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Queens of old Spain

Book 5 — INDEX

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Adrian, Cardinal, 182, 192

Aguirre, Señora, 474

Agreda, Maria de, 354, 357

Aix la Chapelle, 391

Alba, 230, 249, 266

Albaicin, 116

Alberoni, Father, 537

Albuera, 52

Albuquerque, Duchess of, 455

Alcantara, Master of, 11

Alcazar, 3, 165

Alexander VI., 105

Alexander Farnese, 292

Alfonso V. of Portugal, 9, 19

Alphonso (brother of Henry IV), 10, 11, 14

Alhama, 56, 57

Almazan, 162

Almeria, 55, 65

Anne of Austria (wife of Phillip II), 314; character, illness and death, 317

Anna of Austria (Queen of France), 320, 321, 352

Arabic Manuscripts, 116

Aranda, 24

Aranjuez, 331

Arcos, 177

Arevalo, 200

Armada, 318

Armignac, 5

Arthur, Prince of Wales, 100, 127

Artois, 106

Arundel, 220

Astorga, 156

Astorga, Marquis, 424

Augsburg, League of, 463, 480, 487

Aulnoy, Madame d’, quoted, 419

Avila, 11, 192

Avila, Juan de, 189, 196

Badajoz, 317

Balbeses, Marquis de los, 415, 423

Baltasar Carlos, 334, 358

Barcelona, 46; Treaty, 104, 348

Bavaria, Prince of, 495, 500

Baza, 65

Bedford, Earl of, 223

Behovia, 321

‘Beltraneja,’ the birth, 4; betrothal, 23; betrothal to King of Portugal, 30; marriage, 33, 146

Benavente, Count, 9, 12, 163

Bergues, 230

Berlips, Baroness, 496

Bernaldez, 89

Bertondona, Martin de, 228

Bidasoa, 377, 425

Boabdil, 60, 61, 72

Bobadilla, Beatriz de, 13, 80, 135, 165

Bobadilla, Francisco de, 123

Bonner, 215, 238

Borgia, Francis of, 202

Bourbon, Anthony de, 276

Braganza, Duke of, 348

Brantôme, quoted, 283, 303

Bristol, Earl of, 326

Browne, Sir Anthony, 221, 230

Buckingham, Duke of, 325

Buendia, Count, 272

Buen Retiro, 328, 342, 429

Burgos, 35, 108, 322

Burgundy, 106

Cabeña, 38

Cabero, Juan, 80, 87, 162

Cabra, Count of, 60

Cabrera, Andres, 13, 165

Cabezon, 9

Calais, 249

Calatrava, 42

Calderon, Maria, 333

Cardeñosa, 14

Cardona, Folch de, 507, 516, 518

544Cardona, Hugo de, 146

Carew family, 223

Carlos, Don, 288, 296, 309, 310

Carrillo, Alfonso, 4, 9, 11, 20, 97

Cartuja de Miraflores, 168

Castañar, 97

Castile, Admiral of, 163

Castile, revolt in, 192

Cateau Cambresis, 262

Catharine of Lancaster, ix.

Cerdagne, 59, 100

‘Chambergo’ Regiment, 396, 406

Charles, Archduke, 497

Charles, Prince of Wales, 325

Charles of Viana, 8

Charles II, birth, 382; description as a child, 392, 396; recalls Don Juan, 402; banishes Don Juan to Aragon, 403; coming of age, 403; suggestions for marriage, 414; reconciliation with Mariana, 421; journey to meet Marie Louise, 426; marriage, 431; neglect of government, 440; jealousy of Mme. de Villars, 459; dismisses Medina Celi, 463; illness at Aranjuez, 467; second marriage, 488; meets Marie Anne, 491; dismisses Oropesa, 494; increasing weakness, 497; appoints Prince of Bavaria heir, 500; destroys will, 502; said to be bewitched, 514; makes will in favour of Philip, 524; death, 525

