[68] T. Juste, "Les Pays-Bas sous Charles V.," 35. [69] L. Gachard, "Retraite et Mort de Charles V.," i. 348. [70] Lanz, i. 572. [71] M. Sanuto, "Diarii," lv. 174. [72] Schäfer, iv. 178-194. [73] Schlegel, 127-219. [74] T. Juste. "Les Pays-Bas sous Charles V.," 49. [75] M. Sanuto, lv. 417-419. [76] M. Sanuto, lvi. 813-823. [77] Lanz, ii. 3. [78] Altmeyer, "Relations," etc., 206. BOOK IV CHRISTINA, DUCHESS OF MILAN 1533-1535 I. In the letter which the Emperor wrote to Mary of Hungary on his nephew's death, he remarked that the best way of consoling his little nieces for their brother's loss would be to find them husbands. The marriages of these youthful Princesses had already engaged his attention for some time past. While Christina was still a babe in her nurse's arms, the Regent Margaret had been planning marriages for her great-nieces. In 1527 Wolsey proposed King Henry's illegitimate son, the Duke of Richmond, as an eligible suitor for one of them, but the idea of such a union was scouted by the imperial family.[79] A marriage between Dorothea and her second cousin, King James V. of Scotland, was discussed during many years, and only abandoned eventually owing to the fickle character of the young monarch. After Prince John's death, this Princess inherited her brother's claims to the Danish throne, and King Frederic went so far as to propose that she should wed his younger son John, offering to recognize him as heir to Denmark, and leave the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein to his elder son Christian. But the Emperor and Mary of Hungary were both reluctant to treat with the usurper who had deposed their brother-in-law, and the death of Frederic in April, 1533, put an end to the scheme.[80] [Sidenote: 1533-35] FRANCESCO SFORZA]