenir of the fame of the province in the days of the Sovereign Dukes. The provinces in which the royal power had been most recently imposed were usually against the central government—either leaguer or protestant. Paris, no doubt, seems to contradict this view, but all capitals were more fervently Leaguer than the rest of their provinces, and Paris, as the most populous and unquiet city of France, was simply the arch-leaguer. The members of the parlement and the royal officials who were averse to the league early withdrew from Dijon, and Flavigny in the Auxois became the obvious place for a Royalist gathering. In fact, every other place of any size was, at that stage, Leaguer, and Flavigny had facilities for defence. The formal schism of all the judicial, administrative, and financial machinery followed, as elsewhere, on Henry III's edict from Tours, March 1589, which suspended the parlements from their functions.
page 65 note 1 March 27, 1589: Archives du greffe de la cour d'appel, Dijon, B 12086, f. 11.Google Scholar April 17, 1589: Edict establishing the court at Flavigny, Bibliothèque de Dijon; Fonds Saverot No. 3. The parlements of Bordeaux and Grenoble alone were not transferred.
page 66 note 2 Benigne Fremyot, seigneur de Thôtes; president, 1581; died, 1611.
page 66 note 3 Archives Municipales, Dijon, B 457.Google Scholar
page 66 note 4 Guillaume de Hautemer. The party of Mayenne all through gained great strength from the devotion of Franchesse, the captain of the Castle of Dijon.
page 67 note 1 From January Fervaques had often seated himself at the bureau of the palais and harangued the parlement. This extract and the matter in full are taken from the Journal du Palais, ‘Extrait des registres du P. Bib. Dijon Fonds de Juigné.’
page 67 note 2 Denis Brulart, formerly conseiller at the parlement of Paris; died, 1611.
page 67 note 3 Desbarres was mayor of Dijon, 1574, and became canon of Langres; died, 1599.
page 67 note 4 Claude de Crespy, fifth president.
page 67 note 5 Nicolas de Montholon, sixth president: president, 1585; died, 1603.
page 67 note 6 Pierre Jeannin was now third president; born at Autun, 1540; resisted the idea of a massacre at Dijon in August 1572; resigned office, 1602; died, 1623.
page 68 note 1 Archives Municipales, Dijon, B 226, f. 236.Google Scholar
page 68 note 2 Hugues Picardet, sieur de Belleveure, was born at Mirebeau, 1560; died, 1641. Arch. Mun., Dijon, B 226, f. 229.Google Scholar
page 68 note 3 Arch. Mun., Dijon, B 226, f. 201.Google Scholar
page 68 note 4 Arch. Mun., Dijon, B 227, f. 77, 08; id., f. 110, October.Google Scholar
page 69 note 1 ‘Procès verbal of the royalist estates of Semur,’ Arch. Dép. Préfecture, Dijon, C 3070, 4.
page 69 note 2 Registres du parlement, Bib. Dijon, ; Fonds SaverotGoogle Scholar, Tom, . iii.Google Scholar
page 69 note 3 Idem.
page 69 note 4 Edict, 05 12, 1589Google Scholar; Fonds Saverot, Tom. iii.Google Scholar
page 70 note 1 François de la Madeleine, afterwards governor of the Nivernais; born, 1543; died, 1625.
page 70 note 2 Humbert de Marcilly, cousin of above. He was the son of the tutor of Charles XI, governor of the Auxerrois and Knight of the St. Esprit, and held many titles.
page 70 note 3 For all these men see Beaune, and d'Arbaumont, , La Noblesse de Bourgogne aux étatsGoogle Scholar, also register C 3070, Arch. Dép., Dijon.
page 70 note 4 Arch. Dép., Dijon, C 3070, 4.Google Scholar
page 70 note 5 Autun.
page 71 note 1 See the ‘wheel’ for the normal manner of representation at the estates. This was drawn by some clerk about thirty years earlier, but the method of representation had not altered. Burgundy, besides the advantages of a Pays d'Etat, had also certain exceptional privileges in the matter of taxation.
page 73 note 1 This is the same governor of Burgundy who saved the province from the St. Bartholomew massacre. His correspondence I have collected for the Huguenot Society, by which it has been published.
page 73 note 2 Some of the loan was finally raised by the Cantons of Zürich, Basel, and Bern, , Arch. Dép.Google Scholar Dijon, , C 3070, f. 61.Google Scholar The Archives Mun. also contain many contracts with the Catholic Swiss in the Leaguer interest.
page 74 note 1 All Leaguer assemblies are difficult to describe in detail for the reason that the restored parlement at Dijon, by an arrêt of July 1595, ordered all registers of the pretended authorities of the League to be rayés et biffés. A few only biffés are amongst the Arch. Dép., but more may be gleaned from the Arch. Mun. In many cases registers may be seen from which the pages have been torn out.
page 75 note 1 Edmond de Malain was nephew of Epinac, archbishop of Lyon; arrested at Blois with the Guises, 1588.
page 75 note 2 Maurice de Vergy. For the treachery and pillages, even in churches, of these two see the Journal de Breunot.
page 75 note 3 Claude de Baffremont.
page 75 note 4 Edmond Regnier, governor of Beaune until its capture by Biron, 1595.
page 75 note 5 Arch. Mun., Dijon, , B 228, f. 181Google Scholar; La Cuisine, ii. 189.Google Scholar
page 75 note 6 Registered in parlement, 1592; Arch, du Greffe, B 12085, f. 25.Google Scholar
page 76 note 1 Jean de Saulx was brother of Guillaume the royal governor, and both were sons of the marshal.