[25] She was the daughter of Louis de la Beraudière, Sieur del’ Île Rouet, in Poitou.
[26] By the King of Navarre she had had a son, Charles de Bourbon, who became Archbishop of Rouen.
[27] “Un royaume par escript,” means the illusory kingdom in the South promised Antoine by Philip II. of Spain.
[28] Henri Martin, “Histoire de France jusqu’en 1789.”
[29] Isabelle’s father, Gilles de la Tour, Sieur de Limeuil, was the second son of Antoine de la Tour, Vicomte de Turenne. From Gilles’s elder brother, François, sprang, in the fifth generation, the celebrated Maréchal de Turenne.
[30] He must not be confused with his cousin, Florimond Robertet, Sieur d’Alluye, who was also a Secretary of State.
[31] La Ferrière, “Trois amoureuses au xvie siècle.”
[32] J. A. Froude, “History of England,” vol. vii.
[33] Condé to Elizabeth, 8 March, 1563, in the Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”
[34] Middlemore to Cecil, 30 March, 1563.