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A05310 The abbreuyacyon of all generall councellys holden in Grecia, Germania, Italia, and Gallia, compyled by Joh[a]n le maire de belges, most excellent hystoryograffer to kynge Lowys the. xii. of late french kynge dedycated to the sayd kyng Lowys. Ann d[omi]ni. 1519. Translated by Joh[an] gowgh the prynter herof, by the kynges gracyous priuilege, for. vii. yeres ensewynge, dwellynge in Lumbarstrete agaynst the stockys market.; Traicté intitulé de la difference des schismes et des concilles de l'eglise. English Lemaire de Belges, Jean, b. 1473.; Gough, John, fl. 1528-1556. 1539 (1539) STC 15453; ESTC S104745 44,904 146

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the .xix. sisme THus after the death of Calixtus of Burgony Honorius the secōde of that name borne in Ymola in Italy succeded the papasy the which kept it peasybly the terme of .v. yeres and died and after hym succedyd Innocent the secōde of y ● name borne in Rome ī whose tyme began the .xix. sisme the occasyon ther ●f was for raysyng warres agaynst Roger le Normande whiche was called kynge of naples whiche withstode hym with all his power so bytwene them both was moche murther blode shede on both partyes but in conclusyon this sayd bisshop innocēt was vaynquyshed in batayle raygned ▪ taken prysoner by Wyllyam duke of Calaber sone to the sayd roger kynge of Naples yet was he honestly entreated afterwarde delyuered ¶ And so in the meane seasō that this Innocent the secōde the forsayd bisshop was prysoner the romayns chose another called Peter of Lyon sonne of a myghty rych cetezyn of Rome and he was called Anacletus for the whiche elexcyon Innocent was inforsed to go into Fraunce for socours and at Cleremonde assembled the seconde counceyll and another at Rayns ī Champayne in the tyme of kynge Lowys le grosse and from thense he came to Lyege where as he foūde y ● kynge of romayns Lothayre the seconde of that name who promysed hym assystēce with all his power thus what by the helpe of thēperour Lothayr and the french men he retourned the seconde tyme into Italy w t great power whiche was Anno dn̄i 113● thus was Innocēt restored to his papacy agayne and Anacletus the antipape was deposed and spoyled of all his treasure and reliqus of the Churche to paye the souldiers withal wherfore he died for sorow and dyspyte ¶ In certayne tyme after y ● bysshop eugeny the thyrde of y ● name borne in pysa and afore a monke of saynt Barnardes one of his discyples whiche came in to Fraunce for two purposys the one was for the Ingerys and dyspleasurs of the Romayns the other was to monysh the kynge Lowys to moue warre vpon the turkys in the holy Lande as it is more playne in the seconde party of this boke gathered a coūceyll at vezelay after y ● which tyme he returned to rome agayne peasible w t the help of y ● kynge Lowys ¶ Of the .xx. sisme whiche was in y ● tym● of themperour Frederyke the fyrst of his name called Barbarousse this sisme endured .xvii. yeres EUen of the same roote presydēce y ● afore tyme hath growen y ● is to say for couetyse which alway rayned in y ● see appostolyk such lyke causes engendred this .xx. sisme that is to wyt onelye for admyttynge the clergye in to benefyces and possessyons who shulde haue the fyrst fruytes whiche began in the tyme of Frederyke barbarousse Emperoure whiche was a maruelous man prynce of slaueny who maryed in the countesse of Bourgonye and bycause he had perc●yueraunce knowledge what ingeris and displeasures his pre●●ss●ssours had in tyme passed with the bysshops of Rome by vyolence and vniust cause he conceyued so greatyre and displeasurs agaynst thē for it that he scourged them in suche wyse that there was neuer sen● so great dyuysion bytwene the Empyre and the bysshops of Rome in somoch y ● the consequence was yet wel worse that folowed for in the begynnynge of the raygne of this sayd Emperour whiche began to raygne Anno .1154 this sisme was begon bytwene Alexaunder the .3 borne in senis chosen and elect by the soueraūce of .xxiii. cardynallys an other named Octauyan a romayne whiche was chosen by .3 cardynallys specyall and named hym