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DEATH AND CHARACTER OF FERDINAND. 377 CHAPTER XXIV. Manrique, survived him but a few days. His daughter Elvira inherited the princely titles and es- tates of her father, which, by her marriage with her kinsman, the count of Cabra, were perpetu- ated in the house of Cordova. ^^ Gonsalvo, or as he is called in Castilian, Gonza- lo Hernandez de Cordova, was sixty-two years old at the time of his death. His countenance and person are represented to have been extremely handsome; his manners, elegant and attractive, were stamped with that lofty dignity, which so often dis- tinguishes his countrymen. " He still bears," says Martyr, speaking of him in the last years of his life, " the same majestic port as when in the height of his former authority ; so that every one who visits him acknowledges the influence of his noble pres- ence, as fully as when, at the head of armies, he save laws to Italy." ^^ His splendid military successes, so gratifying to ms charac Castilian pride, have made the name of Gonsalvo Captain, armed and kneeling. The banners and other military trophies, which continued to garnish the walls of the chapel, according to Pedraza, as late as 1600, had dis- appeared hefore the eighteenth cen- tury ; at least we may infer so from Colmenar's silence respecting them in his account of the sep- ulchre. Pedraza, Antiguedad de Granada, fol. 114. — Colmenar, Delices de I'Espagne, tom. iii. p. 505. 17 Chronica del Gran Capitan, lib. 3, cap. 9. — Giovio, VitaelUust. Virorum, fol. 292. Gonsalvo was created duke of Terra Nuova and Sessa, and mar- quis of Bitonto, all in Italy with estates of the value of 40,000 du- cats rent. He was also grand con- stable of Naples, and a nobleman of Venice. His princely honors were transmitted by Dofia Elvira to her son, Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordova, who filled the posts, un- der Charles V.,of governor of Mi- Ian, and captain general of Italy. Under Philip II., his descendants were raised to a Spanish dukedom, with the title of Dukes of Baena. L. Marineo, Cosas Memorables, fol. 24. — Ulloa, Vita di Carlo V., fol. 41. — Salazar de Mendoza, Dignidades, p. 307. 18 Opus Epist., epist. :'98.— Giovio, Vita Magni Gonsalvi, p. 292. — Pulgar, Sumario, p. 212. VOL. III. 48