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386 386 DEATH OF GONSALVO. nient. PART The testament, as finally arranged, settled the '- — - succession of Aragon and Naples on his daughter and testa- Joanua aud her heirs. Ihe administration oi Las- tile during Charles's absence was intrusted to Xime- nes, and thatofAragon to the king's natural son, the archbishop of Saragossa, whose good sense and popular manners made him acceptable to the peo- ple. He granted several places in the kingdom of Naples to the infante Ferdinand, with an annual stipend of fifty thousand ducats, chargeable on the public revenues. To his queen Germaine he left the yearly income of thirty thousand gold florins, stipulated by the marriage settlement, with five thousand a year more during widowhood. ^^ The will contained, besides, several appropriations for pious and charitable purposes, but nothing worthy of particular note.^* Notwithstanding the simplici- ty of the various provisions of the testament, it Avas so long, from the formalities and periphrases with which it was encumbered, that there was scarce time to transcribe it in season for the royal signa- ture. On the evening of the 22d of January, 1516, he executed the instrument ; and a few hours later, between one and two of the morning of the 23d, 33 Ferdinand's gay widow did match, says Guicciardini, which not long- enjoy this latter pension. Charles V., for obvious politic rea- Soon alter his death, she gave her sons, provided for the rightful heir hand to the marquis of Branden- of Naples. Istoria, tom. viii. lib. burg, and, he dying, she again mar- 15, p. 10. ried the prince of Calabria, who ** Ferdinand's testament is to had been detained in a sort of hon- be found in Carbajal, Anales, MS. orable captivity in Spain, ever since — Dormer, Discursos Yarios, p. the dethronement of his father, 393 et seq. — Mariana, Hist, de King Frederic. (Oviedo, Quincua- Espafia, ed. Valencia, tom. ix. genas, MS., bat. I, quinc. 4, dial. Apend. no. 2. 44.) It was the second sterile