victor ¶ So this Alexaūder thynking to haue good ryght made a frend by an enbassetou● vnto the emperour Frederyke barbarous whiche as y ● tyme lay sege afore the cytie of Cremona in lumbardy and that he shuld set adirexion amonge these a●●ypapes the whiche Emperour to set a v●yte and concorde cōmaunded them both to mete with hym at pay●ie there he wolde mete with them vnto the whiche Alexsander wold not consent for the which cause he absēted hym selfe th●s so incontynēt frederyke without auctoryte assembled a coūceyl at pauye where the sayd Octauyan was present there was decreed y ● he shulde posesse y ● see appostolyke was confyrmed ma●g●e the wyl of alexāder y ● thyrde And ī these causes the sayd Alexsaūder excōmunycated thēperour frederyk barbarous so frederike toke vp y ● patrymonie profytes of saynt Peter otherwyse called the profytes of y ● church for y ● which cause this alexander fled from rome into fraūce in the tyme of phylip augustus there assēbled the thyrde counceyll at cleremound in auernia as we haue expressed in the seconde parte of this boke in the which● coūceyll Alexander the thyrde named by vyctor antypape excomunycated octauian emperour in this tyme y ● emperour discomfited millan dertome bycause they were rebellyōs after sēt an enbassade● to kynge Phyllyp to fynde the meane to destroye this sysme then in the churche ¶ The place of this apoyntmēt was cōsēted to be at dygyō in burgoyne which was Indyfferēt for both prynces for y ● emperour frederyk lay on y ● borders of burgoyne which came thyther w t a noble cōpany w t his quene the kynge of boheme with y ● kyng of scottes theyr Antypape w t theym named vyctor w t a great nōbre of mē of warre with thē yet wold not Alexāder come there sayēg y ● y ● place was not indyfferēt for his persō nor yet cōuenyēt to kepe such a coūceyll which only pertayned to his auctoryte wherfore this vnworthy Emperoure w t his antypape ful of yre thretnyngꝭ returned into Almayne w t great displeasure so when the forsayde antipape was deed there was created thre antipapes successiuely one after the other by this meane Alexsaūder was fayne to flye out of rome to Uenyse in a straūge habyt ī al this tyme was war thorow al chrystēdome al by y ● occasyon of these sysmes and errors y ● arose by these antipapes stoborne bysshops of Rome fynably the cytie of Ierusalem was lost agayne in this season wone by the turkes and sarasyns also the sayd Emperour made that tyme a great vyage in to Turkey a prosperous victorious vnto his death the whiche was great pyte for he was drowned in bathtynge hymselfe in a ryuer whiche was a great desolacyon to al his armye and a dyscomforte to al crystendome so soudayne a chaunce ¶ Of the .xxi. sysme whiche was in the tyme that the court and see of Rome was holden at Auynyon CLement bisshop the .v. of that name borne in burgony was the fyrst that mo●ed the see of Rome to Auinion as I haue wryt●● playne in the second part of this boke and after the death of hym the see of Rome
frome the Romayns came into Fraunce to kynge Lowys the good Kynge at Orlyaunce was there honorably receyued and at his retorne gaue hym ayed and strength to retorne to Rome and he gaue hym a crosse of so great valoure that was inestymable to iudge whiche was sent as an offrynge to seynt Peter ¶ Of the coursed and wycked coūceyll that was holdē at Campyne by the prelates of Fraūce agaynst the sayd good kynge Lowys ✚ THere was about this tyme a detestable and wycked counceyll a permysyous which was gadered by euyll auctoryte ***** of the wycked prelates of Fraunce whiche conspyred agaynst theyr good Kynge Lowys bycause he set a dyreccyon and good order agaynst theyr dishonest lyuynge pompe pryde abhomynacyon and superfluytes as afore was wryten and thus this wycked counceyll of prelates conspyred a great insurreccyon and army of moch people as the sone against the father and frend agaynst frend so toke the good Kyng Lowys put hym captyue at seysons in a stronge hold And to this conspyrese was agreed pope Gregory y ● .iiii. of his name bycause he was not benefyciall to the Churche of Rome at that tyme and for redressyng many enormytꝭ And not so benefycyall