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A00565	Historia de donne famose. Or The Romaine iubile which happened in the yeare 855. Disputed lately, that there vvas a woman pope named Ione the eight, against all the Iesuites, by a Germaine, but especially against Rob. Bellarmine father of all controuersies, his treatise De Romano pontifico. lib. 3. cap. 24. Newly translated into English	German.; T. B., fl. 1599.; Witekind, Hermann, d. 1603, attributed name.	1599 (1599)	STC 1070; ESTC S104453	30,341	46

heresie worthye of fire and fagot Baptista Mantuanus in his third booke of Alphonsus and discription of a place of Tartarus or hell maketh there Iohn the Pope hanging an abhominable matter expressed in verie sweete verses Hinc pendebat adhuc sexum mentita virilem Famina cui triplici phrygiam diademate mitram Ext●llebat apex pontificalis adulter And seineth her in the entrance of Tartarus in the first place of hell as is fit for a Pope before all other which are there varioushe vexed to hang with her adulterer and concubine it is a maruell verilie that these falsaries do not relate and bring into their damnation booke cald Thexpurgatorie index Mantuans workes also which are so many stomaching the defiled Popedome of zeale and godlie indignation Her Ca●●e●●●es may see her performe her purgatorie without all deliueri● as well she deserues to do Neither may I omit here a riche testimonie of Coelius Rodeginus a man of infinite reading whome it appeareth nothing laye hid from that was conteyned in bookes of whose integritie and grauitie in iudging so much the lesse men may doubt because euery where in his worke he be areth a godlye minde speaking reuerently of our Sauiour Christ which vertue to him and but a fewe more Italians especially in this age is common He in his foorth volume of Antiquarie lections numbering learned women nameth Ione what saith he doe not we know that in Chronicles it is resolued that Ione English onely from the beginning of the world alone in the forme of a man durst inuade the seat Pontificall of Rome in the shape of a man Yea verilie and admit one of her familiars who onely inwardest hit nayle on the head knew the matter and the manner was admitted vnto the bed and chamber therfore vnto the bed chamber and then shee with childe in the summe of dignitie and disdainfulnes trauailed with child This was done in the yeare of health eight hundred fiftie three There is more fidelitie to be attributed to this man yea and an Italian too his testimonie his affirmation more this matter then to all the inficiation all the deniall of the Esauites which Parasites and hierlings will doe any thing to demerite the altar and say any thing for their Lorde and maister The Chronicle of Iohn Lucidus begun from the beginning of the worlde vnto the yeare of our Lorde 1536. produced And from thence he being dead it was increased by a certaine Monke vnto the yeare 1575. And dedicated vnto a certaine generall as they call it an Abbot dooth present verilye Iohn English in the forme of the Popes but not in the number of them saying Iohn English a woman raigned two yeares fiue moneths and foure dayes shee is not put in the Cathalogue of the Popes and therefore the seate was then voide vntill the yeare of our Lorde 855. This Booke is Imprinted at Venice in the yeare 1575. Iohn Henald a Frenchman of the state of the Church from the time of the Apostles vnder Nero vnto Charles the fift Emperour saith so of this Pope as the rest of the Histories and addeth that this is a true figure of that great spirituall fornication of the Romaine Popes And after this the harlot daily more and more did manifest her selfe and greater was the iniquitie of this commaunding seate laide open In a Germaine Chronicle in written hand out of many Authors gathered by Iames of the Kings court Uon Konigs Holen a Priest of Argentine which beginneth God Almightie and euerlásting c. ending in the yeare 1456. in Eugenius the fourth it is read folio 110. Ioannes von Mens was Pabst c. Iohn of Mens was a Pope two yeares and fiue moneths she was a woman Pope c. The Chronicle of Martin in Germany restored reteineth the very same altogether which is in the Latine The exemplarie hand writing that I haue seene is absolute in the yeare 1429. distinguished and lined with titles euerie where An other Germaine with greater letters set foorth at Augusta in the yeare 1487. saies Iohn von Mens a● Rhein c. der wasein Weib c. Iohn of Mens vpon Reigne was a woman and it hath the verses papa pater patrum c. repeated before It is ended in Sixtus the fourth An other written at Constance with the proper language of the