God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
302 SERENISSIMA in close liaison with the Polish monarchy. Habsburg brides set up house in Poland on no less than nine occasions ...
DIPLOMACY IN POLAND-LITHUANIA 303 energies regulating the effects of Charles X's invasion. In 1675, however, all looked set for ...
304 SERENISSIMA nine years of his mission, he had maintained a weekly correspondence with Louis XIV and de Lionne. His 'Relation ...
DIPLOMACY IN POLAND-LITHUANIA 305 1675, he wrote to Charles II inviting him to act as godfather at his daughter's christening. L ...
306 SERENISSIMA I have occasion before my departure from hence to make you this sad relation of the trumpetter I had sent with t ...
DIPLOMACY IN POLAND-LITHUANIA 307 232 439 548 955 612 17 1047, for if 548 569 23 562 195 351 241 & 548 807 294 870 172 32 18 ...
(^308) SERENISSIMA Prussian diplomacy experienced similar difficulties. When Jan von Hoverbeck first came to Warsaw in 1632, in ...
DIPLOMACY IN POLAND-LITHUANIA 309 Sobieski can hardly be blamed for lacking prescience of the future. Even so, as a direct resul ...
310 SERENISSIMA policy, each interest within the country developed its own diplomacy. The Protestant churches, for example, had ...
DIPLOMACY IN POLAND-LITHUANIA 311 behaved with similar licence. Demanding to reside in a palace protected by a regiment of the g ...
12 VALOIS: The French Experiment (1572-1575) Seven weeks after the death of Sigismund-August, there occurred in France one of th ...
THE FRENCH EXPERIMENT 313 Empire's ambitions. As Charles IX said to his brother before he left, 'Nous tenons les deux bouts de l ...
314 VALOIS condemned Samuel Zborowski to perpetual banishment. It displeased everyone. It was too harsh for the Zborowskis, and ...
THE FRENCH EXPERIMENT 315 Belle princesse, ardeur de mon courage, Mon cher desir, ma peine et mon tourment Que mon destin, las! ...
316 VALOIS But they knew they were followed. On leaving Wawel, 'Capitain Lamotte' had been unlucky enough to pass the castle che ...
THE FRENCH EXPERIMENT 317 Lourds Polonais, qui vous font indomptagles: La pauvrete seulement vous defend.. .* From start to fini ...
13 BATHORY: The Transylvanian Victor (1576-1586) If in the case of Henry de Valois, a catastrophic reign was preceded by a model ...
THE TRANSYLVANIAN VICTOR 319 simultaneously, a clear contest emerged between the Habsburgs and the Transylvanian. Unlike most of ...
320 BATHORY welcomed by 8,000 Polish noblemen drawn up by Teczynski. On 1 May, he married the Jagiellonka, and, contrary to all ...
THE TRANSYLVANIAN VICTOR 321 Danzig was the first to be disciplined. Having defied the recommendations of the Commission of 1570 ...
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