as he was to other Bysshops afore And as the orator Raphael of voluntary testyfyeth of this wycked counceyll companye assembled without auctoryte And so there these traytours cōdempned this good kyng without auctoryte deposed hym frome all armes and out of his dignyte emperyal and dyspoyled hym of his Kynges rayment and put on hym a monkes kole in derysyon ¶ O cursed wycked Pharysyans repleat with treason and ypocresy sacerdotall howe can ye conspyre so great abhomynacyon and cruelty agaynst so good a kynge for redressynge your Antecristian lyuynge pompe pryde suerly this is not your fyrst cruelty for ye began w t the hede y t was our sauyour Iesu Christ whome ye shamfully crucyfyed and put to deth ¶ And thus contynued the good kynge Lowys captyue indesolacyon amonge his ennemyes tyll God prouyded for hym through good coūceylles iustyce diuyne of Kynges and Prelates that he was restored to his originall tytle emperour and Kynge of Fraunce agayne ¶ Of the coūceyll of Troyes in Champane holden by the kynge Lowys that stutted in his speakynge IN the tyme of this Lowys sone of Charles came in to Fraunce Iohn̄ bysshop of Rome the .viii. of that name borne in Rome And escaped out of the prysons and captyuyte of the Romayns which hated hym bycause he wold haue crowned this sayd Lowys y ● s●utter Emperour of Rome for the Romayns wolde rather haue had Charles his brother kynge of Germanye and not onely for this cause he fled but bycause of two erles which wolde haue taken frome hym the patrymonye of the Churche and in this cause he dyd curse thē and so came for socour in to fraunce and there abode a .xii. monethes desyred the help of the Kynge which could not come bycause he lay secke at Towers notwithstādynge within short tyme after he recouered his sykenesse then he the bysshop met togyther in Troyes in Champane and there assembled a counceyll of the churche Gallycane ¶ And thus at this sayd counceyll were determyned many holy decrees there they confyrmed a bysshop to be Pastore ouer the countre of Flaunders whiche was a wylde Forest for to make Colys and full of maryse as Platyne wryteth which afterwarde was replet with people and townes wherthrough it is to be coniectured they be vnder the dioses of Tornay as yet remayneth ¶ Yet furthermore at this sayd coūceyll this said Iohn̄ bysshop gaue the crown empyre to kyng Lowys the stut●er alled him august yet wold not he graūt to crowne his wyfe Quene so after this counceyll fynyshed Iohn̄ bysshop the .viii. of that name retorned to Rome to warre on the Sarasyns whiche were entred in to the partys of Italye ¶ Of two coūceylles holden at Raynys one agaynst another one by the kynges the other by the bysshop of Rome AGaynst these counceylles the bysshop Benedict the .vii. of that name caused to assēble another counceyll at Raynes in the which Arnulphus was restored to the byshoprych of Rayns and the vsurped bysshop deposed which was after Archbysshop of Reuenna and syns bysshop of Rome by crafte and meanes of Diabolyke scyence wherin he was expert yet notwithstandynge he ended his dayes myserably ¶ Of a great coūceyll generall assēbled at Cleremōde in Auernea ī the tyme of Phyllyp the fyrste of that name Emperour kynge of Fraūce there present Urbanus y ● secōde bysshop of that name in Rome in the which coūceyl was y ● great vyage of Godfroy debullyon set forth vpō the sarasyns where by the fayth of Chryste was largely encreased in Turkey ✚ THis holy bysshop of Rome Urban the .xii. of that name Abbot of Clunye a blacke monke and Cardynall of Hostyensis was moued w t pyte and compassyon thorow the lamētable complayntes of the worthy pylgr●me Peter the heremyte borne at Mens the whiche came lately from the holy lāde And so informed Urban of the mys●ry and po●erte seruytude that crysten people were in there with the patryarke Symon in Ierusalem So this complaynt herynge Urban moued with cōpassyon prepayred with all dylygence for succour delyueraūce of them there beyng in the thraldom daūger of Sarasyns turkys Infidels which crystē people laye in this thraldom from the tyme of Hiracle whiche was the yere of our Lorde god cccc.lxxx or there aboute as platyne