the fift hir sonne being yet a child Shee marries againe with Robert the Frison sonne to the earle of Flanders They are chased out of Holland by Godfâ—…ey the Crookebacke duke of Lorraine called in by William bishop of Vtrecht ¶ Godfrey is the ninth Earle of Holland accounting Gertrude and Robert for two heads he vanquished the Frisons built the towne of Delf and was slaine in Antuerpe easing of himselfe ¶ Robert the Frison being earle of â—…landers restores Cont Thierry to Holland and Zeeland who vanquished the bishop of Vtrecht and tooke him prisoner Hee made war against the Frisons who would be free vnder the Empire and defeats them his death ¶ Floris the Fat the sonnâ—… of Thierry the fift the eleuenth earle of Holland c. he makes war against the Frisons subdues them and dies hauing reigned 30 yeares ¶ Thierry the sixt of that name the twelfth Earle he makes war against the Frisons with whome Floris the Blacke his brother ioins these bretheren being afterwards reconciled the earle of Cuycke kils Floris Thierry reuengeth his death and besiegeth Vtrecht The Frisons defeated by him in Holland and then he dies hauing raigned fortie yeares ¶ Floris the third the 13 earle sonne to Thierry the sixt Warre against the Frisons War betwixt the earles of Holland and Flanders for the island of Walchren The prowâ—…sse of the Hollanders at the siege of Damiette in which voiage the Earle died ¶ Thierry the seuenth the 14 earle succeeded his father he was in quarell with William of Holland his brother who ioined with the Frisons but they were afterwards reconciled Dying he left one only daughter ¶ Ada daughter to Thierry the seuenth the 15 commaunding in Holland she gouerned but one yeare and died without children During hir life she was still in war against the earle of Eastfriseland hir vncle who succeeded hir and was ¶ William the first of that name the sixteenth earle of Holland the crown of Scotland fell vnto him by his mother but he neglected it Dying he had ruled 19 years in Holland and 26 in Friseland ¶ Floris the fourth succceded William his father the seuenteenth Earle Strange war with the bishop of Vtrecht He is slaine at a tourney at Clermont ¶ William the second succeeded Floris his father being yet a child vnder the guard of his vncle the Bâ—…shop of Vtrecht He was crowned king of Romans He went against the Frisons where he was slaine ¶ Floris the fift the nineteenth Earle hee had great war against the Frisons whom he vanquished and brought backe his fathers bones hee was slâ—…ne by Gerard van Velsen knight ¶ Iohn the first of that name succeeded his father Floris the 20 Earle of Holland Being returned out of England where hee had married the kings daughter he reuenged his fathers death He died without children and in him failed the race of Earles descended from Thierry of Aquitaine THE yeare of our Redemption 863 Charles the Bald king of France being in Brabant in the Prouince of Campeigne at a towne called Bladell he called a generall assemblie of his Princes and Barons to consult of the best means to repell the Normans and Danes who made daylie incursions into Germanie Friseland Holland Zeland and into the realme of France Thither came many Princes and great Noblemen both Spirituall and Temporall from all parts whether in like sort the Pope being then at Mentz vpon the Rhin sent his Legats Among other Princes and Noblemen there present came Cont Haghen of little Troy which at this present is the towne of Zanthen vpon the Rhin betwixt the towns of Nuys and Cleefe bringing with him his sister Mathild wife of Sigebert duke of Aquitaine with hir two sonnes the eldest was called Walger whom king Charles did then make Earle of Teysterbaudt the which did at that instant and long after containe and comprehend the townes of Tyel Bommell Arkell Heusden Altem Vianen Culembourg Buren Leederdam Aspren and Henckelom with a great circuit of countrey vnto the riuer of Meuse The youngest was Thierry who as yet had no siegneorie nor commaund but was a valiant and hardie knight who with his father Sigibert had done many valiant exploits both in Prouence and Aquitaine against the Sâ—…rasins who made many incursions into those countries so as for his valour and prowessâ—… hee was much esteemed in Court and well fauoured of king Charles THIERRY of Aquitaine the first Earle of Holland King Charles surnamed the Bald first made me Earle by name Oâ—… Holland 〈◊〉 his brother Lewis of Zeeland did the same ' But troubles manifold soone 〈◊〉 my honour â—…ent Downe to the graue if the Emperour had me no succour lent Twise twentie yeares I held the Danes still in alarmes And did abate thou pride of heart by valor and by armes Of Aquitame I was surnamed borne and bred Gune my wife and in Egmont my corpt lies buried At this assemblie of Bladell the earle Haghen his vncle besought the king to remember Thierry his nephew and to aduaunce and inuest him in some part of the countrie which the Normans and Danes had lately spoiled and destroied knowing him as that was well known to all men to be valiant strong able to endure trauell wise temperat and discreet to keepe that which should be giuen him in charge besides hee was honourably descended issued from the bloud of France by the antient Troians King Charles hearing so many good testimonies of this young knight at the request of the Popes Legats and the instance of the Earle Haghen his vncle gaue vnto Thierry of Aquitaine all the countrie of Holland with a part of East-Frizeland from Dockum to the riuer of Lanuers as the Chronicles of Holland doe maintaine which the Frizelanders seemed to dislike and impugne saying that Charles who was then but king of France and not Emperor could not dispose nor giue away Frizeland the which maintained it selfe vnder the Romane Empire to defend and protect them by his valour from the inuasions and spoiles of the Danes and Normans who euen at that time held and enioied the towne of Vtrecht the Bishop and all his Prebends to auoid their furie being fled to the town of Deuenter in the countrie of Oueryssel the which was subiect both to the Temporall and Spirituall jurisdiction of the said Bishop of Vtrecht This assemblie at Bladell being ended king Charles went with this knight Thierry into Holland to put him in possission of the countrie by force of armes the vicount of Leyden and the lord of Wassenare his cousin these two houses being since vnited in that of the vicounts gathered together what forces they could to make head against king Charles and to hinder Thierry in the possession of that which was giuen him refusing absolutely to receiue Thierry for their lord and earle desiring rather to ioine with them of Friseland and to remain subiects to the empire The king and Cont Thierry marched against them and gaue
