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32 32 REIGN OF JOHN II. OF ARAGON. I'ART Some years after this union, John sent his wife ^ — into Navarre, with authority to divide with his son Carlos the administration of the government there. This encroachment on his rights, for such Carlos reasonably deemed it, was not mitigated by the de- portment of the young queen, who displayed all the insolence of sudden elevation, and who from the first seems to have regarded the prince with the malevolent eye of a step-mother. lie takes Navarre was at that time divided by two potent arms against •' ••■ iiis father, factions, styled, from their ancient leaders, Beau- monts and Agramonts ; whose hostility, originating in a personal feud, had continued long after its original cause had become extinct.^ The prince of Viana was intimately connected with some of the principal partisans of the Beaumont faction, who heightened by their suggestions the indignation to which his naturally gentle temper had been roused by the usurpation of Joan, and who even called on him to assume openly, and in defiance of his father, the sovereignty which of right belonged to him. The emissaries of Castile, too, eagerly seized this occa- sion of retaliating on John his interference in the domestic concerns of that monarchy, by fanning the spark of discord into a flame. The Agra- monts, on the other hand, induced rather by hos- tility to their political adversaries than to the prince of Viana, vehemently espoused the cause of the 9 Gaillard errs in referring the quotes a proclamation of John in origin of these factions to this relation to them in the lifetime of epoch. (Ilisloirc dc la Rivalit6 do Queen Blanche. Annales de Na- France et de I'Espagnc, (Paris, varra, tom. iv. p. 494. 1801,) tom. iii. p. 227.) Meson i