The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 2 (of 2)Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592
_Mary_, sister of Henry VIII. and widow of Louis XII., her marriage
with the Duke of Suffolk, ii. 76
_Mary_, Queen of England, her marriage, i. 77
_Mary_, Queen of Scots, her pension so settled as to be worthless,
ii. 34;
expenses of her return home defrayed by Charles IX., 48;
her whole dower not secured on crown lands, 53;
remark of Marguerite de Valois about her, 194;
in danger for conspiring against Queen Elizabeth, 212
_Matarieh_, gardens of, near Cairo, the true balsam grown there, i. 416
_Mattioli_, Italian physician and botanist, specimens sent him
by Busbecq, i. 415, and _note_
_Maximilian_, King of Bohemia, afterwards King of Hungary and Emperor,
receives Busbecq graciously on his return to Vienna, i. 171;
his election as King of the Romans, 397;
his coronation, 399;
his advice to Henry III., ii. 50;
asked to intercede for Montmorency, 75;
his views as to the settlement of the Dower, 85;
wishes Busbecq to remain in Paris, 93
_Mayenne_, the Duke of, accompanies Elizabeth to Bourg-la-Reine, ii. 96;
likely to escort Elizabeth, 126;
a Leaguer, 241;
hurries to relieve Angers, 248;
his troops in contact with the enemy, 250;
enters Paris, 252;
has large forces embodied but no means to pay them, _ib._;
attacks the fort of Meulan, 258;
arrives at Meaux, 259;
his letters intercepted, 261;
an unlucky general, 262
_Medina Celi_, Duke of, commander of the expedition to Djerbé, retires
to citadel and escapes by night, i. 319;
his son Don Gaston a prisoner, 323;
his agents search for Don Gaston unsuccessfully, 324;
Don Gaston probably murdered by Pialé Pasha, _ib._
_Medina de Rio Sicco_, Duke of, coming from King of Spain to
congratulate Henry III. on his marriage, ii. 74
_Mehemet_ Sokolli Pasha, third of the Vizierial Pashas, afterwards
Grand Vizier, despatched by Solyman to Selim, i. 270;
returns and is sent to Asia, 271;
sent in pursuit of Bajazet, 305;
in command of the troops on the Persian frontier, 378
_Melun_, town of, said to have surrendered to Navarre, ii. 255
_Menagerie_, Busbecq’s, stories of animals in, i. 204-208
_Mendoza_, Don Bernardino de, implicated in conspiracy against Queen
Elizabeth, ii. 212;
ordered to leave England, 213;
arrives in Paris, 216;
appointed Spanish ambassador to France, 230;
induces the Parisians to hold out, 260
_Menin_, evacuated, and then plundered and sacked, ii. 194
_Meninx_, island of. See _Djerbé_
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