His father had known Don Francisco III.

Lorenzana, a magnificent and prodigal prince of the church, who spent the abundant revenues of the archbishopric in building palaces and editing books, like a great lord of the Renaissance.

He had known also the first Cardinal Bourbon, Don Luis II., and used to narrate the romantic life of this Infante.

Brother of the King Carlos III., the custom that dedicated some of the younger branches to the church had made him a cardinal at nine years old.

But that good lord, whose portrait hung in the Chapter House, with white hair, red lips and blue eyes, felt more inclination to the joys of this world than to the grandeurs of the church, and he abandoned the archbishopric to marry a lady of modest birth, quarrelling for ever with the king, who sent him into exile.