Charles III, 540

Charles V, 105, 179, 184, 189, 243

Charles VIII, 62, 75, 100, 104, 108

Chatellerault, 274

Chièvres, 185

Chimay, Prince of, 185

Cigales, 9, 11

Civil War in Spain, 12, 29

Clarencius, Mrs., 217, 255

Claude of France, 127

Clerambant, Maréchale, 423

Coligny, 247

Columbus, Christopher, 74; received by Isabel, 78; guest of Deza, 82; member of royal household, 82; grant for maintenance, 82; negotiations with Portugal, France, and England, 82; extravagant demands, 83, 84; agreement with Isabel, 89; returns in triumph from first voyage, 94; second voyage, 95, 120; third voyage, 120; imprisoned, 123; release, 123; fourth voyage, 124

Columbus, Diego, 89

Comuneros, 192, 198

Compostella, 57

Conchillos, 131, 143

Condé, 354, 376

Consuegra, 383

Conti, Prince of, 417

Cordova, Cardinal, 518

Cordova, Gonzalo de, 65, 105, 118

Corunna, 154, 391

Cotes, Sebastian de, 505

Council of the Indies, 120, 121

Court, Spanish, description, 328, 338, 369, 533

Courtenay, 214

Courtrai, 460

Cranmer, 220

Cromwell, 371

Cuellar, 26

Cueva, Beltran de la, 5, 9, 10

D’assonleville, 254

Denia, Marchioness of, 176

Denia, Marquis of, 187, 194, 198

Deza, Diego, 80

Diaz, Froilan, 506, 519

Dixmunde, 460

Dominicans, 46, 48

Dueñas, 21, 38

Dunkirk, 376

Edward IV. of England, 17

Edward VI. of England, 212

Egmont, Count, 221, 230

Eguia, Jeronimo de, 440, 454

Elizabeth of England, 229, 271

El Zagal, 60

Emanuel Philibert of Savoy, 247

Emmanuel, King, 106

Enriquez, Juana, 8

Escalas, Conde de, 63

Escorial, 357, 366, 388, 406

Estrada, Duke of, 184

Estremadura, 26

Fadrique, Admiral, 9, 20

Fadrique de Toledo, 346

545Fanshawe, Lady, quoted, 384

Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 383, 390

Feuquières, 464

Ferdinand of Aragon, 17; marriage, 22; in France, 23; motto, 33; fight against Moors, 56; in Council at Cordova, 61; rejects Colon’s terms, 83; attacked by lunatic, 93; schemes for his children, 99; treaty with France, 100; breaks treaty, 104; war with France, 105; quarrel with son-in-law, 113; represses rebellion of Moors, 118; attempts to conciliate Philip, 126; illness, 133; claims right to govern Castile, 142; ordered to leave Castile, 145; alliance with Jimenez, 146; contemplates second marriage, 146; alliance with Louis XII, 147; agreement with Philip, 150; treaty, 159; assumes government of Castile, 177; death, 182

