Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction.
- Ruy González de Clavijo
- Date:
- [1928]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![round the trade here is conftant. At the time when king Ladislas was waging war against king Louis, he had loáh the whole of the kingdom of Naples all save this same city of Gaeta, and it was from Gaeta, finally sallying forth, that he conquered and got back the kingdom of Naples to himself. While king Ladislas was living in the city of Gaeta, and having been there married to the Lady Conftantia the daughter of Manfred Lord of Chiaramonte, he put her from him, and next (but against her will) married her to a certain one of his vassals the son of Messer Louis of Capua. It is related further that king Ladislas in that church, we have mentioned above, called the Holy Trinity, himself was present at this marriage [of his wife to Messer Louis] and took their hands in the presence of a great concourse of his people there assembled to join them in wedlock, and caused the rite to be performed: further that on the afternoon of these espousals king Ladislas himself taking the hand of that lady, who was or had been his wife, danced with her publicly. Later, they say, she was wont to speak with open scandal of many vile matters, talking loudly in ftreet and market place. King Ladislas had indeed done all this that he did under the advice of Queen Margaret his mother, and afterwards he married the Lady Mary who was the sifter of [Janus the laál] king of Cyprus. By his firft wife the Lady Conftantia aforesaid, with whom he had lived in wedlock during one and a half years only, the king had no children, though this lady by her second husband [the Lord of Capua] has since had many sons. But king Ladislas also has a sifter, who is called the Lady Joanna, who is married to [William of Hapsburg] who is Duke of Styria and Babenberg, and she is said to be a moft beautiful woman. On Friday which was the 13th of July the carrack made sail leaving Gaeta at midday setting forth further on its voyage. The next day Saturday we were passing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
