ISABELLE OF AUSTRIA or ISABELLE OF SPAIN (Segovia... Lot 18

ISABELLE OF AUSTRIA or ISABELLE OF SPAIN (Segovia 1566 - Brussels 1633) Duchess of Burgundy, Archduchess of Austria, Infanta of Spain. ISABELLE received Flanders as a personal dowry. She becomes Sovereign and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, married to ALBERT OF AUSTRIA (1559 - 1621) Viceroy of Portugal, Governor and Sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, following her marriage - Letter signed by Archdukes Isabella and Albert OF AUSTRIA, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, of Brussels October 29, 1599, to his Friends the mayor and aldermen of the City of HESDIN (Closed city, of the Spanish Netherlands until 1639, then will become French, City of the Pas-de-Calais): 1 Page (32 x 20,5 cm) : " Dear and well loved. We order you to send your deputies in Our city of ARRAS precisely the 25 of this present month of October, for the following day with the three States of Our Country and County of Artois, convened there at the day eleven,... and to take part there together a good and brief resolution according to the confidence that we have in you, being dear and friends, God has you in his holy guard, of Brussels October 25, 1599.