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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
these enormytes and Incōuenyences it was expedyent for dyuerse Kyngꝭ Pryncꝭ to assemble dyuerse councelles and congregacyons of wyse prudent persons and faythfull chrysten Rulers and gouerners the which counceles doth more playnly appere in the fyrst parte of this present boke and specyally in the .vii. fyrste sysmes ¶ Of the fyrst sysme deuysyon that began in the churche of Rome with persecucyons and deuysyons that arose through the possessyons that constantyne the emperour gaue to the Bysshop of Rome Syluester and his successours IT is a comune experience dayle sene and harde that none euyll is engendred but through some euyll and malyuolent persone as it appered playnly by one Nouatus an heritike preest cardynall of Rome which was y ● fyrst y e inuiolated y e church of Rome through his detestable abusiōs ypocrysy for he pretēded none other but to obtayne y ● dignyte of the see of rome vnder his fayned holynesse that was throughe Rygore and ambysyon Thus vnder his false subtyll pretence was reysed vp two anty papis agaynst the holy bysshop saynt Cornelis the one was y ● sayd Noua●us at rome the other nicostratus in affrica and so was expulsed the said Nouatus frome y ● knowlege of the churche of Rome named hym selfe vnmaculat clene without spot and al his diciples and thus they a bode in theyr appostasy as men that denyed the fayth catholyke not worthy to come agayne to the crystē Relygyon accordyng as Chrystes dycyples dyd preach and teache the Gospell For the whiche errour it was thought expedyent to assemble a counsell in Rome of .40 Bysshoppes In the whiche coūceyl the sayd Nouatus was cōdempned which was the fyrst counceyll that was assembled in the church of Rome except in the prymatyue churche by the Appostles and Discyples of Chryste Thus abode Cornelis a Romayn in y ● see bysshop suffryng great tribulacions and persecucyons through the sysmes of the two forsayd antypapes n●uatus and Nycostratus cardynalles and perforse put Cornelius to exyle so afterwarde he was put to y ● Crowne of marterdome vnder the tyraunt Decyus emperour he rayned bysshop of Rome .ii. yeres and .iii. dayes and so he gaue his power and auctoryte to steuen and thus the see of Rome lyued many yeres after Chrystes passyon in great perfeccyon symplyci●e holynesse replet with grace and vertue vntyll the tyme that Cōstātyne poysoned holy perfeccion w t temporall possessyons whiche he gaue then to the church of Rome and so rayned after Cornelius Fabyan the fyrst the .xxi. bisshop of Rome whiche cristened Phillip the fyrst Emperour of y ● name of y e naciō of Arabye who began to raygne Anno dn̄i .cc.xlvi. which when he dyed gaue al his treasours possessyons vnto y e sayd Fabyan bysshop of Rome the whiche Emperour dyed vnder Decius the Tyraunt and so bycause that Decius the tyraunt coude not obtayne Kyng Phyllyppes treasours whiche was gyuen to Fabyan bysshop of Rome Then Decyus caused great persecucyon through all the worlde amonge crysten people whiche was y e .vii. persecucion after Nero the great tiraunt so in this persecucyon Fabyan was put to deth by cruell martyrdome with the fyrst and the .xxi. martyre bysshop of Rome folowynge Saynt Peter and vnder y ● sayd decyus dyed martyrs Sebastian saynt Agatha Appolonia with many other y e were innocent of the treasours that fabyane had whiche was y ● specyall cause of this cruell persecucyon of chrystes flocke ¶ And so this cruell tyranny contynewed many yeres by detyns and his successours and so after Detyns successid Ualeryan gallus which began the .viii. persecucion vnder whom dyed Sextus bishop of rome the fyrst of that name also Laurens his deacon which distrybuted the goodes of the church to the pore accordyng to y ● law of God also saynt Ypolyt with dyuers other martyrs dyed vnder hym And after hym Aurclianus emperour borne ī Dalmace the .xxxii. emperour founder of Orleaunce in Fraunce And y ● cytie of Geneue vpon the lake in sauoy he persecuted the .ix. persecucion on Christes flocke or region through cristendom to pytefull to suffer THe .x. persecucion was most cruely vsed through Dioclesian Maximyan Emperours borne in Dalmatiq̄ whiche persecucyon endured .x. yeres whiche Dioclesyan caused hym selfe to be honoured lyke a God in kyssyng his fete as popis of late daies hath vse princes and crysten rulers to do which was abhomynable afore God man and this sayd Dioclesian persecuted ouer al the Orientall partes of y