Ferdinand, Emperor, 130

Feria, 230, 251

Fernando, 89

Ferrer, Mosen, 182, 183

Flanders, 354, 390

Flushing, 489

Fonseca, 142

Fontainebleau, 417, 422

France, 100, 105, 128, 248, 317, 319, 346

Franche Comté, 106

Francis II, 293

Francis Phœbus, 61

Galicia, 39

Gardiner, 215, 220

Geneda, Diego de, 217

Germaine de Foix, 147

Giron, Pedro, 12

Gloucester, Duke of, 17

Gomez, Ruy, 230

Grammont, Duke de, 378

Granada, 36, 65; siege, 67–72; burning of library, 116

Granvelle, quoted, 215

Grey family, 223

Grey, Lady Jane, 213

Grey de Wilton, Lord, 249

Guadalajara, 284

Guadix, 65

Guevara, Anna de, 352

Guevara, Velez de, 337

Guienne, Duke of, 17, 23

Guise, Duke of, 321

Guisnes, 249

Guzmans, 39

Harcourt, Duke of, 423, 502, 503

Haro, Count de, 179

Haro, Luis de, 355, 375, 383

Harrach, Count, 499

Heliche, Marquis of, 370

Henry II. (of France), 269

Henry IV. (of France), 318, 319

Henry IV. (of Spain), 3; impeachment, 11; death, 26

Henry VII. (of England), 149, 153, 173

Henry VIII. (of England), 211

Hernandez, Garcia, 75

Hispanola, 121

Horn, Count, 230

Hornillos, 175

House tax, 38

Howell, James, quoted, 329

Huelva, 75

Infantado, Duke of, 38, 272

Inquisition, 46, 48, 448, 514, 516

Isabel, Empress, 209

Isabel Farnese, xiii; marriage, 537; influence over Philip, 539

Isabel of Bourbon, betrothal, 320; meeting with Philip, 322; marriage, 323; character and manners, 327; love for stage, 328, 331; escape from fire at Aranjuez, 331; birth of son, 333; children, 334; rejoicings at birth of Baltasar Carlos, 334; portraits, 336; sells jewels to provide soldiers, 346; struggle with France, 346; breach with Olivares, 349; Regent in absence of King, 350; demands dismissal of Olivares, 352; illness, 355; death, 356

Isabel of the Peace, xi, xiv; betrothal, 267; marriage, 268; journey to Spain, 273; meeting with Philip, 284; smallpox, 286; illness, 295; letter to Catharine, 299; defeats conspiracy in Navarre, 298; meets her mother at Bayonne, 302; 546birth of daughter, 305; birth of second daughter, 308; death, 313

Isabel the Catholic, ix; betrothed to Charles of Viana, 8; suggested betrothal to King of Portugal, 9; offered crown, 14; accepts heirship, 15; meeting with Henry, 16; intrigues with reference to marriage, 17; marriage, 22; deprived of grants and privileges, 23; birth of first child, 23; reconciliation with Henry, 24; revenue, 41; reforms Court, 41; treatment of religious orders, 42; influence f Torquemada, 44; establishes Inquisition, 47; birth of Prince of the Asturias, 50; crushes Portuguese, 52; acknowledged Queen of Spain, 52; birth of third child, 52; war with Moors, 56; birth of fourth child, 60; takes command of campaign against Moors, 63; birth of last child, 64; pledges crown, 66; Queen of Granada, 73; terms with Columbus, 89; domestic life, 95; letter to Talavera, 100; purification of monasteries, 100; unification of coinage, 104; marriages of children, 106; death of Juan, 109; death of eldest daughter and her son Miguel, 110; troubles domestic and political, 110; ill-health, 111; visit of Philip and Joan, 127; wishes in regard to succession, 129; apoplexy, 131; will, 135; codicil, 136; death, 136.

Isle of Pheasants, 378, 425

Jaen, 66

Jamaica, 371

James I. of England, 319, 324

James IV., 107

Jews, 45, 47, 48, 67

Jimenez de Cisneros, Royal Confessor, 97; primate, 99, 136, 158, 164; maintains order, 173, 175; Cardinal, 177; Regent, 182, 191

Joan the Mad, xi; birth, 52; marriage, 106; birth of son, 125; visit to Spain, takes oath with her husband as heir of Castile, 127; receives homage as heir of Ferdinand, 128; detention at Medina, 132; returns to Flanders, 133; proclaimed Queen of Castile, 141; discord with husband, 143; letter on being declared unfit to rule, 144; journey to Spain, 150; shipwreck and landing in England, 152; meeting with Katharine, 153; interview with Enriquez, 163; receives oath of allegiance of Cortes, 164; grief for death of Philip, 168; refusal to perform duties of Government, 171; pilgrimage to Granada, 171; birth of youngest child, 172; suggested marriage with Henry VII., 173; dismisses Councillors of Philip, 175; meeting with Ferdinand at Tortoles, 176; at Arcos, 177; imprisoned at Tordesillas, 180; visited by Charles and Leonora, 184; protest against treatment, 190; conference with executive body of Regent’s government, 190; receives Padilla, 194; identifies herself with Revolution, 194; anti-religious tendency, 200; visited by Francis of Borgia, 202; illness, 204; death, 205

