[86] Beauvoir, or Beauvois, de la Nocle was one of the Huguenot chiefs (among whom were Montgomery and the Vidame de Chartres), who were in the Faubourg St. Germain during the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew, and succeeded in making their escape. He and d’Arènes were the principal spokesmen of the Deputies at Paris. He was one of the French gentlemen who accompanied the army of Casimir which invaded France in 1587 under Dohna. In 1591 Henry IV. sent him as his ambassador to England. [87] Buren, in Gelderland, was taken by the Spanish General Hierges, at the end of June 1575. For details of the siege see _Thuanus_, iii. 73; _Strada_, i. 393. The date of the final rupture of the negotiations was July 13, 1575.—Motley, _Rise of the Dutch Republic_, Part IV. ch. iii. [88] For a sketch of Mondragon’s life and character see Motley, _United Netherlands_, iii. 342-3. The expedition which Busbecq mentions as contemplated was carried out on September 27. See Motley, _Rise of the Dutch Republic_, Part IV. ch. iii. [89] ‘At the same time in the assembly of the Confederate States, the question of asking the protection of some powerful neighbouring Sovereign was long and hotly debated, as some were inclined to the Empire, and the Princes and States of the Empire, others to the King of France, and others again to the Queen of England. The side, however, prevailed which was in favour of an English alliance.’—_Thuanus_, iii. 79. For a full account see _Meteren_, 153-155. [90] See page 128, and note. [91] Duke Eric of Brunswick succeeded his father the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, in the principalities of Gottingen and Calenberg. Brought up as a Lutheran, he afterwards became a Roman Catholic. He fought on the Spanish side at St. Quentin, and was subsequently employed in the Netherlands and Portugal. He does not seem to have taken his rejection much to heart, as in the following December he married Dorothea, daughter of Christina, Duchess of Lorraine (see note, page 63), and sister of Charles, the reigning Duke. Busbecq’s Queen honoured the marriage of her rejected suitor with her presence (see page 129). He died at Pavia in 1584. In the opinion of Thuanus (iii. 703), he was ‘terribilis suis, neque tamen re ulla memorabili gesta admodum clarus.’ His widow afterwards married the Marquis de Varembon, the lover of Mademoiselle de Tournon, whose pathetic story is told by her royal mistress. See _Mémoires de Marguerite_, 110-114. [92] Bourg-la-Reine, near Sceaux.—_De l’Estoile_, i. 85.