The 1906 caption reads: “IMPRISONED KING FRANCIS SIGNING HIS TREATY WITH CHARLES V.—Francis I. of France was taken prisoner by the soldiers of the mighty Emperor Charles V., ruler of both Germany and Spain. Charles compelled his foe to sign a treaty which would leave France utterly helpless. The King at first refused, but the utter weariness of imprisonment in a gloomy fortress at Madrid broke his spirit at last, and he yielded to Charles, as we see him here. The moment he was free, he repudiated the entire treaty.” The treaty is the Treaty of Madrid, (January 14, 1526), a treaty between the H
The 1906 caption reads: “IMPRISONED KING FRANCIS SIGNING HIS TREATY WITH CHARLES V.—Francis I. of France was taken prisoner by the soldiers of the mighty Emperor Charles V., ruler of both Germany and Spain. Charles compelled his foe to sign a treaty which would leave France utterly helpless. The King at first refused, but the utter weariness of imprisonment in a gloomy fortress at Madrid broke his spirit at last, and he yielded to Charles, as we see him here. The moment he was free, he repudiated the entire treaty.” The treaty is the Treaty of Madrid, (January 14, 1526), a treaty between the Habsburg emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain) and his prisoner Francis I, king of France, who had been captured during the Battle of Pavia in February 1525 and held prisoner until the conclusion of the treaty.
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