[The Rise of the Dutch Republic Volume I.(of III) 1555-66 by John Lothrop Motley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Rise of the Dutch Republic Volume I.(of III) 1555-66 CHAPTER IV 76/113
He was very bitter against the Duchess for her manifest joy at emancipation.
The poor President was treated with the most marked disdain by Margaret, who also took pains to show her dislike to all the cardinalists.
Secretary Armenteros forbade Bordey, who was Granvelle's cousin and dependent, from even speaking to him in public. The Regent soon became more intimate with Orange and Egmont than she had ever been with the Cardinal.
She was made to see--and, seeing, she became indignant--the cipher which she had really been during his administration.
"One can tell what's o'clock," wrote Morillon to the fallen minister, "since she never writes to you nor mentions your name." As to Armenteros, with whom Granvelle was still on friendly relations, he was restless in his endeavors to keep the once-powerful priest from rising again.
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