Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23

enemy. Louis XII of France. thereupon seized the
western portion of the Burgundian possessions.
despite the protests of Charles daughter Mary.
Probably Louis would have laid his greedy hands
upc a a rea between her and Maxman
of Frederick III. of the house OF Hapsburg. BY
this marriage, that house. which had come to have
sort of presumptive right to fill the throne of the
Holy Roman Empire added the rich and populous
Netherlands and the eastern Burgundlan territories
to their other hereditary possessions in Austria and
elsewhere
Macmillan and Mary had Philip, who in
1906 was betrothed to Joanna. the second daughter
of Ferdinand and Isabella Joanna was to be sent to
Flanders to be received by the youthful bridegroom.
But Spain and France were at war; The journey
could not be made by land, and the sea swarmed
with French cruisers However. Ferdinand and
Isabella, richer and more powerful than when
they celebrated their nuptias. collected
fleet of about one hundred and thirty vessels put
twenty-five thousand troops on board. and then
sent this great fleet escort to their daughter.
The armada overawed the French, but was scat
tered by frghtful storm. For weeks the tender
hearted Isabella feared that her daughter was among
the lost but at length she learned that Joanna,
after great perls and sufferlngs had reached Fan-
ders and that the marriage had been celebrated
amid much pomp in the city of Lisle.
But Joannas welded life stormy as the
voyage had been. Philip was frivolous and disso-
lutte. while Joanna was not beautiful and was very
sensitive Philip soon tired of her. gave her album
dant cause for jealousy and she very wretched.
In SOL year after the birth of their eldest son,
Charles, the pair visited Spain There Philip soon
atmosphere of the court, and leaving his wife and
son behind, went to France Three months later
Joanna gave birth to a second son, who was named
Ferdinand after his grandfather.
For sometime the conduct of the mother had been
so strange to excite alarm, and she soon sank
into state of violent insanity After an interval
she partially, recovered and returned to Flanders
But she had scarcely arrived before the dlssoute
Archduke became deeply enamoured of one OF the
beautiful women of her suite and took no pains to
disguise his infatuation The shattered mind OF
Joanna again gave way, and in a parOXySm OF mani
acal rage she fell the frail fair one, scratching
her face and pulling her beautiful rngets in hand
fus from her head Philip was greatly enraged at
his wife, cursed her, and from this time would have
no further intercourse with her. The tidngs OF
this new domestic outbreak reached Queen
Isabella, who fell into fever which resulted in her
death.
But though the marriage of Philip and Joanna
proved unhappy one it was fraught with i'm.
portant consequences to Europe. The death OF
loanna's elder sister and of her brother left her
heiress to the Spanish possessions, and when Fer
dinand died in 1916, her son Charles by reason of
his mothers insanity, became ruler over Spain.
s parts Re Ney Wod year
Charles other grandfather, the Emperor Maxi
milan, also died. and. as Philip had died in 1906
Charles succeeded to the Hapsburg Burgundian
possessions. In the year he was chosen
Emperor by the electoral college. series of mar
rages had thus resulted in the creation of the most
powerful Empire in the world.
Changed the Religion of England
FIVE years after Joanna married Philip, her
younger sister. Catharine welded Arthur. the
Prince of Wales. Arthur who then only fifteen
years old, died five months later; and negotiations
were opened for the marriage of the young widow
to Arthurs brother Henry, lad only ten years old
and six wears Catharine's Junior A dispensation
was obtained from the Pope the ground that the
former marriage had been merely formal and had
remained unconsummated and that hence the
one would not violate the rule of the church for
bidding a man to marry his brothers widow.
Seven years later soon after Henry assembled the