wryteth ¶ And shortlye after Urban was in so greate trouble and veracyon amonge the Romayns that they were fayne to flye out of Rome and came in to Fraunce And there was assembled throughe his commynge a great counceyll of all the Prelates of the Churche catholyke whiche was holden in the cytie of Cleremount in Ouernia And some storyes sayth that Phillyp y e fyrste of that name assembled another counceyll agaynst y e Hollandes And so whan the great coūcell of Urban the bysshop of rome was assembled in the holy Ghost this sayde Urban made an excellent and elygant Oration to that assēble And there therof breyfly sentenciously I gadred as foloweth concernynge the vyage to Ierusalem for the delyueraunce and captyuyte of the crysten people ¶ All ye honourable audyence here assembled ye shall vnderstande y t I whiche haue taken on me vnworthy this entendeth to set good ordre and reformacyon in all thynge accordynge to the catholyke Relygyon of Chryste ¶ It is not vnknowen to you what ingerys and losse hathe ben of late dayes in crystendome by Sarasyns and Infydellys without mercy or pytie with great warres and battayllys for the whiche remedy is there none but by force of armys wherfore to redresse it as we and you be very C●tristyans stonde faste in the fayeth and lette vs seke remedy for this pyteous tyranny that chrysten people do susteyne
and Remēbre the great dylygence that your predysessours hath had in this behalfe in tymes paste And spetyally ye nobles of Fraunce whiche hath alwaye susteyned agaynst the Infydelys also you Germayns Saxons Polax Bohemys and hungaryon and Englysshe nacyon ye shulde not suffer this tyranny vpon Chrysten people so pyteously also ye Italyons shulde remembre what paynes and tyranny your predycessoures frendes of late dayes hath suffred by them also ye venecyans ye of Dalmase and of Hystrye and al ye bourderars of the Ardryatyque sees whiche haue alwaye valyantly defended the malyse power of the Sarasyns now apply your selfe withal other princes to withstande this cruell Infydellys or els ye shall se your chyldren your wyfes your goods and lyues vtterly destroyed by cruelty wherfore awake all ye valyaunt personage and we humbly desyre you in y ● mercy of God put on your armyes sprede forth your standardes and Baners set forth your cōpaynyes w t great courage and God y t is most puysaūt shal be with you send his omnypotent powre to ayed strength you in all your wayes to confounde all that shall withstande you ¶ Howe by the means of this oracyon made by Urbanus bysshop of Rome through it all Prynces on this syde Cōstantinople toke great courage and enforsed thē to assemble great armyes on all partes to go vpon the sarasyns so to Ierusalem ANd thus as sone as Urbanus had fynysshed his oracyon all that were there presēt arose sayd with one voyce this is the wyll pleasure of God and therwith Urban blessyd theym all sayenge this blessyng I gyue you as lōge as ye shall endure this Iourney and ye shall vnderstand y ● in this assemble and coūceyll was many noble worthy Prynces and barons and noble men the whiche many of them solde theyr landes hopynge to prospere in this Iourney to y ● hye honour and seruyse of God wherof is made mencyon ī dyuerse crownacles more at large in the which iourney god fray of Bullyon was the chefe of that enterpryse and thus was fynyshed the counceyll of Cleremont ¶ Of the coūceyll of Troyes in Champayne by bysshop Pascall y ● twelfth for y ● reformacyons of y ● Churche AFter this great coūceyll arose the .17 sisme in the church in the tyme of Paschall bysshop of Rome the .12 of that name borne in Italye afore a mōke and so successour of Urbanus whiche came into Fraunce for to haue reformacyon of dyuerse abuses y ● was thē in the Church farre frome al good facyon and order wheron he caused a counceyl to be assembled generall wherin was reformed many thynges and specyally he deposed many prelates and benefysed mē which were necligent vnlearned from theyr pastoralyte curyous admytted such as were able for suche promocyons and to preache and gyue example of lyuynge in Chrystes churche ¶ Of the counceyll holden at Rayns by Calixte bysshop of Rome