Winckell a furious battaile was fought wherein the Hollanders hauing the worst cont Arnold with a great number of the chiefe of his nobilitie were slaine in the yeare 993 the day after S. Lambert which was the eighteenth of October hauing gouerned Holland and Zeeland fiue yeares after the decease of his father he is interred in the abbie of Egmont by his father and grandfather leauing his eldest sonne Thierry the third for his successor in the said earledomes Hee had also another sonne called Ziffrid the Frisons call him Sicco who being fallen in disgrace with his father to auoid his displeasure went voluntarily into exile into the countrie of Friseland where he was courteously receiued by Gosso Ludingama then Potestat or gouernour of the Frisons with whose daughter he fell in loue and married hir without the priuitie of the earle his brother of whome hee had two sonnes the eldest he called Thierry by his grandfathers name and Simon Afterward Ziffrid being reconciled to his father was made his lieutenant in the quarter of Kennemerland and had for his part a portion of land measured with the great yard the word of Breede-roede signifieng a Great Yard so as euer since the siegneorie of the said Ziffrid hath retained the name of Brederode vnto this day His father did also giue him the castell of Theylingen the which Ziffrid did giue and bequeath vnto Simon his yoongest sonne from whome discended the familie of Theylingen at this present quite extinct by the death of two brethren which remained the which were both slaine in battaile by the Frisons with Cont William of Hainalt the fourth of that name their prince as wee shall hereafter see and how that also by the like accident of war we haue seene die without leauing any issue foure braue knights of the house of Brederode being yet in the flower of their youth not any one remaining of that house at this day but three bretheren the eldst Walrauen lord of BREDERODE baron of Vianen and of Ameyden Florent the second brother lately deceased left one sonne lord of Cloetinghen heire apparent of the whole house and Maximilian the youngest who liues in Brabant There are many of the same house bearing the same surname and armes but broken gentlemen come of bastards The Epitaph of this earle Arnold preserued with many others in the ruines of the said abbie of Egmont whereas most of the earles of Holland haue bene interred hauing bene recouered by me although it be but grossely composed as also the rest that follow yet could I not omit them for that they shewed their antiquitie the which is not wholy to be reiected Such was the Epitaph of the said earle and the ladie Lutgard his wife Gloria carnalis pernicibus euolat alis Et quasi non fuerit cum moriente perit Hic Comes Arnulphus patrioe tutela sepultus Expectat requiem Iudicijque diem Iste venustauit hac sancta locumque beauit Terris mancipijs oedibus Ecclesijs Qui bis septenas Octobre rotante Calendas Hostili gladio transijté medio Laudibus meritò similis Lutgarda marito Complexu fedei consepelitur ei Per tauri sydus ternas Maius regit Idus Dum Comitissa pijs fungitur exequijs This Countesse Lutgarda wife to Cont Arnold and daughter to Theophanes Emperour of Constantinople and of Greece died in the month of May but I find not in what yeare She lies by hir husband in the abbie that was of Egmont THIERRY THE THIRD OF THAT name sonne to Cont ARNOLD was fourth Earle of Holland Zeeland and Lord of Friseland 4 Theodoricus Tertius This THIERRY to reuenge his fathers death in hast With forces great to Freeseland marcht and laid the countrie wast Saâ—…ked the townes and slue the towns-men cruelly And made the bishop of Vtrecht his prisoner valiantly On pilgrimage he went vnto the Holy land And there the Turkes in Palestine did mightily withstand And being home return'd vnto his spouse most true At six and fortie yeares of age did yeeld to death his due THIERRY the third of that name after the death of Cont Arnold his father was in number the fourth Earle of Holland and Zeeland and lord of Friseland Being come vnto the Principalitie he demaunded homage of the Frisons the which being denied him dissembling the discontent and the desire of reuenge he had for his fathers death he then surceased to make any further question attending some fitter opportunitie He tooke to wife in his fathers life time Withild daughter to the emperour Otho the second duke of Saxe whome he had of his second wife daughter to the Marquis of Austria Of which Withild Cont Thierry had two sonnes the eldest was called as his father and the fourth of that name earle of Holland the second was Floris earle of East-Friseland who after the death of his brother without children succeeded in the said counties of Holland Zeeland and siegneorie of Friseland After the death of Anfrid the 18 bishop of Vtrecht issued from the race of Charlemagne Adelbold descended from Manson a nobleman of the countrie of Friseland was chosen Bishop for his great knowledge as well in Diuinitie as in other liberall arts hee had bene Councellor to the emperour Henry the second he was the first bishop that began to aduance himselfe and to make war against the Hollanders For when as Thierry the third earle of Holland had liued some time in rest and peace and that Walbold deane of the Cathedrall church of Vtrecht was made bishop of Liege who before had bene chiefe chancellor to Adelbold dissuading him stil from all attempts of warre this Walbold being thus retired to his bishoprike Adelbold desirous of alterations would needs without any colour make warre against the Earle and the Hollanders The causes and motiues of this war were That Adelbold had animated the Frisons and fortified them to rise rebell