He left, in churches and in fortresses, many monuments of his devotion and of his military skill.
His wife, Maria, seems to have been a woman of sincere piety.

Her brief pilgrimage on earth, passed six hundred years ago, led her through the same joys and griefs which in the nineteenth century oppress human hearts.

The last seven years of her life she passed on a bed of sickness and extreme suffering.

The patience she displayed caused her to be compared with the patriarch Job.

Just before she died, she assembled her six surviving children around her bed.