e world Maximian in lykewyse in y ● occident partes and tyranny vpon chrystes chosen chyldren was so horryble vnmerciful lyke bochers of bestes that it was to exec●eble in the syght of all people impossyble for pen to wryt for in the space of a moneth in y ● pa●tꝭ of Englād Fraūce was put to deth .xvii. thousād christē people in so moch that y ● fayth of chryst was almost in Englande and fraūce extynckit that no man durst shew hym felfe a crysten man for fere of deth and tyranny all bokes of Chrystes fayth brent that myght be goten so after this cruell persecucyons the deuyll ennemye to al mākynd engendred many heresyes as Sabellyans that denyed y t Ihesus Chryste was not the sone of God and also y e herytykes called Manekis put forth two questyons one good y ● other euyl whervpon was gadred a great counceyll in Antioch agaynst Paule the samosethā bysshop which denyed the virginite of the virgyne Mary mother of chryste In the whiche counceyll and busynesse was assembled .xviii. bysshoppes in the cyte of senesse in the countrey of naples ¶ All this persecucyon endured vnto y ● tyme of Constantyne y ● great emperour in which tyme was martyred and put to deth for Christes fayth all these sayntes Marcellyn Marcell Melchiades bysshops of Rome Also Agnes Anastase Barbara Crispyn and Crispian Crystofer Cosme and Damyan Kateryne Luce marget George maximiliā quintyn Blase Mauryce Uincent many without nombre whose names are wryten in the boke of lyfe ¶ Here foloweth the occasyon of the sismes and enormytyes that came of the donacyon and gyftes of Constantyne to the churche of Rome THus haue you harde howe the fylthy treasours y ● Fabyan helde Chrystes churche was infected fyrste with by the couetous mynde of Fabyan bysshop of Rome whiche held the treasours of Phyllyp kynge whiche dyed vnder Decyus the tyraunt whiche Decyus cruelly persecuted all crystendome for with holdynge the sayd tresory of kyng Phyllyp and so afterward the forsayd No●atus Nycostratus was proued false prophetes antipapes openly to theyr great rebukes and shame by a generall counceyll and yet after this there ●ose agayne throughe all Chrystes churche great dyscordes trybulatyōs persecucyōs through the infexions pryd of arrogansy y e arose in the church of Rome through the treasours and gyftes of cōstantyne and of his successours where
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
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
valoure deposed hym from his dignite and set vp in his place Iohn̄ y ● archbysshop of Sabyn whiche was called Syluester y ● thyrde about 49. daies after they chased hym out also bycause he was lesse then and an ydeot yngnoraunt vnprofytable but yet ye shall vnderstande he perceyuynge this solde his papasy to Iohn̄ for redy money who was then a●chedeacō of saint Iohn̄ porte latyne whiche afterwarde was called Gregorye the .vi. for y ● which sclaūders rumour among y ● Romains then Henry y ● seconde of y ● name sōne to Conradꝰ y ● rained Anno .1039 who cam into Italy w t a great army puisaūt where he assembled a great coūceyl general and so deposed these .iii. sysmatykes bysshops y ● is to wete Benedictꝰ the .ix. syluester the thyrde Gregorye the .vi. he created bysshop of Rome y ● bysshop of Baynbergh in Almayne who was named clement the second who was poysoned by his successour Damascus the secōde of y ● name also And thus to com to our purpose of the forsayd Benedictus the .ix. which was the cause of moch euil in the .xiiii. sysme solde his papalytye some storyes holde this fantasy or opynyon of hym after his deth was that he appered in facyon of a straunge wonderfull lykenes monstruous and horryble of whome was demaunded the occasyon of this wonderful forme and state myght signefye he made answere that thorowe the iuste iudgement of God he was thus condempned to be eternally for bycause he liued so bestially in y ● sege appoholyke thus through y ● ꝑturbacions of the wicked bisshops the turkes sarasyns oppressed so cristendome lost the holy lād w t ierusalē An .1012 y ● tyme. ¶ Of the .xv. sysme appesed by the emperour Henry the thyrde THis tyme rayned emperoure Henry the thirde in almayne the whiche was Anno .1057 began the .xv. sisme and dyscorde in the Churche y ● cause herof was that after the deth of besshop Nycolas the seconde borne in Sauoy was elect the bysshop of Luke borne in Myllane this man was chosen by y ● Cardynalles of Rome they named hym Alexaūder the seconde this bysshop had a good vertuous name where as he was resydent after his elexcyon