[1596] Ibid., IV, Appendix, Letters 1-8 refer to Schomberg’s mission to Germany in the spring and summer of 1572.
[1597] The history of Henry of Anjou’s career in Poland has been written at length by the marquis de Noailles, Henri de Valois et la Pologne, Paris, 1867 (see also L’Epinois, “La Pologne en 1572,” R. Q. H., IV, 1868, p. 266; Bain, “The Polish Interregnum,” English Hist. Review, IV, 645). In Coll. Godefroy, CCLVI, Nos. 54, 62, 64, 66, 70, 72, is a series of letters dealing with French interest in Poland at this time.
[1598] Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, IV, Appendix, Nos. 69 and 71.
[1599] Ibid., IV, Appendix, No. 17, Schomberg to Catherine de Medici, October 9, 1572. The landgrave bluntly said that twice before such overtures had been made to German princes—in 1567 and 1571—and that civil war and the massacre had followed (ibid., No. 72).
[1600] St. Goard to Charles IX, July 9, 1573, ibid., IV, Appendix, No. 66; Schomberg to the duke of Anjou, February 10, 1573, ibid., Appendix, No. 34. The intense Catholic prejudices of the duke of Anjou, now king of Poland, were a serious bar to the progress of Schomberg’s negotiations in Germany. He warned the duke not to give the impression of Spanish leanings (Schomberg to the duke of Anjou, October 9, 1572, ibid., IV, Appendix, No. 18), and seems almost to have persuaded him to abandon his intense Catholic-Spanish predilection (ibid., pp. 15, 268). The duke of Anjou is even said to have given Schomberg 100,000 francs. The letter is said to have been burned at the time of the Coconnas conspiracy in order to shield the duke of Alva’s son (ibid., IV, 384).
[1601] Charles IX to St. Goard, May 10, 1573, regarding a dispatch of the Spanish ambassador to Philip II telling of the negotiations of the King with Louis of Nassau (ibid., IV, Appendix, No. 55).
[1602] Ibid., IV, Appendix, No. 51.
[1603] C. S. P. For., Nos. 1,202, 1,286, November 11, 1573, January 2, 1574.
[1604] Nég. Tosc., III, 894, December 23, 1573.
[1605] Ibid., 891-93, November 5, 1573.