Page:History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic Vol. I.djvu/190

46 REIGN OF JOHN II., OF ARAGON. PART torn from her residence at Olit, in the heart of hei '- own dominions, and forcibly transported across the mountains into those of the count of Foix. On arriving at St. Jean Pied de Port, a little town on the French side of the Pyrenees, being convinced that she had nothing further to hope from human succour, she made a formal renunciation of her right to Navarre in favor of her cousin and for- mer husband, Henry the Fourth, of Castile, who had uniformly supported the cause of her brother Carlos. Henry, though debased by sensual indul- gence, was naturally of a gentle disposition, and had never treated her personally with unkindness. In a letter, which she now addressed to him, and which, says a Spanish historian, cannot be read, after the lapse of so many years, without affecting the most insensible heart, ^'^ she reminded him of the dawn of happiness which she had enjoyed under his protection, of his early engagements to her, and of her subsequent calamities ; and, antici- pating the gloomy destiny which awaited her, she settled on him her inheritance of Navarre, to the entire exclusion of her intended assassins, the count and countess of Foix. in;:. On the same day, the last of April, she was de- livered over to one of their emissaries, who con- ducted her to the castle of Ortes in Bearne, where, after languishing in dreadful suspense for nearly 80 Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, varra, torn. iv. pp. 590-593. — torn. vii. p. 110. Abarca, Reyes de Aragon, torn. ii. yi Hist. duRoyaumede Navarre, fol. 258, 259. — Zurita, Anales, p. 400. — Aleson, Anales de Na- lib. 17, cap. 38.