Identifier: romanceofmonacoi00mayn_0 (find matches)
Title: The romance of Monaco and its rulers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Mayne, Ethel Colburn, -1941
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Publisher: New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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di fortunes now became intertwinedwith those of a most enigmatic, lovely, and unluckylady—that Jane of Naples who has been called theMary Stuart of the fourteenth century. She wasthe granddaughter of Robert I, surnamed unde-servedly The Wise, for never did adoring grand-parent more diligently sow the wind for his darling ;and the ensuing whirlwind which raged incessantlyround her golden head may be said to have begunwhen she was eight years old. Of course it was a question of the succession.Morally and legally there was no doubt about it.Jane was not the rightful heir to the throne ofNaples ; that heir was Carobert, her cousin, sonof the King of Hungary. The trouble had firstmenaced so far back as 1305—twenty years beforeshe was born—in the reign of Charles II of Anjou,Roberts father. Charles IIs eldest son died several 1 From this son Charles descend the Grimaldis, conseigneurs ofMentone, who ceded their rights to the town to Lambert Grimaldiat the end of the fifteenth century.
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From an engraving by William Marshall. JANE THE FIRST,Queen of Naples. p. 92) Royal and Papal Heads Together 93 years before him, but left an heir, Carobert, who byright of his grandmother was King of Hungary,1and also, as I have said, beyond all question therightful sovereign of Naples. Charles II recognisedthat ; but whatever he may have proposed, it wasthe Pope—at that time Boniface VIII—who did thedisposing ; and Boniface needed a strong ally atNaples.2 Charles was not only Bonifaces ally ; hewas his slave. But how when the Angevin shoulddie, and the savage Magyars should invade the landof Italy as part-proprietors ? . . . Boniface infectedCharles with his own uneasiness ; very gravely theyput their heads together over the question of unitingsuch discrepant crowns. The two races were an-tagonistic to the core ; they could never coalesce.So far Boniface and Charles were right. Politically,their hesitation was wise; morally and legally, itwas indefensible. But men—and especial

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