_Mercœur_, Duc de and Marquis de Nomeny, the king’s brother-in-law, ii. 244, _note_; his approaching marriage, 64; his marriage, 80; accompanies Elizabeth to Bourg-la-Reine, 96; governor of Brittany, 172; report of his death, _ib._; untrue, 173; his quarrel with the Duke of Joyeuse, 219; its cause, 220; a Leaguer, 241; his ingratitude, 244 _Méru_, M. de, younger son of the Constable Montmorency, ii. 16, _note_ _Metrophanes_, the Metropolitan, a friend of Busbecq’s, anxious for a union between the Greek and Latin churches, i. 341-342 _Metz_, great Protestant disturbances at, ii. 251 _Meulan_, fort on the Seine, attacked by Mayenne, ii. 258, 259 _Mezières_, appointed as Condé’s residence, ii. 127 _Michel_, Giovanni, Venetian ambassador, visits Busbecq, ii. 121, and _note_ _Middelburg_, Congress of Netherland States at, ii. 202 _Milan_, useful as a training school for French soldiers, ii. 72, and _note_ _Minarets_, serve the purpose of our belfries, i. 291 _Mingrelians_, account of the, i. 245-252; their monarch, 245; their feuds with the Imeritians, 246 _Mirambeau_, brother of Lausac, sent to Alençon, ii. 171; thinks there is little hope of an arrangement, 173 _Mohacz_, battle of, i. 167, 407, and _note_ _Mohair_ goat. See _Angora_ goat _Mola_, of Augsburg, a courier, ii. 119 _Mondragon_, Spanish officer, his projects, ii. 90, and _note_ _Montal_, notorious bravo, his end, ii. 190, and _note_ _Montbéliard_, Pibrac waylaid near, ii. 62, and _note_ _Montbrun_, Vicomte de, Huguenot chieftain, said to be with Damville, ii. 23; seizes towns in Dauphiny, 41; throws reinforcements into Livron, 44; defeats Swiss in Dauphiny, 78, and _note_; wounded and taken prisoner, 79-80; his character, 80, and _note_; beheaded at Grenoble, 99 _Montluc_, Jean de, Bishop of Valence, i. 389, _note_; ii. 35, and _note_ _Montmorency_, Duc de, Marshal of France, his imprisonment in the Bastille, ii. 8; account of him, _ib._ _note_; his execution threatened, 16; guarded more strictly, 67, 68, and _note_; better treated, 77; offers to stand his trial, 86; considered innocent by Vaudemont, 91; his release decided on, 103; sets out to Alençon, 114; a notable instance of the fickleness of fortune, 115 _Montmorency_, Madame de, asks Elizabeth to request Maximilian to intercede for her son, ii. 75; contributes to the forced loan, 98 _Montpellier_, said to have revolted at Damville’s instigation, ii. 22 _Montpensier_, Louis de Bourbon, Duc de, account of, ii. 9, _note_; besieges Fontenay, 10; and Lusignan, 21, 32; his son the Prince Dauphin, 147; his death, 152