_Cat_, the, preferred by Turks to the dog, i. 225;
Mahomet’s, _ib._
_Cateau Cambrésis_, treaty of, Turks indignant at, i. 369
_Cateau Cambrésis_, town of, taken by Parma, ii. 157;
annoyance caused by its garrison, 162;
Biron’s attempt on it repulsed by Parma, 202
_Cathay_, or China, account of, given by a Turkish pilgrim, i. 359-362
_Catherine de Medici_, Queen of France, waits for her son at Lyons,
ii. 7;
offended at Pibrac’s advice, 10;
supposed to favour war in order to keep her power, 11, 50;
threatens execution of Montmorency, if his brothers invade France,
16;
grants Busbecq an audience, 36;
her power over the King, 37;
given good advice by Maximilian, 38;
her illness from walking in a procession at night, 45;
fancies she sees the Cardinal’s ghost, 46, and _note_;
offers the Queen her services, 55;
her unpopularity, 57;
her regard for Maximilian, 59;
tries to keep Alençon quiet, 95;
follows him, 102;
interview between them, 103;
regrets she cannot bid Elizabeth farewell, 122;
concludes a six months’ truce with Alençon, 126;
intends visiting certain towns to persuade them to admit him, 127;
invested with the government in the King’s absence, 145, 183;
grants Don Antonio an audience, 161;
her claims on Portugal, _ib._ and _note_;
her exclamation on hearing of the French Fury, 167;
intends visiting Alençon, 180;
indignant at his folly, 181;
disgusted at the King’s neglect of his duties, 182;
rebukes his confessor, _ib._;
Alençon puts off her visit, _ib._;
goes to Boulogne to see him, 184;
meets him at La Fère, 185;
incensed with her daughter for her conduct, 193;
returns to La Fère, 194;
goes to Alençon at Château Thierry, 202;
and then to Laon, _ib._;
returns to Paris, 203;
again goes to Alençon, 209;
visited by him, 213;
her advice to him, _ib._;
visits him, 217;
said to be sick with grief, 218;
her grief for Alençon genuine, 221;
importuned by Netherland ambassadors, 224;
strongly supports their appeal to the King, 225;
resolved to keep Cambrai, 228;
goes to the Loire, _ib._;
her hatred of Spain, 235;
her answer to the Netherland ambassadors, 237;
with the Duke of Guise, 246
_Cavasses_, nature of their office, i. 85, 201;
Busbecq’s cavasse induces the Pashas to confine him in his old
quarters, 201;
their general behaviour to Busbecq, 258;
rudeness of one, and Busbecq’s retaliation, 259-260;
one tries to prevent Busbecq seeing the Sultan’s departure, 281;
Busbecq retorts on him, 287;
Busbecq’s argument with his cavasse on predestination, 383-384.
_Champagny_, M. de, brother of Cardinal Granvelle, in danger at Ghent
on account of alleged conspiracy ii. 209
_Chanvallon_, M. de, former favourite of Alençon, and lover of the
Queen of Navarre, flies to Germany, ii. 193;
his manners and appearance, _ib._
_Charité_, La, town of, demanded by Alençon, ii. 120
_Charlemagne_, the Emperor, dispersed the Saxons, i. 359;
House of Guise said to be descended from him, ii. 238
_Charles V._, the Emperor, his truce with the Turks, i. 78;
Turkish recollection of his victories, 318;
standard with his arms rescued by Busbecq, 322-323;
etiquette at his court, ii. 159-160
_Charles IX._, King of France, questions as to his leaving a will,
ii. 33;
had appointed his brother Henry his Lieutenant, 104
_Charlotte de Bourbon_, daughter of the Duke of Montpensier,
her marriage with the Prince of Orange, ii. 66, and _note_;
her death, 142
_Chartres_, attempt on town of, ii. 98;
Nevers’ head-quarters, 102;
said to have gone over to Navarre, 255
_Chattes_, M. de, a Knight of Malta, commanding Don Antonio’s fleet,
ii. 188
_Chederle_, fabulous hero identified by the Turks with St. George,
legend of, i. 148-150
_Chios_, tame partridges from, i. 212;
how reared, 213;
its Genoese inhabitants, and its form of government, 323,
and _note_;
Spanish officers left there, _ib._
_Cicero_, his statements as to the _pinna_ and _pinna-guard_ referred
