Footnote 118

When the Pope finally declared Humphrey and Jacqueline's marriage to have been null (since they were first cousins), Gloucester married his mistress Eleanor Cobham and took Bedford's advice to stay out of the Duke of Burgundy's war with Jacqueline. The latter was forced to surrender when her principal city (Gouda in Holland) was besieged; the subsequent Treaty of Delft made the Duke of Burgundy heir and guardian of her lands (being her cousin as well, Burgundy had a claim to Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland, and had been appointed as the heir by Jacqueline's first husband, Duke John IV of Brabant - who, for the record, was also a cousin of Jacqueline and Burgundy).
Among other sources, see: Seward's "The Hundred Years War" , p. 207; "Philip the Good", pp. 48 - 49; "The Golden Age of Burgundy", p. 142; and Neillands' "The Hundred Years War", p. 249.

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