Juan, Prince of Asturias, 50, 54, 106, 109

Juan II., of Aragon, 20

Juan of Austria, 292

Juan Jose, of Austria (Don Juan), xii, 363, 370, 376, 383, 387, 388, 390, 391; controversy with Mariana, 393; Viceroy of Aragon, 396; ordered to Sicily, 401; recalled by Charles, 402; exiled to Aragon, 403; recalled to Madrid, 405; enters Madrid in State, 408; decrease of power, 418; death, 420

Juan II., of Castile, 3

Katharine of Aragon, 100, 173

Katharine, Infanta, 172, 199

547Laredo, 107

Las Casas, 89

Las Huelgas, 431

Leganés, Marquis of, 351, 505

Lerida, 351, 354

Lerma, 323

Lille, 108

Lionne, M. de, 376

Lisle, Count Alva de, 4

Literature, Spanish, 327, 338

London, 153

Lope de Vega, 339, 342

Lotti, Cosme, 344

Louis XI., 61

Louis XII., 133, 147

Louis XIII., 320

Louis XIV., 460, 464, 521

Loja, 63

Luis de la Cruz, Friar, 203

Luna, Alvaro de, 27

Luxembourg, 106

Madrigal, 20, 37

Malaga, 55, 64, 118

Maldonado, Dr., 79

Manrique, Pedro, 21

Mansfeldt, Count, 463, 490

Manuel, Juan, 143, 156, 165

Marchena, Antonio de, 79, 120

Margaret, Archduchess, 106, 108, 149, 153

Margaret, Empress, 368, 414

Margaret of Austria, 318

Margaret of Savoy, 352

Margaret Tudor, 107

Maria of Hungary, 146

Maria Louisa of Savoy, 532; marriage, 532; regent in absence of husband, 533; ability and diligence, 533; death, 536

Mariana of Austria, offered in marriage to Baltasar Carlos, 361; marriage to Philip IV.; meets Philip at Navalcarnero, 365; birth of a daughter, 368; paralysis, 371; birth of son, 373; intrigues against Don Juan, 382; birth of a son, 382; growth of power, 382; Queen-Regent, 389; conspiracy in favour of Don Juan, 394; dismisses Nithard, 395; alliance with England and Holland against France, 397; seeks help of Don Juan, 398; favour of Valenzuela, 400; regency ends, 402; triumph over Don Juan, 403; prisoner in Alcazar, 406; banished to Toledo, 406; reconciled to Charles, 421; return to Court, 421; meeting with Marie Louise, 433; treatment of Marie Louise, 444; plots to ruin Marie Louise, 464; plans for succession, 499; death, 500

Maria Theresa, 371, 378, 380, 389, 396, 414

Marie Anne of Neuburg, married by proxy, 489; journey to Spain, 489; welcome at Corunna, 490; sides with enemies of Oropesa, 493; unpopularity, 496; summons Count Harrach, 499; efforts to secure succession of Archduke Charles, 500; plans to crush Diaz, 517; accused of witchcraft, 518; secures dismissal of Diaz, 529; head of Council of Regency, 526; banished to Toledo, 526; visited by Philip V., 526; sides with Austria, 527; banished to Bayonne, 527; returns to Spain, 527; death, 527

