I read somewhere that Charles V refused to remarry after the death of his beloved Isabelle. Supposedly he always wore black clothes ever since (1539) as a sign of mourning.
How plausible is this? Would there even be some other reason to have people remember it like this besides the obvious catholic ideals it embodies?
>>1248102
He fucked half of the known world after his wife died. John of Austria was a result of that. He still loved her a lot though.
>>1248102
He was a big guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore
>The war had a significant influence on his life - he said his only romance ended when his fiancée Lorna, a nurse, was killed in London in 1943 by a bomb which struck her ambulance. Moore subsequently remarked that he never married because "there was no one else for me ... second best is no good for me ... I would have liked a wife and family, but it was not to be."[citation needed] In his autobiography he said that after sixty years he still thought about her, and because of her death "if I saw the entire German nation sinking into the sea, I could be relied upon to help push it down."[22] In May 2012 he said to the "Radio Times" magazine, "We must take care. There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut."[23]
>>1248128
>Later in the interview with the Radio Times, he conceded that good, decent Germans may exist – although he had not met any himself.
This guy gets it.
>>1248116
Don John the God
>>1248102
It was probably not for show. He commissioned Titian to make a few posthumous paintings of her, and took them with him into exile. He also asked his favourite court composer, Thomas Crecquillon, to write two chansons on her death, and base a parody mass on it (pic related). A critical passage is shared between the two chansons, and recurs throughout key points of the mass, which suggests that the phrase held some special significant to Charles. There's also the commemorative motet by Nicolas Payen, another composer in the Imperial chapel, which is quite striking for its opening that has an incessant repetition of the words "Charles, why do you weep", for 40 odd bars. Musical obsequies are not that uncommon, but what Charles did for Isabella was certainly very unusual.
>>1248116
A king wasn't really expected to be faithful to his wife.
>>1248127
For Isabelle.
>>1248102
>the obvious catholic ideals it embodies
Not obvious to me. What ideals?
