Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. HEAD FROM THE STATUE AT MESSINA. CHAPTER XI. FINAL NOTICES OF MATTERS CONNECTED WITH DON JOHN. ON JOHN OF AUSTRIA leftbehind him two natural daughters—Juana, by Diana di Falanga, alady of condition at Sorrento; andAnna, by Maria de Mendoza, a ladyof noble family in Spain. Juana wasbrought up by her aunt Margaret,Duchess of Parma, and some timeafter her fathers death was sent foreducation to the nunnery of S*^ Claraat Naples. She remained in thatconvent for about twenty years, unti

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Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. HEAD FROM THE STATUE AT MESSINA. CHAPTER XI. FINAL NOTICES OF MATTERS CONNECTED WITH DON JOHN. ON JOHN OF AUSTRIA leftbehind him two natural daughters—Juana, by Diana di Falanga, alady of condition at Sorrento; andAnna, by Maria de Mendoza, a ladyof noble family in Spain. Juana wasbrought up by her aunt Margaret, Duchess of Parma, and some timeafter her fathers death was sent foreducation to the nunnery of S*^ Claraat Naples. She remained in thatconvent for about twenty years, untilshe became the wife of a Sicilian nobleman, Prince Butera, ^ of theHouse of Carafa. Anna was left in the kindly care of her fathersfoster-mother, the good Doiia Magdalena de Ulloa, with whom she 1 Strada : De Bella Belgico, lib. ix.. CHAP. XI. CONCLUDING NOTICES. 341 remained for seven years. She was then placed in a convent ofAugustinian sisters at Madrigal, ^ whence she was afterwardsremoved by the Kings order to the great Benedictine nunneryof Las Huelgas near Burgos. Of that royal convent she becameperpetual Abbess, and there she passed the remainder of her life.Neither of these children was mentioned by Don John on hisdeathbed, and it was not until after his death that the existenceof Anna was known to the Prince of Parma.^ In some letters written by Don John from Flanders to hisfriend Rodrigo de Mendoza there are frequent messages andallusions to my lady, which appear to refer to a mistress atMadrid. It is possible this lady may have been Maria deMendoza, the mother of his daughter Anna. The mother of Don John received the news of his death atSan Cebrian de Amagote. Her grief, says the historian whorecords the circumstance, was equal to her loss —an expressionwhich indicates with decorous ambiguity the poss