The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of AustriaTremayne, Eleanor E.
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The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria
Tremayne, Eleanor E.
Margaret, of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, 1480-1530; Netherlands -- History -- Charles V, 1506-1555
'Madame! I send you a copy of the cessation of hostilities
concluded here, in order that you may cause it to be published
duly, and at the time therein declared, and to be strictly kept
and performed according to its form and tenor, setting aside
your own as null and void, as well as the publications which may
have taken place; for it is my express intention that it should
not be held of the smallest force or value; insomuch that if I
had not even concluded a treaty, as aforesaid, here, I would not
have permitted yours to be carried into effect.
'Madame! may our Lord have you in His holy keeping. Written at
Toledo, the 13th of August.
* * * * *
'Further, madame,... I have ratified the neutrality of
Burgundy, as you desire, and I have included you, as well as my
brother the archduke and all your country and subjects, in the
treaty for the cessation of hostilities, which has been here
negotiated; and in all I may be able to do for you, for your
affairs and your welfare, I shall always and most willingly do
the same for you, my good mother and aunt, as for myself,
praying God to give you all your heart's desire. Written at
Toledo, the 15th of August 1525.'[108]
[108] W. Bradford, _Correspondence of the Emperor Charles V._
We can imagine how much upset Margaret must have been at receiving
this severe rebuke which was called forth by the report that the
emperor had just received from his ambassadors in London giving an
account of an interview they had had with Wolsey, in which he
expressed great surprise and annoyance at the truce which Margaret had
just concluded with France. 'The treaties of Windsor stipulated,' he
said, 'that neither of the contracting parties was to conclude a truce
without the consent and full approval of the other one. We have so far
adhered to this, that, though the king has been often solicited by the
French, he has never given his consent to it.... I should never have
thought that, after so many stipulations, promises, and declarations
made by madame, she would have been the first to break through them.
'... Any plans and designs which the emperor, Mons. de Bourbon,
and the king, my master, may have formed in this particular
matter are ruined for ever through madame having granted this
truce to our common enemy.
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