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Holbein's "Ambassadors", the picture and the men

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Illustration from Holbein's "Ambassadors", the picture and the men: an historical study
Illustration from Holbein's "Ambassadors", the picture and the men: an historical study

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Abate, Niccolò dell’, 126.

Illustration from Holbein's "Ambassadors", the picture and the men: an historical study

Act of Supremacy, 100.

Agout, river, 170.

Agrippa, Cornelius, 233, ibid., note 3, 234, ibid., note 2.

Aigues-Mortes, 166.

Albany, Duke of, 91.

Alchemy, 138, 227, 232-234.

Alciati, Andrea, 46, 131, 198, ibid., note 1, 228-231, 231, note 3.

Alençon, Chancellor of, 42.

Alfonso I. d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, see Este.

Allegory, 197.

“Ambassadors,” Holbein’s picture of the;

purchased for the National Gallery, 1, 5, 31-32;

personages represented, 1, 10, 11, 19, 20, 77, 200-202;

owned by Le Brun, 5-6, 31-32;

by Jacob, Earl of Radnor, 6, ibid., note 2, 31-32;

documents showing history of picture, 11, 18, 20;

notice in Beaujon catalogue, 9-10, 31-32;

description of picture, 200-203;

details of same, 203-236 (see also under each head).

Ambassadors de robe longue and de robe courte, 143, 199-200, 199, note 1.

Amboise, Château of, 42, 126, note 3.

Amboise, George d’, Cardinal Legate, 99.

Amyot, Jacques, Bishop of Auxerre, 146, ibid., note 1.

Angeviller, Conte d’, 22, note 1.

Angoulême, Charles, Duke of, see Charles.

Angoulême, Duchesse d’, see Louise.

Angoulême, Marguerite d’, see Marguerite.

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, 62, 72, 79, 82, 83-89, 102, 105.

Antwerp, 186.

Apian, George, 224, ibid., note 2.

Apian, Peter, 224-225, 224, note 2.

Aragon, Katherine of, see Katherine.

Arithmetic, 223, 224, 225, 232.

Arithmetic, Book of, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 203, 223-224.

Armagnac, Georges d’, Bishop of Rodez, 156, 167.

“Arms of Death” (design by Holbein), 203-204.

Arms of François II., Bishop of Auxerre, 56, 130.

Arms of Jean de Dinteville, 128-129.

Arts, the Seven Liberal, 39;

in picture of “Ambassadors,” 210, 223, 225, 228, 231-232.

Arundel Collection, 140.

Aspremont, 136.

Asti, county of, 101.

Astrology, 45, 138, 210, ibid., note 3, 233-234.

Astronomy, 45, 210, ibid., note 3, 225, 232, 233-234.

Audley, Sir Thomas, Lord Chancellor, 85, ibid., note 6.

Aumale, 178.

Auxerre, cathedral of, 117, 137, note 1.

Auxerre, François I. de Dinteville, Bishop of, see Dinteville.

Auxerre, François II. de Dinteville, Bishop of, see Dinteville.

Auxerre, Jacques Amyot, Bishop of, see Amyot.

“Avaux, M. d’,” 5, 7, 8, 10, 22,

see also Mesmes.

Avaux, seigneurie in Champagne, 9, note 1.

Avignon, 46, 148, 149, 166, 231, note 3.

Azay-le-Rideau, 125.

Baif, Lazare de, French Ambassador at Venice, etc., 59, 157, ibid., note 2, 174.

Bailly, office of, 38.

Bailly of Troyes, The, see Dinteville.

Balavoyne, steward of Bishop of Auxerre, 59, ibid., note 2, 63.

Barbier, Domenico del, see Domenico Fiorentino.

Bar-sur-Seine, 11, 19, 36, 41, 121.

Basle, 75.

Basse-Cour of Polisy, 127, 133.

Basville, see Lamoignon.

Basville, seigneurie, 29.

Bayonne, 176, 213.

Beaujon, Hospice (now Hospital), 30, ibid., note 2.

Beaujon, Nicolas, 9, 21, 29, 30-32, 30, note 2.

Beauvais, M. de, French Ambassador in Scotland, 80, ibid., note 2, 95, 98.

Belgrade, 214.

Bellay, Guillaume Du, Seigneur de Langey, 35, note 1, 44, 47, ibid., note 2, 48, 53, 232.

Bellay, Jean Du, successively Bishop of Bayonne and Paris, and Cardinal, 42, 44, 45, note 1, 47, ibid., note 2, 48, 53, 65, 66, 67, ibid., note 3, 80, 89-90, 98, 232.

Bellay, Madame Du, 117.

Bellay, Martin Du, 47, note 2.

Bembo, Pietro, Cardinal, 158, ibid., note 2.

Berthereau, secretary to Montmorency, 59.

Bèze, M. de, 59, note 2.

Bèze, Théodore de, 59, note 2.

Bidassoa, river, 146, 176, 201, note 2.

Biez, Oudart Du, Governour of Boulogne, 98.

Black Friars, 68, 69.

Blaigny, Charles le Genevois, Marquis de, 16, 26.

Blaigny, Charlotte Marie de Cazillac, Marquise de, see Cazillac.

Blaigny, Marie Renée Le Genevois de, see Le Genevois.

Blois, Château of, 42, 125.

Boisy, Grand-Maître, 39.

Boleyn, Queen Anne, see Anne Boleyn.

Bologna, 72.

Bomy, Truce of, 163.

Bonhomme, Abbé, 24, note 1.

Bonner, Dr., 82, ibid., note 2.

Bonnivet, Admiral, 39.

Bonvalot, François, Abbot of St. Vincent of Besançon, Imperial Ambassador in France, 177.

Bordeaux, 30, note 2, 144.

Born, Derick, 76, note 1.

Boulogne, 60, 61, 66, 98, 110.

Bourbon, Connétable de, 233.

Bourdaizière, La, 60.

Bourges, Archbishop of, see Tournon, François de.

Bourges, University of, 46, 145, 231, ibid., note 2.

Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, 85, ibid., note 3, 87-88, 90.

Brantôme, 199-200, 201, note 2.

Breton, secretary to Francis I., 98.

Brian, Sir Francis, 94, 109-110.

Bridewell, Palace of, 58, ibid., note 3, 63, ibid., note 3, 67-71, 68, note 1.

Brion, Madame de, 117.

Brion, Philippe de Chabot, Admiral de, 65, 98, 116, 118, 146.

Brittany, 59, 213.

Brittany, Anne of, wife of Louis XII., 45, note 2.

Broglie, Anne Louise de, second Marquise de Cessac, 23, 25, 28.

Brou, Denis Feydeau de, 28.

Brou, Madame de, 118.

Brun, Le, see Le Brun.

Brussels, 177, 186, 187, 188.

Buchanan, picture-dealer, 6, ibid., note 2, 32.

Budé, Guillaume, 43, ibid., note 2, 46, 47.

Bunel, Pierre, 144, 157, ibid., note 2, 159, 160, 174-175, 189, 190, note 1, 191-192.

Burgundy, Charles the Bold, Duke of, 37.

Burgundy, County of (High Burgundy or Franche Comté), 16, 139, note 2, 177, 186.

Burgundy, Duchy of, 36, 37, 41, 121, 127, 139, note 2, 213.

Buttes, Dr., physician to Henry VIII., 74, 78.

Buxi, Cécille de, wife of Jean de Selve, 143, 147, note 1, 154.

Buxi, Pierre de, Bishop of Lavaur, 147.

Cahors, 24, note 1.

Calais, 60-63, 66, 109;

meeting of Henry VIII. and Francis I. at (1532), 60-63.

Calvin, 46, 158, note 3.

Campeggio, Cardinal, 69, 233, note 3.

Camusat, Nicolas, Canon of Troyes, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, note 1, 134, note 1.

Canterbury, Archbishops of, see Cranmer, Warham.

Capello, Carlo, Venetian Ambassador in England, 85, ibid., note 6.

Carew, Sir Nicolas, Master of the Horse to Henry VIII., 88.

Carpentras, 174, note 1.

Carpentras, Bishop of, see Sadoleto.

Carpi, Ridolfo Pio, Bishop of Faenza, Cardinal, 162-165.

Carrelage at Polisy (tesselated pavement), 129-130, 197.

Castelnau, Anthoine de, Bishop of Tarbes, French Ambassador in England and with Charles V., 102-103, 105, ibid., note 3, 172, note 2, 174-175.

