[152] Henrard, “Henri IV. et la Princesse de Condé.”
[153] Tallemant des Réaux, “Historiettes.”
[154] Cited by the Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”
[155] Claude Enoch Virey (1566–1636). He was a Doctor of Laws, had fought as a Catholic volunteer in Henri IV.’s army at the battles of Arques and Ivry and at the sieges of Paris and Rouen, and was a poet of some distinction. The Président de Harlay, whose life he had saved on the Day of the Barricades, procured him a post on the educational staff of the young Condé, and he was subsequently appointed his private secretary.
[156] Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”
[157] In May, 1598, Philip II. had ceded the Netherlands, the Franche-Comté, and the Charolais to his daughter Isabelle. The Archduke Albert, brother of the Emperor Rudolph, at that time governor of the Netherlands, renounced Holy Orders in order to marry the princess; and the pair had since exercised a sort of vice-regal authority, with very extensive powers. Their contemporaries always called them “the Archdukes.”
[158] Éléonore de Bourbon had married Philip William, of Nassau, Prince of Orange, eldest son of William the Silent, in 1606.
[159] Spinola, who had come to the Netherlands in 1602, at the head of a force maintained, like the old condottieri, at his own expense, had, after the reduction of Ostend, been given the command of all the Spanish and Italian troops in Flanders.
[160] Simancas Collection, cited by the Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”
[161] Cardinal Bentivoglio, “Relazioni.”