ÉLISABETH DE VALOIS (1545-1568) Queen of Spain; daughter of - Lot 536

ÉLISABETH DE VALOIS (1545-1568) Queen of Spain; daughter of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis, she married Philippe II, King of Spain, and died at age 23. L.A.S., Madrid January 10 [1562?, to M. de Saint-Suplice, French ambassador in Madrid]; 1page fol. She has "received the letters you wrote to me and together with the memoir and the letter from the royalty [Catherine de Medicis], which I am sending back to you so that you may see what she is telling me [...] I am not telling the king [Charles IX] anything about the interview, as it seems to me that there are no other proposals to be made". She wrote to the king through don Frances [don Frances de Ayala, Spanish ambassador to France]...