[461] Lettres des Seigneurs, iv. 101, f. 330 (see Appendix). [462] Lettres des Seigneurs, iv. 101, f. 319. [463] Bulletins de la Commission d'Histoire, série 2, xii. 213. [464] Bucholtz, ix. 539. [465] Bulletins, etc., série 2, xii. 213. [466] Lettres des Seigneurs, iv. 102, f. 127 (see Appendix); Lanz, iii. 208. [467] Bucholtz, ix. 543; Bulletins, 2, xii. 191. [468] Lettres des Seigneurs, vii. 603. [469] Lettres des Seigneurs, iv. 103, f. 348. [470] Manuscript 18, Biblioteca Cavagna Sangiuliani, Zelada (see Appendix). [471] Lettres des Seigneurs, iv. 518 (see Appendix). [472] _Ibid._, iv. 103. [473] Bulletins de la Commission d'Histoire, série 2, xii. 232; Lettres des Seigneurs, iv. 518. [474] "Hardwicke Papers," i. 55. [475] Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, Edward VI., 230. [476] Lanz, iii. 513. [477] Voigt, ii. 9, 10; P. F. Tytler, "England under Edward VI.," 144. [478] Vieilleville, 161, 176. [479] Calmet, ii. 338. [480] Bulletins, etc., série 2, xii. 238; State Papers, Edward VI., Foreign, 236, 243; Lanz, iii. 542. BOOK XI CHRISTINA AT BRUSSELS 1553-1559 I. Christina was at Brussels on the memorable day when the Emperor set foot once more on his native soil. She heard the shouts of joy which rent the air, and joined with the Queens in the welcome which greeted him on the threshold of his palace. Early in January she had left Heidelberg and travelled safely down the Rhine and through the friendly states of her Cleves cousins to Brussels. Here she occupied the suite of rooms where she had lived before her second marriage, and to a large extent resumed her former habits. She spent much of her time with her aunts and the Duchess of Aerschot, and renewed her old friendship with Countess d'Aremberg and other ladies of the Court. The deepest sympathy was felt for her by all classes, and when Charles addressed the States-General on the 13th of February, and alluded to the treachery of the French in carrying off the young Duke of Lorraine and driving his mother out of the realm, his words provoked an outburst of tumultuous indignation.[481] [Sidenote: JAN., 1553] CHRISTINA'S SUITORS] Through her brother-in-law Vaudemont she still maintained close relations with Lorraine, while the Cardinal kept her informed of all that concerned her son, and the boy's own letters satisfied her that he was well and happy at the French Court. But although Charles shared all the advantages enjoyed by the King's children, and soon became a general favourite in the royal family, it was bitter for the Duchess to feel that her only son was growing up, in a foreign land, among the hereditary foes of her race. The restoration of peace between Charles and Henry was the only means by which she could hope to recover her lost child, and this became the goal of all her efforts during the six years that she spent in exile.