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115 DEATH OF HENRY IV. 115 unsettled politics of a distant state, in order to chapter IV. relieve himself from his pretensions at home.^ '■ — An interview took place between Henry the i470. Fourth and the French ambassadors in a little village in the vale of Lozoja, in October, 1470. A proclamation was read, in which Henry declared his sister to have forfeited whatever claims she had derived from the treaty of Toros de Guisando, by marrying contrary to his approbation. He then with his queen swore to the legitimacy of the prin- cess Joanna, and announced her as his true and lawful successor. The attendant nobles took the usual oaths of allegiance, and the ceremony was concluded by affiancing the princess, then in the ninth year of her age, with the formalities ordinarily practised on such occasions, to the count of Bou- logne, the representative of the duke of Guienne.^ This farce, in which many of the actors were the same persons who performed the principal parts at the convention of Toros de Guisando, had on the whole an unfavorable influence on Isabella's cause. It exhibited her rival to the world as one whose 1 Alonso de Palencia, Coronica, in 1470 for the convocation of the MS., part. 2, cap. 21. — Gaillard, deputies, to obtain a recognition of Rivalite, torn. iii. p. 284. — Rades the title of Joanna. But without y Andrada, Las Tres Ordenes, fol. effect. In the letters of convoca- 65. — Caro de Torres, Ordenes tion issued for a third assembly of Militares, fol. 43. the states, in 1471, this purpose 2 Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., was prudently omitted, and thus bat. 1, quinc. 1, dial. 23.— Castillo, the claims of Joanna failed to re- Cronica, p. 298. — Alonso de Pa- ceive the countenance of the only lencia, Coronica, MS., part. 2, cap. body which could give them valid- 24. — Henry, well knowing how ity. See the copies of the original little all this would avail without writs, addressed to the cities of the constitutional sanction of the Toledo and Segovia, cited by Ma- cortes, twice issued his summons rina, Teoria, tom. ii. pp. 87-89.