CHARLES IX (1550–1574). L.S., Fontainebleau, July 28, 1571, to Raymond de Fourquevaulx, ambassador to Spain; countersigned by the royal secretary Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy; 1 folio page, address on the reverse. He has learned of the death of “Francesque Lasse” [Don Francisco Lasso], Grand Master “of the household of the Emperor, my father-in-law” [Maximilian II]: “both because of the affection I bore to the late-mentioned for the kindness I received from him in bestowing upon me a name on behalf of the Emperor, my father-in-law based on the baptismal records, as well as out of pity for his widow and several young children left destitute and poor,” due to the debts incurred by Lasso. Charles IX will write “to the Catholic King, my good brother” [Philip II] to implore him, in memory of the “good services that the late Lasso rendered to his forefathers, to him, and generally to all those of his house,” to grant a gift to the widow and children, and to give to Don Diego Lasso, his son, “the commandery of Guadalcaval,” which had been granted to his father shortly before his death. Charles IX instructed Fourquevaulx to make “all appropriate and fitting representations” to persuade the King of Spain to grant this favor…