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History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations (1494 to 1514)

History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations (1494 to 1514)

Ranke, Leopold Von

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Medieval & Renaissance History

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ISBN10: 1152307029
ISBN13: 9781152307025
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.72 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. SPAIN AND LIGA IN WAR WITH CHARLES Till. 14951496. 1. United Spain. A T this time Spain was first heard and spoken of; this country had a short time previously become consolidated into a united and powerful kingdom out of two disunited and feeble principalities, Castile and Aragon. With respect to Castile, the autograph of Alonso de Palenzia records that there existed a law of Henry of Trastamar to the effect that, without permission of the King of France, no Englishman should go to Castile, nor a Castilian to England. Such a disgraceful compact was actually kept by these weak monarchs.1 John I. relied in battle even more upon the French than upon his Castilians; John II. appeared to many to be almost bewitched by his favourite Alvar de Luna;2 the Portuguese, Pacheco and Gdron, after overthrowing Alvar, lorded it over Henry IV. Henry, though a huntsman, and an enemy of baths and wine, but deprived of noble indignation and manly strength by early profligacy,2 had scarcely turned away from them?not to be his own master, but to take another favourite?when they revolted, and with them all the nobles. They declared his daughter Joana to be illegitimate, and favoured his brother's succession, and, when he died, that of his sister Isabella; but she did not desire to be called queen, and was content that the succession should be assured to her issue.4 1 Ferrera's Spanish History from this Manuscript, vii. B. p. 47. ' Rodericus Santius, Historia Hispanica, It. c. 31. 3 Hernando Pulgar, Claras Vsrones, p. 4. 4 Antonius Nebrissensis, Rerum a Fernando et Elisabe gestarum Decades, p. 801. Near relatives of this family ruled in Aragon, yet with no better fortune, in spite of their having inherited from Ferdinand I. a crown adjudged him by the three count...

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