Heluetians pertaining vnto the yeare 1400. saith Ein Weib hiesse Ioannes von Mens was Bapst c. A woman called Iohn of Mens was Pope who dyed with child-birthe which a Cardinall got in the yeare of our Lord 855. Iahre And in another with somewhat greater Characters Printed at Ulmes in the yeare 1486 there you may read Der Keyser Arnolphus it seemeth it should be red Lotharius when Casar or Emperour Arnolphus there was in that time a Pope that was a woman in the open streets of Rome there shee laide her yong one This was such a shame to the Popes that they shunne to come any more that waye This Chronicle dooth ende in the ouerrunning of Mens in the yeare 1462. There are many Annales of this same stuffing which I omit to prefer vnto you I would alledge more fresh writers some as Melanctbon which is the author of Charions Chronicle Robert Barnus Peter Virete Iohn Functius Casper Hedion of whom is cited Mall●●lus Tigurinus of equall age with the counsell of Basil Peter Paulus Vergerius sometimes Bishop of Iustinople who in a peculiar libell to himselfe painted foorth and described this childe birth with Iohn Bal● and a whole Iurie of others but that they are censured for Heretiques of the Esauites and of aduerse partie to the pontificall dignitie and therefore their testimonie in this busines is both suspect and reiect Yet one of these new writers they cannot reiect Pistorius Nid●nus late an Euangelist now a pontifist whom verilie I doe not thinke though in religion he is a Buskin or rather a shipmans hose with like inconstancie he will denie a Historie and that written by him long agoe and set foorth and me thinkes the Esauites should assent vnto him being one of their owne flocke Amongst the writers of the Actes and Iestes one hath escaped mee The Compiler of the Anonymies that is without names in whome this is read There was likewise an other false Pope whose name and yeares are not knowne for shee was a woman as the Romaines doe confesse and of elegant fame and of great science and in hypocrisie of wonderfull life she vnder pretext of a mans habit lurked vntill she was chosen to be Pope and in her Popehood conceiued with childe and when she was great the diuell in Consistorie court publiquely before them all bewrayed the deede exclaming Papa pater patrum papissa pandite partum To these aboue mencioned and the like or to the very same their owne Isengrine dooth mention of this Pope in his Chronicle of two Languages euen in the kingdome of the Esauites set foorth with Grace and priuiledge of the

Numidia and so splendent with all to signifie so filthy a matter to wit the deiectment of the belly Therfore the Esouites haue cōmented for what may not commentaries do vpon a more honest allegory of this Throne and lesse vncleane that is they terme it an Aiax or S●ercorarie because it doth admonish the new Pope sitting vpon it that he is made of humane dung out of low estate being but poore Cardinals and Princes fellowes out of humilitie vnto sublimity out of minoritie to superioritie as they speak to be raised And there vpon of the Cleargie compassed about to him to him all tongues and Organes resound out of the Psalme He raiseth the poore out of the dust and out of the dung he doth erect the begger that he may place him with the Princes naye then aboue the Princes of his people VVe could admit the Commentarie fiction but that Stercus Aiax of whom forkes and scowpes and tumbrel● named dunke-finders dung-fillers and dung-carters or carriers are fitly deriued and called S●ercorarie S●erquilinie if of the earth it were called earthly there were more tolleration and a cleanlie similitude in the interpreter VVherefore we do assent vnto their sent as the truer relators who do affirme that it is a relatiue vsed not vsurped but made to trie the genitall partes Yea and we are drawne vnto it as we esteeme by this argument because oftentimes we haue heard in the Popedome that the sacrificing sorte haue iested and termed those manly parts by the figure Antonomasia pontificals for they make a high priest truelie of none other cause but that by these rightes well knowne to them in which the most infamous Deacon of the Cardinall doth handle that part of the new Pope hanging thorowe the hole and dooth handle them exclaiming Habet it were out of vse in times past this experiment to haue beene by which they now approoue themselues the roote of euill not to want when as before their Priesthood they begat bastards which done those they had about them some Cardinals some Bishops and called them the Sonnes of brothers and of sisters This approbation of veritie Iohannes Pannonius Bishop of fiue