Castelnau, Louis de, Marquis de Cessac, 15, note 5, 24, note 1.

Castillon, Sieur de, French Ambassador in England, 95, 96.

Catherine de’ Medici (Duchess of Orleans, subsequently Queen of France), 72, 96, 99.

Cazillac, Charlotte-Marie de, Marquise de Blaigny, 16, 17, 23, 25-27, 31.

Cazillac, Claude de, Baronne de Fontenilles, 15, 26.

Cazillac, Claude de, Marquise de Praslin, 25, note 1.

Cazillac, François I. de, Baron de Cessac, see Cessac.

Cazillac, François II. de, Marquis de Cessac, see Cessac.

Cazillac, seigneurie in Quercy, 24, 27.

Cellini, Benvenuto, 126, note 3, 197.

Cessac, Baronne de, see Dinteville, Claude de.

Cessac, François I. de Cazillac, Baron de, 14, 17, 31.

Cessac, François II. de Cazillac, Marquis de, 15-17, 19-21, 22-25, ibid., note 1, 26, 31.

Cessac, Marquise de, see Broglie, Anne-Louise de.

Cessac, Marquise de, see Choiseul, Marie de.

Cessac, seigneurie in Quercy, 24, 25, 27, 28.

Chabot, Philippe de, Admiral de Brion, 65, 98, 116, 146.

Chambord, 125.

Champagne, 14, note 1, 16, 24, note 1, 36, 46, 52, 127.

“Champagne et de Brie, Revue de,” 10-12, 14, note 1.

Chantilly, 55, 83, 100.

Chapeaufort, Maison du, 21.

Chapuys, Eustace, Ambassador of Charles V. in England, 62, 63, 103, 105-106.

Charles VIII., King of France, 37, 51.

Charles IX., King of France, 207, note 1.

Charles V., Emperor of Germany, 6, 40, 41, 42, 48, 52, note 2, 57, 69, 72, 73, 76, 90-92, 95, 99, 101, 102, 104, 106, 107, 116, 128, 151, 152, 156, 157, 162, 163, 165, 166, 169, 172-182, 182, note 1, 184-188, 184, note 1, 193.

Charles, Duke of Angoulême, subsequently Duke of Orleans, 40, 42, 43, 44, 53, 59, 60, 62, 98, 99, 100, 106, 112, note 2, 113, 116, 118, ibid., note 3, 119, 121-124.

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 37.

Chartres, Duchess of, see Renée.

“Chartreuse,” The, 30.

Châtillon, Mme. de, 45, note 1.

Chelsea, More’s house at, 74, 75.

Chenonceaux, 125.

Choiseul, Charles de, Marquis de Praslin, 25, note 1.

Choiseul, Duché-Pairie, 17.

Choiseul, family of, 16.

Choiseul, Isabelle de, 25, note 1.

Choiseul, Marie de, first Marquise de Cessac, 16, 21, 22.

Chrétien, Félix, 137, note 1.

Christina, Duchess of Milan, niece of Charles V., 91, ibid., note 1.

Chronology of Holbein’s “Ambassadors,” 31.

Cinque Ports, Barons of the, 87, note 4.

Clement VII., Pope, 41, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 72, 73, 78, 79, 82, 91, 93, 95-96, 99, 100, note 2, 155.

Clermont, Cardinal, Legate of Avignon, 148-150.

Clermont, M. de, 150.

Clouet, 209.

Cloux, Château, 126, note 3.

Cobham, 102.

Cognac, League of, 41, 90, 92, 228, ibid., note 4.

Coligny, Louise de, wife of Gaucher de Dinteville the younger, 51, note 2.

Collège Royal (Coll. de France), 46, 145.

Cologne, Archbishop of, 233, note 3.

Compass, an oval, 80.

Compasses, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 203, 224, 232, 233.

Concordat, The, 147.

Contarini, Cardinal, 158, note 1, 182, ibid., note 1.

Conti, Prince de, Governour of Champagne, 16.

Copernicus, 210, note 3.

Cosins Lane, 75.

Council, The General, 78, 106, 162, 163.

Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 78, 85-87, 222, ibid., note 3, 223, note 1.

Croix, Nicolas de la, 135, 136.

Cromwell, Thomas, minister of Henry VIII., subsequently Earl of Essex, 74, 76, note 1, 102, 106, 107.

Crucifix, Silver, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 203, 232, 234, 235.

Dagger, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 7, 201, 205-207, 206, note 1.

Dagger-sheath, design for, after Holbein, 206, ibid., note 1.

Dagger and sword, worn together, 200, 201, ibid., note 2.

“Dance of Death,” Holbein’s, 203, 204.

Dance of Death, The, 198.

Danès, Pierre, 144, 145, 146, 157, 183, ibid., note 1, 189, 191.

Dauphin François, The, see François.

Dauphin Henri, The, see Henri.

Death, Agrippa’s Mystical, 234-235.

“Death, Arms of,” 203-204, 207.

Death, Device and Emblems of, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 203-207, 228, 235.

Death, Mottoes concerning, 206.

Death’s-head Brooch, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 201, 203.

Death’s-head, Distorted, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 10, 203-205, 203, note 1, 206, 225, 235.

Derick, see Born and Tybis.

Deschenetz (Echenay), seigneurie, 17, note 1, 36, 37, 40, 113-114.

Deschenetz, Seigneur, see Dinteville, Guillaume de.

Device of Death, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 204-207, 235.

Device or Devise, 197-198, 204-207, 235.

Diane de Poitiers, “Grande Sénéchale,” subsequently Duchesse de Valentinois, 112.

Diet of Hagenau (1540), 172-173, 174.

—— Ratisbon (1541), 174, 175.

—— Spires (1529), 151-153, ibid., note 1, 219, 222.

Dijon, Bailly of (M. de Villiers les Potz), 117-118.

Dinteville, Charlotte de, wife of Louis Raguier, Seigneur de la Mothe, sister of Jean the “Ambassador,” 47, 53, 136, ibid., note 1.

Dinteville, Claude de, Surintendant de Finance to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, uncle to Jean the “Ambassador,” 37.

Dinteville, Claude de, wife of François I. de Cazillac, Baron de Cessac, niece of Jean the “Ambassador,” 14, 15, 17, 31, 134, note 3.

Dinteville, François I. de, Bishop of Auxerre, uncle of Jean the “Ambassador,” 37, 38, 51, 53, 56.

Dinteville, François II. de, Bishop of Auxerre, brother of Jean the “Ambassador,” 15, 38, 39, 51, 53, 55-60, 62-65, 78, 79-81, 111, 113-121, 129-131, 133, 135-138, 214, 233.

Dinteville, Françoise de, sister of Jean the “Ambassador,” 53, 63, note 4, 134.

Dinteville, Gaucher I. de, father of Jean the “Ambassador,” 37-42, 47, 50-53, 53, note 2, 54.

Dinteville, Gaucher II. de, Seigneur of Vanlay and Thennelières, brother of Jean the “Ambassador,” 51, note 2, 52, ibid., note 3, 53, 59, 60, 62, 111-116, 137, 213.

Dinteville, Guillaume, Seigneur Deschenetz, brother of Jean the “Ambassador,” 14, 52, ibid., note 2, 53, 59, 107-108, 111-114, 116, 133-138, 167-168, 213.

Dinteville, Jacques de, Grand Veneur de France, uncle of Jean the “Ambassador,” 37.

Dinteville, Jean de, Seigneur of Polisy and Bailly of Troyes (subject of Holbein’s portrait).

Birth and lineage, 36;

position at French Court, 39, 40, 42, 52, ibid., note 3, 53, 59, 60, 62, 63, 99-101, 111-113, 116-121, 122, 134;

Bailly of Troyes and Governour of Bar-sur-Seine, 41;

Knight of St. Michael, 7-8, 53, ibid., note 2, 134, note 2, 201-208;

first embassy to England (1531), 54, 56-57;

second and longest ditto (1533), 66-98;

third ditto (1535), 100-103;

fourth ditto (1536), 105-107;

fifth and last ditto (1537), 108-110;

in disgrace with Francis I., 111-113;

back at Court, 116-121;

paralyzed, 121;

builds Polisy, 125-133;

death, 138.

