Identifier: historicalsketch00debu (find matches)
Title: Historical sketches of Europe . . . compiled from several centuries and adorned with ioriginal drawings
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: De Buelow, Joseph. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, J. De Buelow
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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court, and held cor-respondence with others. Not long after, however, public affairs againbecame embroiled, and the conjuration of Mes-senius, not only threatened her favorites, but evenher own person. Christina, who in general, lovedwhat is extraordinary, now firmly resolved toabdicate, and in presence of the assembled statesof the kingdom, divested herself of the insignia ofroyalty, which she put into the hands of PrinceCharles Gustavus, (1654) reserving to herself acertain revenue, complete independence of herown person, and supreme jurisdiction over all herattendants. Soon after, she left Sweden, with agreat suit, and went to Brussels, where she adoptedthe Roman catholic faith, Dec. 24th, 1654. Therest of her days were spent in Rome, in the pursuitof the arts and sciences, and there she died, on the19th of April, 1689, after having passed throughmany vicissitudes and sufferings, being nearlyreduced to poverty. ■OPE GRECOKiATLIN CONFLICT AVITH EMPEROR PAPST GREG HENRY IV HEINRICH
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