The cloister life of the emperor Charles V / by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, baronet.

  • Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet
Date:
1891
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Credit: The cloister life of the emperor Charles V / by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, baronet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP MIT, 1556. proposes to sell his rights to Navarre. Doubts as to Emperor's retreat, posed to cede to the King of Spain, for a suitable consideration, all his wife’s rights to coronation or to interment at Pamplona. Writing to Philip II,’ the Emperor informed him that this matter had been brought under his notice at Burgos, by the Duke of Alburquerque, Viceroy of Navarre, and that he had given audience to Monsieur Ezcurra, the confidential agent of the Duke of Venddme. The subject had also been discussed at Valladolid. He had refused, however, to enter upon the affair, and left it entirely in the King’s hands. He hoped that the Prince of Orange and the Chancellor had come to a settlement with the King of the Romans, as to the last formalities of his renunciation of the empire; and he entreated Philp to hasten the settlement by all the means in his power, being anxious to enter his monastery ‘free from this, as from other cares.” While Charles was thus bent on conventual quiet, he was so reserved in his communications with his attendants, that they were still in doubt whether he really intended to shut himself up for life in the distant cloister of Yuste. From Burgos, Gaztelu wrote, that in spite of his constant opportunities, he was unable to penetrate the HEmperor’s intentions * [Gachard, Retraite et mort de Charles Quint, tom. ii. p. 105.] eS a — 7
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