against Cont Thierry their naturall lord moreouer this bishop had aduaunced a gentleman called Didier Bruno to bee earle of Bodegrauen and of Suvamerdam who did greatly wrong and oppresse the Hollanders his neighbours wherupon Cont Thierry went with his troups to assaile him and hauing defeated him in battaile hee expelled him by force out of his siegneorie The bishop bearing it impatiently to see his vassall thus expelled leuied an armie with an intent to restore him by force so the 9 of Iune in the yeare 1018 the bishop hauing brought his men to field betwixt Bodegraue Suvamerdam the earle Thierry went to charge them being accompanied by his brother Ziffrid lieutenant of Kennemerland by Iohn lord of Arkel the siegneor Iohn of Persin the vicount of Leyden and many other braue knights and gentlemen But this incounter proued vnfortunat for the bishop wherin he was defeated and put to rout There died on his side among the most remarkable Wyger Aduoe that is to say Aduocat generall of the diocesse of Vtrecht
of Brandebourg their cosin who comming downe the Rhine entred into Holland and by treason some say by a popular tumult surprised the towne of Dordrecht Cont Thierry being somewhat amazed at this losse was aduised by the seignior Gerard of Putten to make an aduenture to enter the towne by night with his men the which succeeded happily Sounding his trumpets and with a fearefull crie at mid-night he began to spoile all the Germaines he could incounter so as after some resistance the Germaines were forced to leaue the towne and to flie or to saue themselues in holes vntill the furie of the fight were past in the which there died aboue 400. Germaine gentlemen The next day in the morning the Earle being wearie of the nights fight beeing disarmed and desirous to refresh himselfe walked vp and downe and passing by a narrow streete was shot in the thigh with a poysoned dart by one of the enemies which lay hidden in a garret so as euer since vnto this day that street is called Graue street that is to say the Earles streete of which wound he died two dayes after which was the 15. of May 1048 hauing gouerned his Countries nine yeares He was interred with his father in the Abbey of Egmont During the life of this Earle was built the first Fort in the Island of Schauven at Ziricxee and the Island of Walchren in Zeeland was conquered by Baldwin of l' Isle de Buc Earle of Flanders assisted by Robert his youngest sonne Then began the shippes of the East Countries to frequent the seas of the Netherlanders and not before FLORIS THE FIRST OF THAT name the sixt Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland 6 Florentius Primus My brothers heire I was and sixt Earle by degree And married with a Saxon dame of great nobilitie The Liegios I subdu'd and valiantly did take The Earle of Loven in the field and him my pris'ner make Twice did the Prince of Collen feele my force and might Betweene the riuers Wale and Mase but to my great despight As all things subiect are to change my selfe being tane When I had ruled 14. yeares in cruell wise was slaine FLORIS the first of that name was before Earle of West Friseland who after the death of Cont Thierry the fourth his brother was the sixt Earle of Holland and Zeeland He had to wife the lady Gertrude daughter to Heyman Duke of Saxonie sonne to the Emperour Henry the second of whom he had foure sonnes Thierry his successor in the said Earledoms Albert Floris and Peter which were Chanons at Liege and one daughter called Mathilde or Mahault who was married to Philip the first of that name king of France The bishops of Cologne and Liege who had not yet forgotten the death of their brother slaine at a turney by Cont Thierry the fourth the burning of their ships the ransoming of their marchants and the defeat of their men at the enterprise of Dordrecht to bee reuenged of Cont Floris brother to Thierry made a league with the Marques of Brandebourg the Cont Albert of Loos or of Louvaine Wichard Aduocat generall of Gueldres and Herman Earle of Cuicke who gathering what forces they could together resolued to set vpon Cont Floris the Hollanders The Earle hauing intelligence of their designe sent for all his knights gentlemen and vassals commanding them to bring what troups they could either of his subiects or strangers the which they did making a gâ—…odly armie to oppose against his enemies and went to lodge in the towne of Dordrecht causing during his abode there many ditches to be made in South-Holland and pit-falls couered with straw and grasse which could not be discouered He had also sent for succors out of Friseland from whence there were sent him a troupe of the most valiant souldiers that were in all the countrey The Earle attending his enemies in his towne of Dordrecht the Germans marching in the countrey thinking to besiege him there being entred into South-Holland there lost a great number of their men which were smothered and drowned in these ditches thus couered and hidden the which they could not discerne in the night neither knew they which way to march for thinking to auoid one danger they fell into another by heaps so as verie many were slaine And withall the Earle who knew all the passages of the countrey pursuing them made them to fall into these ditches which they could not auoid vnlesse they would bee subiect to the enemies sword who attended them on euerie side There was a furious battaile where the Earle was victor in the which there were fortie thousand men slain and twentie six thousand drowned and smothered in those ditches and all this great armie of Germanes was put to rout euery one sauing himselfe as he could by the medowes In which defeat was slaine the bishop of Liege the Earle of Henault the Earle of Loos and the Aduocat generall of Gueldres were prisoners euerie one paying two thousand markes of fine siluer for his ransome besides a great number of other knights and gentlemen that were prisoners Cont Floris got this victorie on S. Adolphs day in the yeare 1058. Foure yeares after in the yeare 1062 the bishop of Cologne the Marques of Brandebourg Cont Herman of Cuicke and other noble men their allies leuied a new army of the which the Marques was General These noblemen being entred into Holland