With the Pope he concluded a fresh treaty that year for the conquest of Ferrara, the extension of the papal States, and the settlement of Naples on Francis's second son, on condition that it was meanwhile to be administered by papal legates,[258] and that its king was to abstain from all interference in spiritual matters.

Charles, on the other hand, owed his advantages to his position and not to his person.
Cold, reserved and formal, he possessed none of the physical or intellectual graces of Francis I.and Henry VIII.

He excelled in (p.

101) no sport, was unpleasant in features and repellent in manners.

No gleam of magnanimity or chivalry lightened his character, no deeds in war or statecraft yet sounded his fame.