to, i. 339
_Ciphers_, Pashas puzzled by supposed, i. 233;
Busbecq draws some up, ii. 48
_Claudius_, the Emperor, the story of his murder alluded to, i. 172
_Clervant_, M. de, Huguenot leader, taken prisoner, ii. 104, and _note_
_Cocq_, Jerome de, Busbecq asks his salary to be paid to, ii. 50
_Codignac_, M. de, French Ambassador at Constantinople, his quarrel
with his successor, i. 370
_Coins_, ancient, found by Busbecq, i. 94, 139, 141
_Colchians._ See _Mingrelians_
_Cologne_, disturbances at, ii. 162, and _note_;
King hopes to profit by them, 185
_Compiègne_, attempt to surprise, ii. 88
_Condé_, Prince de, expected to take the field, ii. 32;
messenger from him at Avignon, 41;
some wish him sent to Hungary against the Turk, 49;
likely to invade France, 68;
terms of peace to be referred to him, 70;
suggestion that he should go to assist Orange, 72;
said to be coming with an army, 88;
Mezières appointed as his residence, 127;
his covenant for mutual defence with Casimir, _ib._;
will not hear of a truce, 131;
spoken of for the command in the Netherlands, 233;
marriage reported between him and Navarre’s sister, _ib._;
report of a bull declaring him disqualified to succeed to the
throne, 243, 249;
marches on Angers, but fails in his enterprise, 248
_Constantinople_, description of, and its antiquities, &c., i. 122-127;
the Sultan’s sons not allowed to enter, 187;
entry of Turkish fleet into, 321
_Cossé_, Maréchal de, imprisoned in the Bastile, ii. 8;
sketch of him, _ib._, _note_;
his illness, 19;
will probably go with Montmorency to Alençon, 105
_Crane_, story of a Balearic, i. 207
_Cratevas_, a Greek herbalist, fragments of, in Busbecq’s MS. of
Dioscorides, i. 417, and _note_
_Dadian_, King of the Mingrelians, his appearance and character,
i. 245;
his capture and escape, 246-247;
his presents to Solyman, 251-252
_Dalmatian_ horseman, his objection to fire-arms, i. 241-242
_Damville_, Comte de, afterwards Duc de Montmorency, sketch of him,
ii. 11, _note_;
summoned by the King, _ib._;
said to have caused Montpellier to revolt, 22;
to have made an attempt on Avignon, 23;
prepares to defend himself, 32;
carries war through Languedoc and Guienne, 56;
report of his death, 68, and _note_;
terms of peace to be referred to him, 70;
comes to life again, 77;
King wishes to deprive him of his government, 187;
intended campaign against him, 214;
pronounced contumacious by the Parliament, _ib._;
campaign given up, 218;
said to be appointed Constable of France by Navarre, 255.
_Dantzic_, amber merchant of, at Constantinople, i. 257
_Dauphin_, the Prince. See _Montpensier_
_Delegates_ from the rebels expected in Paris, and their demands,
ii. 57, 60;
sent back with the King’s answer, 60
_Dendermonde_, Alençon withdraws thither, ii. 168;
attacked by Parma, 226
_Denmark_, King of, application to the, suggested in Congress of
Middelburg, ii. 202;
his eldest daughter married to King James of Scotland, 258
_Derby_, Earl of, comes to Paris as the bearer of the Order of the
Garter from Queen Elizabeth to the King, ii. 234;
his magnificent reception, 237;
his departure, _ib._
_Diest_, town belonging to Prince of Orange, blockaded by Parma,
ii. 157;
surrenders to him, 162;
recovered by him, 183
_Dietrichstein_, Adam von, Austrian Baron, i. 325, _note_;
ransoms his brother-in-law, _ib._
_Dijon_, the Pope’s legate summons people of Langres to, ii. 257;
transfers their bishopric to, _ib._
_Dioscorides_, famous MS. of, found by Busbecq at Constantinople,
i. 417, and _note_
_Divan_, custom of entertaining ambassadors on leaving in the,
i. 159, 387;
meaning of the word, 197;
Busbecq and his colleagues summoned thither, _ib._;
scene there, 232-234;
de Sandé brought before, 325;
debate there as to whether Busbecq should be allowed to bring wine
into Constantinople, 332
_Divorce_, Turkish laws about, i. 230
_Dixmude_, hard pressed, ii. 194
