[1] [2] This duke being now deliuered, and speaking better English than French,The duke of Orleance de|liuered. after his arriuall in France, repaired to the duke of Burgognie, and ac|cording to his promise and conuention, maried the ladie Marie of Cleue, in the towne of saint Omers, on whome he begat a sonne, which after was French king, and called Lewes the twelfe.Lewes the twelfe. W. P. [Festered sores that rankle inward, as they may perchance be palli|at by sleight of surgerie; so sildome come they to sound cure, but often doo burst out againe to greater paine and perill of patient than euer afore: and so befell it betwéene these two noble houses of Orle|ance and Burgognie, who for all this mariage and plausible peace (that continued a twentie yeares) fell out yet after at square vnattonablie:] their children and cousins, to the great vnquieting of much part of christendome, speciallie in the times of king Fran|cis the first, and his sonne Henrie the second, heires of the house of Orleance. For Iohn earle of Ango|lesme, vncle to this duke Charles, begat Charles, fa|ther to the said king Francis: which earle Iohn had beene as pledge in England for the debt of Lewes duke of Orleance, from the last yeare of king Hen|rie the fourth; till that now his nephue being deliue|red, made shift for monie, and ransomed him also, and [page 619] at length restored him to his countrie.