Note 1468 — Chapter XV

Even at the official ceremony (Godefroi, Ceremonial français, II, 20) of betrothal in the cathedral at Speyer the latent hostility of France and Spain was manifested. The Spanish ambassador refused to give precedence to the ambassador of Charles IX, and so absented himself, the Venetian envoy being compelled to do the same, because of the alliance between these two powers (C. S. P. For., No. 1,355, Cobham to Cecil, October 22, 1570). For other details cf. Nos. 1,267, 1,275, 1,377, 1,430. On the negotiations see Mém. de Castelnau (ed. Le Laboureur), II, Book VI, 467.