—— His portrait by Holbein (“Ambassadors”), 1, 10-11, 18-20, 31, 77-78, 200;

see also under “Ambassadors.”

—— Supposed portrait amongst the Holbein drawings at Windsor, 139.

Dinteville, Jean de, son of Pierre de Jaucourt, ancestor of Jean the “Ambassador,” 36.

Dinteville, Jean de, another ancestor, 36-37.

Dinteville, Joachim de, Seigneur of Dinteville in Champagne, 14, note 1, 24, note 1.

Dinteville, Louis de, Knight Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, brother of Jean the “Ambassador,” 39, 53, 54, 60, 213.

Dinteville, Pierre de, Seneschal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, uncle of Jean the “Ambassador,” 37, 54.

Dinteville, seigneurie in Champagne, 14, note 1, 24, note 1, 36.

St. Dizier, 128.

Dodieu, Claude, Sieur de Vély, French Ambassador with Charles V., 98, ibid., note 2, 186-188, 199-200, 222, note 3.

Domenico Fiorentino (Domenico del Barbier), 126-128.

Dossi, Battista, 209.

Dover, 66, 109-110.

Du Bellay, see Bellay, Du.

Du Faur, see Faur, Du.

Du Plessis, see Plessis, Du.

Duprat, Chancellor, 99.

Du Puy, see Puy, Du.

Ecouen, Château of, 125.

Eleanor, sister of Charles V., Queen-Dowager of Portugal, Queen of France, 50, 59.

Elizabeth, Princess, daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn, 94, 102-103.

Emblems, Alciati’s Book of, 198, ibid., note 1, 228-231, 228, notes 1-4, 231, notes 1 and 2.

Embrun, Archbishop of, see Tournon, François de.

Epitaph of Gaucher I. de Dinteville, 51.

Epitaph of George de Selve, 190.

Erasmus, 43, ibid., note 3, 231, note 3.

Ercole II. d’Este, see Este.

Escars, Susanne d’, wife of Charles de Cazillac, Baron de Cessac, 15.

Esmon, Mademoiselle de, 136.

Este, Alfonso I. d’, Duke of Ferrara, 209.

Este, Ercole II. d’, Duke of Ferrara, 45, 115, note 3, 159, note 1, 168.

Este, Leonora d’, 45.

Etampes, Duchesse d’ (Anne de Pisseleu), 112-113, 117-121, 184, note 1.

Evelyn, John, 15, note 5.

Evreux, Hotel d’, 30, ibid., note 3.

Falconry, 55, 56, 80.

Falier, Lodovico, Venetian Ambassador in England, 66.

Farnese, Alessandro, Cardinal, 164.

Faur, Du, 157, note 2.

Ferdinand, King of Hungary, 41.

Ferrara, 67, 115, 116, 158, note 3, 159.

Ferrara, Dukes of, see Este.

Ferrara, Duchess of, see Renée.

Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester, 100-101, 104.

Fitzwilliam, Sir William, Treasurer of the Household to Henry VIII., 71, 74.

Flanders, 109, 176, 177, ibid., note 1, 178, 186.

Fleece, Order of the, 207.

Fleet, the river, 67-69.

Flutes, Case of, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 203, 232.

Fontainebleau, 120, 125, 126, 127, 135, 197.

Fontaines, page of Louis de Dinteville, 60.

Fontenilles, see Roche, De la.

Forestmontier, 11, 123.

Fortespice, vassal of the Comte de Vaudemont, 37.

Fortune, emblems of, at Polisy, 130-132.

Four, Rue du (at Paris), 21.

France, Collège de, see Collège Royal.

France, Kings of, see Charles, Francis, Henri, Louis.

Franche-Comté, 16, ibid., note 2, 139, note 2.

Francis I., King of France, 10, 11, 19, 40-47, 50, 52, 53, note 2, 54-62, 64, 65, 72, 73, 76, 78-81, 89-98, 99-102, 104, 105, 107-110, 111, 112, 114-122, 125-128, 134, 145-150, 156, 157, 162, 163, 165-167, 172, 173, 175-182, 186, 187, 192, 197, 199, 207, 209, 214.

Francis II., King of France, 207, note 1.

François, The Dauphin, eldest son of Francis I., 39, 40, 42, 50, 52, 53, 62, 103, 106, 107, 112, ibid., note 1.

Gabarre, 42.

Gardiner, Stephen, Bishop of Winchester, 102, 103, 105.

Garter, Order of the, 61, 207.

Gaucher de Dinteville, see Dinteville.

Genevois, Le, see Le Genevois.

Genoa, 101, 214.

Geometry, 225, 227, 232, 233, 235.

Germany, 41, 45-47, 89, 136, 172, 214, 219.

St. Géry, Château of, 25, note 2.

St. Géry, Rey de, see Rey.

Ghent, 175, 177, 178.

Globe, Celestial, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 202, 209-210, 232.

Globe, Terrestrial, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 202, 210-218, 228, 232, 235.

Godefroy family, The, 14, 18.

Godefroy papers (Bibl. de l’Institut), 18, 20.

Grammont, Gabriel de, Bishop of Tarbes, Cardinal, 62, 64-65, 71, 72, 91, 92, 146.

Grand-Maître, see Montmorency.

Grand-Seigneur (the Turk), see Solyman II.

Grand Veneur de France, see Dinteville, Jacques de.

Granvella, Cardinal (Nic. Perrenot, minister of Charles V.), 186-188.

Greenwich, 70, 71, 84, 94-95.

Grenoble, 136, 233, note 3.

Grignan, French Ambassador at Rome, 114-115.

Gryphe or Gryphius, printer of Lyons, 131-132, 198.

Guénégaud, Henri Du Plessis, Marquis de Plancy, 25, note 1.

Guénégaud, Roger de, 24, 25, note 1.

Guildford, Sir Henry, Comptroller of the Household to Henry VIII., 74.

Guise, Claude de Lorraine, Duke of, 113.

Guise, Duke of, 16.

Guise, The, 134, note 3.

Gyze, Gisze, Gyes, George, 75, note 3;

see also Appendix A, p. 239.

Hagenau, Diet of (1540), 174.

Hague, The, 184, 185.

Hargerie, Seigneur de La, 93.

Hellin, French resident at Brussels, 177, ibid., note 2.

Henri, successively Duke of Orleans, Dauphin, and Henri II., King of France, 10, 42, 54, 59, 60, 61-62, 72, 96, 99, 112, ibid., note 2, 113, 114, 120, 121, 123, 127, 132, 134, note 2, 136, ibid., note 2, 137, 184, note 1, 207, note 1.

Henry VIII., King of England, 8, 20, 40, 42, 47, 48, 50, 56-58, 60-63, 67-74, 76, 78-82, 83, 88, 89-90, 93-98, 100-102, 104-109.

Henry, Count of Nassau, Grand Chamberlain of Charles V., 52, note 2, 213.

Hermes’ wings, 131-132, 231, note 2.

Hermeticism (Hermetic Art), 132, 233.

Hesse, Philip, Landgrave of, 99.

Holbein, Hans, the Younger, 1, 5-7, ibid., note 1, 8, note 2, 9, 10, ibid., note 3, 11, 13, 19, ibid., note 3, 20-22, 26, 31-32, 35, 41, 43, note 3, 56, 74-78, 134, note 3, 139, 140, 198, 199, 202, 203-206, 208, 209, note 3, 211-212, 215-218, 220-221, 224-227, 230, 235-236.

—— “Dance of Death,” 203-204.

—— Design for the “Arms of Death,” 203-204, 207.

—— —— for the Order of St. Michael, 209, note 3.

—— —— after, for a Dagger-sheath, 206.

—— Drawing at Dresden, of Morette, 140.

—— —— —— Windsor, supposed to represent Dinteville, 139, ibid., note 2, 140.

—— Engravings after, by Hollar, see Hollar.

—— Portraits by:

The “Ambassadors,” see under that head.

Born, Derick, 76, note 1.

Buttes, Dr., 74.

Cromwell, Thomas, 74.

Erasmus, 43, note 3.

Fitzwilliam, Sir William, 74.

Guildford, Sir Henry, 74.

Gyze or Gisze, Georg, 75, note 2, Appendix A (pp. 239-240).

Kratzer, Nicolas, 74, 75, note 1, 224, ibid., note 4.

Milan, Christina, Duchess of, 91, note 1.

More, Sir Thomas, 75.

More family, 75.

