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62 62 ITALIAN WARS. PART ture death of the heir apparent, Prmce Miguel, not '- — long after, prepared the way for this event by de- volving the succession on Joanna, Charles's mother. From that moment the sovereigns were pressing in their entreaties that the archduke and his wife would visit Spain, that they might receive the cus- tomary oaths of allegiance, and that the former might become acquainted with the character and in- stitutions of his future subjects. The giddy young prince, however, thought too much of present pleas- ure to heed the call of ambition or duty, and suf- fered more than a year to glide away, before he complied with the summons of his royal parents. I'hiiipand In the latter part of 1501, Philip and Joanna, Joanna visit 3rain. attended by a numerous suite of Flemish courtiers, set out on their journey, proposing to take their way through France. They were entertained with profuse magnificence and hospitality at the French court, where the politic attentions of Louis the Twelfth, not only effaced the recollection of an- cient injuries to the house of Burgundy,^ but left impressions of the most agreeable character on the mind of the young prince.' After some weeks to the circumstance of Charles be- daughter, to whom he had been ing bom on that saint's day; a day, affianced from her infancy. This whichjif we are to believe Garibay, twofold insult, which sunk deep was fortunate to him through the into the heart of Maximilian, seems whole course of his life. Com- to have made no impression on the pendio, torn. ii. lib. 19, cap. 9. volatile spirits of his son. 2 Charles VIIL, Louis's prede- ^ Mariana, Hist, de Espana, lib. cessor, had contrived to secure the 27, cap. 11. — St. Gelais describes hand of Anne of Bretagne, not- the cordial reception of Philip and withstanding she was already mar- Joanna by the Court at Blois, where ried by proxy to Philip's father, the he was probably present himself, emperor Maximilian ; and this, too, The historian shows his own opin- in contempt of his own engage- ion of the effect produced on tjheir meats to Margaret, the emperor's young minds by these flattering at-