CHAPTER VIII.

Maria d'Estrada, and other Spanish Women serving under the command of Cortez--Catalina de Erauso, the Monja Alferez (Nun-Lieutenant)--Doña Maria Pacheco (Confederacy of the Holy Junta in Castile)--Eleonora of Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany--Turks in Hungary--Courage of a Jewess at Buda--Bravery of the Women of Temesvar, Erlau, Valpon, Agria, and Szigeth in Hungary, and of Famagosta in Cyprus--Louise Labé--Mary of Hungary--Granu Weal--FEMALE WARRIORS OF THE REFORMATION--Kenan Simonz Hasselaar--Women of Alkmaar--Mary, Queen of Scots--Magdalaine de Saint-Nectaire--Constance de Cezelli--Christine de Lalaing, Princess d'Espinoy--Queen Elizabeth--English and Scottish Heroines--Barbara of Ernecourt (Thirty Years' War)--Christina of Sweden 164