Morette, Comte de, 42, note 7, 140, 201, note 1.

Norfolk, Duke of, 74.

Steelyard Merchants, 75.

Tybis, Derick, 76, note 1.

Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, 74.

Holland, 184.

Hollar, Wenzel, 140.

Holy Ghost, Order of the, 207, note 1.

Hospice (now Hôpital) Beaujon, 30, ibid., note 2.

Howard, Lord William, 85, ibid., note 4, 87-88

Hozier, D’, 14, 24, note 1, 53, note 2.

Humanists, the French, 45 et seq.

Hungary, Ferdinand, King of, see Ferdinand.

Hungary, John Zapolski, King of, see Zapolski.

Hymn-book, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 151, 173, 202, 214, 219-223, 228, 235.

Instruments, Geometrical, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 202, 224-225, 232, 233, 235.

Italian artists employed in France, 125-127, 128, 129-130.

Iversay, M. d’, 122.

Ivoy, 122-123.

Jaucourt, Pierre de, 36.

John, King of England, 69.

St. John of Jerusalem, Order of, 39, 53, 54, 57, 67, 68, 213.

Joinville, 116, 121.

Julyot, Hubert, 128.

Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England, 57, 63, ibid., note 2, 69, 83, 89, 94, 104.

Kingston, 102.

Kratzer, Nicolas, astronomer to Henry VIII., 74, 75, ibid., note 2, 222, 224, 225.

Laigne, river, 36, 128, 129.

Lamoignon (place), 29.

Lamoignon, Chrétien de, Marquis de Basville, 29.

Lamoignon, Chrétien-François (II.) de, Marquis de Basville et de Milhars, Président à mortier of the Parliament of Paris, Garde des Sceaux, 29, ibid., note 1, 30-31, 32.

Langey, see Bellay, Guillaume Du.

Languedoc, 14, 16, 17, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31, 150, 153, 213.

Lavaur (Lavor, La Vaur), Bishops of, see Buxi, Danès, Selve.

Lavaur, Cathedral of, 170.

Le Brun, Jean-Batiste-Pierre, 5-6, 10, 31, 32.

Lefèvre d’Etaples, Jacques, 43, ibid., note 1, 44, 47.

Le Genevois, Charles, Marquis de Blaigny, 16, 26.

Le Genevois, Marie Renée, wife of François Voisin, subsequently Marquise de Milhars, 26-29, 31-32.

Leland, John, 6-7.

Lesches, in Brie, 53.

Liancourt, Madame de, 135, ibid., note 1.

Liancourt, Seigneur de, see Plessis, Du.

Limoges, 24, note 1, 144.

Lionardo da Vinci, 126, note 3.

L’Isle-Adam, Philippe de Villiers, Grand Master of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, 54, 59.

Loches, 176.

London, 57, 63, 66-71, 75, 76, 92, 102;

description of (1531), 70;

Mayor of (Sir Stephen Pecock), 88;

Tower of, 84.

Longford Castle, 6, ibid., note 2, 32.

Longueval, M. de, 122.

Lorraine, Claude de, Duke of Guise, 113.

Lorraine, Dukedom of, 37.

Louise of Savoy, Duchess of Angoulême, mother of Francis I., 40, 42, ibid., note 5, 43, 45, 55, 56, 148-149, 233.

Low Countries, The, see Netherlands.

Lunden, Bishop of (John Vesalius, Archbishop of Linden), 172.

Lute, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 202, 227-231, 232, 235.

Luther, 46, 219, ibid., note 3.

Lutheran Hymn-book in picture of “Ambassadors,” see Hymn-book.

Lutherans (Luthériens), 45, 46, 49, 65, 89, 172, 181, 222.

Lützelburger, Hans, 204.

Luxemburg, Duchy of, 116.

Lyencourt, see Liancourt.

Lyons, 93, 99, 105, 107, 108, 131-132, 136, 155, 198, 204, 213.

Mablisteyn, Sir John, 57.

Mâcon, Charles de Hémard, Bishop of, Cardinal, 161-165, 163, note 2, 199-200.

Madeleine, daughter of Francis I., subsequently Queen of Scotland, 99.

Madrid, 40, 146.

Madrid, Château of (near Paris), 125, 126.

Madrid, Treaty of, 41, 50, 146, 213.

Magellan, 212.

Magic, 234, ibid., notes 1 and 2.

Maison de l’Aûmonier (Polisy), 130-133, 130, note 1, 198, 233.

Maison du Chapeaufort (Paris), 20, 21.

Malta, 54.

Mantua, 116.

Manuzio, Paolo, 157.

Maraviglia, see Merveilles.

Marck, Cardinal La, 109, 234.

Mareuil, Pierre de, Bishop of Lavaur, 113, 117-121.

Marguerite d’Angoulême, successively Duchesse d’Alençon and Queen of Navarre, sister of Francis I., 42, ibid., note 3, 43-45, 98, 153-154.

Marguerite, Princess, daughter of Francis I., 99.

Marignan, Battle of, 144.

Marseilles, meeting of Francis I. and Clement VII. at, 72, 78, 89, 93-94, 95-96, 99.

Mary, ex-Queen of France, sister of Henry VIII., wife of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, 90.

Mary, Queen-Dowager of Hungary, Regent of the Netherlands, sister of Charles V., 109, 177, ibid., note 1.

Mary, Princess, daughter of Henry VIII. and Katherine of Aragon, 94, 103.

Mass, placards against, 104.

Maurice of Saxony, 136.

Mechanics, 55, 137, 235.

Melanchthon, André, 46.

Melanchthon, Philip, 46, 48, 158, note 3, 210, note 3.

Mergey, Catherine de, 133.

Mergey, Jean de, 133-134, 134, note 1.

Merveilles or Maraviglia, French agent at Milan, 90-93, 90, note 4, 230.

Mesmes, Jean-Antoine de, Conte d’Avaux, ambassador, 27, 28, 31.

Mesmes, Jean-Antoine de, Conte d’Avaux, Premier Président of the Parliament of Paris, 27, 28, ibid., note 1, 29, 31.

Mesmes, Jean-Jacques de, Conte d’Avaux, Président à mortier of the Parliament of Paris, 27, 31.

Mesmes, Marie-Thérèse de, wife of François de la Roche, Marquis de Fontenilles, 27, ibid., note 1, 28, 31.

Metals, transmutation of, 233.

St. Michael, Order of (Ordre du Roi), 7-8, 42, 53, ibid., note 2, 61, ibid., note 1, 200, 201, 207-209, notes 207-209.

Milan, city of, 198, ibid., note 1, 228, note 1, 230, 231, note 3.

Milan, Duchy of, 67, 73, 90-92, 96, 101, 144, 163, 166, 176-179, 184, note 1, 186, 187, 228, note 4.

Milan, Francesco Sforza, Duke of, 41, 90-93, 228, note 4, 229, 230.

Milan, Maximilian, Duke of, 228, note 4, 229.

Milhars, Château of, 17, 23, ibid., note 3, 24, 25, ibid., note 2, 26-29, 31-32.

Milhars, Marquis de, see Voisin, François.

Milhars, Marquise de, see Le Genevois, Marie Renée.

Mirandola, La, 115, 167, ibid., note 2.

Mirandola, La, Pico, Count of, 167.

Modena, 167, 209.

Modena, Niccolò da, 126.

Mons, 177.

Montecuculli, Count Sebastiano di, 107-108, 112, note 1.

Montier-Aramey, abbey of, 117-119.

Montierender, abbey of, 55, 134.

Montier-la-Celle, abbey of, 117-121, 135, ibid., note 2.

Montier-sur-Saulx, 116.

Montmorency, Anne de, successively Maréchal, Grand-Maître, and Connétable de France, 39, 42, ibid., note 7, 43, 44, 48-49, 53, 54, 55, 59, 61, 64, 65, 77, 79, 80, 83, 97, 98, 100, 113, 115, 125, 126, ibid., note 1, 146, 150, 153, 154, 161, 162, 164, 165, 171, 176, 177, 184, 185, 186, 188, 198, 213.

Montmorency, church of, 51.

Montmorency, Madame de (Madame la Connétable), 135, ibid., note 3.

Montpesat, Antoine des Prez, Seigneur de, French ambassador in England, 42, note 7, 63.

Montreuil, Madame de, 39-40, 42-43, 118.

Montreuil, seigneurie, 40.