Marie Louise of Orleans, 415; love for Dauphin, 416; betrothed to King of Spain, 417; marriage by proxy, 418; journey to Spain, 423; household, 424; letter to Charles, 427; marriage at Quintanapalla, 431; meeting with Mariana, 433; isolation at Burgos, 433; entry into Madrid, 439; frivolity, 444; humoured by Mariana, 444; growing interest in public affairs, 456; discord with Mariana and Charles, 456; unhappiness, 457; influence of Madame Quantin, 458; reproached for sterility, 458; accused of plotting against King, 468; French expelled from palace, 469; letter to Louis XIV. re Saint Chamans, 472; smallpox, 479; illness, 480; death, 481

548Martinez, Friar, 385

Mary of England, 213; plans for marriage, 214–220; accepts Philip, 223; presents, 224; meeting with Philip, 232; marriage, 234; parting from Philip, 241; Queen of Spain, 243; war with France, 247; illness, 254; death, 256

Mary Queen of Scots, 263, 290

Matienzo, Friar, 112

Matilla, Father, 493, 504, 506, 507

Maurice of Saxony, 212

Maximilian, 113, 133, 148, 179, 190

Mayenne, Duke of, 320, 382

Mazarin, 376, 382

Medici, Catharine de, 267

Medici, Marie de, 320, 321

Medillin, Count, 11

Medina, 34

Medina Celi, Duke of, befriends Colon, 76

Medina Celi, Duke of (under Charles), 415, 440, 453, 459, 463

Medina del Campo, 48, 56

Medina de las Torres, Duke of, 386, 387

Medina Sidonia, Duke of, 56, 76

Melcombe Regis, 153

Mello, 354

Mendoza, Cardinal, 19, 59, 80, 97

Mendoza, Bishop of Segovia, 519

Mendoza, Diego Hurtado de, 217

Metz, 212

Montalto, Duke of, quoted, 464, 470, 473, 475, 476, 477

Montenegro, 401

Monterey, Count, 505

Montgomerie, Sieur de l’Orge, 269

Montmorenci, 247

Moors, 55, 116, 118

Moscoso, 388

Moslems, 116, 119

Muley Abul Hassan, 55

Murcientes, 163

Muza, 72

New Hall, 213

Nimeguen, 414

Nithard, Father Everard, 382, 389, 393, 394; dismissed, 395

Noailles, Antoine de, 213, 220, 229, 238

Novas, Marquis de las, 224

Ojeda, 47

Olivarez, Gaspar de Guzman, Count of, 230, 324, 345; breach with Queen, 349; fall, 353

Olivarez, Countess of, 339

Olmedo, 13

Oñate, 427

Orange, Prince of, 487

Oropesa, Count of, 463, 482; dismissed, 494, 501–512

Osma, 21

Osorio, Isabel de, 217, 265

Osuna, Duke of, 418, 425

Ovando, Nicolas de, 123

Padilla, 194, 224

Paget, 220

Palencia, 175

Palos, 75

Passau, 212

Pastrana, Duke of, 320

Patiño, 393

Perez, Friar Juan, 75, 80, 85

Peter Martyr, 112

Petre, 220

Philip II., 202; Regent, 209; betrothed to Mary, 223; journey to England, 226; marriage, 234; leaves England, 241; returns, 245; proposal of marriage to Elizabeth, 262; union with France, 263; marriage to Isabel, 267; poverty, 293; marriage to Anne, 314

Philip III., 318

Philip IV., betrothed, 320; marriage, 323; succeeds, 323; character, 324, 328; jealousy, 330; intrigue with Maria Calderon, 333; birth of son, 334; leads armies in Catalonia, 350; returns to Madrid, 351; letter to Maria de Agredo; grief at loss of son, 362; marriage to Mariana, 363; poverty, 372; birth of son, 373; journey to French frontier, 379; ill-health, 383; reported bewitched, 384; will, 386; death, 387

Philip V., 523, 526; marriage, 532; in Italy, 533; second marriage, 537

549Philip of Burgundy, 108; assumes title, Prince of Castile, 113, 127, 128, 133; intrigues with England, 149, 153; treaty with Ferdinand, 159; death, 166

