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A54743	The minority of St. Lewis With the politick conduct of affairs by his mother Queen Blanch of Spain, during her regency. Being a relation of what happen'd most memorable under his reign during the year, 1226, 1227, 1228, and 1229.	Philipps, Edward, 1630-1696?.	1685 (1685)	Wing P2065; ESTC R220520	46,829	160

Philip the August his Grandfather had alienated from them in the Reign of King John and reunited to the Crown of France But this is not all that hath been vented of unhandsome by these three above mentioned Authors who all of them liv'd in the very Time of St. Lewis 'T is strange to consider how scant they are in recounting the Virtues of this Prince as to his Quality and Estate how they bury if I may so say in mysterious silence the great Care he took to acquit himself handsomly of all things that belong'd to his Kingly Office how they smother the best part of all his most glorious Actions and speak openly of those only which were obscurely either begun or ended never considering all this while that David in the midst of all his plenty and keeping a Court not differing in outward Splendor from that of other Kings was yet a man no less at least if not more after Gods own heart than Racab observing the utmost Severities of Life which the old Law requir'd In fine as if this Prince were destin'd to be the Mark of all Injustice the Modern Historians have almost all of them in this point follow'd the Example of the Ancients whether it were that they only contented themselves to copy them out as it were for want of the Originals by which they were to have been supplyed and mended or that they chose rather to take upon Trust what they found in Print than to bestow the pains and time to search and consult Manuscripts The design therefore of this work is to rectifie and turn to advantage the Mistakes of others and to remove those Inconveniences that have ensued upon them at least as far as can be done by touching upon them briefly not having here time or place to represent all things in their full proportion and I shall think my self very happy if without being wounded I can handsomly make my way over so many Thorns since doubtless there can be nothing more conducing to the Dolphins Instruction than to be presented with a true Character of that person among all his Ancestors whose Life next to that of the Incomparable Lewis the 14th it most imports him to contemplate and if I should be so unhappy as not to succeed I shall at least gain this Advantage that the Correction of my Errors will instruct others more dextrous to arrive at a safe Haven St. Lewis came into the World the 25th of April in the Year 1215 and those who relate him born of a barren Mother and make his Birth a Miracle wrought by the Prayers of St. Dominick are certainly ignorant that he had an Elder Brother call'd Philip who dyed in his Minority The Prince his Father liv'd till near 30 Years of Age a private Life contenting himself with the Kings Grace and Favour and the hopes of succeeding him one day when the Course of Nature and the Fundamental Law of the Land should call him to the Crown He was nam'd Lewis and the astonishing fierceness of his Countenance in time of fight which increas'd or diminish'd proportionally to the danger he was in procur'd him the Sirname of Lyon however he never resembled this Animal but when he was engag'd in Military Affairs being at other times the most obliging and complaisant of all men living not to mention those his other Excellencies which will afford a noble Character to him that shall undertake to write his Life but in Relation to what hath been said of him one Instance of his Moderation cannot be omitted since thereby was divulg'd upon the noblest Stage of Europe his readiness to perform the Command of God who promiseth a Reward both in this Life and that to come to those who give due Honour and Obedience to their Parents King Philip the August after the death of Queen Isabel of Hainault his first Wife by whom he had Prince Lewis espoused Angelberge of Denmark a Princess without Compare the fairest and most virtuous Europe could boast of But the Inconstancy of Man is never so deplorable as in such like Conjunctures wherein he changes in a moment not only from excess of love to excess of hatred but which is worse from the excess of love to the utmost Indifference Philip the Morrow after his Nuptials with Angelberge entertain'd a strange aversion for her He first excluded her from his Bed next from his House He sued out a Process for the dissolution of the Marriage and found the Bishops ready enough to comply with his Resolution upon pretext of an Imaginary kindred between the two Spouses upon their Sentence immediately ensued another Marriage of the King with Agnes of Tullet other wise called Mary Princess of Bohemia by whom he had several Children Angelberge bore her Divorce with a Patience never enough to be applauded She not only not oppos'd the Kings design but forbore to return into her own Country for fear her Presence should animate her Relations to Revenge the Affront she had receiv'd All the favour she desired was that she might be permitted to reside in France where she led so holy and retir'd a Life that all her Enemies her Rival her self not excepted could not but admire her and pity her Condition However Canute King of Denmark thought himself oblig'd in honour though she oftentimes conjur'd him to the contrary to appear for his Sister Angelberge and thereupon demanded justice in her behalf of Pope Celestin the 3d. insomuch that his Holiness remonstrated the whole Affair to the King by Cardinal Meilleur who not being admitted to a favourable hearing address'd himself to the Prelates that attended the Court to little purpose God knows for all the benefit he reapt of this Negotiation was a few insignificant Expressions of their Compassion for the Queens Misfortune and all his Eloquence though he was accounted the best Oratour of his time could not obtain one step of advancement toward the reestablishment of this Princess The Cardinal upon this finding none to second him return'd to Rome from whence the Pope press'd by the continual Importunities of the Danes sent soon after into France as his Legate Peter Cardinal of St. Mary with order to assemble the Prelates of France and to put the Realm under an Interdict in case the King did not within a time prefixt receive Angelberge again The Cardinal executed this dangerous Commission with as much vigour as address and the King not doubting to come off by those subterfuges that occur in formal Tryals consented to the calling of a Councel at Dijon the Capital Town of Burgundie the matter was examined to the bottom and the justest cause became the strongest Those Prelates of the Court Party who had pronounc'd the Marriage of Angelberge Null either touch'd with remorse of Conscience or finding their Number not strong enough to maintain it revok'd their Sentence and the Council actuated by the Cardinal thundred out an Interdiction only with this Reserve that twenty dayes respite should be