More, Sir Thomas, 43, note 3, 74, 75, ibid., note 1, 76, 100-101, 104.

Morette, Charles de Solier, Comte de, French hostage, subsequently ambassador, in England, 42, note 7, 63, note 1, 140, 201, note 1.

Mosaic Pavement, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 203, 225-227, 233.

—— Westminster Abbey, 225-227.

Motte de Tilly, De la, 136, ibid., note 1.

See also Raguier.

Motto of the Dinteville family, 130, 132, 231, note 3.

Mottoes concerning Death, 206-207.

Mottoes on weapons, 205, 206.

Music, 197, 219, 221, 223, 229, 232, 235.

Naples, 51, 116.

Nassau, Henry, Count of, 52, note 2, 213.

National Gallery, The, 1, 5-6, 31-32.

Navarre, College of (University of Paris), 56.

Navarre, Henri d’Albret, King of, 42, ibid., note 3.

Navarre, Marguerite d’Angoulême, Queen of, see Marguerite.

Nérac, 44.

Netherlands (Low Countries), 109, 127, 163, 176, 177, 179, 185, 186, 187, 188.

Niccolò dell’ Abate, or, da Modena, 126.

Nice, meeting of Francis I., Charles V., and Paul III. at, 164, 166, 179.

Nice, Truce of, 166.

Nichols, John Gough, 6, ibid., note 5, 7, ibid., note 2.

Norfolk, Duchess of, 85, ibid., note 1.

Norfolk, Thomas Howard, second Duke of, Lord Treasurer and Earl Marshal, 61, 70, note 5, 71, 74, 77, 78, 81, 85, ibid., note 4, 93, 94, 98, 102.

Nuncio, the Papal, in England (Antonio de Pulleo, Baron de Burgo), 71, 73, 82.

Nuncio, the Papal, in France, 165.

Nuremberg, 210, note 3, 211, 214, 233.

Occult Sciences, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 232-235.

—— Agrippa’s Key to, 234, ibid., note 2.

“Opus Alexandrinum,” see Mosaic Pavement.

Orange, Prince and Princess of, 188.

Orders of Knighthood, see Fleece, Garter, Holy Ghost, St. John of Jerusalem, St. Michael.

Orleans, Dukes of, see Henri, Charles.

Orleans, University of, 145.

Ouschamps, Seigneur of, see Plessis, Du.

Padua, University of, 56, 115, 157, ibid., note 2, 158, notes 1 and 2, 159.

Paris, 15, 18-21, 22, 23, ibid., note 1, 27, 29, ibid., note 1, 31, 37, 42, 43, note 2, 50, 55, 115, 119, 125, 126, ibid., note 1, 143, 144, 146, 153, 176, 213.

Paris, Bishop of, see Bellay, Jean Du.

Paris, Premier Président of the Parliament of, see Mesmes, Selve.

Paris, President à mortier of the Parliament of, see Lamoignon, Mesmes.

Paris, University of, 39, 46, 56, 144, 145, 157, note 2.

Parma, 96.

St. Paul’s, old Cathedral of, 67.

Paul III., Pope, 100, ibid., note 2, 101, 104, 108-109, 116, 156, 162-166, 168, 174.

Pavement, Mosaic, see Mosaic Pavement.

Pavement, tesselated, at Polisy, 129-130.

Pavia, battle of, 40, 48.

Pavia, University of, 231, note 3.

Perrine, La, see Plessis, Du.

Philip of Spain, 184, note 1.

Piacenza, 96.

Piedmont, invaded by the French, 104.

Pirkheimer, 233.

Pithou, Pierre, advocate of Troyes, 47.

Plessis, Anne Du (Madame de Polisy), wife of Gaucher I. de Dinteville, mother of Jean the “Ambassador,” 38, 51, 52, 53, 60, 63, ibid., note 4, 114, note 2, 134, 135, note 1.

Plessis, Benjamin Du, son of Guillaume, Seigneur de Liancourt, 135, ibid., note 2.

Plessis, Charles Du, Seigneur of Savonnières, Ouschamps, and La Perrine, uncle of Dinteville the “Ambassador,” 135-136, 135, note 1.

Plessis, Guillaume de, Seigneur of Liancourt, uncle of Dinteville the “Ambassador,” 135, note 1.

Plessis, Jean Du, the elder, Seigneur of Ouschamps and La Perrine, maternal grandfather of Dinteville the “Ambassador,” 38.

Plessis, Jean Du, the younger (“the young Savonnières”), 114-115, 135.

Plessis, Le, seigneurie, 60.

Plessis-Praslin, Maréchal Du, subsequently Duc de Choiseul, 17, 19, 21.

Plutarch’s “Lives,” 145-146.

Poitiers, Diane de, 112.

Poitiers, University of, 56, 145.

Poland, Sigismund, King of, 41, 214.

Pole, Reginald, Cardinal, 108-109, 158, ibid., note 1, 159, 161, 169, 174, ibid., note 1.

Polisy, Château and Seigneurie of, 8, 10-12, 14-17, 18-21, 31, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 50, 60, 63, note 4, 111, 113, 121, 124, 125, 127-133, ibid., various notes, 134, 135, 138, 139, note 2, 171, 197, 198, 213, ibid., note 2, 214, 216, ibid., note 1.

Polisy, Madame de, see Plessis, Anne Du.

Polisy, M. de, see Dinteville, Jean de.

Polonia, 213, 214.

Pomponne, Marquis de, 25, note 1.

Pont, Jean Du, a “busy friar,” 110.

Potz, M. de Villiers les, Bailly of Dijon, 117-118.

“Presbyter Joannes” (Prester John), 217;

see also Appendix B, page 241.

Primaticcio, Francesco, 126-130.

Puy, Du, 14.

St. Quentin, 176.

Quercy, 17, 24.

Rabelais, 48.

Radnor, Jacob, second Earl of, 6.

Radnor, William, fifth Earl of, 5, note 1.

Raguier family, 47.

Raguier, Louis, Seigneur de la Motte de Tilly, 136, note 1.

Ratisbon, Diet held at (1541), 174.

Reformers, French, 43-49, 104.

Régennes, Château of (Diocese of Auxerre), 137.

Renaissance, French, 127, 129, 235.

Renée of France, successively Duchess of Chartres and of Ferrara, daughter of Louis XII., 43, note 1, 45, ibid., note 2, 115, ibid., note 3, 159, ibid., notes 1 and 2, 209, note 2, 233, note 2.

Rey de St. Géry, family of, 25, note 2, 29, 32.

Rhodes, Knights of, see St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of.

Richmond, Henry, Duke of, 94.

Riez, Bishop of (François II. de Dinteville), 56.

Robbia, Girolamo della, 126, 129.

“Robe courte” and “Robe longue,” 143, 199-200, 199, note 1.

Robes of peers and peeresses, 87, ibid., note 1.

Roche, François I. de la, Conte and Marquis de Fontenilles, 26, 27, 31.

Roche, François II. de la, Marquis de Fontenilles, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31.

Roche, Jean-Jaques de, Baron de Fontenilles, 15, 26.

Rochepot, La, Anne de Montmorency, Seigneur de, 42, note 7.

Rochepot, La, François de Montmorency, Seigneur de, 42, note 7.

Rochford, George Boleyn, Viscount, brother of Anne Boleyn, 94.

Rodez, Georges d’Armagnac, Bishop of, 156, 167.

Romans, 165.

Rome, 48, 49, 51, 55, 57, 59, ibid., note 2, 60, 62, 64, 79, 82, 89, 109, 114, 115, 116, 156, 158, note 3, 161, note 5, 162, 163, 169, 179, 199, 213.

Rosso, Il, 125-126.

Roussel, Gérard, 44, ibid., note 1.

Russell, Sir Giles, commander of Battisford and Dingley, 57.

Sadoleto, Jacopo, Bishop of Carpentras, Cardinal, 158, ibid., note 3, 159, 174, note 1.

St. Alain, Cathedral of (Lavaur), 170.

St. Dizier, 128.

St. Géry, Château of, 25, note 2.

St. Géry, Rey de, see Rey.

St. John of Jerusalem, Order of, 39, 53, 54, 57, 67, 68, 213.

St. Michael, Order of (Ordre du Roi), 7-8, 53, ibid., note 2, 61, ibid., note 1, 200, 201, 207-209, notes 207-209.

