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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

vprightnes that what he had suspected to be false he would not haue sent it for a truth in open tables to all after times and prosperities Out of his Chronicle written in Italian and Printed at Florence in the yeere 1478. this I translated into Latine in the yeare of our Lord God 855. Iohn English helde the High Priesthood two yeares fiue months and foure daies The Church was vacant for one month He is not placed in the Catelogue of the Popes because he was a woman who in her nonage of a certaine louer of hers was brought to Athens in the habite of a man there in diuers studies and sciences she escaped their knowledge and did prooue excellent After when she came to Roome shee ascended such a height of fame that she was had in admiration with all men whence it happened by concord suffrage of the best the supreame honour of a Pope was attributed vnto her Which thing afterwardes betrayed it selfe to the world In her time in the Citty of Brixie three dayes and three nights it rayned meruailously blood and in Fraunce appeared monstrous Locusts hauing sixe winges and sixe feete and teeth very hard flying through the ayre admirably which after were all drowned and suffocate in the Sea of Britaine From whence the carcases of them were beaten to the shoare and did so corrupt the ayre that a great part of the inhabitants there dyed This Petrarch dyed in the yeare of our Sauiour Christ 1374. Iohn Bocace inwardest friend to Petrarch both for his wit and for his similitude of study and manners an other he doth rehearse this Ione and describe her first called Gilberta as he saith in his booke of noble women Chap. the 99. which in these words he concludeth To detestation of whose filthy whood and contynuance of memory of her name euen vnto this day the chiefe Priestes of the Rogation with the rest of the Clergie and people going to doe Sacrifice they abhorre that place of her child borne in the middest of her iourney and omitting it they decline thorough by waies and streetes and so that detestable place spurned at reentring home they end theyr iourney which they began There is also placed in a booke to be seene the picture and spectacle of the Child-birth of the Pontificall with circumstances of Cardinals and Bishoppes standing by like Midwi●es or Nurses That same booke of Bocaces making is turned into the Germaine tongue of a Phisition in the Citty of Vl●●es and Dedicated to the Dutchesse of Austria in the yeare 1473. Imprinted in the same Cittie with olde Caracters rude and with all the picture of her bringing foorth her childe To this doe agree certaine rimes consonant in Italian out of an olde hande written booke taken whose tytle is Historia de Do●ne Famose and of famous Women Historia de Donne Famose Gion●●ni setti●o infra queste astute La se●●a gloria del Pontificato Administro con cure alt● c. Eper in temperantia lei dif●s● No● f●c● asua lasi●ia c. Un gi●rno ac●●dde e fu vicina alparto Una solemnita est ●matae digna Onde con●i●● chel suo termin coart● S●e discoperto in procession ven●re D●●e a quel tempo il figlio in ●●rr● hasparto E con dolor f● vista partorire In presentia del p●p●l con tormento E l vne l'altro lor vita fi●ire Interpretation word for word The seauenth Iohn amongst these w●ly snares The summe and glory of the richest Seate A Ione for Iohn did minister with cares And wanting temper did her selfe defeate Withouten cesse by her lasciuiousnes It fell vpon the feast neere lying downe Solempnity high holy and of fame As ought her terme restraine her triple crowne Detect To Letany all as they came Layd instantly her birth vpon the earth With dolors doome how soone she was vnbent With peoples eyes how sore she was torment So he and she did dye forlorne in lent Anthony Archbishop of Florence in the second part of his history to the narration of Ione out of Martine the peni●entiary repeated he weueth this same Webbe saith there is a certaine signe of a marble Sculpture in the way where this happened placed there for a memoriall of the matter And to the matter hee proclaimeth as a thing so wicked so prophane yet not far from the Temple this saying of S. Paule O altitud●●●pientia s●ientia Des c. As if our good God had procured and perfected this punishment not as if that wicked fiend the Deuill foule and abhominable had been the sole author of it yet the end hee saith if it were true as graunting yet to none is there any preiudice by this of Saluation because neither the Church then was without a head which is Christ c. yet he speaketh doubtfully in a plaine case least a blot so filthy to the Church otherwise pure should not appeare to be abhorred The standing Image of which he maketh mention the Esauites doe suppose that it hath not the shape of the woman and her infant but of some Priest with his boy going afore him to Sacrifice least otherwise they should ●a● nothing to contradict it The way that declyneth from the right way as in all other matters so in this they doe take it to be the most commodious way for them to goe in presession whereas we doe heare by others that haue with contemplation curiously behelde both say this way is more commodious and shorter then the other But some thinke this monument of such dishonor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the most memorable place of all others is distroyed abandoned and vnbound now and a good while agoe to abolish or to deminish her fame with vs the Heritiques and aduersaries to the Church of Roome that doe so play on stages and stirre it vp in this our time As with all the visage of this popit or little Pope momit or little mome in the Citty of Seene in the primary Church there made with a womans face with this inscription Femina de Anglia But all English men defie her and together with many other Popes which are now a fewe yeeres past eyther cald in or remooued away as we heare William Iames Monke of Ecmondence neere to Alcmaria in a parchment booke now two hundred yeares past as far as I can coniecture written doth containe the liues of the Popes in meeter such as were vsed in that time to be composed too too curiously euen vnto obscurity therin being obserued the number of Sillables and the rithme which such as they are as touching this Ione accept I pray you Priusquam reconditur Sergius vocatur Ad summa qui dicitur Iohannes huic addatur Anglicus Moguntia iste procreatur c. The Lyons gone the Seriant is vntoomb'd one calde To climbe whom trauel had with child benūb'd Ione stald Would flying fame of her had neuer humb'd she faid Whom England nam'd but Mens did bring her foorth Whom

