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Trade and Piracy: The Role of a Potential Queen Consort in the 1620s

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Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe

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This chapter considers the Spanish Infanta’s perceived role in trade agreements and measures against piracy in the 1620s when a dynastic union between the Stuarts and the Habsburgs was being negotiated. By focusing on the 1604 Treaty of London and the marriage articles agreed by James I of England and Philip III of Spain in 1623, this contribution assesses the fears of the Protestant political nation over a prospective queen consort in light of the complex relationship between England and the Catholic Monarchy.

Q.E. Itwere farre better, that Prince Charles

were married to an English Milke-maid,

and the Infanta of Spaine mewed up

for a nunne in a Cloyster. 1

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Abbreviations

AGS:

Archivo General de Simancas

CD:

Commons’ Debates

CJ:

Commons Journal

BNE:

Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid

BPR:

Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid

DRI:

Documentos Remetidos da Índia

EEBO:

Early English Books Online

Narrative :

Francisco de Jesus, Narrative of the Spanish Marriage Treaty, ed. and transl. by Samuel R. Gardiner (Camden Society, 1869)

ODNB:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

SP:

State Papers

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    Valentina Caldari

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    Nate Probasco

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    Claire Jowitt

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Caldari, V. (2017). Trade and Piracy: The Role of a Potential Queen Consort in the 1620s. In: Paranque, E., Probasco, N., Jowitt, C. (eds) Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57159-1_6

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