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Download or read book History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain written by William Hickling Prescott and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...CauMicos, ca del Gran Capitan, lib. 3, cap. 5. While the Great Captain and his friends were filled with an indignation, at this duplicity, which they could ill suppress, a circumstance occurred to increase the coldness arising in Ferdinand's mind towards his injured subject. This was the proposed marriage (a marriage which, from whatever cause, never took place53) of Gonsalvo's daughter Elvira, to his friend the constable of Castile.3 Ferdinand had designed to secure her large inher itance to his own family, by an alliance with his grandson, Juan de Aragon, son of the archbishop of Saragossa. His displeasure, at finding himself crossed in this, was further sharpened by the petulant spirit of his young queen. The constable, now a widower, had been formerly married to a natural daughter of Ferdinand. Queen Germaine, adverting to his intended union with the lady Elvira, unceremoniously asked him, " If he did not feel it a degradation to accept the hand of a subject, after having wedded the daughter of a king?" " How can I feel it so," he replied, alluding to the king's marriage with her, " when so illustrious an example has been set me!" Germaine, who certainly could not boast the magnanimity of her predecessor, was so stung with the retort, that she not only never forgave the constable, but extended her petty resentment to Gonsalvo, who saw the duke of Alva from this time installed in the honors he had before exclusively enjoyed, of immediate attendance on her royal person whenever she appeared in public.35 33 Qnintana errs in stating that ated by the Catholic sovereigns, Dona Elvira married the constable, for his distinguished services, duke 'Espafioles Ctlebres, torn. i. p. of Frias. He had large estates, 321.) He had two wives, Dofia...