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cause_n	church_n	pope_n	rome_n	4,587	5	6.8117	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02334	Two discourses of Master Frances Guicciardin vvhich are wanting in the thirde and fourth bookes of his Historie, in all the Italian, Latin, and French coppies heretofore imprinted; which for the worthinesse of the matter they containe, were published in those three languages at Basile 1561. And are now for the same cause doone into English.; Loci duo. Polyglot	Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.; Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540. Historia d'Italia. Supplements.; Jones, William, fl. 1594-1595.; Jones, William, Sir, 1566-1640.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.	1595 (1595)	STC 12462; ESTC S103518	37,379	145

is contained between the towns of Luna and Parma For which so great benefites the kinges of France beeing renowmed and honoured by the Popes did purchase to themselues the title of Most christian kinges And afterward in the yeer of Grace eight hundred Pope Leo together with the people of Rome the Pope I say without anye other authoritie as head of that people didde choose Charles Emperor of the Romaines distinguishing by that name that parte of the Empire from them which inhabited Constantinople as if Rome and the West prouinces for want of succour were constrayned to bee defended by a prince proper and peculiar to themselues Howbeit notwithstanding this deuision of the Empire the emperours of Constantinople were not dispossessed neyther of the Isle of Sicilie nor of that part of Italie which running from Naples to Manfredon is enclosed with the Sea the same beeing continuallie vnder theyr gouernement Notwithstanding for all these accidents the custome was not abrogated but that the election of the pope must be allowed off and confirmed by the Romaine Emperors vnder whose name the Cittye of Rome was gouerned nay further in their Buls and Charters they did expres with these formal words the time of the writing of them Imperante Carolo Imp. Domino nostro In which subiection or acknoledgement they continued vntill the successe of the affaires did giue them encouragement to gouerne by themselues For when the power of the Emperours began to waxe weake first thorowe the dissention amongst the successours of Charles the Great whilest the maiestie of the empire remained in their handes and afterwardes by the change and remouing of the Empire to the princes of Germany whoe were not of like power to the successours of Charles the Great in regarde of the mightines of the house of France both the Pope and the people of Rome and the Magistrates by whom the citty beganne to bee gouerned though very disorderlie derogating wholy asmuch as in them laye from the iurisdiction of the Emperours they did ordaine by a solemne lawe and decree that from thence forward the election of the pope shoulde not depende of the authoritie of the emperour which yet was diuerslye obserued a longe while after according as the greatnesse of the Emperours by the successe of matters did eyther rise or fall And their power being greatly increased after that the Empire came into the handes of the Othos of Saxony Gregorye the fifth by birth a Germaine beeing made pope through the fauour of Otho the thirde whoe then was in Rome partly moued with the loue of his owne Nation and partlie prouoked by the iniuryes he receaued of the people of Rome by his decree transported the right and authority of choosinge the Emperours in the same forme they doe yet obserue it at this day to the Germaines and to the ende the Bishoppes might alwaies reserue some preheminence to themselues he did forbidde in his decree that they which were to bee chosen Emperours might not vse the title of emperor or Augustus nor any other name then king of the Romains and Caesar before they had receiued the Crowne of the empire from the pope whence the custome is growne that they come to Rome to bee crowned But the house of the Othos being cleane extinguished and the power of the Emperors growne weak by reason that the inheritance thereof did not continue in the stocke of mightie and puissant kings the citty of Rome did openlie withdrawe it selfe from their obedience and many other citties did rebell in the reigne of the emperor Conrad of Sueuia whilest that the Bishops still bending all their care by litle and litle to aduance their owne greatnesse didde in a manner absolutelie commande and gouerne the Citty of Rome albeit that oftentimes by the insolency dissention of the people they had theyr handes full of businesse which that they might the better withstand thorowe the fauour of Henry the second being then at Rome they obtained by a solemn lawe and decree that the power and authority to elect and create the Pope should remaine wholie in the cardinals And to helpe this matter a new meanes to further their greatnesse offered it selfe For about that time the Northmans of whom the first leader was William surnamed Iron-arme hauing vsurped ouer the empire of Constantinople Puglia and Calabria Robert Guicciard one of the Northmans whether it were that he might get the more aduantage vnder a colour and pretence of right or to arme himselfe with greater force againste the power of the emperors or whether any other cause did leade him therevnto he yeelded Beneuent vnto the Pope as appertaining to the churche of Rome and helde of the saide church as in fee the Dutchie of Apoullia and Callabria The which example Roger one of his successors did followe whoe hauing driuen William discended of the same line from Apoullia and Callabria and afterwards occupied Cicilia about the yeare 1130. he helde likewise the saide countries as in Fee of the church of Rome vnder the title of the K. of both Sicilias the one on the one side the other on the other side the Far the popes consenting thorow their own ambition and particular profit to nourish the violence and vsurpation of others By all these means the power and aucthoritie of the pope daily encreasing as the couetousnesse of men is neuer satisfied they did begin to depriue such kinges of their kingdomes who were not obedient to their commandements and to bestowe the same vpon others vntill the time that those dominions fel into the house of Henry the sonn of Frederic Barbaroussa and from Henry to Frederic the seconde his sonne al three of them beeing Emperours successiuelie the one after the other But Frederic being become a great persecutour of the church and in his time the faction of the Guelphes and Gibellins being growne the Pope being head of the one the Emperour of the other after the death of Frederic the pope inuested Charles Earle of Aniou and Prouence of whome mention hath beene made heeretofore to those kingdomes vppon conditions to paye 6000. ounces of golde for tribute euery yeare and that no king of those Dominions might hereafter take vpon him the title of the Emperour of Rome which condition hath euer since beene specified in the Charters of the kinge of Naples which was the cause that the kingdome of the Isle of Sicilia being possessed by the king of Arragon did withdraw it self from the yearly tribute from the acknoledgement to hold in fee of the church of Rome Moreouer report hath gotten thus muche although it be not so certain as those thinges we haue discoursed of before that long agoe the Countesse Mahaulte a moste mightie princesse in Italie gaue to the church that part of Toscane which on the one side is limitted with the riuer Pescia and the castle of S. Querico in the earldom of Siena on the other side with the lower sea and the riuer Tiber