their men began to spoile and burne the countrey Cont Floris who was neuer daunted for a small losse like a valiant and hardie knight went to incounter them with his armie and charged them furiously the fight was fierce euerie one shewing his valour the Germanes fought for honour and spoyle and the Hollanders for their liues and goods In the end the Hollanders hauing broken the Germans ranks disordred them they put them to flight and the Earle remained victor The Hollanders laden with spoyle and a great number of prisoners returned to their houses This battaile was on S. Martins day in Summer After this victorie Cont Floris marching with his armie making his retreat resting himselfe vnder an elme in the village of Hemert betwixt the riuers of Meuse and Wasal Cont Herman of Cuick who before had fled rallying his men together came and charged the Earle and his troups whom he surprised vnawares and in disorder being disarmed to refresh themselues so as hauing no leasure to arme themselues againe they were defeated and Cont Floris with two thousand six hundred of his men Those of Dordrecht which had the rere made hast to succour them but it was too late for the Earle yet they did quite defeat the Earle of Cuicke his troups wheras the Earle was also slaine Cont Floris had after his brothers death raigned 14 yeres in Holland in Friseland 21 yeares He was interred at Egmont The Epitaphs of these two Earles brethren Thierry the fourth and Floris the
Inheritance At the same time which was in the yeare 1077. died the said William bishop of Vtrecht hauing gouerned his bishopricke in bloudie warres in the which he was often victor for the space of two and twentie yeares carrying himselfe more like a Captaine than a Pastor to whom succeeded Conrard issued from the Dukes of Suaube who was installed in the sayd bishopricke the better to defend the Conquest of Holland and Zeeland which his predecessour William had made This Conrard tooke great delight in the Castle of Isselmond whether the Earles Thierry and Robert the Frison marched with their Armie knowing his vsuall residence to be there The bishop Conrard hearing that they came to besiege him and seeing his said Castle inuested sent to his subiects of his bishoprick of Vtrecht to come to succour him and to free him from this siege Whereupon great numbers of souldiers came to him from all parts so as there was a furious battaile fought betwixt the bishops Traiectins and the Hollanders and Flemings of Cont Thierry and Cont Robert the which was long in suspence to whether part the victorie would encline but in the end the bishops men were broken and put to flight of whom there was a great slaughter made beeing pursued vnto their shippes where many were drowned in the prease striuing to get in There died many Nobles of the bishops side among others Garlar Earle of Zutphen Lambert Prouost Cathedrall of Deuenter Volckmar Priest of S. Boniface Chisbrecht and Warembault knights And of Cont Thierries side Iohn of Arckel Euerard of Bockhorst with many other Gentlemen and braue souldiers The bishop hauing lost this battaile and seeing his men quite defeated and without any meanes to rallie them againe together sought to fortifie himselfe in the dungeon of the Castle of Isselmond rampiering vp the base Court But Cont Thierry by the aduice of his Hollanders hauing woon the said base Court forced the bishop to yeeld both himselfe and the place to his mercie and in the end for his liberty to restore vnto him all his country of Holland which done the Earle sent him home honourably to Vtrecht After this triumphant victorie and before that hee dismissed his Armie Cont Thierry hauing recouered his inheritance entred into Holland from the which he had beene long expelled and was there receiued with great ioy and pompe and acknowledged for their Prince Earle and naturall Lord But the Frisons who had so often rebelled were restic and refused the homage which they ought him seeking to remaine free Imperialists although that Egbert competitor to the Emperour Henry the fourth hauing subdued them from the Flie to the riuer of Lanuvers had made them his vassales and giuen them to the bishop of Vtrecht and the said Egbert being vanquished and slaine in a mill by the said Emperours men all the Countrey of Friseland was giuen to bishop William of Geldre and annexed vnto his bishopricke by the said Emperour Henry The Frisons therefore seeing the sayd Conrard vanquished would not acknowledge the one nor the other but onely the Emperour and the Empire relying vpon their auncient priuiledges Thierry seeing their obstinacie attended the oportunitie of a sharpe and violent Winter with some hard frostes which made the foule wayes waters marishes and quagge mires firme and hard as stone Then he marched with all his forces to assayle them the Frisons attended him vpon the yee where a furious battaile was fought But in the end the Frisons not able any longer to endure the force of the Hollanders and Flemings were put to rout and aboue fortie thousand slaine vpon the place Yet the Frisons fainted not for this defeat but hauing gathered together their dispersed troupes and beeing succoured with fresh and great supplies they present themselues to a second battaile The Earle being well accompanied after that hee had encouraged his men went to charge them The encounter was great and fierce eyther partie contending for the victorie the Hollanders fighting for honour and spoile and the Frisons for their liberties liues and goods yet they were charged so furiously by the Hollanders as not able any longer to endure the shocke they began by little and little to recoyle and giue backe and in the end fled so as the slaughter was very great for the Earle was much incensed against them commaunding all to be slaine so as there died aboue six thousand in this second battaile And marching into the Countrey he tooke men women and children prisoners that were vnder the age of twelue yeares putting all that could be taken in the furie to the sword that exceeded this age beeing resolued to ruine and vnpeople the whole Countrey Then he went to besiege the Towne of Staueren and the inhabitants were forced to compound to haue their liues and goods saued paying