[133] Nerestang died some ten days later, a victim, if we are to believe Bassompierre, to the professional jealousy of the surgeons:—
“The King went to visit M. de Nerestang, who, seeing how severely he had been wounded, was not doing badly, and would have been cured if they had left him in the hands of the surgeon Lion. But the other executioners of surgeons importuned the King so much, when he was at Brissac, that seven days after he was wounded, when he was going on well, they took him out of Lion’s hands to place him in those of the King’s surgeons; and he only lived two days longer.”
[134] Créquy was colonel of the French Guards, and in this action was in command of a brigade.
[135] The property of the Catholic Church in Béarn and Lower Navarre had been confiscated by Jeanne d’Albret in 1569, and applied to the maintenance of pastors of the Reformed faith and works of public utility.
[136] Jacques Nomper de Caumont (1558-1652). He greatly distinguished himself in the Thirty Years’ War, and was made a marshal of France and subsequently duke and peer.
[137] This son, who received the names of Louis Charles and to whom Louis XIII stood godfather, became the second Duc de Luynes, and enjoyed some celebrity in the latter part of the seventeenth century through his connection with Port-Royal. He translated into French the Méditations of Descartes, wrote under a nom de guerre several books of devotion, and was the father of the pious Duc de Chevreuse, the friend of Fénelon.
[138] Don Diego Zapata.
[139] Doña Maria Sidonia, second wife of the count.
[140] Don Pedro Acunha y Tellez-Giron, third Duke of Ossuña (1579-1624). He had been Viceroy of Naples, and one of the three chiefs of the conspiracy against Venice which was to have delivered the city into the power of Spain on Ascension Day, 1618. Suspected of having aspired to make himself King of Naples, he was recalled in 1620. He died in prison in 1624.
[141] The late King, Henri IV.