The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 10 : $b Spain and Portugal
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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 10 : $b Spain and Portugal
World history
When Don Pedro heard that Don Juan Alfonso de Albuquerque and the master
of Calatrava, Don Juan Nuñez, had turned back, not daring to seek him,
and that the master had gone to his own land, and Don Juan Alfonso to
the castles which he had on the frontiers of Portugal, he immediately
resolved to return to Valladolid in order to meet Queen Doña Maria his
mother, and his wife Queen Blanche, to avoid a scandal in the kingdom.
This was the counsel given him by the gentlemen who were with him. And
thus the king came to Valladolid, and remained there with his wife Queen
Blanche for two days. But he could not be prevailed upon to remain there
longer and he left Valladolid and went to Mojados a village close by. And
the next day he went to Oviende, and remained there for some days; and he
never saw his wife Queen Blanche again.
The next year he ordered Juan Ferrandez de Henestrosa his chamberlain,
and uncle of Doña Maria de Padilla, to go to Arevalo where his wife Queen
Blanche of Bourbon then was, and bring her to Toledo, and place her in
the Alcazar of the said city. And so it was published that all might be
aware of it. The knights of Toledo heard of it, and it was great grief
to many that such a lady as this should be a prisoner and that Toledo
should be chosen for her prison. And Juan Ferrandez de Henestrosa as the
king commanded, brought Queen Blanche to Toledo. And when Queen Blanche
of Bourbon entered Toledo, she said it was her will to go and pray in the
church of Sancta Maria. And she went thither, and as soon as she reached
it she refused to leave the church, fearing imprisonment or death. This
she did by the advice of the bishop and of those who had come with
her. Then Juan Ferrandez de Henestrosa, who had brought Queen Blanche
to Toledo, when he saw that she would not leave the church, begged her
graciously to accompany him to the Alcazar which belonged to the king and
her, for she would find good apartments there; but she would not do so.
And the king replied that he would come himself to Toledo and take such
measures in this matter as best befitted his service.
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