thirteene hundred Crownes of gold for a ransome and leading with him fortie of the inhabitants of the Towne for hostages causing all strange souldiers that were found in it to be stripped and spoyled Thus Cont Thierry recouered all the Countrey of Friseland and returned a Conquerour into his Countrey of Zeeland where soone after he maried Withild daughter to Fredericke Duke of Saxonie by whom he had one sonne called Floris who was Earle after his death and one daughter named Mathild the which was maried to the Duke of Orleans The said Cont Thierry confirmed by letters of State the donations made by the Earles his predecessours to the Abbey of Egmont Conrard bishop of Vtrecht being as we haue said freed from prison hauing yeelded vp vnto Cont Thierry his Earledome of Holland was not well satisfied that the said Thierry had conquered Friseland the which hee maintained did belong vnto him but with such informations as bishop William of Geldre his predecessor had made vnto the Emperour Henry the fourth he obtained by letters patents bearing date the Ides of Februarie in the yeare 1088. a graunt of the said Countrey of Friseland in the which are specially named the quarters of Oostergoe and Westergoe vnto the riuer of Lanuvers the which the said bishop Conrard did afterwards giue in the yere 1092. to Adolph of Fornenburch to hold them in fee of his bishopricke of Vtrecht This knight Adolph had to wife Anne daughter to the Lord of Ameland by the which he had no children In the same yere Cont Thierry being fallen sicke died the fifteenth of the Calends of Iuly after that the Lady Gertrude of Saxonie his mother from the decease of Cont Floris her husband father to Thierry had gouerned the Countries of Holland Zeeland and Friseland two yeares Robert the Frison his father in law eight yeares Godfrey the Crooked duke of Lorrain foure William bishop of Vtrecht one yeare and he himselfe fifteene making in all thirty yeres from the death of the said Cont Floris his father He was interred in the Abbey of Egmont by whom also doth lye the Countesse Withild
his wife In his time there were many braue knights in Holland besides his brethren and among others William Lord of Brederode Gerard Lord of Theilinghen Baldwin Lord of Heusden Fox Lord of Arckell Dodo Lord of Leederdam the Seigneurs of Lerke of Putten of Poleuanen of Streuen of Altena Vernard of Buchorst Iohn of Persin Aleuvin of Wassenare the Vicont of Leyden Schaâ—…aloth and Trusing his brethren Dodo of Riswicke the Seignior Ysbrant Gruytwater with many other Gentlemen of marke The Epitaph of this Cont Thierry the fifth was found in the Abbey of Egmont after this manner Viribus haud modicus situs est hic Theodoricus Qui pulsus Patria viredit in propria Nam Dux gibbosus puerâ—… fuit insidiosus Sed Ducis interitus fit Iuueni reditus Vibs Traiectensis fulmen tremit ipsius ensis Mortes multorum dum genâ—…it omne forum Capto Pontifice Comes inclitus egit anicè Non quod vi poterat sed quod honoris erat Hostibus iste grauis patriae tutissima clauis Quem decuere benè verba statura genae Iuli quindenas â—…eproducente Calendas Qua Comitem rapuit mors lachrimosa fuit FLORIS SVRNAMED THE FAT THE second of that name and eleuenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland 11 Florentius Cognom Pinguis Inbountie and in pietie 't was I that did surpasse As likewise in great store of wealth the Princes of my race My wife was daughter to the Emperour LOTHARIE And in Rhynsburg a cloyster new for Nâ—…nes did edifie Full thirty six yeares time my Earledomes I possest And forc't the Frisons vnto peace that seem'd it to detest At last as God ordained hath that man shall die To death I yeelded and my bones in Egmont Church doe lie FLORIS the second of that name and eleuenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland sonne to Cont Thierry the fifth was commonly called the Fat or the Grosse an actiue man well membred and of a tall stature a politicke Prince enclining to peace and liberall in giuing readie to pleasure euery man and to hurt no man He had to wife Petronelle or Parnel daughter to Didier Duke of Saxonie sister to the Emperour Lothaire of whom he had three sonnes Thierry the sixt his successour the twelfth Earle of Holland Floris the Blacke Prince of Kenemerlandt and Symon with one daughter named Hadewicke which was Countesse of Geldre a very beautifull Lady Hee was much giuen to fauour Church-men by reason whereof he gaue great reuenues to the Abbey of Egmont In the yeare 1119. Cont Floris had a quarrell with a knight of Friseland called Galonges of Galama by reason of hunting in the forest of Creyl whether the Earle lying at Tenâ—…kelhuysen now called Tuchuysen or at Medernblyck went vsually for his recreation On a certaine time among the rest hee tooke from Galamas seruants three of his Grey-hounds and two Hares which they had taken whereof the said Galama according to the threats of the countrey sware to take a bloudie reuenge The Earle making no account of his threats comming after his accustomed manner to hunt in this Wood Galama met him beeing accompanied with a good troupe of his friends and partisans At their first encounter hee audaciously demaunded of the Earle reparation of the wrong hee had done him in taking away his dogges and venison or els he would take it with his owne hands vsing withall many proud and hautie speeches The Earle meaning to blame him for his presumptious rashnesse Galama passing from wordes to blowes thrust at the Earle with his rapier thinking to haue passed it through his bodie but he slipping a little on the one side the Earle was hurt in the arme and was rescued by his Gentlemen of whom Galama ouerthrew two before they parted The Earle thirsted after reuenge but to auoid effusion of bloud and the ruine of their subiects this quarrell was compromitted to Godfrey Duke of Brabant who dying soone after it was left in suspence vntill the yeare 1165. that the Emperour Fredericke Barbarousse reconciled these two houses of Holland and Galama by the which accord it was said that Ioub Galama and his heires should hunt freely in the Forrest of Creyl and enioy a moytie therof for them and their heires for euer At the same time Staueren the chiefe towne of all Friseland