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292 292 FERDINAND'S RETURN AND REGENCY. PART While the Great Captain and liis friends were filled with an indignation, at this dnplicitj, which II. The queen's, , i .,,. j coolness. thcy could ill suppress, a circumstance occurred to increase the coldness arising in Ferdinand's mind towards his injured subject. This was the pro- posed marriage (a marriage which, from whatever cause, never took place^^) of Gonsalvo's daughter Elvira, to his friend ^ the constable of Castile. ^^ Ferdinand had designed to secure her large inher- itance to his own family, by an alliance with his grandson, Juan de Aragon, son of the archbishop of Saragossa. His displeasure, at finding himself crossed in this, was further sharpened by the petu- lant spirit of his young queen. The constable, now a widower, had been formerly married to a natural daughter of Ferdinand. Queen Germaine, adverting to his intended union with the lady Elvira, unceremoniously asked him, " If he did not feel it a degradation to accept the hand of a sub- ject, after having wedded the daughter of a king.^" " How can I feel it so," he replied, alluding to the 33 Qiiintana errs in stating that ated by tlie Catholic soverein^ns, Doiia Elvira married the constable, for his distinfruished services, duke (Espailoles Celebrcs, torn. i. p. of Frias. He had large estates, 321.) He had two wives, Doila chiefly in Old Castile, with a yearly Blanca dc Ilerrcra, and Doila Ju- revenue, according to L. Marineo, ana de Aragon, and at his death of 60,000 ducats. He appears was laid by their side in the church to have possessed many noble of Santa Clara de Medina del Po- and brilliant qualities, accompa- mar. (Salazar dc Mendoza, Dig- nicd, however, with a haughtiness, nidadcs, lib. 3, caj). 21.) Elvira which made him feared, rather married the count of Cabra. Ul- than loved. He died in February, loa, A'ita di Carlo V., fol. -12. 1512, after a few hours' illness, 34 Bernardino de Velasco,^rffno? as appears by a letter of Peter constable of Castile, as he was Martyr. Opus Epist., epist. 179. called, par cxcclkucr, succeeded in — Salazar de Mendoza, Dignidades, 1492 to that dignity, which became ubi supra. — L. Marineo, Cosas hereditary in liis family. He was IMemorablcs, fol. 23. third count of Haro, and was crc-