_Vaudemont_, Louise de, afterwards Queen of France, Henry III. in love with her, ii. 32; about to marry her, 51; is a niece of Count Egmont, _ib._; Elizabeth’s attendants ordered to enter her service, 52, and _note_; no favourite with the Queen-Mother, 57; congratulated by Busbecq in Maximilian’s name, 59; estranged from her husband, 219 _Vaudemont_, Nicolas, Comte de, the King’s father-in-law, a probable peacemaker, ii. 63; his arrival expected, 63, 70; at his son’s marriage, 80; visits Montmorency and thinks him innocent, 91 _Veli Bey_, Sanjak-bey of Hatwan, his feud with Arslan Bey, i. 244 _Veltwick_ or _Velduvic_, Gerard, ambassador of Charles V. to the Porte, i. 79, and _note_; his detention by the Turks referred to, 263 _Vendôme_, Cardinal de, brother of Condé, Navarre’s sequestrated property placed in his hands, ii. 249 _Vendôme_, Duc de. See _Henry IV._ _Vendôme_, House of, its position, ii. 40 _Vendôme_, retaken by Navarre and the governor executed, ii. 254 _Vendôme’s_ sister Catherine, rumours of her intended marriage to Alençon, ii. 51, and _note_; to the Duke of Savoy, 148, 194; to the Duke of Lorraine’s son, 163; to Condé, 233; to Duke of Epernon, 242; her great prospects, 176 _Venetian_ Baily. See _Baily_ _Venetian_ goldsmith, adventure of a, i. 224 _Verdun_, town of, taken by Guise, ii. 247 _Vimioso_, the Count of, Don Antonio’s Constable, killed off the Azores, ii. 146 _Viteaux_, the Baron de, a famous duellist, murders du Guast, ii. 116, _note_; account of his death, 189-191, and _notes_ _Vopiscus_, quoted, i. 214 _Vulcob_, M. de, French Ambassador at Vienna, ii. 36, and _note_, 85; arrangement by which Busbecq received his salary through him, 112, 122 _Weasels_, stories of, i. 203 _Wranczy_ or _Verantius_, Antony, Bishop of Fünfkirchen, afterwards of Erlau and finally Archbishop of Gran, sent as ambassador to the Porte, i. 80; Busbecq finds him at Constantinople, 111 _Wyss_, Albert de, comes with presents from Ferdinand to the Sultan, i. 297 _Ypres_, given up for lost, ii. 194; still blockaded by Parma, 199 _Zay_, Francis, commander of the Danube flotilla known as _Nassades_, afterwards governor of Kaschau, sent as ambassador to the Porte, i. 80; Busbecq finds him at Constantinople, 111; his fishing in the Halys, 145 _Zutphen_, town in Gelderland, taken by the Spaniards, ii. 208 LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The life and letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. II (of 2), by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq and Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell and Charles Thornton Forster