_Djerbé_, account of the Spanish defeat at, i. 317, _note_, and 317-321
_Dodona_, the oak of, alluded to, i. 272
_Dorothea_, sister of the Duke of Lorraine, her marriage, ii. 124, 129
_Dower_, the Queen’s, Duchy of Berry said to be assigned as, ii. 20;
further reports about it, 26;
Pibrac’s statement about it, 30;
impossible to get the whole charged on Crown Lands, 53, 56;
two proposals as to settlement thereof, 85;
valuation made of property assigned for it, 108;
final arrangement about it, 109
_Duck_, species of, whose cry was like a post horn, i. 139
_Duel_, a, in France, ii. 188-191
_Duelling_, Turkish opinion about, i. 244
_Earthquake_, at Adrianople, i. 200;
at Constantinople, _ib._
_Egmont_, Count, Louise de Vaudemont his niece, ii. 51;
his brother compromised by Salceda’s evidence, 154
_Egypt_, eggs artificially hatched in, i. 214;
disaffected to the Turks, 273
_Elbœuf_, Marquis of, cousin of the Duke of Guise, one of the leaders
of the League, ii. 241;
seizes Caen, 245
_Elephant_, that danced and played ball, i. 128
_Elizabeth_, Queen of England, peace renewed between her and France,
ii. 60;
anecdote of her, 61;
said to have sent Alençon money, 143;
conspiracy against her, 212;
sends the Garter to the King, 235;
reported attempt on her life, 240;
offers the King 6,000 horse, 246;
fresh conspiracy against her, 247;
openly takes Holland and Zealand under her protection, 251
_Elizabeth_, daughter of Maximilian, widow of Charles IX., sends her
carriages for Busbecq, ii. 5;
her proposed marriage to Henry III., 6;
the general topic of conversation, 11;
her uncomfortable position in Paris, 14;
difficulties about her dower, _ib._;
her illness apprehended, 22;
her recovery, 24;
questions as to her future arrangements, 25;
report of her marriage to Henry III. discredited, 27;
her health, 29;
marriage with King of Portugal talked of, 30, 77;
arrangements as to her establishment and return, 31, 32;
wishes Busbecq to go to the King, 33;
her escort home, 47;
consults Busbecq as to her conduct to the new Queen, 51;
shows him the Queen-Mother’s letter, _ib._;
suggested for the governorship of the Netherlands, 54;
how her current expenses are to be provided, _ib._;
intends going to Amboise after Easter, 58;
anxious to see her daughter, but prevented by want of funds, 64;
no money to pay her servants, 65;
her position intolerable, 67;
longs to return and also to see her daughter, 78;
her poverty, _ib._;
her illness caused by anxiety, 79;
arrangements about her journey, 84, 115, 119, 123;
the municipality of Paris inclined to defray her expenses, 91;
requires money, 92;
receives proposal from Duke Eric of Brunswick, 94;
starts for Amboise, 96;
arrives there, 97;
the date of her departure, 109;
questions about her route, 110-111;
her anxiety to leave, 113;
sends Orleans wine to her father, 124;
starts from Paris, 128;
arrives at Nancy, 129;
present at the Duke of Brunswick’s wedding, _ib._;
sends courier to Madame d’Aremberg, 130;
arrives at Bâle, Augsburg, and Munich, 133, 134;
whether her route is to be by land or water, 133;
her health, 135; anxious to reach her father, 136;
her life and character, _ib._ _note_;
business relating to her, 141;
her rights disregarded, 172;
curtailment of her income from the troubles in France probable,
256
_Elizabeth_, daughter of the preceding, probably will not be allowed
to leave France, ii. 56;
is delicate, 58;
description of her, 97, and _note_
_Elkass_ Mirza, assisted by Solyman against his brother, Shah Tahmasp,
i. 301
_Endhoven_, town in Brabant, capitulates, ii. 182
_English_ ambassador suspected of intriguing with Alençon, ii. 99-100.;
See also _Derby_, Earl of
_Epernon_, Duke of, favourite of the King, applies for governorship
of Brittany, ii. 172;
King wishes the Duke of Lorraine to give him his daughter, 176;
description of him, 177;