St. Quentin, 176.

St. Simon, 27, note 1.

Sainte-Marthe brothers, 13, 14.

Saluce (Saluzzo), Marquis de, 59.

Saveuse, M. de, Bailly of Amiens, 185, note 1.

Savona, 166.

Savonnières, see Plessis, Du.

Saxonia, 213, 214.

Saxony, Elector of, 41, 214.

Schöner, Johann, of Carlstadt, 210, ibid., note 3, 211.

Science, Occult, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 138, 232-235.

Scotland (Escoce), 81, ibid., notes 1 and 2, 95, 98.

Seine, river, 36, 128.

Selve, François de, ambassador at Constantinople, brother of the Bishop of Lavaur, 145, note 2.

Selve, George de, Bishop of Lavaur (subject of Holbein’s portrait).

Birth and lineage, 143;

education, 144-146;

Bishop of Lavaur, 13, 147, ibid., note 2;

Diet of Spires (1529), 151, ibid., note 2, 219, 222;

visit to England (1533), 11, 19, 20, 77-80, 154, 202, 235-236;

ambassador at Venice (1534-1537), 154, 156-161;

at Rome (1537-1538), 161-166;

interlude at Lavaur, 169-175;

addresses and orations, 152, 170-174, 179-182;

ambassador with the Emperor (1539-1540), 175-188;

last days at Lavaur, 188-190;

death, 190.

—— His portrait by Holbein (“Ambassadors”), 1, 10-11, 19, 20, 77-78, 202;

see also under “Ambassadors.”

—— Posthumous portrait at Villiers, 192.

Selve, Jean de, Premier Président of the Parliament of Paris, father of the Bishop of Lavaur, 9, 11, 13, 19, 20, 143-147, 148-150, 153-154.

Selve, Jean de, Abbé of Saint Vigor, brother of the Bishop of Lavaur, 145, note 2.

Selve, Jean-Paul de, Bishop of Saint-Flour, ambassador at Rome, brother of the Bishop of Lavaur, 145, note 2, 193.

Selve, Lazare de, ambassador in Switzerland, eldest brother of the Bishop of Lavaur, 145, note 2.

Selve, Odet de, Président du Grand Conseil, ambassador in England, at Venice, and at Rome, brother of the Bishop of Lavaur, 145, note 2, 159, 191, 192.

“Selve, M. de,” 5, 7, 8, 22.

Servia, 213-214.

Sesac, see Cazillac.

Seven Liberal Arts, The, see Arts, the Seven Liberal.

Sévigné, Madame de, 25, note 1.

Sforza, Francesco, Duke of Milan, 41, 90-93, 228, note 4, 229, 230.

Sienna (Senes), 37, 52.

Sigismund, King of Poland, 41, 214.

Sinus Adriaticus, 213, 214.

Skull in picture of “Ambassadors,” see Death’s-head.

Sleidan, Johann, 46.

“Solomon’s Seal” (double triangle), 227, 233.

Solyman II., the Grand Turk, 40-41, 61, 72, 73, 136, 156-157, 163, 214.

Sorbonne, The, 44, 144, 145.

Spain (Espagne), 52, 164, 176, 201, note 2, 213.

Spain, Infanta of (Mary of Castile, daughter of Charles V.), 166, 176, 177, 178, 179, 184, note 1.

Spires, Diet of (1529), 151-153, ibid., note 1, 219, 222.

Square, in picture of “Ambassadors,” 203, 232, 233.

Steelyard, The, 75, 76, ibid., note 1, 224, Appendix A (239-240).

Stevens, Mr. Henry, of Vermont, 210, ibid., note 3.

Sturm, Johann, rector of Strasburg University, 46.

Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, 85, ibid., note 3, 87-88, 90.

Supremacy, Act of, 100.

Switzerland, 38, 145, note 2.

Tarbes, Bishop of, see Castelnau.

Thames, river, 67, 68, 70, 71.

Théligny, Mademoiselle de, 118.

Thennelières, 38, 50, 51, note 2, 54.

Toledo, 146.

Tournelle, M. de la, 79, ibid., note 2.

Tournon, François de, successively Archbishop of Embrun, of Bourges, etc., Cardinal, 62, 64-65, 71, 72, 91-92, 136, 146, 153, 164.

Tower of London, The, 84, 105.

Transylvania, Waiwode of, see Zapolski.

Trent, Council of, 182, 183, ibid., note 1.

Trivulzi, Cardinal, 164-165.

Troyes, 17, 38, 39, 42, 47, 51, 52, 56, 99-100, 127, ibid., note 1, 128, 138.

Troyes, The Bailly of, see Dinteville, Jean de.

Troyes, Baillies of, belonging to Dinteville family, 37-38, 41, 52, 138.

Troyes, College of, 39, 56, 134.

“Turk,” The, see Solyman.

Tybis, Derick, 76, note 1.

Urbino, 96.

Valence, 165.

Vanlay, Seigneur de, see Dinteville, Gaucher II. de.

Varzy, 137, note 1.

Vaudemont, Comte de, 37.

Vaulx, Seigneur de, 93.

Vély, Sieur de, see Dodieu.

Venice, 9, 67, 72, 85, 154, 156-161, 167.

Venier, Marco Antonio, Venetian ambassador in England, 67.

Vic, Méry de, Garde des Sceaux, 19, ibid., note 5.

Villiers-les-Potz, M. de, Bailly of Dijon, 117-118.

Villiers-par-Cerny, Château of, 13, ibid., note 2, 148, note 1, 193-194.

Voisin, François, Marquis de Bougueval, subsequently Marquis de Milhars, husband of Marie-Renée Le Genevois, 27, 28, 29, 31.

Voisin, Marie-Renée, Marquise de Milhars, see Le Genevois.

Waiwode, see Zapolski.

Wallop, Sir John, English ambassador in France, 105.

Walther’s “Gesangbuch,” 219-223.

Ware, Richard, Abbot of Westminster, 225.

Warham, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 43, note 3, 74.

Westminster Abbey, 70, ibid., note 3, 86, 225, 227.

—— Mosaic Pavement of, see Mosaic Pavement.

Westminster Hall, 87, ibid., notes 2 and 3, 88.

—— Palace, 69, 70, 71, 86.

Weston, Sir William, Prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, 57, 67, ibid., note 2.

Weston, Young, 57, 105.

Whitehall, 69, note 2.

Wiltshire, Countess of, mother of Anne Boleyn, 85, ibid., note 2.

Winchester, 102.

Winchester, Bishop of, see Gardiner, Stephen.

Winkfield, Thomas, comptroller of the king’s works at Dover, 110.

Wolmar, Melchior, 46.

Wolsey, Cardinal, 42, 67, 69.

Woltmann, Dr., 6.

Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 6.

Wurtemberg, Duke of, 99.

Wyat, Sir Thomas, 6, 7, ibid., note 2, 178, ibid., note 3.

York Place (Whitehall), 69, 71.

York, see of, 69.

Zapolski, John, Waiwode of Transylvania, King of Hungary, 41.

