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72 f)ishoi Toledo 72 CASTILE UNDER HENRY IV. PART - His uncle, the archbishop of Toledo, was of a '- sterner character. He was one of those turbulent Character of, r • i i ihearch- prclates, not unirequent m a rude age, who seem f)ishori of A ' ^ ^ ' intended by nature for the camp rather than the church. He was fierce, haughty, intractable ; and he was supported in the execution of his ambitious enterprises, no less by his undaunted resolution, than by the extraordinary resources, which he enjoyed as primate of Spain. He was capable of warm at- tachments, and of making great personal sacrifices for his friends, from whom, in return, he exacted the most implicit deference ; and, as he was both easily offended and implacable in his resentments, he seems to have been almost equally formidable as a friend and as an enemy." These early adherents of Henry, little satisfied with seeing their own consequence eclipsed by the rising glories of the newly-created favorites, began secretly to stir up cabals and confederacies among the nobles, until the occurrence of other circum- stances obviated the necessity, and indeed the pos- sibility, of further dissimulation. Henry had been persuaded to take part in the internal dissensions which then agitated the kingdom of Aragon, and had supported the Catalans in their opposition to their Castile, devolved to Prince Henry of transmitted to his son, afterwards Arapon, on liis marriage with the raised to the rank of duke of Es- daughter of John II. It was sub- calona, in the reipn of Isabella, sequently confiscated by that mon- Salazar de Mendoza, Dignidades arch, in consequence of the repeat- de Castilla y Leon, (Madrid, ed rebellions of Prince Henry ; and 1791,) lib. 3, cap. 12, 17. the title, together with a large pro- 11 rulgar, Glares Varones, tit. portion of the domains originally 20. — Bernaldez, Reyes Cat6lico3 attached to it, was conferred on MS., cap. 10, 11. Don Juan Pacheco, by whom it was