King wishes to make him governor of Metz, 184;
Alençon advised to secure his interest, 213;
escorts Alençon on his departure, 214;
sent to the King of Navarre, 220;
honourably received by him, 223;
ill of scrofula, 230;
his reported marriage to Navarre’s sister, 242;
finds out where his hat is, 246;
sent to his command at Metz, 251
_Eric_, Duke of Brunswick, proposes for Elizabeth, ii. 94, and _note_;
reported preparations for his marriage to Dorothea, the Duke of
Lorraine’s sister, 124;
his wedding, 129
_Ernest_, the Archduke, suspected of being concerned in the affair
of Antwerp, ii. 168;
Philip II.’s daughter said to be betrothed to him, _ib._
_Erzeroum_, the Pasha of, how deceived by Bajazet, i. 304-305;
afterwards put to death by Selim, 305
_Espinoy_, Prince of, accompanies the Netherland ambassadors to France,
ii. 234
_Essek_, town of, famous battle there, i. 166
_Este_, the Cardinal of, applies for the honour of escorting the Queen,
ii. 55, and _note_;
accompanies her to Bourg-la-Reine, 96;
appointed to escort her, 126;
returns to Paris on account of plot to waylay him, 130
_Estrées_, d’, family of, banished from Court, ii. 13
_Etampes_, town of, taken by Navarre, ii. 252
_Eunuchs_ of Solyman’s bed-chamber, the chief of the, procures Pialé
Pasha’s pardon, i. 324;
de Sandé recalled at his wish, 326.
See also _Hassan_ Aga
_Evreux_, town of, threatened by Navarre, ii, 258
_Fast_, the Turkish, how kept, i. 290-291
_Ferdinand_, King of Hungary and Bohemia, King of the Romans
and afterwards Emperor, summons Busbecq to Vienna, i. 77;
Busbecq’s interview with him, 78;
sends Malvezzi to the Porte, _ib._;
recovers Transylvania, 79;
sends Zay and Wranczy to the Porte, 80;
engaged at the Imperial Diet, 172;
sends Busbecq back to Constantinople, 175;
his bounty to Busbecq, 344;
at Frankfort, 397;
receives Busbecq graciously, 398;
panegyric on him, 401-414;
his Fabian tactics, 409;
his difficulties, 411
_Ferdinand_, the Archduke, sees Busbecq at Vienna, i. 171-172;
commands at the relief of Szigeth, 237;
honour he thereby acquired, 239;
declines to give Ibrahim an audience except _incognito_, 398
_Ferrara_, the Duke of, a candidate for the Polish crown, ii. 43
_Ferrier_, M. de, formerly Ambassador at Venice, sent by the King to
the King of Navarre, ii. 182
_Fervaques_, officer of Alençon, said to be the suggester of the French
Fury, ii. 169;
a prisoner, _ib._;
his execution demanded by the Antwerp citizens, 175;
presented by Alençon with an abbacy, 181;
attempt to assassinate him, 209
_Fiesco_, the Comte de, account of him, ii. 26, and _note_;
mentioned 33;
refuses to leave the Queen’s service, 52
_Fire-arms_, objection of the Turks to, i. 242-243
_Flagellants_, guilds of, ii. 45;
new guild of, instituted by the King, 179;
punishment of footmen who mocked, 180
_Flushing_, town of, bought by Orange, ii. 183
_Foix_, François de, Comte de Candale and Bishop of Aire, dedicates a
translation of Hermes Trismegistus to Maximilian, ii. 17, and _note_
_Fontenay_, town in Poitou, besieged, ii. 10;
taken, 12
_Forez_, county of Le, the Queen’s dower partly charged on, ii. 109
_France_, M. de, the Queen’s first steward, ii. 33
_France_, state of, ii. 38-42, 48-50, 67-68, 70-73, 77, 87-89;
no money but French or Spanish allowed in, 151;
dreadful weather in, 163;
on the brink of war, 241
_Francis I._, influences the Sorbonne to decide in Henry VIII.’s favour,
ii. 27
_Franciscan friar_, story of a, i. 340
_Frederic III._, Emperor, his alliance with the House of Portugal,
ii. 77, and _note_
_Frederic III._, Elector Palatine, his reception of Henry III.,
ii. 15 _note_
_Fregosi_, a great Genoese family, ii. 89, and _note_
_French gentlemen_, their characters, ii. 72, 92
_Fünfkirchen_, Bishop of, defeated by Ali Pasha, i. 236
_Gannat_, town in the Bourbonnais, added to the Queen’s dower, ii. 109
_Gaston_, Don. See _Medina-Celi_, Duke of.
