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A51922	The memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first wife to Henry the fourth, King of France and Navarre compiled in French by her owne most delicate and royall hand : and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...; Memoires de la roine Margverite. English	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing M595; ESTC R15539	98,790	238

much as speake unto me and it was now more then a yeere since he was a suitor to the Princesse de Portia but because that marriage was deferred it reflected alwayes on this illation that he aspired unto mine which I observing resolved to write unto my Sister Madam de Lorrayne that could doe all in that House intreating her to be a meanes that Monsieur de Guise might be withdrawn from Court and that the marriage might be dispatched betwixt him and the Princesse de Portia his Mistresse representing to her how this invention was complotted as much for Monsieur de Guize his ruine as my owne the truth of this she knew very well and came presently after to the Court where she caused the said marriage to be accomplished by that meanes delivering me from detraction and giving the Queen my mother to understand the truth of that which I had alwayes said This stopped the mouth of all mine enemies and gave me rest In the mean while the King of Spaine who would have none but his owne birds flie out of his owne nest quite brake off the marriage with the King of Portugall and there was heard no more rumour of it Some few dayes after there was a report of my marriage with the Prince of Navarre who is now the brave and magnanimous King of France and of my self My mother being one day at the Table communed there a great while with Mousieur de Meru because they of the House of Montmorancy were the first that made the motion And rising from the table she told me that she had spoken to him to conferre with me about it I made answere that I having no other will but hers it were superfluous but I besought her seriously to consider that I was a Catholike and that it would be a great affliction to me to be married to one that was not of my Religion Afterwards my Mother going to her closet called me and told me that the Lords of Montmorancy proposed againe that marriage to her and that she willingly would know how I stood affected I replyed to her againe that I had neither choice nor will but what was hers and besought her againe to remember that I was a true Catholick At the end of certaine daies the report still continuing the Queen of Navarre mother to the said Prince came to Court where the marriage was fully agreed upon before her death to whom there happened a pretty Passage which deserveth not indeed to be recorded in this story but to be passed off in silence twixt you and me Madam de Nevers whose humour you well know being come with Monsieur the Cardinall of Burbon Madam de Guise Madam the Princesse of Conde and her sisters with my self to discharge the last duety due unto her dignitie and the proximity betwixt us we found her not with the pompe and ceremonies of our Religion but in the preciser cut of affected Huguenotery She had about her ordinary bed the curtaines open without light without Priests without a Crosse and without Holy-water We kept our selves some five or sixe paces from her bed with the rest of the company Madame de Nevers whom in her life time she hated above all the creatures in the world and who ever had returned good unto her for it both in will and words as you knew she would carry her self fairely to those she hated departed from our troupe and with many gracefull humble and submissive curtesies shee came neere unto her bed and taking her by the hand did kisse it and againe with a lowly courtesie and most full of humble respects she withdrew her selfe unto us we who did know their hatred thinking that Some few moneths after the Prince of Navarre who then called himselfe King of Navarre mourning for the Queene his mother came thither accompanied with Eight hundred Gentlemen all in blacks and was received by the King and all the Court with great honor and some few daies after my Nuptialls were Solemnized with more magnificence and triumph then was ever any of my quality The King of Navarre and his troupe had changed their blacks into habiliments most rich and gorgeous and all the Court accoutred as you know and can far better represent it I was royally attired with the Crowne Before me I had on a Robe of powdered Ermines which glistered all over with the sparkling stones that reflected from the Crown and behind me the great blew Mantle the traine whereof being foure elles was carried by three Princesses the scaffolds were set up as it is usuall at the marriages of the Daughters of France from the Euesche to our Ladies and covered with cloth of Gold The people thronged below to see the wedding and all the Court passed along upon the scaffolds We came to the doore of the Church where Monsieur the Cardinall of Bourbon having received us to say the words accustomed for such Solemnities did there the office for that day We being thus Fortune who never g●ants unto mortality a perfect happinesse changed soone after this happy estate of triumphs and of nuptialls into another cleane contrary by the hurt which the Admirall received which so offended those of the