Philip Prosper, 374, 381

Plascencia, 11

Pole, Cardinal, 214, 220, 245

Portocarrero, Cardinal, 493, 522

Portugal, throws off Spanish yoke, 348; independence recognised, 390

Pyrenees, Peace of, 379

Quantin, Madame, 458, 465, 468

Quevedo, 337

Quintanapalla, 429

Quintanilla, Alfonso de, 79

Raleigh, 324

Ramua, 108

Ratisbon, Treaty of, 460

Ravaillac, 319

Rebenac, 480

Religious Orders, 42

Renard, Simon, 213

Richelieu, 321

Richmond, 153

Rio Seco, Duke of, 505, 518

Rieux, Madame, 282

Riquelme, Maria de, 340

Rivers, Lord, 63

Rocaberti, 514, 517

Roche sur Yon, 273

Rocroy, 354

Rojas, Bishop, 192

Roncesvalles, 276

Ronquillo, Francisco, 505

Rosellon, 59, 100, 378

Ruiz, 116

Russell, Admiral, 489

Ryswick, Peace of, 501

‘Sacred Brotherhood,’ 37

Saint Chamans, 471

St. Jean de Luz, 425

St. Jean Pied de Port, 277

St Jerome, monastery of, 313, 322

Salamanca, 10, 150

Salic Law, 31

Salmas, Countess of, 182

Sanchez, Gabriel, 94

Sandwich, Lord, 390

Santa Fe, 69

Sant’angel, Luis de, 78, 80, 87

Santa Maria de la Rabida, 75

Santa Maria del Campo, 177

Santiago, 39

Segovia, 9, 10, 165

Seville, 39, 48

Sicily, 398, 414

Soissons, Countess of, 475

Soto, Dr., 204

Spinola, 346

Stanhope, Colonel, quoted, 490, 491, 498, 500, 509, 510, 513, 515, 517

Suffolk, Earl of, 152

Talavera, Father, 51, 57, 59, 79, 93, 116

Tavara, Francisca de, 330

Tendilla, Count, 72, 93, 116

Terranova, Duchess of, 414, 429, 454

Tilly, 346

Toledo, 54, 127

Tordesillas, 33, 180; battle, 196

Toro, 34, 36, 142

Torquemada, 44, 46; inquisitor-general, 49, 57, 59

Torquemada (town), 172

Trenchard, Sir John, 152

Uceda, Duke of, 321

Ureña, Countess of, 282

Ursinos, Princess of, 532, 534, 535, 536, 538

Valdés, Pedro, 328

Valentinois, Duchess, 267

Valenzuela, Fernando de, 398; honours, 403, 405; flight, 406; imprisoned at Consuegra, 408

Valladolid, 9, 20, 30, 154, 164, 223

Vanguyon, 461

Vaucelles, 262

Vega, Garcilaso de la, 163

Velazquez, 335, 337

Velazquez, Diego de Silva, 380

Velez, 55

Velez-Malaga, 64

Vendome, Duke of, 273

Venta de los Toros de Guisando, 16

Verjus, Father, 464

Vilaine, 468

Villafafila, 159

550Villalar, 198, 209

Villamediana, Count of, 330, 331

Villars, Mme. de, quoted, 426, 433, 435, 443, 445, 446

Villars, Marquis de, 420, 431, 459

Villena, Marquis of, 5, 9, 11, 175

Vistahermosa, Duchess of, 50

Vivero, Juan, 22

Westphalia, Treaty of, 364

Weymouth, 151

Winchester, 232

Windsor, 152

Wyatt family, 223

Zahara, 56

Zamora, 35, 36

Zoraya, 62

Zuñiga, Diego Lopez de, 12

Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

P. 171, changed “1906” to “1506”.

P. 353, changed “1543” to “1643”.

P. 433, changed “amoreux” to “amoureux”.

P. 448, changed “1580” to “1680”.

Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.

Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.

Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.

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