. Pictures of the old French court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. le were indignant and pointedat the judges, saying, There is Caiaphas, there isHerod, there is Pontius Pilate ; they have judgedagainst la haute dame that she is not Queen ofFrance. x Alexander VI.,2 of the noble Spanish family ofBorgia, had in his youth a natural daughter, thefamous Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, and four eldest and youngest he married to daughters ofthe King of Naples, the second, Giovanni, Duca diGandia was supposed to have been murdered by hisnext brother, the Cardinal Cesa
. Pictures of the old French court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. le were indignant and pointedat the judges, saying, There is Caiaphas, there isHerod, there is Pontius Pilate ; they have judgedagainst la haute dame that she is not Queen ofFrance. x Alexander VI.,2 of the noble Spanish family ofBorgia, had in his youth a natural daughter, thefamous Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, and four eldest and youngest he married to daughters ofthe King of Naples, the second, Giovanni, Duca diGandia was supposed to have been murdered by hisnext brother, the Cardinal Cesare, or Caesar, who hadbecome a soldier and who surpassed most of hiscontemporaries in the enormity of his crimes. ThePope now sent him to France with a Cardinals hatfor George dAmboise, the Kings favourite minister,and the bull for the dissolution of his marriage,Louis promising him the duchy of Valentinois, alarge pension and one of his relations in marriage. The court was at Chinon when he arrived. His 1 Douey dAttichy, Madame Jeanne de France de Valois, &c,p. 143. 2 Morery. p^ /^p. BOURGES. 334 PICTURES OF THE OLD FRENCH COURT [1499 followers, horses, and mules were covered with silk,velvet, and cloth of gold. The horse he rode hadtrappings of cloth of gold covered with preciousstones ; he himself wore a dress of red satin andcloth of gold bordered with pearls and gems ; hishat was trimmed with a double row of rubies as bigas beans, which shed a strange light ; even hisboots were covered with gold cords and edged withpearls. Around his neck was a necklace or collarn/ worth 30,000 He gave the cardinals hatto the King, telling him that the bull was not ready,although he had it with him, as he hoped to beable to extort something more from Louis. ThePopes nuncio however told the King that the dis-pensation had been made out long ago, and thatCaesar had got it. He was therefore obliged to deliverit up, but he invited the nuncio to dinner, and, as hewas foolish enough to
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