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · The picture was acquired, with two others, from the late Earl of Radnor, for £55,000; of which £25,000 was contributed by the State, and £30Note 5 · The following entries occur in the Account Books of Longford Castle: 1808, Feb. 18, Buchanan, Picture Dealer, on account, £100. 1809, June 2Note 8 · “Archæologia,” vol. xliv., part ii., pp. 450-455. (“Remarks on some pictures of Quintin Matsys and Holbein in the Collection of the Earl of Note 9 · Amongst the Windsor drawings by Holbein there are two portraits of Wyat. Several oil paintings also exist of this personage.Note 10 · Curiously enough, Mr. Gough Nichols actually cites the name of George de Selve, Bishop of Lavaur, but rejects it, having examined it only wiNote 12 · It seems unnecessary to record here the many interesting suggestions put forward for the identification of Holbein’s sitters. An exception sNote 13 · The seigneurie of Avaux in Champagne was raised to the rank of a Comté in 1638, in favour of Jean Jacques de Mesmes, who had married the heiNote 19 · Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Cote Yᵈ, 184; and a second copy in the same library, Imprimés, V, 8201, 18. Catalogue dNote 26 · This deed, preserved at Villiers-par-Cerny, near La Ferté-Alais (Seine-et-Oise), and never before published, was kindly placed at the writerNote 27 · Joachim de Dinteville, the head of the elder line who resided at Dinteville in Champagne, died in 1607. He was Lieutenant du Roi in that proNote 32 · Not to be confounded with a distant connection, Louis de Castlenau, Marquis de Cessac, a celebrated gambler, who is alluded to by various wrNote 34 · Imperial territory.Note 36 · Polisy was sold 1654, Deschenetz in 1656, the smaller properties no doubt following suit as occasion offered.Note 4 · The name “Holben” is inserted between the lines, but is in the same hand and of the same date as the writing which surrounds it. See facsimiNote 6 · “Méri de Vic, sieur d’Ermenonville, président au parlement de Toulouse, conseiller d’Etat, garde des sceaux (24 Dec., 1621), mort le 2 sept.Note 13 · In 1779 Carlos de la Traverse wrote from St. Ildefonse (Spain) to M. d’Angeviller, proposing to him to buy some cartoons for tapestry designNote 14 · In 1661 M. de Cessac signed a deed in the house “on pend pour enseigne le Croissant,” Rue de Bourbon (Toulouse, Arch. de la Hte. Garonne). INote 16 · Milhars is situated in the Department of Tarn, on a rocky height commanding the junction of the small river Cérou with the Aveyron. For all Note 17 · Camusat himself possessed portraits of Guillaume, Seigneur Deschenetz, and Gaucher, Seigneur de Vanlay, brothers of Jean the Ambassador, as Note 18 · The deed recording the attempted donation was drawn up at Milhars, 1st September, 1665. Roger de Guénégaud was the son of Henri Du Plessis GNote 19 · M. Aug. Vidal of Albi (Tarn) kindly made researches for the writer on this point, both in the Archives at Toulouse and at the Château of St.Note 23 · St. Simon (“Mémoires”), who has nothing but sarcasm for the family of Mesmes in general, is full of admiration for the goodness, amiability,Note 24 · It will be seen later on, however, that the Voisin inheritance was bequeathed elsewhere, so that on Mme. Voisin’s side the connection could Note 26 · Perhaps no member of the Lamoignon race is better known to history than this one. Born in 1735, Chrétien-François de Lamoignon, Marquis de BNote 27 · Chrétien-François died, however, and his son fled, at the outbreak of the Revolution, so the arrangement came to an untimely end.Note 28 · Nicolas Beaujon, a native of Bordeaux, had raised himself, not always by the most creditable means, from a humble origin to a position of grNote 29 · Now the Elysée, the residence of the President of the Republic.Note 1 · The letters and chronicles of the time are rich in local colouring, and are preferable for the present object to the stately histories writtNote 13 · Marguerite, the widowed Duchesse d’Alençon, was married to the King of Navarre in January, 1527.Note 15 · Louise of Savoy, the king’s mother.Note 17 · It was not the first, nor perhaps the second visit, which Anne de Montmorency had paid to our shores. In 1519 he had been one of eight hostaNote 18 · Lefèvre had previously been the instructor of Renée of France, whose sympathies with the Reformers were well known. (Fontana, “Renata di FraNote 19 · Guillaume Budé was born at Paris in 1467. He was secretary to Charles VIII.; was sent by Louis XII. on various missions to the Holy See; wasNote 20 · Desiderius Erasmus was born at Rotterdam in 1467. Famous alike for profound learning and biting wit, no one, perhaps, exercised greater inflNote 21 · Roussel, another divine of Lutheran leanings, became confessor to the Queen of Navarre, and subsequently Bishop of Oloron.Note 25 · This princess had been brought up by Madame de Châtillon, a lady of high accomplishments, later secretly re-married, it was said, to the BisNote 26 · Daughter of Louis XII. and Anne de Bretagne.Note 28 · Guillaume Du Bellay, Seigneur de Langey, was born at Glatigny, near Montmirail, in 1491, and died 1543. He was Viceroy of Piedmont from 1537Note 2 · A third souvenir of the Dinteville, and record of their artistic tastes, in the Church of Thennelières, is the beautiful but ruined white maNote 4 · Guillaume, fourth son of Gaucher, was brought up in the household of Henry, Count of Nassau, who was attached to the Court of Charles V. TheNote 8 · Gaucher de Dinteville attended the coronation of Francis I. as a Knight of St. Michael. (Paris, Bibl. Nat., Fonds fr. 32865, Chevaliers de lNote 18 · Bridewell Palace.Note 20 · Balavoyne was the maternal uncle of Théodore de Bèze, the historian of the French Reformation, whose uncle, on the paternal side, Monsieur dNote 24 · Du Bellay, “Mémoires,” ed. Petitot, vol. ii., p. 133. These were certainly the only English subjects admitted to the French Order at this peNote 27 · See note 7, p. 42. Morette, another of the hostages, had already been over on a short mission in the spring of 1528.Note 28 · Katherine of Aragon.Note 29 · Letters and Papers, Henry VIII., vol. v., 1531-32, No. 1579, Chapuy to Charles V., Nov. 26, 1532. The “king’s house” in question was the palNote 30 · Perhaps his unmarried sister at Polisy, or possibly his mother. Married women were sometimes termed Mademoiselle, though in this case the apNote 3 · Sir William Weston.Note 4 · Jean Du Bellay, at this time Bishop of Bayonne, was in 1528 resident French ambassador in London.Note 7 · Letters and Papers, Henry VIII., vol. v., 1531-1532, No. 627, Grant 18. Bridewell Palace has fared badly compared with some other houses of Note 9 · Subsequently known as Whitehall.Note 13 · St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. The latter part of the sentence alludes of course to Henry VII.’s Chapel.Note 15 · Howard, Duke of Norfolk; Brandon, Duke of Suffolk; Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond. (State Papers, Venetian, vol. iv., No. 682.)Note 26 · Some of the instruments seen in the picture of the “Ambassadors” are identical with those introduced into the portrait of Kratzer, and may hNote 27 · In 1533 George Gyze, or Gisze, the subject of Holbein’s fine portrait now at Berlin, was the Alderman’s Deputy (see Appendix A.).Note 28 · On one occasion the king sent instructions to Cromwell to despatch Barnes immediately in post, to Germany, with Deryk (or Diryk). (Foxe, “LiNote 36 · “I have received your letter written from Sommevoyre, by which I understand you to tell me that some time ago you said to the ambassadors ofNote 39 · French ambassador in Scotland.Note 43 · Letters and Papers, Henry VIII., vol. vi. (1533), No. 465, Chapuys to Charles V., May 10, 1533. Bonner returned from Rome in January, 1533. Note 5 · The stepmother of the Duke.Note 6 · The Countess of Wiltshire.Note 7 · Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.Note 8 · Lord William Howard, brother to the Duke of Norfolk, who, it will be remembered, was now absent in France.Note 10 · Carlo Capello and Sir Thomas Audley.Note 11 · Peeress’s robes corresponding to those still worn by peers.Note 12 · Westminster Hall.Note 14 · The Barons of the Cinque Ports.Note 21 · His name was really Maraviglia, but had become gallicized by long residence in France.Note 22 · The subject, at a later period, when a young widow, of Holbein’s beautiful portrait, now the property of the Duke of Norfolk.Note 37 · Claude Dodieu, Sieur de Vély, was repeatedly employed as French ambassador to Charles V., and also to the Holy See. He was made Bishop of ReNote 5 · Clement VII. had died in September, 1534, and Cardinal Farnese (Paul III.) had been elected Pope in his place.Note 20 · The Bishop of Tarbes accompanied Dinteville to Court.Note 2 · Nearly all modern writers refer the disgrace of the Dinteville to the accusation made by Montecuculli against Deschenetz at the time of the Note 3 · Henri, formerly Duke of Orleans, was now Dauphin. Charles, Duke of Angoulême, had succeeded to the title of Duke of Orleans when Henri