Religion that it made them even desperate insomuch that old Pardaillan and some other of the chiefe Huguenots talked so loud to the Queen my mother that they made her conceive they had some bad intention By the advise of Monsieur de Guise and my Brother the King of Polonia who since hath been King of France a counsell was taken to prevent them a counsell to which King Charles was no way accessary who loved Monsieur de la Rochefoucault Teligny la Noue and some others who were the chiefe of that Religion whose service he did account to make use of in Flanders and I my selfe have heard him since affirme that with much difficultie and importunitie he consented to it and unlesse they had made him understand that his life and state were in the utmost jeopardy he had never given way unto it And having known the assault which Mauravell had made on Monsieur the Admirall by a shot from a Pistoll which he discharged out of a window whereby thinking to kill him hee was onely wounded in the shoulder the King suspecting truly that Mauravel made that shot by perswasion of Monsieur de Guise in revenge of the death of his father the late Monsieur de Guise whom the said Admirall had caused to be slain in the same manner by Poltrot he was in so great a choler against Monsieur de Guise that he swore he would see Justice executed and if Monsieur de Guise had not withdrawn and hid himself all that day the King had caused him to be apprehended and the Queen my Mother had never more to doe then to make King Charles understand that it was done for the benefit of his Estate so great an affection he did beare to Monsieur the Admirall la Noüe and Teligny whose spirits and whose valour he well observed being so noble a Prince that

he affected not any whom he saw not indued with such qualities and though they had been most pernicious to the state these foxes knew so well to dissemble that they had wonne the heart of this brave Prince who hoped to make them profitable to him for the inlargement of his estate whiles they propounded to him great and glorious enterprises in Flanders the only attraction of that royall and mighty spirit And although the Queen my Mother in this accident represented to him that the assassinate which the Admirall made before on the Father of Monsieur de Guise did render his Son excusable in taking vengeance himselfe on the Admirall because he could not have justice done him as also that although the assault which the Admirall had made on Charry master of the Campe a person whose valour had so faithfully assisted her during the time of her regency and his nonage did render him worthy of such intreaty although that these words might make the King conceive that the revenge for Charryes death was deeply imprinted in my Mothers heart yet his Soule overcome with grief for the losse of those persons whom he thought one day as I have said would be advantagious to him did so ecclipse his judgement that he could neither moderate nor change his passionate desire to see justice executed giving strict command continually to search out and apprehend Monsieur de Guise protesting that such an act should not escape unpunished In the end as Pardaillan at supper with the Queen my Mother discovered by his threats the badd intention of the Huguenots and my Mother saw that this accident had brought the affayres to such an exigence that if they prevented not their design that night they would attempt against the King and her she tooke a resolution throughly and plainly to acquaint the King with the truth of all and of the danger in which he was For this businesse she selected Monsieur the Marshall de Rais from whom she knew that the King would take it best as being one to whom the King imputed greatest trust and one whom he most did favour who came unto the King about nine or ten of the clock in the Evening and told him that as his most faithfull servant he could not conceale the danger wherein he was if he persevered in that resolution to have Justice executed on Monsieur de Guise and that it was requisite he undestood that the wound which the Admirall received was not only occasioned by Monsieur de Guise but that my Brother the King of Polonia since King of France and the Queen my Mother were both abettors in it that he knew the extream displeasure that my Mother received at the assassinate on Charry as great reason she had for it having then but few such servants who depended only on her France being as well he knew in the time of his nonage divided the Catholicks standing for Monsieur de Guise and the Hugunots for the Prince of Conde both of them attempting to dispossesse him of the Crown which next to God was not preserved but by the wisdome and the vigilance of the Queen his Mother who in her extremity found her not more faithfully assisted by any then by the said Charry that also she observed that the said Admirall was ever a most dangerous and pernicious member of the State and whatsoever apparence he made of the affection to his Majesty and to serve him in his wars in Flanders his only designe was to trouble France that her intention indeed was only to take away the Plague of the Kingdome the Admirall but mischiefe and misfortune so did guide it that Mauravell missed in his shot and that the Huguenots thereon were grown so desperately obstinate that not only attempting against Monsieur de Guise the Queen