[9] It is singular, that Fiddlier should have blundered some twenty years in the date of Ximenes's birth, which he makes 1457. (Hist. de Ximenés, liv. 1, p. 3.) It is not singular, that Marsollier should. Histoire du Ministère du Cardinal Ximenez, (Toulouse, 1694,) liv. 1, p. 3.
[10] The honorable extraction of Ximenes is intimated in Juan Vergara's verses at the end of the Complutensian Polyglot:
"Nomine Cisnerius clarâ de stirpe parentum,
Et meritis factus clarior ipse suis."
Fray Pedro de Quintanilla y Mendoza makes a goodly genealogical tree for his hero, of which King Pelayo, King Pepin, Charlemagne, and other royal worthies are the respectable roots. (Proemia Dedicatoria, pp. 5-35.) According to Gonzalo de Oviedo, his father was a poor hidalgo, who, having spent his little substance on the education of his children, was obliged to take up the profession of an advocate. Quincuagenas, MS.
[11] Quintanilla, Archetypo, p. 6.—Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, Ximen., fol. 2.—Idem, Miscellanear., MS., ex Bibliothecâ, Regiâ Matritensi, tom. ii. fol. 189.
[12] Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 2.—Idem, Miscellanear., MS., ubi supra.—Eugenio de Robles, Compendio de la Vida y Hazañas del Cardenal Don Fray Francisco Ximenez de Cisneros, (Toledo, 1604,) cap. 11.
[13] Quintanilla, Archetype, pp. 8, 10.—Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 2.— Fléchier, Hist. de Ximenés, pp. 8-10.—Suma de la Vida del R. S. Cardenal Don Fr. Francisco Ximenez de Cisneros, sacada de los Memoriales de Juan de Vallejo, Paje de CEamara, è de algunas Personas que en su Tiempo lo vieron: para la Ilustrisima Señora Doña Catalina de la Zerda, Condesa de Coruña, a quien Dios guarde, y de su Gracia, por un Criado de su Casa, MS.
[14] Suma de la Vida de Cisneros, MS.—Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 3.— Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 11.—Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., dial, de Ximeni.
[15] Quintanilla, Archetypo, p. ll.—Gomez, Miscellanear., MS., ubi supra.—Idem, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 4.
This edifice, says Salazar de Mendoza, in respect to its sacristy, choir, cloisters, library, etc., was the most sumptuous and noted of its time. It was originally destined by the Catholic sovereigns for their place of sepulture; an honor afterwards reserved for Granada, on its recovery from the infidels. The great chapel was garnished with the fetters taken from the dungeons of Malaga, in which the Moors confined their Christian captives. Monarquía, tom. i. p. 410.