[72]. Montero de los Rios ‘Historia de Madrid.’
[73]. Oviedo.
[74]. Ferdinand had wished to appoint an Aragonese commander, but as Castile was defraying most of the expenses of the war, Isabel insisted upon a Castilian being appointed.
[75]. Clemencin. ‘Elogio.’
[76]. Zurita, ‘Anales,’ and Padilla, ‘Cronica de Felipe I.‘
[77]. The Spanish chroniclers complain bitterly of Philip’s slowness in coming to meet his bride. He was in Tyrol when she arrived in Flanders, and spent nearly a month in joining her at Lille. From the first the love was all on poor Joan’s side.
[78]. Ferdinand, it is related, fearing that the sudden news of Juan’s death would kill Isabel with grief, caused her to be told that it was her husband, Ferdinand himself, that had died, so that when he presented himself before her, the—as he supposed—lesser grief of her son’s death should be mitigated by learning that her husband was alive. The experiment does not appear to have been very successful, as Isabel was profoundly affected when she heard the truth. (Florez, ‘Reinas Catolicos’).
[79]. In fact the Cortes of Aragon obstinately refused to swear allegiance to the Infanta Isabel as heiress when she went to Saragossa for the purpose in the autumn; and she was kept there in great distress until her expected child should be born, which, if it were a male, would receive the oath of the Cortes. The anxiety and worry consequent upon this killed the Infanta (Queen of Portugal) in the birth of her child Miguel in August.
[80]. Her story is told in ‘The Wives of Henry VIII.,’ by the present writer.
[81]. ‘Spanish State Papers.’ Calendar, Supplement to vol. i. p. 405.