his Mother the King of Polonia his Brother but believing that he himselfe was consenting to it they were resolved that night to have their recourse to Armes insomuch that he saw his Majesty in a great and most apparent danger by the Catholicks by reason of Monsieur de Guise and by the Huguenots for the reasons above mentioned King Charles who was of great wisedome and who alwayes had been most obedient to the Queen my Mother and a most Catholick Prince seeing how eminent was the danger took a suddaine resolution to joyn himselfe to the Queen his Mother and to conform himselfe to her will and by the Catholiks to secure his person from the Huguenots but not without extream griefe that he could not save the lives of Teligny la Noue and Monsieur de la Rochefoucault And going presently himselfe to finde the Queen his Mother he sent for Monsieur de Guise and all the other Princes and Catholick Captains where resolution was taken that very night to beginne the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew And presently putting their hands unto the work the chaines stretched forth and the alarme beating every one ran into his quarter according to the order given as well unto the Admirall as to the Huguenots Monsieur de Guise bestowed himselfe on the lodging of the Admirall into whose Chamber one Besme an Almaine Gentleman having mounted after having stabbed him to death did throw him out of the window to his master Monsieur de Guise For my part I heard nothing of all this I saw all the world in action The Huguenots were strook into desperation by this assault and the Lords de Guise fearing the execution would not be hot enough did whisper every man in the eare to see it thorowly performed The Huguenots suspected me because I was a Catholick and the Catholiks suspected me because I was Espoused to the King of Navarre who was a Huguenot so that I heard nothing of it untill that Evening being at the lying down of the Queen my Mother I sat on a Coffer neer unto my Sister of Lorraine whom I saw wonderfully pensive The Queen my Mother conferring with some there present perceived where I sate and commanded me to go to bed As I was a making my courtesy unto her my Sister took me by the arme and held me by it and bursting forth in tears she cryed out good God! dear Sister do not go These words strook a great fear into me which the Queen my Mother did perceive and calling my Sister to her was very angry with her and forbad her to tell me any thing My Sister replyed there appeared no reason that my life should be thus made a Sacrifice and that without doubt if they discovered any thing they would revenge themselves on me The Queen my Mother answered that if it pleased God I should receive no hurt but howsoever it fell out I must needs be gone for fear my absence should give occasion of suspecting any thing I saw very well they were in earnest disputation but I did not understand their words when again

she commanded me very roundly to go to bed My Sister weeping bad me good night not daring to tell me any thing and I went away as a thing lost in amazements and in fears As soone as I came into my closet I betooke my selfe to Prayer and besought Almightie God that he would be pleased to take me into his protection and to defend me not knowing from what or whom By and by the King my husband who was in bed desired me that I would hasten to him which I did and found his bed encompassed with thirty or forty Huguenots which till then I not observed for but a few daies were passed since I was married to him they did nothing else but talke of the Accident that befell Monsieur the Admirall resolving as soon as it was day to demand justice of the King on Monsieur de Guise and if the King would refuse to right them they would then right themselves All that night my sisters teares were soaking into my heart and I could not sleep for the apprehension into which she had put me not knowing whom to feare The night in this manner passed away without shutting of my eyes About the break of day the King my husband said that he would goe play a game at Tennis attending till King Charles were stirring resolving with all speed to demand justice of him he went out of his chamber and all his Gentlemen with him I seeing it was day beleeving the danger which my sister did imply was now passed being overcome with sleepe commanded my nurse to make fast the doore that I might sleep without disturbance about an houre after I being in a sound sleep Behold a man knocking with his hands and feet at the doore and crying out Navarre Navarre My Nurse thinking it to be the King my husband ranne presently to the doore It was a Gentleman named Monsieur de Teian who had received a cut with a sword on the elbow and a thrust with a halberd through the arme and was pursued by foure of the Guard who came rushing into my chamber with him He endeavoring to save his life did cast himself on my bed and I perceiving the man begin to take hold of me did throw my selfe towards the wall and he flung himself after me taking fast hold behind me I did not know the man and could not tell if he came thither to violate me or whither those of the Guard would have him or me we both cryed out and were both equally affrighted At length it pleased God that Monsieur de Nansay Captaine of the Guard came in who finding me in that estate although he was touched