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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 371
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Christina Of Pisa.
of lier marriage * and subsequent residence , and her literary talent gained Nor was her respect her poetry and known consideration and admired at the court in France of Charles alone VI . . The
intercourse between that country and England was very constant at tliat timeand to cultivate French literature was a fashion with the
Plantagenet , princes and their nobles . Of the nobles of Bichard II _' s courtnone perhaps was more accomplished than John de
Mordaunt , , Earl of Salisbury : in his youth he had fought under the Black Prince ' s bannerand had his fall share in the gallant feats
and erilous which , made the lieutenants of that great cldeftain p renowned escapes throughout , the land of France . He was trusted
panied by Richard the ill II -fated in several monarch important , on his concerns expedition of to state Ireland Paris ; he in accom in 1398 the
to eig throw hteenth what year obstacles of his rei he gn could , and in was the sent by of him a to marriage which , _rxunour had announced as likely to take way place between the Duke of
Herefordafterwards Henry IV , and Mary , daughter of the Duke of B , His success in this mission did not tend to gain him the
good became erry will personall . of Henry y acquainted . It was perhaps with the on fair this poetess occasion whose that ballads Salisbury of in his
love and chivalry had already struck a sympathetic chord breast tier , " for Bold Salisbury he was too and was courageous a poet , as well as as a a lion warrior , " says and an cour old
-. , French metrical history of the times , composed , as it would seem , at also Sali make sbury ballads ' s own suggestion roundels , " ri and ght lays well ; and thoug beautifull h he was y did but he a
man layman issue , so from gracious his , songs country were , all , in his whom deeds , , God that hath never imp , I think lanted , shall so much that with the
worth as was in him . May his soul be placed in paradise saints for ever ! For they have since foully put him to a painful htful
deathlike a martyr , loyally maintaining reason and the rig cause . , " His death took place soon after Henry IVs accession , Richard
when he was detected in a conspiracy to restore the deposed to of Ms Ids day rights , Salisbury . Like many was a of favorer the learned of the and Loll accomp ards , whose lished meetings persons his zeal b
he used to attend clothed in armour . He showed y committing family chapel to ignominious The hout historian his life destruction had Walsing been ham the favorer images grimly of of writes the saints Loll of in him ards his :
a " He desp , who iser throug of images , a contemner of the a canons , and a derider of , the sacraments , ended his days , as is reported , without the
sacramen fc of confession . _" in It 1398 was that probabl he y became , as we acquainted have said , with when Christina Salisbury of was Pisa in , and France this
acquaintance , ripened into a warm regard on both sides . Salisbury talcen * The does paper not mention in the _Archseolog the name ia of , her ( vol . husband xx , ) from . [ Reference which thi for s account informa is - , BoivinMemoires de Litteratnre
tion about her is made to ' s .
Biographical Notices. 371
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES . 371
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/11/
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