_Genoa_, a safety-valve for restless Frenchmen, ii. 89
_George, St._, identified by the Turks with their hero, Chederle,
i. 148;
how painted by the Greeks, 150;
greatly venerated by the Mingrelians, 251
_Georgians_, their prudent answer when asked to attack the Shah, i. 377
_Germain, St., en Laye_, King at, ii. 211;
reforms of assembly at, _ib._;
King returns thither, 230
_German_ reiters, report that 2,000 are coming to join Damville,
ii. 96;
defeated by Guise, 104;
more reported to be coming, 110, 113, 119;
said to have crossed the Rhine, 127;
scouring the country, 129;
seen from the ramparts of Nancy, 131;
1,500 hired by Alençon, near Cambrai, 143;
Navarre said to be hiring, 212;
rumours of some being brought to France, 239;
much dreaded in France, 249
_Ghent_, battle before, ii. 148;
alleged conspiracy detected there, 209;
Parma’s envoys courteously received there, 217;
said to have come to terms with him, 219;
admits the troops of Orange, 222;
submits to Parma, 229
_Ghourebas_, name of a regiment of the Imperial guard, i. 154,
and _note_;
mentioned, 283
_Gienger_, Cosmo, governor of Upper Austria, ii. 138, and _note_
_Gilles_, or _Gyllius_, Peter, French traveller, referred to, i. 132,
and _note_
_Goatsucker_, cruel treatment of a, by a Venetian goldsmith, i. 226,
and _note_
_Goigny_, Seigneur de, officer of King of Spain, seen at Cambrai,
ii. 204
_Goldfinches_, tricks of trained, i. 228
_Goldsmith_, story of a Venetian goldsmith and a bird, i. 226
_Goths_ remaining in the Crimea, i. 355-359, and 355 _note_;
vocabulary of their language, 357-359
_Gotzen_, Dr. Joachim, sent by Duke Eric of Brunswick to propose for
the Queen, ii. 94
_Gran_, city of, description of, i. 83;
surprised by the Imperial troops, 239
_Grapes_, Turkish mode of preserving, i. 147-148
_Greeks_, their superstitions about unclean food, i. 124;
test Solyman’s prohibition of wine, 332-333
_Guadagni_, an Italian in the French service, seneschal of Lyons,
ii. 40;
sent to Maximilian, 31;
his statement to him, 47
_Guast_, Louis du, one of the King’s favourites, his murder, ii. 116.
and _note_;
his quarrel with Thoré, 117;
his splendid mode of life, 118;
debts left by him, 119
_Guise_, Henry, Duke of, le Balafré, hostile to Alençon, ii. 95;
accompanies the Queen to the gates of Paris, 96;
appointed the King’s Lieutenant, 98;
defeats the German reiters, 104;
wounded, 105;
his triumphal return to Paris, 121;
offers to go to Alençon’s rescue, 167;
one of the leaders of the League, 241;
declares he is simply a private gentleman fighting for the League,
246;
takes Verdun, 247
_Guise_, the young Duke of, a prisoner, ii. 253, and _note_
_Guise_, House of, its position, ii. 40;
its hereditary feuds with House of Navarre, 176-177;
sets the League on foot, 238;
its claims to the throne, _ib._;
understanding with the Pope and the King of Spain, 239;
prepares for a campaign, 241;
its reasons for offence, 242
_Guises_, their party striving to make themselves masters of France,
ii. 224
_Güns_, town in Styria, taken by Solyman, i. 409
_Halys_ (Kizil Irmak), the river, fishing in, i. 145
_Harrach_, Rodolph von, a minister of Ferdinand’s, i. 412
_Hassan_ Aga, chief of the eunuchs of the bed-chamber, sent as
ambassador to Persia, i. 380;
and again as Bajazet’s executioner, 381
_Havre de Grâce_, likely to surrender to Navarre, ii. 255
_Hawking_, Solyman’s taste for it, i. 198
_Hebrus_, or Maritza, the river, i. 106, 107
_Henry_, one of Busbecq’s servants, his quarrel with the Janissary
of Tolna, i. 392-396;
does not take de Sandé’s remonstrance in good part, 394
_Henry VIII._, King of England, decision of the Sorbonne on the
validity of his marriage, ii. 27, and _note_