brother to y ● erle of Burgoy●gne in y ● which coūceyll Henry the fourth Emperour was accoursed and excōmunicat AFter this Pascal rayned gyles the seconde of y ● name borne in Italye in whose tyme fell the .18 sysme in y ● whiche suffred many trybulacyons persecucions as ye shall fynde in the tyme of Henry the fourth Emperour which created an antypape named Benedictus y ● whiche antypape pope Gyles droue out of Ytalye and so fled into Fraunce ¶ And so in the absent see of this sayde Gyles possessed the see bysshoppe of Uy●nne named Guy of Burgongne which was in y ● holy lande of Ierusalem when Godftay de Bullyon the whiche Guy was taken and accepted for a man of an acceptable lyfe whose name was afterwarde called Calixtus the .ii. but yet as storys saith y ● the forsayd Gylys was he y ● coursed Henry the emperour in y ● coūceyl and not this Calyxt for he was nye a kyne to y ● emperour Henry whiche maryed Ma●de doughter to the kynge of Englande and this sayd curse was gyuen by Gyles Bysshop bycause of the reformacyon of the pryde pompe that then was vsurped among prelates and preestes as well in dignytes theyr auctorytes as in excesse of gorgyous apparell a rayment also partly as Platyne wryteth it was for y ● supportynge of an Antypape named Burdyn a spanyard as here after in the thyrde parte here of shal make mensyon and so was Calyxt made bisshop stauled in Rome byforse caused y ● emꝑour Henry to be beseged the ●yte of rayns where he was acursed ¶ Of the seconde coūceyl holden at Cleremond and of a nother holden at Rayns in Champayne almoost in one tyme. INnocent y ● secōde bysshop of Rome and borne in y ● same Cytie helde warre batayle agaynst Roger normunde Kynge of Naples ***** and y ● sone of Roger vaynquyshed this bisshop Innocent ī playne Batyle and toke hym his cardinalles prysoners yet notwithstandynge this prynce Wyllyam e●treated hym his cardynalles gently and honorably and in contynuaunce he set theym at lyberty lyke a noble man ¶ And this tyme indurynge was a nother bysshop of Rome named Anacletus by whom y ● forsayd Innocent was chased out of Rome this was y ● .xviii. sysme as ye shall playnly se in the laste parte of this boke ¶ And thus in that tyme by the aduysement of kynge Lowys y ● grosse was holden two counceylles in Fraunce in the whiche was the forsayd Innocent present these coūceylles were holden at cleremont ī Ouernya the other at rayns in Champayne in the which coūceylles were determyned dyuerse decrees and by the whiche Innocent ouercame his aduersary annacletus his antipape and so he retourned to Rome agayne possedyd his see ¶ Of the counceyll of Uezelay whiche was kepte in Burgonye and kepte in the tyme of kynge Lowys the yonger wherin was prouoked the seconde Iourney vpon the infydellys DUryng the tyme of the .19 sysme of the which ye shal perceyue more at large in the thyrde parte of this boke so this tyme Engenius the .3 of that name bysshop of Rome borne in Pisa in ●●alye who was disciple of saynt Bernard the whyte monke this man also fled in to Fraunce aparte for socoure for the great murmure furye y ● he had of the Romayns and part for to coūceyll and to mocion cristē Princes to warre vpon the infydellys the whiche had taken a great cytie called Edessa Mesopotania in grecya ¶ For the which cause kynge Lowys y ● yonger sone to grosse Lowys y ● whiche endeueryd hymselfe with great dilygēce toward this iourney assēbled a great coūceyl of prelates pryncis in the cytie of vezelay in Burgone and through the coūceyll and aduyse of saynt Barnarde with other this yong Lowys vowed to go on this iourney and he requyred to helpe the crysten people that were there so sore oppressed of the infydellys