in grosse of regaining and reuenging from all vice and fault the Maiestie Pontific●ll at this day is deliuered will perswade vs with their loquence that this is a fiction and that no such thing could be Albeit vpon the matter there i● no great moment in it whether it bee a fable or a veriety of this Pontificall and Great-belly● yet to expresse in this pageant their harlots foreheads and the whoores faces of these Parasites and how much in other great matters they are to be beleeued and trusted vnto and that men may be warned and armed the more from their frawde I will with Gods helpe truely repeate the breuitie of Historio-Graphers as many certaine as haue beene seene of me their testimonies the matter in fact not a fiction and affirmed and confirmed by them which being red let any stoute and iust arbitrator censure whether more faith and credite is not to bee ascribed vnto the tradition old and concenting together of so manie excellent men in pietie and integritie or rather vnto the deniall new and neuer heard of before of a fewe fresh Hipocrites and Gnathos denying what they lust and affirming what they lust in fauour of their owne Maister Of al that truly are read of the men of our time as I suppose the most ancient writer of this Feminine Lord is olde Raphe Flaniencis a benedictine Monke alleadged in the centuries of the Ecclesiasticall Historie and whom Trithemius termeth a briefe Cronicle which the Authors of the Centuries name Polycronicon they say that he writ it referring his age vnto the yeare of our Lord 930. my selfe haue not yet obtained the reading of it but they scite the fifth booke of Radulphe Chapter the 32. To produce the first that I haue red I haue Marianus after his natiue country sirnamed Scotus whose honestie and veritie by this may be esteemed that the fellowship of the Benedictines both Cullin Fulda Mons receiued him and striuing with entertainement at his first comming into Germany where he dyed Anno Domini 1086. He in the third booke in the sixt age of his Cronicle in fewe words sheweth the matter to be so igno●inious and especially in that time not to be ripped vp nor heaped vpon yet of all faithfull Historiographers not to be pre●ermitted neyther in briefe he saith thus In the yeare of Lotharius the 14. the woman Ione succeeded L●● for two yeeres fiue monthes and foure daies This testimony of Martine the Esauites doe eleuate and make light of because in their manuscript bookes it is not extant But with what face can these falsaries require that in this matter or manner can trust be giuen to them who themselues in describing omit what they lust and thinges that other men write some they eate out and some they blot out The Coppy which the Printer of Basile did imitate came foorth of the Librarie of the Colledge of Saint Bartholmewes in the Citty of Frankeford by the commandement of the Bishop of Mens in which exemplare these words which they deny to be in their coppy were found cōtexed With like fidelity they denie this story also to be found in a certaine olde booke of Cronicles of Sigisbert a Monke which in all other his bookes are expressed and are to bee read in this manner Fame reporteth that this Iohn was a woman and knowen familiar to some one onely who it seemed imbraced her being great with childe she was deliuered being Pope Wherefore some doe not number her amongst the High priestes Therefore he maketh no number of that name Sigisbert liued in the time of Henry the fourth about the yeere of our Lord God 1110. I finde next vnto Sigisbert Martine sirnamed of Polone a Monke of the order of Preachers penitentiarie vnto Pope Nicholas the third after Archbishop of Consentin● at the yeare of our Lord 1320 whose Narration of Iohn the Pope is this Iohn English borne at Mens sate in the Seate two yeares and fiue months he dyed at Rome and all the offices were void thē for one month This Iohn as it is affirmed was a woman And when in her childhood of a certaine louer of hirs shee was brought to Athens in mans apparrell she did so profit in diuers Sciences that no one was found to bee comparable vnto her in so much that afterwardes shee reading at Roome openly obtayned great Masters to be her schollers And then in the Citty she being of great fame by her conuersation and science by counsell of them all she was chosen to be Pope But in the Papall seate by her familiar friend shee became pregnant with childe yet vnskilfull of the time that women recon for their birth-right when shee was tending her iourney from Saint Peters vnto Lateran● the Popes Pallace being inuironed betwixt the Colossis and Saint Clements Church she fell in labour and was deliuered and afterward when she was dead she was buried there as it is said in the Colossis Now because that my Lord the Pope dooth alwaies shunne that place that way it is beleeued on all sides that he doth it for detestation and hate of that fact Neyther is it put into the Catelogue of the holy high Priestes as well for the sex of her womanhood as for the deformity of so fowle a deede These same wordes wholy in a manner are to be red in the booke of Richard the Monke of Cluniacens the tytle whereof is The number of the Romane high-priestes which is kept in the Librarie Which words a man very honest certainely tolde vnto vs that he saw them at that place written being there about sixteene yeere agoe Richard was before Martine and was his antecessor a hundred and fifty yeares vpon Trithemius report This same expresse and so cleare a narration of Martine the Popes owne penitenciary which office is not a little credite among these vaine Paper-puffed men in which he behaued himselfe so that for his reward he was indued with an Archbishopricke by the which no body could be more certaine of the Actes and Histories of the high Priestes then he might And yet these Esauites chiefly Bellarmine do enuic still-that before Martine Polone not ●ne betraied this to the memory But haue you not marked how both Sigebert Mariane Radulphe and Richard were all before him yea and many more out of whome he but gathered these and other things too as hee himselfe in the Proaeme beginning his Chronicle doth well signifie And besides that Mariane in the verie entry of his worke doth rehearse out of whose monuments hee heaped vp this story who were eyther all of them interred then or else done to dust some where or being dead they were dismembred and lay hid not any aliue But if it were true that Martine was the first that euer commaunded this to writing shall we therefore thinke it to be a fable Many thinges certes in stories both diuine and prophane we read of the which their owne Authors hauing heard it of olde men

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