New-York tribune., 1908-08-23

enemy Louis Nj OF France. thereupOt SriZcd -ii1
western portion of the Burgund1an poSseSsioIlS
despite the protests OF Charles daughter Mary
Probably Louis would have laid his greedy haTdS
upon all her dOunions II marriage mad not -ee--
quickly arranged between her and MaNlIIllilI- 80
Of Frederick III of the house OF HapSburS- 81
this marriage that house, which had come - nave
a sort Of presumptlve right TO NIL the throne o. '
Holy Roman Empire added the rlch and pot'll-'li~
Netherlands and the eastern BurgUndan territories
to their other hereditary possessions IN Austria ana
elsewhere
Maximilan and Mary had a Philip who IN
1906 was betrothed to Joanna the second daughter
OF Ferdinand and Isabella. Joanna was % be sent 70
Flanders tC-be received by the youthful bridegroom
But Spain and France were al var Inc Journey
could not be made BY land. and the swarrled
with French cruisers However. Ferdinand ana
Isabella now richer and more powerful than when
they celebrated their nuPtlalS. collected
fleet of about one hundred and thirty vessels pI-
twenty-five thousand troops on board, ana tAer
sent this great fleet escort 70 their daiS1-ec
The armada overawed the French, but was sea-
tered by a frightful storm. For weeks the tende-
hearted Isabella feared that her daughter among
the lost but at length she learned that Joanna
ders and that the marriage had been celebrated
amid much Ponp in the city OF Llsle
But Joanna welded life was as stormy a the
VOYAGE had been Philip was frivolous and dls>p-
l1t. while Joanna was not beautiful and ve-y
sensitive Philip soon tired OF her. gave her a6''rl-
dant cause for Jealousy. and she was very Wretched
In 1901 a year after the birth OF their eldest SON
Charles the pair visited Spain There Philip soon
wearied Of the stately ceremonial and purltanic
atmosphere OF the court. and. leaving his VIE ana
son behind. went TO France Three months Iate-
Joanna gave birth TO a second son. who was named
Ferdinand after his grandfather
For sometime the conduct of the mother had been
50 strange as TO excite alarm and she soon sank
into a state OF violent insanity. After an interval
she partially recovered and returned 70 Flanders
But she had scarcely arrived before the dlSSolute
Archduke became deeply enanoured OF one Of the
beautiful women of her suite and took pains %
disguise his infatuation. The shattered mind Of
Joanna again gave way, and IN paroXysl1 OF mani
acal rage she fell the fral fair one. scratching
her face and pulling her beautiful ringlets IN hand
fuls from her head. Philip greatly enraged a
his wife cursed her and from this time would have
no further intercourse with her The tldlngS OF
this new domestic outbreak reached Queen
Isabella who fell into a fever which resulted n her
death
But though the marriage of Philip and Joanna
proved an unhappy one. It was fraught with I'M
portant consequences to Europe. The death 81
Joanna's elder sister and OF her brother lett her
heireSs to the Spanish possessions, and when Fer
dnand died IN $40. her son Charles, by reason ot
his mothers insanity. became ruler over Spain
Sicily parts of Italy. and the vast Spanish pos
sessions IN the New World Three wears later
Charles other grandfather the Emperor NaN.-
milan. also died; and Philip had died IN 500
Charles succeeded to the HapSburg Burgundian
possessions. In the year he was chosen
Emperor by the electoral college. y series OF
riages had thus resulted in the creation Of the most
powerful Empire IN the world
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