The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

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efforts to get him nominated even at the last moment, but the
day of the consistory arrived without their having met with
any success.^ The Spanish ambassador met with no more
success in the objections which he made to some of the chosen
candidates. Pius V. plainly said to him that he was appoint-
ing the Cardinals purely for their merits, and not on account
of the recommendations of the princes, and he might rest
assured that even the king would be satisfied by the choice
which he had made.^
Immediately before the consistory of May 17th the Pope
had to face a last attack. The Cardinals were admitted to his
presence ten at a time, and for six hours they attempted to
shake the Pope's determination. But Pius stood firm, and
neither was the Prior of Barletta, nor any of the others who
had been passed over, included in the list, nor were any names
omitted.^
Although the recommendations of the Emperor and the
King had not been allowed to weigh in the scales, the wishes
of the princes had not been altogether disregarded. Of the
two Frenchmen raised to the purple on May 17th, the Bishop
of Le Mans, Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet, who was the
experienced counsellor of the French court in all the most
difficult questions, and had been its envoy at almost all the
courts of Europe, had been suggested by Charles IX.* Pius V.,
however, had had personal knowledge of him when he was
ambassador in Rome, and had formed a high opinion of his
loyalty to the Roman See.^ The other Frenchman raised to
1 Ibid.
2 " Que el hace cardenales a los que lo merecen, no a supplicacion
de principes." Corresp. dipl., III., 358 n.
3 *B. Pia to Luzzara, loc. cit. Santori, loc. cit.
^CiACONius, III., 1047. Cardella, v., 134.
^ " Dice [the Pope] que tiene hecha mucha experiencia del buen
zelo deste ambaxador ; y a otros ha dicho que piensa tener en el
otro cardenal Bordisera que le avisa de todo lo que passa en Francia
sin perdonar a la Reyna ni a otro consistorio ninguno " (Zufiiga
to Philip II.. May 17, 1570, Corresp. dipl., III., 157). In the
brief of May 26, 1560, which announces to the King of France