insomoch that after hym folowed his wyffe with gret nōbre of people And w t them conradus kynge of romaynes Alfonce kyng of Spayne Rycharde the fyrste of England with great nombre of knyghtes and barons whiche was the seconde passage vnyuersall y ● crystendome made to the holy Lande of Ierusalem ¶ And as Platyne sayth this Eugenius and saynt Bernarde was the cheyf setters forth in this counceyl for this armye And so returned to rome quyetly ¶ Of the thyrd councell holdē in Ouernya of two other councelles one at Towers another at Dygyon THus the .xx. sysme of y ● churche was agaynst bisshop Alysaunder the thyrde of that name borne at Senys the yere of our Lorde M.lxxx and this sysme dyuysion endured in the churche .xvii. yeres agaynst .iiii. Antypapes that then rayned were suffered by y ● emperoure frederyke called Barbarouse and so this Alyxsaūder fled out of Rome for socoure vnto kynge Phillype augustus who then assembled a coūceyll in Cleremonde in Ouernya agaynst the forsayd Frederyke for mayntenynge of victor Antypape by the which varyaunce and dyuysyon in crystendome in this meane season Ierusalem was wonne by y e soul dan Saladyne which was neuer yet recouered to this day this was the yere of Chryste .1184 and so this emperour Frederyk wolde fayne a brought to passe a vnyte concorde wold haue had this co●●ceyl at Dygyon ī Burgony where they shulde amet with kynge Phyllype and the kynge of Boheme and kynge of Scottes and shuld haue had the said antypape Uictor whiche he brought all to passe byforce of armes or els not ¶ But yet this Alexsaunder bysshup of Rome wolde not consent to come there for he had that place in susspecke and so gadered a nother counceyll at Towers and thus y ● emperour Frederyk in spyte and displeasur returned in to Almayne and sent Uictor his antypape in to ●talye thus was al thyngꝭ in more pertur bacyon vnquyetnesse thē it was afore thus al cristen people may se what myschefe vengeaunce hath ben through y ● obstynacy of wycked bisshops of Rome ouer all crystendome euer wyll be vntyll the hande of God put remedy ¶ Of two coūceylles in fraunce holden in Parys in Phyllyps tyme and of the disi●e of Salandyne IN the tyme of this phyllip august came Enbassatoures quene Isabel from the kynge of Ierusalem which came for socour for the cristen prysoners y ● Saladyne soldā had in captyuite wherupon was gadered a coūseyll at Parys to no purpose but for the socour of crysten mē for the kyng Phillyp had as then great warre agaynst Hew duke of Burgone and other ¶ And thus this sayd Phillyp sent enbassatours to kynge Rycharde curedelyon desyring hym of ayed in this cause to the whiche he graunted w t good wyll so shortly after he assembled a great armye on both partys of Fraunce and England and went on a croose agaynst the ennemys of cristendome but the forsayd kīg Richard could not obtayne his purpose for he was slaine afore a Castel or he came to Ierusalem and notwithstandynge his sone toke that Iourney on hym for the mayntenaunce of this was payed al the hole rentes of the churches and monestaryes in Fraunce whiche was called y ● subsedy of Salandyne and after this forsayd company folowed Frederyke emperour w t a great puyssaūce which was called y ● thyrde generall viage in to the holy lande ¶ Of another coūceyl holden in Fraūce by a Legat of the bysshop of Rome agaynst kyng phillype augustus THus another coūceyll was holden agaynste Pyyllype after his retorne by y ● legat of Innocēt y ● thyrde of that name there was y ● kynge Pyllype enterdyted and all the Realme for forsakyng of the Quene which was the bysshops kynswoman and herupon the Kynge armyd hym raysed a great armye he exyled all the bysshops that consented to the curse and put them in Pryson and frome theyr benefyces c. ¶ Of the counceyll holden at Parys agaynst the albygens IN y ● tyme of Lowys father to saynt Lowys then Gregory the .ix. rayned Anno. Dn̄i .1226 then came in to Fraūce a legat from the Bysshop whiche legat was named Romanus there was gadred a coūceyll they concluded to warre vpon the herytykes Albygoys whiche was in y ● coū●re of Auynion in Prouaūce Languedock whiche were repleat with great vyllany and herysyes and so the Kynge went vpon these countryes subdued them and in retournyng home he dyed ¶ Of the fyrst coūceyl holden at Lyons in the tyme of saynt Lowys kynge and of Innocent bysshop of Rome the .4 of y t name borne in Genys THe which bisshop came into Fraūce for soco●r for case that the Emperour Frederyk persecuted hym Anno Dn̄i .1246 and y ● Emperour was syted to appere at this counceyll and came w t a great company and at turayne he retourned home agayne