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70 BEDFORD of the Garter(^) were provided, not only in 1376, but (under the style of " Countess of Bedford ") in Apr. 1379. This is the last mention of herjC") as she d. before 4 May 1379, and was bur. at the Greyfriars (Christ Church), Newgate. The Sire de Coucy m., 2ndly, in 1380, Isabel, da. of Jean I, Duke of Lorraine, by his ist wife, Sophie, da. of Eberhard III, Count of WuRTEMBERG. In 1380 he refused the staff of Constable of France, but was made Governor of Brittany, and, subsequently, one of the Regency during the minority of Charles VI of France. He was taken prisoner at the defeat of the Christian army at Nicopolis by the Turks, on 28 Sep. 1396, and d. of the plague, s.p.m., 18 Feb. 1396/7, at Bursa in Natolia, aged about 56, being bur. in the Abbey of Villeneuve near Soissons. M.I. Codicil to will dat. Bursa, 18 Feb. 1 396/7. (") His widow came to England in 1397 as attendant of the young Queen Consort.(^) DUKEDOM. I. JohNjC^) 3rd s. of King Henry IV, by his ist wife, T Mary, da. and coh. of Humphrey (de Bohun), Earl of J Hereford, was b. 20 June 1389. K.B. 11 Oct. 1399, and K.G. probably soon after his father's accession to the "Z^-^ Crown in 1399, but possibly not till I402.(*) Warden of the East Marches, and Capt. of Berwick, 1403-14. '*'^- On 10 Sep. (1403) 4 Hen. IV, he was made Constable (^) For a list of these ladies, see Appendix B in this volume. C") See, however, Pat. Roll^ 23 Jan. 1380/1, from which she would appear to have been then living. V.G. (') His English estates went to Philippe, Countess of Oxford, the 2nd and yst. of his two daughters by his 1st wife, by agreement in 140 1 between the sisters, whereby the elder, Mary (//. Apr. 1366, at Ch.^teau de Coucy), had the French estates. This Mary ?n., in 1393, Henry, Duke of Bar, and sold the domain of Coucy, 15 Nov. 1400, to Louis, Duke of Orleans, and d. 1404. The representation of the De Coucy family finally passed, with her granddaughter Jeanne, to the family of Luxembourg, Counts of St. Pol, and so to the House of Bourbon and the Crown of France, in the person of Henry IV. The Sire de Coucy had also a da. (by his 2nd wife) who was named Isabel, and who w., in 1409, Philip of Burgundy, Count of Nevers, by whom she had one child, who d. s.p. if) It is stated in the Latin History of Charles FI, ad arm. 1399, that "Dominus Stephanus Dux in Bavaria pater Regine Francie relictam quondam Domini de Couciaco in reditu expeditionis Hungarie mortui desponsavit," but this appears to be a mistake, and the historians of the House of Bavaria mention no such alliance. Stephan III, Duke of Baycrn-Ingolstadt (father of Isabeau, wife of Charles VI of France), rn., 2ndly, 17 Jan. 1 40 1, Eiisabethe, da. of Adolf, Count of Cleve, and widow of Reinold von Valkenburg, Herr von Born (who d. 17 Jan. 1396). (C. Haeutle, Geneal. des Stamm- hauses Wittclsbach., 1870, p. 123; etc!). Further, this Isabel of Lorraine is described in the Registres du Parlement in 1 404 as "Ysabellis de Lothoringia domina Couciaci relicta defuncti consanguinei nostri Ingeranni quondam domini Couciaci," and in 1408 as "domina de Couciaco et de Florinis ac Comitissa Suession'." (Du Chesne, Maison de Guines et de Coucy, preuves, pp. 423, 427). {ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. {^) As to his supposed name of "Plantagenet" see vol. i, p. 183, note " c." (') See notes to pp. civ and clvi in Beltz's Order of the Garter.