The Great Revolt in Castile: A Study of the Comunero Movement of 1520-1521 |
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Acuña Admiral Admiral's Adrian alcázar Alcocer appointment April artillery Ávila Bishop Burgos capítulos Cardinal Carlos Carlos's Castile Castilian Chièvres Comendador Commune concessions Constable Constable's Córdoba corregidor Cortes Coruña Council Councillors Count Court Danv Danvila deputies Doña ducats Duke Epist Felipe Fernando Fonseca force fortress Girón Governors Granada grandees grant Guevara Haro Ibid Isabel Jaén Jiménez Juan de Padilla Juana July Junta King King's León Madrid Majesty Majesty's Maldonado March March 16 Marquis Martyr's letter matter Medina Merriman Mexía monarch Mota Navarre negotiation pardon Pedro Girón Pedrolasso persons Peter Martyr petitions Queen realm refused revolt Rioseco Rodríguez Villa royal Royalist Salamanca Sandoval Sandoval's Santa Cruz says Segovia Señor sent Sevilla Simancas Spain Spanish Empire supra tion Toledan Toledo Tordesillas Torrelobatón town troops truce urged Valladolid Viceroys VIII vote writ wrote Zamora
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Page iii - PRUDENCIO DE SANDOVAL: Historia de la vida y hechos del Emperador Carlos V.
Page iii - Relación de algunas cosas que pasaron en estos reinos... hasta que se acabaron las Comunidades en la ciudad de Toledo.
Page viii - ... however many expedients he may discover, he does not know how to carry out any of them, and so he is as lacking in power of execution as he is abundant in power of invention. And although, out of two or three remedies for an evil which may have suggested themselves to his mind, he has chosen one as the best, nevertheless he does not execute his design, because, suddenly, before he can execute it, some other design takes shape in his mind which he thinks better, and thus he is so eager to change...
Page vii - He has a good intelligence, and one so alert that he is cleverer than any of his councilors in finding many expedients for every need. But he has one defect, that, however many expedients he may discover, he does not know how to carry out any of them, and so he is as lacking in power of execution as he is abundant in power of invention. And although, out of two or three remedies...
Page 174 - Majesty sent, it was to dissociate Burgos from the Junta people and alienate them from her. For that end alone, everything they wanted ought to be granted and conceded; how much more, since upon Burgos depend all the mountain districts and Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa and Alava and vassal villages and other cities and towns, within the province and without, which share her opinion. Were it not done were completely to lose the realm...
Page 10 - Felipe's desire to lie. A funeral procession of Franciscans, with the Prior and a few Carthusians from Miraflores, daily singing masses and vigils, accompanied by the Queen widow, bore the body by stages across Castile in the dense misty weather of winter, mostly with wind-blown torches at night; repeating with each day's halt the ritual of devotion, the opening of the coffin, with distressing odors of mortality, and kissing the...
Page 4 - She has arrived; her husband is with her — and nothing wretcheder than she ! For when she arrived in Flanders she realized that her husband's feeling was alienated, and suspected a mistress. After the fashion of all women, especially those who have a chaste love of their husbands, she went hot and...
Page 292 - King and realm; and it is of these realms that Your Majesty is true sovereign and proprietor, and you have bought with money the Empire, which ought not to pass nor be transmitted to your heirs ; and Your Majesty has reduced the realm to the poverty in which it stands, and your followers have enriched themselves excessively.
Page 16 - Through this portal in 1497 Columbus passed, to be received by Fernando and Isabel, temporarily resident there. To this interview the discoverer took the showy booty of his second voyage, Indians, idols, fabrics, parrots, and gold: the latter Queen Isabel devoted to ornamentation of the altar, then in construction, at Miraflores.