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284 A HISTORY OF VERONA
da Carrara, who survived him twenty-four years, he left three
sons, Canfrancesco (after his father's death known always as
Cangrande) Cansignorio and Paolo Alboino, and three daughters,
Beatrice, Altaluna, and Verde. Cangrande and Beatrice were
both married in the autumn before Mastino's death, the former
to Elisabeth, daughter of Louis the Bavarian, the latter to
Bernab6 Visconti, nephew of the Archbishop Giovanni, but
not then on the best of terms with him. Beatrice, usually
called Regina on account of her stateliness and imperious will,
made a truly queenly wife to Bernab6. She bore him five
sons and ten daughters. When the legitimate male line of the
Scaligeri died out in 1375 she at once asserted her claims to
Verona, and attempted to carry them out by force, even, it is
said, leading her army in person. Through her, Scaligeri blood
flows in the veins of Habsburg Emperors, Bavarian Dukes,
and perhaps of English squires. For her ten daughters all
married into reigning families. One became Queen of Cyprus,
one the Duchess of Leopold of Austria, three married into the
Wittelsbach dynasty, another wedded Gian Galeazzo Visconti,
and the youngest of all, Lucia, came to England as the bride
of Edmund Holland, son of Thomas, Earl of Kent, half-brother
to Richard II. Lucia had no children by Edmund, but after
his death she married Henry Mortimer "a goodly yong Esquier
and a bewtifull Bacheler," and had three daughters, Anne, Mari,
and Luce.1
Mastino was buried in the churchyard of S. Maria Antica,
and over his body was erected one of the most beautiful tombs
in the world. Like Cangrande he appears on it in two guises,
on the summit in full armour on horseback, and on the sarcophagus
lying at full length in civil costume. The latter figure
represents him as wearing a beard, contrary to the usual
Scaligeri custom. This beard, which, the tale goes, he began
to grow after the murder of Bartolomeo della Scala to conceal
his features, appears in both the existing paintings of him which
can in any sense claim to be authentic. One is in the Uffizi,
and, though of much later date, may possibly have been copied
from the medallions of the Scaligeri painted in Cansignorio's
1 Hall's Chronicle, p. 4o. Communicated to me by Miss M. Croom-Brownf
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