rich and abounding in all wealth the which had beene the onely Staple for all Marchandise whether ships came from all parts whose inhabitants through ease knew not what to doe nor desire shewing themselues in all things excessiue and licentious not onely in their apparell but also in the furniture of their houses gilding the seats before their lodgings so as they were commonly called The debauched children of Staueren As it is in the common course of this world when as things are at the highest or that men are at the height of their prosperitie to decline and fall againe euen so it happened to this towne of Staueren by a wonderfull or rather miraculous accident proceeding from the prouidence of God enemie to all pride and contempt which was in this manner There was in the said towne a widow who knew no end of her wealth the which made her proud and insolent Shee did fraight out a shippe for Danswicke giuing the Master charge to returne her in exchange of her marchandise the rarest stuffe hee could find The Master of the shippe finding no better commoditie than good Wheat fraighted his shippe therewith with the which he returned to Staueren the which did so discontent this foolish and glorious widow as shee said vnto the Master That if he had laden the said Corne on the starre-boord side he should cast it into the Sea on the larâ—…boord the which was done and all the Wheat powred into the Sea But note the wonders of Gods iust iudgement the whole towne yea all the Prouince did smart for one womans errour for presently in the same place where as the mariners had cast the Corne into the Sea there grew a great barre of sand wherewith the Hauen was so stopped as no great shippe could enter and at this day the smallest vessels that will anker there must bee very carefull least they strike against this flat or sand the which since hath beene called Vrawe-landt that is to say the Womans Sand Whereby the Towne loosing their Staple and traffique of marchandise by little and little came to decline and by the intestine warres which haue since happened in Friseland the inhabitants by reason of their wealth and pride being growne intollerable to the Nobilitie who in sumptuousnesse could not endure to be braued by them the said town is now become one of the poorest of the Prouince although it be at this day one that hath the greatest priuiledges among all the Hans townes Cont Floris hauing liued long in peace as he was a man of a quiet spirit the Frisons began to rebell againe and
shew themselues but kept in holes or led a rusticke countrey life neither after that day durst any man carry the armes of any of those three houses The Emperour Rodulphus the first of that name had in the yeare 1290 giuen East-Friseland vnto the riuer of Lanuvers vnto the earle of Gueldres to hold it in fee of the Empire but by reason of the ferocitie of the Frisons and their heat and resolution to maintain their auncient liberties graunted them by the Emperor Charlemaigne and other precedent Emperors knowing also that the Earle of Holland pretended an interest thereunto hee durst not aduenture to take possession thereof by force Besides Cont Floris hauing as we haue said before subdued West-Friseland and taken the town of Staueren did much annoy the East-Frisons and withall the bishops of Vtrecht would neuer quit their part who to free themselues from so many lords sent their embassadors to the king of Denmarke desiring him that hee would take them and their countrey into his protection The king being loth to let slip this goodly occasion receiued them and sent one of his noblemen to gouerne the countrey in his name and to be his lieutenant and to the end he should be the more respected and haue the greater authority he gaue him his sister in mariage A while after he came himselfe into Friseland making many lawes and ordinances and imposing a certaine tribute which was reasonably tollerable This done he returned into Denmarke but before six moneths were expired this lieutenant began to oppresse them and to vse them tyrannously contrary to their accord the which did so incense the Frisons against him as they slue him sending his wifebacke being with child to the king her brother in the yeare 1295 who was soone after brought in bed of a sonne who reuenged his fathers death as we shall see hereafter IOHN THE FIRST OF THAT name the twentieth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland 20 Joannes Hollandiae This IOHN the King of Englands daughter had to wife In whose short time the towne of Delft hap'ning to fall in strife VVith him attempted for to kill two of his counsellors Accompanied with WOLPHAR he did enter into warres Against the Frisons and subdu'd them in short space But death when he had rul'd foure yeares his conquest did deface And without heires it was his chance to die VVhose bones intomb'd with his valiant ancestors do lie COnt Floris the fifth being thus murthered as we haue said by Gerard van Velsen Iohn of Holland his only sonne succeeded him and was the twentieth Earle He being absent in England with the king his father in law Didier earle of Cleues tooke vpon him the gouernment of the quarter of North-Holland On the other side Guy brother to the earle of Henault Treasurer Cathedrall of the bishopricke of Liege came and tooke vpon him the gouernment of South-Holland made his residence at Gheertruyden-bergh By the diuisions and factions of these two noblemen there happened great troubles in Holland the subiects being diuided during the absence of their prince Cont Iohn of Henault and Guy his brother were sonnes to the deceased cont Iohn d' Auesnes and the lady Alix sister to William king of Romanes and Earle of Holland who was father vnto the last Cont Floris and so were cousin germanes to Cont Iohn of Holland his neerest kinsmen and more apparent heires than the earle of Cleues and therfore Guy maintained that the gouernment was due to him rather than to the earle of Cleues but Cont Iohns return from England ended all these quarrels William Bertold subrogated in the place of Iohn Zirich chosen bishop of Toul in Lorraine to the bishopricke of Vtrecht hauing an actiue and stirring spirit reuiued the ancient quarrels of them of Vtrecht against the Hollanders