The royal child was born at Windsor.

His father was in France when he heard the tidings.

He held them to be of ill omen, and summoned Jean Halbourd of Troyes, minister general of the Trinitarians or Mathurins, "excellent in astrology," who, having drawn up the scheme of nativity, could only confirm the King in his doleful presentiments.[976] And now the time had come.

Windsor reigned; all would be lost.

Merlin had predicted that they would be driven out of France and by a Virgin utterly undone.