with compassion could not refraine from laughter and very sharply reprehended those of the Guard for Indiscretion and made them depart giving me the life of that poore Gentleman who tooke hold of me whom I caused to remaine in my closet untill he was well recovered and changing my linnen because he had covered it with blood Monsieur de Nansay related to me all that had passed and assured me that the King my husband was in the chamber of the King and that he should receive no hurt and causing me to throw a night-gowne on me he did leade me into the chamber of my Sister Madame de Lorraine whither I came rather dead then alive and passing through the the Presence chamber whose doores were all open a Gentleman called Borse saving himselfe from the pursuers was struck through with a Halberd some three paces from me I fell downe on the other side fainting away and thought that the same stroak had run us both thorough And being a little recovered to my strength I entered into the chamber where my Sister lay I was no sooner there but Monsieur de Miossans chiefe Gentleman to the King my husband and Armagnack chiefe groome of his chamber came and besought me to begge their lives I presently made haste and fell on my knees before the King and the Queen my Mother beseeching them to grant me this suite to which in the end they condiscended Some five or sixe dayes after they who had begun this game knowing that they had fayled in their principall designe not ayming so much at the Huguenots as at the Princes of the Blood did impatiently indure that the King my husband and the Prince of Conde were yet alive and knowing that no man durst attempt against the King of Navarre because he was my Husband they began to weave another web perswading the Queen my mother that it was necessary to dissolve the Marriage In this resolution being one morning at the rising of the Queen my mother on a day in which we were to receive the Sacrament she took on oath of me to tell her the truth and demanded of me if my Husband were a man or no telling me if he was not that she had then means to disanul the mariage I besought her to believe that I understood not what her demand was for I might well have answered as the Roman Lady whose husband being angry with her that she never told him of his evil breath she made answere that she thought that every mans breath did smell as his But I told her howsoever it was since she had placed me with him it was my resolution there to stay perceiving very well that this separation which she spake of was only to procure a mischiefe to the King my husband After this we accompanyed the King of Polonia as farre as Beaumont who some moneths before his departure from France having laboured by all meanes to make me forget the cvill offices of his Ingratitude and to reduce our friendship to the same perfection as it was in our younger yeers obliged himselfe in a thousand oathes and promises at his farewell to me His departure out of France and the Kings sicknesse which began almost at the same time did rouze the spirits of the two parties of this kingdome making diverse projects on the State the Huguenots having at the death of the Admirall by sealed writings obliged the King my husband and my Brother of Alenson to revenge his death gaining my brothers heart a little before the feast of Saint Bartholomew with the hope to establish him in Flanders perswaded them as the King and Queen my mother came back to France to steale away into Campagne where certaine troupes should bee ready to attend them Monsieur de Miossans a Catholike Gentleman having heard of this designe so pernicious to the King his Master advertised me of it to prevent the bad effects which might prove so prejudiciall to themselves and to the State I made haste immediately to the King and the Queen my Mother telling them that I had a certaine thing to communicate unto them which did much concerne them and which I never would discover unlesse they would assure me that it should not prove hurtfull to whom I named and also provide a remedy without making show of knowing any

and with many protestations that he would remain a most constant servant to my Brother and my selfe But false and treacherous fortune not able to support the glory of this so happy a condition which in my voyage hitherto did attend me gave me two crosse presa●es which on my return to content her envy she had prepared for me The first was that my Boat had no sooner removed from the shore but Madamois●lle de ●●urnon a virgin indowed with many virtues whom I intirely loved took so strange a sicknesse that on a suddain she bur●● forth into strong and loud shreiks by reason of the violence of the grief she felt which did so oppresse her heart that the Physitians could provide no remedy but within a few daies she was ravished by Death I will relate this tragicall story in its own place it being so remarkable The other was that arriving at Huy a town scituate on the declining of a hill there brake forth on a suddain so impetuous a torrent falling from the Mountain waters into the river that ingrossing and devouring all at once we could no sooner leape to land and run with all the speed we could to recover the top of the Hill but the floud was there as soon as we My lodgeing was on the upper and highest part of the Town where that night we were content with what