went to besiege the castle of Muyden the which he maintained to be part of his reuenues the which in the end he forced and constrained Didier of Harlem to yeeld it vp to haue their liues saued he remaining his prisoner The bishop puffed vp with this happie successe went into West-Friseland after that hee had caused his pardons to be preached for all such as would carry armes against the Hollanders The Frisons according to their auncient manner of doing being still readie to reiect the yoke of the Earles of Holland by the persuasion and encouragement of this bishop besieged the castle of Widenesse which they battered and gaue many assaults so as in the end Baldwin of Naeldwyke for want of victuals and munition of warre was forced to yeeld it vp by composition to depart with bag and baggage and to returne freely into Holland which done they rased it the like they did also to the castle of Euigenburch then passing on they besieged the castle of Medemblycke hauing burnt the base towne Floris of Egmont and other gentlemen that were within it defended themselues valiantly making many braue sallies and skirmishes vpon their enemies they were so long besieged in this manner as for want of victuals they were forced to eat their horses Cont Iohn of Henault hauing newes thereof and that the Frisons with the said bishop of Vtrecht did what they pleased without any or very small resistance tooke vpon him during the absence of his cousin the gouernment of Holland and with an Armie of Hannuyers Hollanders and Zeelanders went into Friseland where he defeated the Frisons raised the siege from before Medemblycke and relieued it with all things necessarie The Seignior Iohn of Arckel and Nicholas of Putten knights of Holland tooke the towne of Enchuysen whence they caried away a great spoile and in their retreat burnt it During the diuisions and partialities betwixt the earle of Cleues and Guy of Henault the which increased more and more in Holland the lords Didier of Brederode Floris Regal Abbot of Egmond Henry Vicont of Leyden and William of Egmond accompanied with some gentlemen of marke imbarked to goe and fetch their prince Cont Iohn out of England and for a strange and new thing they led with them Claes van Keyten where they were graciously receiued by king Edward who hauing rigged forth a goodly Fleet of shippes sent away the Earle his son in law with his daughter Elizabeth recommending vnto the lord of Brederode the gouernment of the said Earle his prince being then very young Being at sea the wind turned contrary so as they were forced to land in Zeeland whereas Wolfart of Borssele lord of la Vere reiecting and contemning the Noblemen of Holland did cunningly seize vpon the guard and gouernment of the young Earle chasing from him all the Nobilitie of Holland to whom the king of England had so much recommended him The Earle being one day at Romerswael by the persuasion of the said lord of Vere sent the lord of Brederode who was a plaine dealing man and nothing malicious to Ziricxee to treat of some affaires and in the meane time the said lord
shooes with his foot He tertified little children to behold him and yet there was not any roughnes nor malice in him but was gentle and mild as a lambe for if he had beene fierce and cruell answerable to his greatnesse and proportion he might haue chased a whole armie before him In those daies there sprung vp in the country of Friseland the factions of Schyerlingers and Vetcoopers the which froÌ„ a small beginning vnworthy to be written the which notwithstanding we haue related in our description of the vnited prouinces of the low countries was the cause of great effusion of bloud destruction of the country ruine of good families murthers among all sorts in generall As in like sort the partialities of Hooks and Cabillaux in Holland and those of Guelphes and Gibilins in Italie the diuersitie of coloured hoods in Flanders and other like factions in France were the causes of great miseries in those times also according vnto some opinions it seemes that all these factions began almost at one instant that of the Schyerlingers and Vetcoopers hauing continued in Friseland vntill that the Emperour Maximilian the first sent Albert duke of Saxonie thither to suppresse them for that the Commissioners which he had formerly sent to pacifie and reconcile them had preuailed nothing making him his lieutenant and gouernour hereditarie yet with small profit for he was slaine there and his two sonnes the dukes Henry and George as we shall shew hereafter did not auaile much so as they left all so great louers haue the Frisons alwayes beene of their franchises and liberties But vnder the gouernment of the said princes of Saxonie these factions ceased to oppose themselues with their ioint forces against the rule of strangers as they had done often before when any stranger came to assaile them and hauing chased them away they returned to their first spleene and hatred but the Saxons brought them to so great pouerty and their quarrell continued so long as they forgat their factions IOHN EARLE OF HENAVLT THE second of that name one and twentieth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of West-Friseland 21 Joannes Hannonâ—… Fiue yeares I liued Earle of Holland by descent Of blood and for my comfort God three noble sonnes me sent Whose valours did enfranchise me from all my feare Whil'st Brabant and the Emperor 'gainst me great malice bare By them I ouercame GVIDO DOMPIERRE in fight And freed the towne of Zirickxee from all their enemies might The Flemings I subdu'd that were my enemies And in Valencia deepe intomb'd my bones and ashes lyes THE SECOND BOOKE ¶ The Argument IOhn Earle of Henault sonne to Iohn of Auesnes and the Ladie Alix sister to king William Earle of Holland was the second of that name and one and twentieth Earle of Holland Warre betwixt them of Vtrecht and their Bishop Iohn de Renesse prouokes the Earle of Flanders against the Earle of Holland which was the cause of great warres ¶ William called the Good the third of that name the two and twentieth Earle of Holland Guy of Holland his brother bishop of Vtrecht had great warres against the Frisons Cont William subdued the East-Frisons Iustice done vpon a