A Queen of Queens & the Making of Spain, By Christopher Hare [pseud.] ..
A Queen of Queens & the Making of Spain, By Christopher Hare [pseud.] ..
Hare, Christopher
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These negotiations for the marriage appear to have been carried on j&c.retly, while King Enrique and his ruling minister the Marquis of Villena were suppressing the rebels of the south. Isabel had taken advantage of their absence to join her mother in the palace of Madrigal, but here she found a dangerous foe in the Bishop of Burgos, a nephew of Pacheco. The match with Aragon was violently opposed by the Court party, and the Infanta Isabel wa$ now in real danger, for orders were sent to the Arc...hbishop of Seville to proceed in force to Madrigal and take her prisoner. She could obtain no help from the inhabitants, who were tho- roughly overawed, and even her own servants and • some of the ladies of her household fled in alarm. In this moment of peril, she turned to another of those warlike prelates who did their full share of fighting in those days, the Archbishop of Toledo who, with the Admiral of Castile, Fernand6*s grandfather, hastily collected a company of horsemen, rode to Madrigal at full speed, and gallantly carried off the princess to the loyal city of Valladolid, where she was received with triumphant rejoicing."" The next step of the baffled confederates was to keep watch and ward on the frontier of Aragon, to prevent the coming of the bridegroom ; but a hero of romance will always find a way, and it was in this guise that the young Prince of Aragon set forth on his adventurous 76 Digitized by LjOOQIC THE INFANTA ISABEL journey.
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