provision the Master of the House had of his own who had not means to get Boats or people to send down into the Town which seemd overwhelmed in that vast Deluge from which it was wonderfully delivered as it was seized by it for on the dawning of the day the waters were all returned and retired within their proper channels On my departure thence Monsieur and Madame de Aurec returned to Namur unto Don John and I took Boat to goe that day to Leige where the Bishop who is a great Lord received me with all the honour and demonstrations of good will that a courteous and well affected person could expresse He was a Lord attented with great virtue wisedome and bounty and who spake very good French agreeable with his person which was honorable and magnificen● He was attended with a Chapiter and many Canons all sonnes of Dukes and Counts and great Lords of Germany The Bishoprick is of a soveraigne estate and of great revenue and filled with many goodly Towns The Canons obtain their places by election and they must continue a yeere probationers that are received into their Society The town is great as Lyons and almost of the same scituation the river Mosa passing in the middle of it excellently builded there being no Religious House which seemeth not a faire palace the streets long and large enriched with curious fountaines the Churches adorned with so much marble which they have there at hand that worthily they challenge the observation of the passinger and may be as well the wonders as the pleasures of his eye The Clockes made with German industry singing and representing all variety of Musick and of Persons The Bishop received me as I came out of my Boat and conducted me into a faire and stately Palace so richly painted and set forth with so much Gold and Marble that there is nothing more magnificent or delightfull The waters of Spa were three or foure miles from thence and there being no Town neer but a Village only of three or foure houses Madame the Princesse of Roche-sur-yon was advised by her Physitians to stay at Leige and to have the water brought thither to her assuring her that it would loose no virtue being brought unto her before the Sun was up of which I was very glad having our aboad in so fit a place and in so good a Company for besides his Grace for so they stile the Bishop of Leige as we give the title of Majesty to a King or of Highnesse to a Prince the rumour flying that I passed that way most of the Lords and Ladies of Almaine were come thither to attend me and among others Madame the Countesse of Aremberg who was she that had the honour to conduct Queen Elizabeth to her mariage at Meziers when she was espoused to King Charles my Brother and who conducted my eldest sister at her mariage to the King of Spaine she was a woman that was in great account with the Empresse and Emperour and with all the Princes of Christendome there was also her sister Madame de Lantgrave and her Daughter Madame de Aremberg and Monsieur de Aremberg her sonne a brave and worthy Gentleman the lively image of his Father who bringing heretofore auxiliary Souldiers from Spaine to King Charles my Brother returned with great honour and reputation This arrivall being full of joy and honour had been yet farre more delightfull were it not interrupted by the Death of Madamoselle de Tournon whose history being so remarkable I cannot here but make digression to relate it Madame de Tournon who was then my Dame of honour had many daughters the ●●●est whereof was maried to Monsieur ●e B●●anson Governour for the King of Spaine in the County of Burgundy who returning to his own Country intreated Madame de Tournon his Mother to let him have another of her Daughters to associate his wife being to live now in a place removed from her kindred her Mother consented to it and she staying there some yeers in improving her selfe though her cheifest beauty was her virtue and her gracefull carriage Monsieur the Marques of Varambon a man designed to the Church being resident in the same house with his Brother Monsieur de Balanson by ordinary society of discourse and conversation with Madamoiselle de Tournon became very amorous of her and being not yet obliged to the Church desired to espouse her he propounded the motion to his own friends and to hers they of her side did well approve it but his Brother Monsieur de Balanson thinking it more profitable for him to have him of the Church prevailed so farre that he brake off the Marriage designing to him the habit and formality of the Gown Madame de Tournon offended thereat took from thence her daughter Madamoiselle de Tournon with her sister Madame de Balanson and being a rough and severe woman without regard of her Daughters age and disposition which deserved a more gentle usage she daily did torment her with vehement and invective language insomuch that she was never seen to have her eyes dry though all her actions were most commendable so ungentle was the nature and severi●y of this Mother Her Daughter desiring nothing more then to be released from this tyranny entertained a certain joy when she saw I was going into Flanders truly conceiving that the Marques of Var●b●n would meet me there and being now in the estate of Mariage for he had altogether abandoned the gown would peradventure demand her of her Mother and that by the means of this Mariage she should be delivered from her