for his ennemies were entred into his countrye ¶ This debat contynued long tyme the space and tyme of thre bysshops of Rome successyuely y ● was Honorius the .3 the other Gregorye Innocent afore wryten and thus thorow y ● cruell obstynacy of these bysshops there arose great mischeffe dissencion through al cristendome so therby was engendred great war in al crystendom in the which tyme of warres was lost Constantinople so at this coūceyl was nothyng concluded through the great ruyne that fell in crystendome by these forsayd bysshops of Rome one after a nother ¶ Of the seconde counceyl of Lions in the tyme of Gregory the tenth and in y ● tyme of kynge Phyllyp sone to saynt Lowys THe yere of grace .1232 rained kyng Phillip sone to saint Lowys who assembled a nother counceyll at Lyons wherunto came Gregorye bysshop the tenth borne in Plesaunce this Kynge Phyllyp was the fyrst y ● gaue y ● bisshop a garde of men of armys also he gaue hym .3 stronge Places for his sauegard about Lyon and to this counceyll came themperour Michel paleolog of Constantinople for the Reformacion of the greke church which had fallen the .xiii. tyme in to Ruyne and yet wolde not be reformed ¶ Of another coūcell holden at Parys in the tyme of kyng Phillyp the fayre agaynst y ● bysshop bonyface the eyght whiche vsed great tyranny agaynst y ● Clerge PHyllyp the fayre a prudent vertuous kyng began to raygne .1286 in his tyme possessed the see of Rome Boniface the .viii. successoure of Celestyne the .v. which was a wyse and a vertuous man the which Bonyface craftely deceyued this bonyface was of the nature facyon of the Italyans as arrogaunte and fyerse which nothynge considering the beneficial giftes y t his predecessours had receyued in Fraūce as ye shall here more at large ¶ This sayd Bonyface the .8 sent as strayte a cōmaundement vnto the kyng of Fraūce by an enbassade a fyerse bysshop howe that
of Alberyke to stoppe his mowthe with a cusshon so smodred hym to deth this trewely was a pytefull case to se y ● see appostolyke so repleat with bysshops of iniquite as sto●yes of y ● tyme doth wryt more at large of theyr ambysyon pryde and iniquyte in the whiche season the Hongaryons wrought great vengeauncys and dyspleasurs agaynst the church of Rome the patrymonye of the Church whiche was onely the iust punyssyon of God ¶ What befel in the tyme of the .x. and the .xi. sisme by y ● power of the emperour Otton y ● fyrst of y ● name IOhn̄ the twelfth of y ● name bysshop of Rome also borne there the whiche afore was called Octauyan thorow the puyssaunce tyrannye of his father Alberyk he vsed his papalyte very euyl for he was a man of euyll lyfe without chastyte he companyd w t women openly without shame for y ● which abhomynacyon two cardynalles dyscret wyse persons complayned vnto Otton emperour of germany who rained Anno .962 ye shall vnderstande that the meane season or Otton the Emperour came this foresayde Ingnomynyous Bysshoppe Iohan was aduertised of this cōplaynte by the Cardynalles to the Emperou● of hym and caused thē to be taken and of the one he caused to cutte of his nose and the other his brestys And so shortly after kynge ▪ Otton came to Rome and there helde a counceyll agaynst the sayd bysshop of Rome In the whiche counceyll he was condempned and deposed for his wycked and cruell lyfe yet after this iust iudgement he was taken agayne in the acte of adulterye with a mānes wyfe whose husbande slewe hym with the dede doynge ¶ After the deposytyon of this sayd Iohan the xii kynge Otton caused a bysshop to be chosen called Leo the eyght And shortly after the absence of Otton the emperour The wycked Romayns sedytions inconstaunt chased this Leo bysshop out of Rome and set vp an antypape who was named Benedictus the .v. for the whiche cause themperoure Otton shortly after beseged Rome and so what for the warre famyne the Romayns were constrayned to yeld and set the forsayd Leo in his see and auctorite and so put to exyle theyr antipape Benedict which fled in to Almayn thus were these two sismes fynysshed afore wrytē ¶ Of the .xii. sisme abolyshed by Otton the thyrde Emperour BY the auctoryte of y ● emperour Otton y ● thirde