On the Fête-Dieu he became much worse, and his end was evidently near; but he was perfectly conscious, and, sending for a notary, he made his last will, appointing his wife Regent of the State and guardian of her little son and daughter, and commending her and his children to the Emperor's care. After this he received the last Sacraments, and passed quietly away on Friday, the 12th of June. He was not yet twenty-eight, and had reigned exactly one year.[374] Death had once more severed the marriage tie, and Christina, who but lately called herself the happiest woman in the world, was left stricken and desolate, a widow for the second time, at the age of twenty-three. FOOTNOTES: [317] Abbé Calmet, "Histoire Ecclésiastique et Civile de Lorraine," i. 190. [318] Hugo, 196, 200. [319] Calmet, iii. 325; A. Hallays, "Nancy" ("Villes Célèbres"), 31. [320] Calmet, i. 176; Hugo, 244; "Inventaire de Joinville," i. 378. [321] H. Lepage, "Le Palais Ducal de Nancy," 10; C. Pfister, ii. 29; "La Ville de Nancy," 65. [322] Pfister, ii. 26; A. Hallays, "Nancy," 37-39. [323] Lepage, "Palais Ducal," 3; Pfister, ii. 188. [324] Balcarres Manuscripts, ii. 17. [325] Balcarres Manuscripts, ii. 84. [326] _Ibid._, ii. 20. [327] Kaulek, 54. [328] F. v. Bucholtz, "Geschichte d. Kaiser Ferdinand I.," ix. 141. [329] Granvelle, "Papiers d'État," ii. 618; Bucholtz, ix. 141. [330] State Papers, Record Office, viii. 639, 644, 655 [331] Calendar of Spanish State Papers, vi. 1, 436; Calendar of State Papers, xvi. 1, 690. [332] Balcarres Manuscripts, ii. 3, 6. [333] Balcarres Manuscripts, ii. 85. [334] Bucholtz, ix. 142. [335] H. Lepage, "Le Palais Ducal de Nancy," 9; Pfister, ii. 256. [336] State Papers, Record Office, viii. 636. [337] Calendar of Spanish State Papers, vi. 1, 473; Calendar of State Papers, xvi. 2, 51. [338] The authenticity of this well-known saying has been often disputed, and was certainly never addressed by the Duchess to either of Henry VIII.'s Ambassadors. But Christina's words were recorded by Joachim Sandrart, who wrote in the seventeenth century, as having been spoken by a Princess of Lorraine, whom the English King had wooed in vain, and were afterwards quoted by Horace Walpole "as the witty answer of that Duchess of Milan whose portrait Holbein painted for Henry VIII." (see Wornum's "Life of Holbein," 311; J. Sandrart, "Deutsche Akademie"; and Walpole's "Anecdotes of Painting"). [339] State Papers, Record Office, viii. 641; Calendar of State Papers, xvii. 711. [340] Balcarres Manuscripts, ii. 12. [341] Calendar of State Papers, xvii. 232. [342] Granvelle, "Papiers d'État," ii. 628; Calendar of State Papers, xvii. 273. [343] Lanz, ii. 364. [344] Balcarres Manuscripts, ii. 13. [345] Pimodan, 81; Bouillé, i. 142. [346] Calendar of Spanish State Papers, vi. 2, 262. [347] Calmet, i. 265; Pfister, ii. 200. [348] Calendar of State Papers, Record Office, ix. 522.