in February that year, news arrived of Charles’s triumph at the Battle of Pavia: Francis had been captured and his army wiped out. The body of Richard de la Pole, the Yorkist exile who had fought at Pavia for Francis, was found where he had fallen – news that gave Henry double cause for jubilation. On hearing that Francis had been taken prisoner, Henry rejoiced all the more and sought to revive the Great Enterprise without delay. ‘Now is the time,’ he enthused to visiting diplomats, ‘for the emperor and myself to devise the means of getting full satisfaction from France. Not an hour is to be lost.’ But Charles’s victory was complete: he ordered Francis to be taken in chains to Madrid and refused to listen further to Henry. Anxious to stop fighting, for he too was now running low on cash, Charles even ditched his engagement to Mary Tudor, marrying instead his cousin Isabella, the Infanta of Portugal. An indignant Henry countered that not only did he expect to be restored to the role of arbitrator of Christendom he had briefly played after the Treaty of Universal Peace, but that he expected Charles to send the captured Francis to England. Alternatively, Henry wanted Charles to meet him in Paris and watch him being crowned King of France.