...rebellious subjects. He was admitted at last, and his indignant empress said aloud to her son Maximilian, " Could I believe you capable of demeaning yourself...I should lament your being destined to the throne" (AD 1463). Austria had now become a den of lawless robbers, who carried their audacity to such a height...

...from his mother, Eleanor of Portugal, who once said to him — "Could I think you capable of acting like your father, I should lament your being destined to the throne." The child was a born soldier, and from his earliest years had a passion for weapons and armour ; he...

...exclaimed to her son, the heir of so much wasted authority : " Could I think you capable of acting like your father, I should lament your being destined to the throne." The boy Maximilian no doubt inherited from his mother all his finest and moat attractive qualities...