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Therefore, although her interests were not so deeply engaged in the question as to the succession to the throne of Spain as were those of the continental powers, she threw herself into the struggle with ardor. The two claimants to the throne of Spain were the Archduke Charles, second son of Leopold, Emperor of Austria, and Philip, Duke of Anjou, a younger grandson of Louis.
"Sambreguoy!" cried he of Anjou. "You will not let us pay three times; our host would not suffer it." "Well then," said the Burgundian, "whichever of us shall tell the worst tale shall justify the landlord." "Who will be the judge?" asked the Picardian, dropping his twelve sols to the bottom of his pocket. "Pardieu! our host.
It was not unnatural that the Netherlanders, who remembered the scenes of bloodshed and disorder produced by the memorable attempt of the Duke of Anjou to obtain possession of Antwerp and other cities, should be suspicious of Leicester. Anjou, too, had been called to the Provinces by the voluntary action of the States. He too had been hailed as a Messiah and a deliverer.
At the same time, it is well known that the chief councillors of Elizabeth while they were all in favor of assisting the provinces looked with anything but satisfaction upon the Anjou marriage. The envoy believed both Elizabeth and the provinces in danger of taking unto themselves a very bad master.
Fulke, my son Fulke, I will make thee a knight even now! He held the babe in one hand, with the free hand drew his long sword. The flat blade touched the nodding little head. 'Rise up, Sir Fulke of Anjou, true knight of thine house, Sieur de Cuigny when I have thee home again. By the Face! he cried shortly, as if remembering something, 'we must get him the badge: a switch of wild broom!
They were also, even in their abject plight, made still more forlorn by the forays of Balagny, who continued in command of Cambray. Catharine de' Medici claimed that city as her property, by will of the Duke of Anjou. A strange title founded upon the treason and cowardice of her favourite son but one which, for a time, was made good by the possession maintained by Balagny.
He expressed the hope, now that the Duke of Anjou was dead, that his Christian Majesty would not countenance the rebellion, but manifest his good-will.
He should be capable, seeing that he is a man of taste," said he of Anjou. "Come along, great chef, sit you down, drink, and lend us both your ears. The audience is open." Thereupon the host sat down, but not until he had poured out a gobletful of wine. "My turn first," said the Anjou man. "I commence."
William, the greatest of his class, is still but a member of a class. Along with him we must reckon a crowd of kings, bishops, and high officials in many ages of our history. Theodore of Tarsus and Cnut of Denmark, Lanfranc of Pavia and Anselm of Aosta, Randolf Flambard and Roger of Salisbury, Henry of Anjou and Simon of Montfort, are all written on a list of which William is but the foremost.
They reached the sea at Astura, boarded a vessel, and were about setting sail for Pisa, when they were betrayed into the hands of their pursuers, taken prisoners, and carried back to Charles of Anjou. They had fallen into fatal hands; Charles was not the man to consider justice or honor in dealing with a Hohenstauffen.
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