y ● cardynalles came to hym to accompanye his person to Rome ¶ And so anone after his cōmynge to Rome certayne bysshops Lumbardye coulde nor agre w t hym because he wolde not of theyr band and affynyte wherupon began the .xv. sysme bycause some held opinyon and sayd that he entred by symony this pre●●ted they thought to haue one of theyr affinyte mete for theyr purpose through the inuestigacion and counceyll of gylbert bysshop of parme in lomba●dye so these companyons cardynalles helde fast togyther as burres in a cluster and obtayn●d agaynst henry the .iii. emperour to chose an other bisshop of rome in his place to theyr owne purpose and mynde And herupon the Emperour they accorded and so these cardynals entred in to lūbardye where they g●dred a counceyll amonge them selues whom was cōsulted to chose one named Cadollus borne in parme marueylous ryche puyssaunt and peryllous to the whiche all Italy were agreed ¶ This is cad●llus chosen in the place of the papall see as an antypape and so in short tyme drewe hymselfe towardes rome with a myghtye power a great armye of lūbardys agaynst alexander bysshop of Rome who was accōpanyed with a great armye of romayns in lykewyse to withstande hym and inconclusyon this batailles encoūtred the which was sturdy stronge sharpe vnder the mountayne golde where as was slayne pytefully moche people but in fyne the victory tourned on Alexaunders syde so retourned Cadollus vaynqueshed yet notwithstādynge he lost not his courage but or it was a yere passed throughe secret conspyresyes of some of his affynyte the which secrete companye he obtayned by many within Rome whiche ran sodaynely vnto armyes so by Cincius saneofo the prouest of Rome conuayed Cadollus in to the castel aungell and so fynally byforce of his ennemyes he was fayne to yeld and pryuely bought his lyfe of certayne souldyers for vi.c markes and was ●orssed flede so to please the emperour Henry the .3 which fauored y ● sayd Cadollus he caused a coūceyl to be assembled at mantua to the which came the sayd emperoure Alexaunder bisshop of Rome and there Alexaunder pourged hym afore all that noble presence to be clene of y ● cryme of symony of ambysyon and so the one forgaue the other of all grudg●s thus fynyshed the .xv. sisme ¶ Of the .xvi. sisme which arose by a bisshop of Rome a blacke moncke whiche b●gan to lyfte vp his hornes agaynst the power of y ● emperoure wherof arose great euil rumur WI●hin a lytle and short tyme after the .xvi. sisme folowed moch lyke the other for after the death of Alexaunder the second succedyd Gregory the 〈◊〉 borne in senys in touskayne by the p●ocurement of y ● sayd blacke monke legal in fraunce which in contynent after the elexcyō began a great discorde bytwene the bysshops of Rome and y ● emperour which engendred great debates myscheuous euylles innumerable ouer all crystendome as it shall appere herafter ¶ For in the tyme that this forsayd emperour was busyed and had great to do with his warres agaynst the Saxons his ennemyes this forsayd gregory bysshop of Rome whiche was cōfyrmed by the Emperour for at that tyme no bysshop coulde be in Rome without the ful consent confyrmacyon of themperour and thus began this Gregorye the .7 to sporne with an arrogaunt mynde inhybytynge themperour to medle with any ecclesiastique auctoryte vpon payne of the hye sensuris and curse of the church of Rome nether that he shulde gyue nor admyt bysshoprych nor benefyce within his Empyre for they made pretens that the Emperoure dyd sell the dignytes of the prelacy in his Empyre the whiche this arrogaūt Bysshop wolde haue the sale of y ● marchandise hymselfe as other of his predycessours had done in tymes past of auncyaunt institucyons and of ryght and olde customes ¶ These thynges were straunge newes to themperour Henry but that tyme he fayned with a fayre coūtenaūce bicause of y ● great busynesse y ● he had that tyme ī the warres of y ● saxons yet notwithstādynge this arrogaunt bysshop left not his purpose but procedyd agaynst hym sent forth curses and excōmunycatyons agaynst certayne bysshops that helde with the emperoure thus in shorte conclusyon themperour had vyctory of the saxons and assembled in contynente a generall counceyll in the cytie of wormys vpon the ryne and there was concluded that thorowe all his Empyre that none so hardy shulde supporte any Cardynall nor mayteyne courte nor cōsystory that partayned to the see of Rome nor to any of his assystens and thus they shulde forsake them and obeye his commaundemente and iniunceyons in