becamNote 8 · Nephew of Vanlay’s mother, whose brother was Seigneur Du Plessis, de Savonnières, d’Ouschamps and de la Perrine.Note 11 · Renée, daughter of Louis XII., married in 1527 to Ercole, son of the Duke of Ferrara. See also ante, p. 45.Note 19 · Charles, Duke of Orleans, died in 1545, and this document, though referring to 1542, was drawn up at a later date.Note 1 · Primaticcio designed for the house of the Connétable allegorical figures of the cardinal virtues, which were executed in fresco by Niccolò dNote 3 · He may indeed have been acquainted with greater than they. In 1540 Benvenuto Cellini was in the service of the French Court, and twenty-one Note 4 · The writer is indebted for nearly all the facts relating to the artists of Troyes, and to the Italians employed by Dinteville, to the very iNote 6 · This has since been filled in on one side. An old map, preserved at Polisy, shows the original plan, which is partly indicated also in the iNote 9 · Was this an allusion to the Bishop of Auxerre’s appointment as almoner to the king and other royal personages? The repetition of the date 15Note 14 · ... “as I did not wish to become a monk, she placed me with M. de Polizy, Bailly of Troyes, head of the house of Dinteville, a personage as Note 15 · It is probable that at the time of disgrace Jean de Dinteville either resigned or was deprived of the Order of St. Michael, and that Henri INote 16 · “My nephew, I have received two letters from you, one dated the 4th October, the other the 23rd January last. You write to me that you have Note 17 · Guillaume Du Plessis, Seigneur de Liancourt, was a younger brother of Dinteville’s correspondent, Charles Du Plessis, Seigneur de SavonnièreNote 18 · The Bishop of Auxerre had presented the Abbey of Montier-la-Celle to his first cousin, Benjamin, son of Guillaume, Seigneur de Liancourt.Note 20 · Dinteville’s sister, Charlotte, had married Louis Raguier, Seigneur de la Motte de Tilly.Note 21 · Henri II.Note 23 · Le Beuf, “Mémoires concernant l’histoire ecclesiastique, etc., d’Auxerre,” page 588. The Bishop had a favourite painter, named Felix ChrétieNote 24 · See illustration, page 110.Note 25 · Unless it may be assumed that the drawing in question was executed by Holbein on one of his later journeys abroad, which would give some addNote 5 · Of these all, excepting one, sooner or later served the king as ambassadors. They are usually given in the following order: 1, Lazare, GentiNote 6 · Jacques Amyot, author of a famous translation of Plutarch’s “Lives,” was born 1513, and died 1593. He was tutor to the sons of Henri II., waNote 7 · Probably a relation of Selve’s mother.Note 8 · All the confusion in popular sources as to the date of Selve’s birth appears to have arisen from one misstatement or misprint, to the effectNote 10 · The originals of these letters are at the Château of Villiers near La Ferté Alais, and belong to the Marquis de Selve, to whose courtesy theNote 16 · “Gallia Christiana,” 1656, vol. iii., p. 1142. The notice there given respecting the missions of 1529 is omitted in the edition of 1715 (hitNote 21 · The Diet of Spires of 1529 was, as is well known, one of the most reactionary of the great assemblies held at the epoch of the Reformation. Note 3 · Pierre Bunel, called by Bayle (“Dict.,” second edition, 1735) “one of the politest Latin writers that lived in the sixteenth century,” was bNote 4 · Reginald Pole, the celebrated Cardinal, was born in 1500, and was the son of Sir Richard Pole and of Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of SalisNote 5 · Pietro Bembo, born at Venice in 1470, was one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the sixteenth century. After a varied existence he wNote 6 · Jacopo Sadoleto, Cardinal, in whom brilliant talents were united with extraordinary charm of disposition, was born at Modena in 1477. He stuNote 7 · Renée of France bore this title until her husband succeeded, as Ercole II., to the dukedom of Ferrara, which happened later in this same yeaNote 16 · Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS. Clairembault, 1215, f. 75. The payments for the post of ambassador at Venice expire February 19; those for Rome beginNote 20 · Ribier, “Lettres et Mém. d’Estat,” vol. i., p. 128, Card. Mascon and the Bp. of Lavaur to the Conn. de Montmorency, Rome, 14th March, 1538.Note 31 · The shell of the castle of the Pico family still exists, though in a half-ruinous condition. A theatre has been established in one part of tNote 10 · Ribier, “Lett. et Pap. d’Estat,” vol. i., page 468. Relation of the Bishop-Elect of Avranches on his return from Spain in September, 1539. TNote 12 · Letters and Papers, Henry VIII., vol. xiv., part 1, No. 1090. Card. Pole to Card. Contarini, Carpentras, 8 June, 1539. (Pole had found a refNote 16 · Mary, Queen-dowager of Hungary, regent of Flanders, sister of Charles V.Note 17 · Ribier, “Lett. et Mém. d’Estat,” vol. i., p. 353. Hellin had been appointed to that post on account of his intimate knowledge of the FlemishNote 22 · Ibid., No. 508. Sir Thomas Wyat to Cromwell. Wyat was at this time English ambassador at the Imperial Court.Note 24 · Gasp. Contarini, born at Venice in 1483, was sent by that republic as ambassador to Charles V.; and, after the release of Clement VII. from Note 25 · Although convened in 1542, the first session of the Council of Trent was only opened in December, 1545; the final one, after many breaks, onNote 1 · The collapse of the friendship with Charles V., and the failure to promote a marriage between the Duke of Orleans and the Infanta of Spain wNote 3 · M. de Saveuse, formerly Bailly of Amiens, and M. de Castillon, late ambassador in England.Note 12 · Many authorities give the date of Selve’s death as 1542. The inscription on his portrait at Villiers, however (see page 193), and Bunel’s leNote 2 · H. Green, “Andrea Alciati and his Book of Emblems,” London, 1872. Mr. Green believes that the collection of 1522 was never published, years Note 3 · “Robe longue” was worn by lawyers and ecclesiastics; “robe courte” by laymen.Note 7 · It may be pointed out that Dinteville’s costume shows many points of similarity with that of Morette, in the portrait by Holbein at Dresden.Note 8 · Besides the allusion already quoted from Brantôme, the literature of the time has many allusions to “la dague et l’épée,” the ordinary accouNote 10 · It resumes normal proportions when viewed downwards from the right-hand side of the picture.Note 21 · Dr. Daniel Burckhardt, director of the Museum, has no doubt that this drawing, though not an original, is copied from one by Holbein, of whoNote 22 · In 1560, François II., shortly before his death, bestowed the Order of St. Michael simultaneously on eighteen gentlemen, at the instigation Note 28 · Alfonso I. died in 1534; the portrait cannot therefore have been substantially later in date than the “Ambassadors.” He was the father of ErNote 29 · There are two interesting sketches by Holbein, for the Order of St. Michael, in the Basle Museum. They show far more freedom and spirit thanNote 33 · “Johann Schöner. A reproduction of his globe of 1523, long lost.... By Henry Stevens of Vermont.... Edited by C. H. Coote. London, 1888.” ScNote 38 · Paris, Leon, Baion, Polisy. The rivers Seine and Rhone are also laid down by Holbein, but left unnamed, probably through lack of space.Note 44 · The S in Polisy is partially effaced.Note 3 · They are there respectively numbered II. and XIX. In both cases the words in the form given are due to Luther: the first hymn being his tranNote 11 · “Je receuz ces jours passez voz lettres du premier mars.... J’ay aussy eu le pacquet de celles que m’escripvoit Monsʳ l’Archevesque de CantoNote 12 · Cranmer’s second wife, whom he married in Germany in 1532, the year before he became Archbishop of Canterbury, was the daughter of Osiander,Note 14 · Peter Apian, or Bienewitz (of which name Apian is the Latinized form), born 1495 at Leisnig in Saxony, became Professor of Mathematics (whicNote 21 · Published by Steyner at Augsburg in 1531, and reprinted by him in the same year, as well as in 1532, 1533, and 1534. Mr. Henry Green, in hisNote 24 · Green, “Andrea Alciati and his Book of Emblems” (London, 1872), pp. 12, 43-45. In later editions of Alciati’s “Emblems,” “Fœdera Italorum” wNote 27 · This edition was subsequently translated into French by Jean Le Fèvre, a native of Dijon and Canon of Langres (in which diocese Polisy was sNote 28 · Andrea Alciati was born in the Milanese in 1492. He studied at Pavia and Bologna, and took his degree as Doctor of Laws in the twenty-secondNote 31 · Decrue de Stoutz, “La Cour de France au XVIᵉ̀ᵐᵉ siècle,” page 159. Renée of France also cultivated these sciences at the Court of Ferrara. (Note 32 · It is a curious thing that Agrippa, whose name has descended to posterity as the incarnation of black magic, enjoyed for a time a European rNote 34 · Bayle’s “Dictionary,” ed. 1735, Art. Agrippa. The letters from which these passages are quoted were probably not published until a later dat
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