Anno dn̄i .993 was created bysshop of rome gregorie y ● v. borne in saxonia ī Almayn and so after the departynge of the emperour Otton from Rome a certayne senatoure ryche repleat with couetous named Cressēsius set vp y ● bysshop of pleasaūce of the nacyon of Grece for money and so this Gregorye seyng dredynge the fury of the Romayns and theyr vyolence w t all fled into Almayne towarde the emperour Ottō who brought hym agayne by stronge hande though this senatour w t the greke bisshop antypape with Cressencyus by force and strenght kept theym within the Castell aungell yet that notwithstandyng they were taken and Cressencyus was byhedyd for his couetous enterpryse the antypape had both his eyen put out and wel worthy for his ambycyous preesthode ¶ Thus was the bysshop Gregorye restored to his dignyte in Rome agayne and he was y ● fyrst that decreed made ordinaūces for y ● elexcion of the Empyre Anno dn̄i .1002 to y ● entent y ● the elexciō imperyall shulde alway remayne contynew amonge the Prynces of Germany whiche contynueth to this day onely but of suffraunce and so after Gregorye held the see appostolyke Syluester the seconde the which was expert in the art Magyque and Nygromn̄cy whiche is a deuyllysh a dāpnable scyence y ● whiche Gregorie dyed shamfully as storyes maketh mension as in the seconde parte of this boke it doth partly appere ¶ Of the .xiii. .xiiii. sysmes in the tyme of two bysshops of Rome the one the vncle the other y ● Nephew in whose tyme Ierusalem was takē by the sarasyns of y ● horyble operacyons of these two bysshops THe knowledge of these dyuysyons and sysmes be so confuse odyous that I wold they were passed vnder scylence notwithstandynge he that seketh for the swete breers must oftymes passe thorow sharp thornes crowked breers or we come to the swet carnel we must pas thorowe the harde shell thus after these thyngꝭ afore resyted I must shew vnto you the residewe as myne auctour wryteth sucsentyfly as I may can vnderstāde Thus haue ye sene y ● through euyll auarycyous bysshops of Rome was the cause and occasyon of al sismes discordes euylles that befell throughe the world in lyke maner y ● good meke and crystyan bysshops was y ● occasyon of peace vnyte concorde ouerall crystendome ▪ as we haue wryten in the seconde part of this boke ¶ Thus after y ● this forsayd Siluester the seconde dyed whiche gaue hymselfe to the Deuyll to come vnto his sayd dignyte papall whome God may saue by his merry and grace and in so succeded in the space of .xii. yeres but thre peasyble bysshops of Rome after this succeded Benedictus the fyfth borne in Tuskay which began to entre in moch trouble for when the emperour henry y ● fyrst of that name was deed whiche was in the yere of our Lorde .404 which stode in great fauour with the sayd emperour bycause he dyd crowne hym in his see which benedictus was cast out by force from his dignite by the Romayns so they set in another in his place yet notwithstandynge Benedictus made his agrement with his ennemies and afterward chasid his ennemies out of his place and so he was restored to his dignyte agayne thus fynysshed the xii● sysme ¶ And as storyes doth specefy which remayneth that after the deth of the sayd Benedictus it was fantasyed that the spryte of the sayd bysshop Benedictus the vii● appered vnto a bysshop in asolytarye place vpō a great horrible blake horse this Bysshop demaunded hym why wherfore he rode on such a blacke horse he answered bycause he was in great tormētes prayed the Bysshop to take certayne treasours that he had hyd in dyuerse places where as he shewed hym where they lay y ● he shuld destry buit thē to the pore people for all the almes I gaue ī my lyfe tyme lytle profytꝭ me bycause I gat my treasour w t extor●yon rapyne whiche dyd as y ● vysyon sayd af● he forsoke y ● glorie of thꝭ worlde be came a relygyous man soletary ¶ After this benedictꝰ the .viii. succeded Benedictus y ● .ix. bytwene whō was the bysshop Iohn̄ the .xx. this Benedictꝰ the .ix. was worse then his vncle as appereth for he was y ● occasion of the .xiiii. sisme diuision in y ● church of Rome for the Romayns sawe y ● he was of smal reputacyō of lytle