cambrésis

Updated: June 10, 2025

Its opening scene was the treaty of Catean Cambresis, by which a triumph over France had been achieved for him by the able generals and statesmen of his father, so humiliating and complete as to make every French soldier or politician gnash his teeth.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete

Elizabeth infringed the treaty of Cateau Cambresis, then only four months old, by giving Sadleir 3000 pounds in gold, or some such sum, for the brethren. Chatelherault's promise was less vigorous than it had been reported! Knox, who now acted as secretary for the Congregation, was not Sir Henry Wotton's ideal ambassador, "an honest man sent to lie abroad for his country."

Andrew Lang - John Knox and the Reformation