Transcriber's note: Obvious printer errors have been repaired, but spelling has not been standardized. Likely spelling errors in the French poems have not been corrected, as the consulted sources have the same.

Some Roman numerals are followed by superscript representing ancient units of weight used in the godsmith's trade:

m stands for marc
o stands for once
e stands for estelin

Number "83" was somehow left out in the (French) Inventory of Margaret's possessions.

ROMANTIC HISTORY
General Editor: Martin Hume, M.A.

THE FIRST GOVERNESS OF
THE NETHERLANDS

Frontispiece
FROM THE WINDOW IN THE CHAPEL OF THE VIRGIN
IN THE CHURCH OF BROU (about 1528)
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THE FIRST GOVERNESS
OF THE NETHERLANDS
MARGARET OF AUSTRIA

BY

ELEANOR E. TREMAYNE

WITH TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS

New York: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
London: METHUEN & CO.
1908