Grace and peace in Christ! Through Ciring there will be more , my dear Amsdorf, but now lack of time does not permit more than to indicate that I am writing briefly to you as well to our Otto whose petition-writing I am returning. The raging farmer (Duke Georg of Ducal Saxony) has been delivered to Satan for destruction without recall. Now there is no news except that what you, I believe, know that Florenz has yielded to the Emperor and the Emperor has delivered it to the Pope and a new Duke has been installed, namely Alexander, the son of the Pope who will marry the unmarried daughter of the Emperor. And the bridegroom was already adopted in Augsburg with great ostentation. What do you think, will not the Pope give a public example to the priests to take a wife or whore around? However, that is enough until another time. Now be it well with you and meanwhile greet all of ours espescially the banned Herr Otto. God comfort him, Amen. On the Monday after Leonhard (Nov.7), Wittenberg, 1530. Your Martin Luther.
NOTES: Margaretha was born of Charles V and Johanna von Ghaenst in 1522. She was betrothed to Alexander von Medici the natural son of the Pope in Bologna.The marriage was not consummated until 1536. On 7 January 1537 Alexander was murdered by his Uncle Lorenzo. Then in 1538 mARGARETHA Was married to Octavio Farnese the thirty year old grandson of Pope Paul III.In 1559 she became Statthalter of the Netherlands. Duke Alba suceeded her there and she returned to her husband and died in Ortonna, Italy in 1586.
Otto is Otto von Pack.
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Was Margie at most eight years old when Charles V promised her to Alexander or did I misread the note?
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