Churches dooth finely note in these verses Vnlocke the heauen gates no woman can assume That hath not made her triall in the ayre Where emptie nothing is none dare that seat presume Except some new Hermophroditus heyre Anthony Sabelicus dooth affirme almost as much as Platina saith of loue in his ninth Enead placing her as Frisingensis did number the seuenth of her name Iacobus Philippus Bergonie of the familie of the Hermites in his supplie of supplies of Chronicles hath as touching Ione some things not differing from these that Martine Platina and the rest do write he saith she trauailed with child publiquely without a Midwife and in the same place she dyed miserably with her child and buryed there without any honor at all in whose place saith he Benedict the third was chosen This Booke is imprinted in Latine at Venice Anno 1503. and there also in Italian in the yeare of our Lord God 1540. The like things are red in Mathew Palmers continuation of Eusebius and Prosperus which beginneth at the yeare 449. and endeth in the yeare 1471. The exemplarie was Printed at Basill 1549. neyther doe they differ from this which of this Pope the Duke of Genua calde Baptista Fulgosus of the same age that Palmer was of noted in his Booke of Memorable sayings and deeds set foorth at Basil in the yeare 1541. Trithemius in his Chronicles of the Monasterie of Hirsaugia in the life of Luitprando the first Abbot after other things he speaketh of Ione the high Priest They say that she being of a certain familiar of hers mpressed brought foorth child in the open street And for that many would not place her amongst the Popes as it were abhorting the vnworthy fact Iohn Stella Priest of Venice in his booke the title wherof is The liues of two hundred and thirtie of the highest Priestes from blessed Peter the Apostle euen vnto Iulius the fift of that name and the Preface is to Dominic Grimane Cardinall there and the same matters deliuered which Philip of Bergonie handled touching Ione the Pope I haue beheld a Historie booke ample and faire and precious too set foorth at Norimberge in the yeare 1493. with Picture of Emperours and Popes in which at the Narration of Ione the Woman Pope was expressed the shape of the woman pontifically crowned but for her Rochet pontificall she had a garment woman-like vpon her shoulders and for her triple Crosier and thrise crossed scepter she had an Infant in her armes Naucleare Prepositer and Chauncelor of Fabinge in his great Historicall worke dooth report no otherwise of Ione the eyght then is of these asore then that which Martine and which Platina do intimate Valerius Anscimus in his Chronicle dedicated to them of Bernia Ione the woman of Mens climing the pontificall seate by her excellencie of manners and learning left it by the infamie of her childbirth and dyed Albertus Cranzius by his iudgement betwixt true false being a graue Historiographer and Deane of Hanburgh betwixt consenting dissenting a Iudge of all readers his monuments worthilie are much attributed vnto He in a Catalogue of the Priests strictlie dooth note Ione in these words Iohn English of Mens was a woman belying her owne sex with an acute wit with a prompt tongue learnedly she could speake in so much that she conuerted all mens mindes towards her to the intent that she should obtaine the pontificall seate onely one seruant had secret intelligence of her sexe by himself made pregnant compressed it is said she brought forth at the Colossis in the 2. yeare not expired of her raigne in childe-birth she dyed Carthusiane the Author of the Fardell of times as the wiser sorte doe iudge not to bee contempned placed Ione without the number of the Popes with this description That Iohn English by Syr-name but by birthe of Mens is sayde to bee about those times and she was a woman cloathed in habite of a man She did so proceed in diuine scripture● and profit withall that none was found like vnto her she was chosen to be Pope But after being made pregnant with childe when publiquely she should proceed in procession she was deliuered and dyed And this seemeth to be the sixt Pope that had the name of sanctitie without any desert to this daye And like others of them obserue the veritie of this man she was plagued not placed in the Catalogue of Popes Some trifle in this cause that no Almaine should be chosen Pope which appeareth to be false for Carthusiane the Monke dare say yea that before Ione and before our age 800. yeares there were wicked Popes and well worthye the infamie of Ione The same thing in this Esauiticall age a man may say of Popes much more wicked then these were both Horrible blaspheming and