less bold and difficult in appearance so also no less advantageous in case it succeeded She was not ignorant how strong and fervent a Passion she had raised in the Heart of the Earl of Champaign and had a shrewd conjecture that the despight of seeing himself treated with so much indifference was the onely cause which induc'd him to engage with the Male-contents and accept of the Supreme Command of their Army She had moreover too good an Opinion of her Charms not to believe she could at any time when she pleased re-excite the Earls Love and by never so small an expression of her Favour call him back to his Devoir It was now a fit time to make proof hereof and the Regent resolv'd to put it in agitation her own way that is to say with an Air wherein to appear Obliging she would nevertheless remit nothing of her wonted reservedness The Message she sent to this doubly Revolted Lover was onely this in short viz. That she should not be sorry to see him And this Complement though the shortest and slenderest certainly that ever was in this kind produc'd an effect the strangest that ever was heard of in the French History in matter of Love It suffic'd to tie the Earl more strongly than ever to the Chains of his Passion and her Interests and to make him forget in an instant all the Coldness she had ever shew'd toward him he lost that acuteness of Wit which was so Natural to him and conspir'd with the Regent to deceive himself He fancied that all of a sudden she began to have a tenderness though there were all appearances imaginable to the contrary and this fancy of his was so strongly rooted that he detach'd his Troops from the Rendezvous of those of the League under pretence of going to beat up one of the Quarters of the Kings Forces and carried them to joyn the Army which he feign'd he was going to set upon His Desertion put the whole party of the Rebels into such a disturbance and confusion that all the Princes and Grandees thereof were not able to compose it The most expedient way by which they thought to Remedy it was immediately to make choice of another General and they had the good hap to agree unanimously upon a Person whom they judged worthy to take upon him so important a place such an ascendent hath extraordinary Merit even upon the most Criminal minds They all fixt their Eyes upon Enguerrand the second of that Name Lord of Couci a Gentleman of Piccardy of a Reputation too well receiv'd for any one not to submit to receive Orders from him His Valour surmounted the common rate of Humane Actions and the proofs he gave of it in the Wars of the Holy Land carried a greater semblance of Fable than of Truth and might though true have better pass'd for Romance than what we read in the most Romantick stories He had both Conduct and Honesty and doubtless he had preserv'd the Empire of Constantinople in the French Line had they promoted his Marriage with that Heiress instead of Matching her imprudently as they did to Peter of Auxerre For what reason he entered into the League against the Regent is not known but certain it is he refused the Command of their Army and that not either for want of Courage or despairing of Success All Men are not easily carried away to all sorts of Crimes and Heroick Vertue may like the Sun be capable of some spots that may obscure it but never be totally darkned no more than this King of Stars can wholly lose its Light Couci moreover knew the vast difference between barely being of a Party in a Revolt and being the Head or Chief of the said Party and his Honesty became awake if I may so say when it saw it self expos'd to the most dangerous of Civil Temptations He never throughly fore-saw the Consequences of his Engagment till he was just upon the Precipice that is to say till he found that the Charge which the Confederates would have confer'd upon him was design'd to spur on his Ambition by lifting him up to a higher pitch than ever he aspir'd to Besides he comprehended the sense of those Mysterious words and the quality of Parricide which lay lurking underneath startled him he was afraid of losing in his advanced Age that Glory which he had acquir'd in his Youth and was unwilling to survive himself by suffering those Lawrels to fade in France which he had gain'd in Palestine He testified so great an aversion for the Generalship that they durst not mention it to him a second time And since the Memoirs which are extant of this great Personage make no further mention of him it is to be suppos'd he quitted the League and immediately retir'd to his Castle of Couci there to spend the remnant of his days in a more innocent and quiet course of Life His refusal augmented among the Rebels that Disorder which his acceptance would have compos'd and in fine shatter'd them all to pieces The Earl of Tholouse who had promised to take the Field kept his Forces in their Quarters in the Town which bears that name and the Earl of Provence forbore to declare himself till such time as he saw what Remedy could be apply'd to the making up of these Breaches His keeping off was no less happy than prudent for as much as the Earl of Bologne being now convinc'd that these Designs formed against his Soveraign could never succeed in the end having so untoward a beginning was the first who quitted that Work whereof he himself had laid the Foundation and made an Accommodation apart with the Regent What the Conditions were is not known but sure enough they were not very Advantageous since on the one side his Apennage was not at all augmented and on the other side the Regent had no Money to give him A little after the Earl of Dreux return'd to his Duty obtaining onely the confirmation of the partage made with his Brother the Duke of Bretaign The falling off of so many Persons of the first Rank one would think had been enough to have broken the League nevertheless there were Princes and Gentlemen enough still left to continue it and the Regent knew well enough that there would be a Party of the Rebels still on foot so long as there might with ease be sound a way to remove all pretext which should hinder them of a Retreat in Bretaign and the Low Countries in case they should chance to be beaten in a Battel It was a difficult matcer to remove all at once two such grand Refuges and the Regent after she had along time exercised the utmost of her Wit and Cunning effected as yet but half of what she pretended to The Duke of Bretaign remain'd still inflexible and Threats wrought now no more upon him than Promises had done before so that the Regent as much exasperated as wearied out with the Obstinacy of this Prince