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376 .'376 DEATH OF GONSALVO. II. PART unworthy suspicion died with him. The king and the whole court went into mourning. Funeral services were performed in his honor, in the rojal chapel and all the principal churches of the king- dom. Ferdinand addressed a letter of consolation to his duchess, in which he lamented the death of one, " who had rendered him inestimable services, and to whom he had ever borne such sincere affec- tion " ! ^^ His obsequies were celebrated with great magnificence in the ancient Moorish capital, under the superintendence of the count of Tendilla, the son and successor of Gonsalvo's old friend, the late governor of Granada." His remains, first deposit- ed in the Franciscan monastery, were afterwards removed, and laid beneath a sumptuous mausoleum in the church of San Geronimo;^^ and more than a hundred banners and royal pennons, waving in melancholy pomp around the walls of the chapel, proclaimed the glorious achievements of the warrior who slept beneath.'^ His noble wife. Dona Maria 13 See a copy of the orijrinal to his eldest son, Don Luis, Mar- letter in the Chronica del Gran tyr's early pupil ; his genius was Capitan, (fol. 164.) It is dated inherited in full measure by a Jan. 3d, 1516, only three weeks younger, the famous Diego Hurta- before Ferdinand's death. do de Mendoza. !■* Peter Martyr notices the ^^ The following inscription is death of this estimable nobleman, placed over them, full of years and of honors, in a "Gonzali Fernandez de Cordova, letter dated July I8th, 1515. It is ciui propria vinuie addressed to Tendilla's son, and '^Jo^ilJuirstbrrct.'; breathes the consolation flowmg Ossa, from the mild and philosophical Perpema- landem spirit of its amiable author. The Huic"im"erao count was made marquis of Mon- Creiiiia sum ; dejar by Ferdinand, a short time Gloria niinime consepuiia." before his death. His various ti- ^^ Navagiero, Viaggio, fol. 24. ties and dignities, including the On the top of the monument was government of Granada, descended seen the marble effigy of the Great