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REGNARD’S JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 229
The fecond wife of Ferdinand was of the houfe of Infpruck, who died in child-bed
very young: her tomb is to be feen at the church of the Dominicans.
The third who is ftill living, is called Emprefs Leonora,. Dowager, fhe is of the
houfe of Mantua, aunt of the Duchefs of York. She has two daughters; the eldeft
married Michael Coribut Wienowiefki, King of Poland, and has fince been married
to the Duke of Lorraine ; the fecond was married about two years ago to the Duke of
Neubourg, brother-in-law of the Emperor.
The Emperor is called Leopold. Ignatius fon of Ferdinand the Third, and of Mary
daughter of Phillip the Third, King of Spain. He was born the gth day of June
7640 ; and was raifed to the Imperial dignity in the year 1659. He-has had three
wives like his father. The firft was the Infanta of Spain, daughter of Phillip the Fourth,
only fifter of the prefent King, Charles the Second, and filter of the father of the
prefent Queen of France. She has a daughter, called the Arch- Dutchels, about
fourteen or fifteen years of age, who is lame.
The fecond was of the houfe of Infpruck.
The third is of the houfe of Neubourg. He married this Princefs about four or five
years ago; and he hasa fon by her about four years old, who is called the Arch-
Duke.
The Arch-Dutchefs had great expectations of being married to the King of Spain ; it
is even faid that they faluted her as Queen for fome time at the court. There has been
always much jealoufy between this young Arch-Duchefs, and the other daughter of
the Emprefs Dowager, who has been married to the Duke of Neubourg, as having
both of them the fame pretenfions, and both hoping to be Queen of Spain. And the
old Emprefs was much furprifed when fhe learned the marriage of the King of Spain,
with Mademoifelle, becaufe they had flattered her, that, if fhe made the Emperor
declare war again{ft France, her daughter would be Queen of Spain; in which fhe was
fuccefsful, for fhe is very ingenious.
This Princefs, feeing her hopes difappointed in one quarter, fought after a crown
elfewhere, and endeavoured to negociate her marriage with the King of Sweden; but
the Princefs of Denmark ‘had previoufly made too deep an impreffion on his heart,
to be fupplanted : thus, feeing no more crowned heads, fhe was obliged to.marry the
Duke of Neubourg; but fhe treated him with inconceivable haughtinels.
The prefent Arch-Duchels is niece of that Princefs, and they have often been rivals.
No other match can be obferved for her but the Duke of Florence, the Princefs of
Saxony being at prefent married to the Elector of Bavaria.
The Emperor is Arch-Duke of Auftria, and King of Hungary and Bohemia; he
has the only Arch-duchy in the world, and his children bear the title of it. They
bend the knees-before him: and the Emperor himfelf, when bowing at the altar, bends
his two knees, without however putting them to the ground.
The council of confcience of the Emperor is compofed of a capuchin, called Father
Emeric, Bifhop of Vienna, and of Father Richard, a Jefuit, from Lorraine.
The Emperor is very devout ; he goes almoft every day to dine with the monks or
the religious. When he pele. it is without noife, for he has neither drums nor
‘trumpets. His guards, called drabans, in number a hundred or two hundred, with a
partizan in their hands, clothed in black, all in a cloak laced with yellow, form
a hedge in the middle of which the Emperor paffes in his chariot, which is liker a cheft
than any thing elfe. ‘There is never any perfon at his fide, and the Empreis feats her-
felf at the other end.
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