baylife of South-Holland for a cow whom the Earle caused to be executed lying on his death bed ¶ William the fourth sonne to the good Earle William the three and twentieth Earle of Holland He makes warre against the Russians them of Vtrecht and the Frisons by whom he was slain in battaile leauing no children ¶ Marguerite wife to the Emperour Lewis of Bauiere daughter to the good Earle William the foure and twentieth Commander in Holland and Zeeland where she appointed duke William of Bauiere her eldest sonne Gouernor in her absence He had warre against them of Vtrecht The faction of the Cabillaux rise in Vtrecht which bandie duke William against his mother after the death of the Emperor Lewis whereof followed two cruell battailes in the first the Empresse was victor in the second duke William after much bloud spilt they agreed ¶ William remaining the fiue and twentieth Earle of Holland Vtrecht had warre against their bishop and the bishop against the Earle of Holland who was distract of his wits and the gouernment put into the hands of duke Albert of Bauiere his brother notwithstanding the factions which grew betwixt the Hoocks and the Cabillaux William called the Franticke being dead ¶ Albert of Bauiere was the six and twentith Earle of Holland Delft rebelled against the Earle he besieged it and forceth them to obedience The bishop of Vtrecht in warre against the Earle of Holland Anne of Poelgeest minion to Cont Albert murthered in the night which bred a great quarell betwixt the Earle of Ostrenant and Cont Albert his father An affront done to the Earle of Ostreuant at the French kings table which caused warre against the Frisons who were often subdued and rebelled as often Warre betwixt the Earle of Holland and the Lord of Arckel The historie of a sea-woman taken in Holland ¶ William the sixt of that name the seuen and twentieth Earle of Holland succeeded his father Albert he had great warres against the bishop of Vtrecht and the Lord of Arckel The Liegeois make warre against their bishop brother to the Earle of Holland the Earle goes to succor him and defeats the Liegeois Warre betwixt the Earle of Holland and the duke of Gueldres Cont William leauing one only heire ¶ Iacoba or Iaquelina the eight and twentieth commanding in Holland c. she maried first with the Daulphin of France sonne to Charles the sixt who died at one and twentie yeares of age without children then she maried with Iohn duke of Brabant Iohn of Bauiere bishop of Vtrecht troubles her estate to make himselfe Earle The Lady Iaqueline seperated from the duke her husband by reason of neerenesse of bloud she espouseth the duke of Glocester who after leaues her She had great warres and troubles against the duke of Brabant against her vncle and against the duke of Bourgoigne shee marries Franc of Borsele secretly the duke Philip of Bourgoigne puts him in prison and for his libertie she resignes all her Countries vnto the duke IOHN Earle of Holland sonne to Cont Floris the fifth being dead without heires the Earledomes of Holland and Zeeland with the Seigniorie of Friseland came by succession to Iohn Earle of Henault sonne to Cont Iohn of Auesnes and the Lady Alix sister to William king of Romans and Earle of Holland and so sonne to Cont Iohns great aunt Iohn of Henault was the one and twentieth Earle of Holland for which he quartered his Armes the Lyon sables of Henault and the Lyon gules of Holland in fields or This Earle had foure brethren Botzard bishop of Metz Iohn bishop of Cambray Guy chanon of Cambray and Floris who was prince of Morienne At his comming to this succession of Holland and Zeeland he gaue vnto his brother Guy the Seigniories of Amsterdam
and Woerden to hold them in fee of the countie of Holland with all their rights and dependances the homage and right of heronie only excepted the which he reserued for himselfe which seigniories he should inioy but during his life or vntill he were aduanced to a bishoprick or to some ecclesiasticall dignitie equiualent to a bishoprick that then they should returne to the reuenues of the Earle of Holland wherof Guy past a couenant in writing to the Earle his brother This Guy gaue vnto Amsterdam many freedoms rights liberties statutes ordinances for the gouernment of the town and administration of iustice Afterwards he was bishop of Vtrecht and after his death these two seigniories returned to the Earle of Holland as we shall shew hereafter This Earle Iohn of Henault had to wife Philip daughter to the earle of Luxenbourg by whom he had his eldest son called Iohn without mercy earle of Ostreuant who was slaine at the battaile of Groeninghen neere vnto Courtray William who was Earle after him called the Good Iohn of Beaumont earle of Blois Henry chanon of Cambray Marguerite contesse of Arthois Adella contesse of Clermont Marie contesse of Bourbonois and Mathilda lady of Neele In the yeare 1301 Cont Iohn of Henault leuied great forces with the which hee came into Zeeland with an intent to reduce the seignior Iohn de Renesse vnto reason by armes who being banished his countrey went to the emperour Albert for succour shewing that the earledomes of Holland and Zeeland by the decease of the last Earle Iohn of Holland without heiâ—…s should returne vnto the empire whereupon the said emperor did write to all the countries of Holland Zeeland and West-Friseland what right he pretended vnto them and that his intention was to annexe them vnto the empire as Charles the Bald emperour of Romanes had giuen them in fee and homage vnto Thierry of Acquitaine the first Earle of Holland So the emperour came downe the same yeare as far as Nymegen to receiue possession thereof being accompanied by the archbishops and princes electors of Mentz Treues and Cologne and with many other princes and barons of Germany Cont Iohn of Henault prepared a goodly armie for to incounter him and to stop his passage and entrie into his countries planting his campe at Bonswaerd vpon the mouth of the riuer of Wahal searching a foord to passe vnto the other side to charge the emperours armie who hauing caused the Earles forces to be viewed and hearing that he was resolued to charge him hee then thought that Iohn de Renesse had abused him he therefore retired his armie vnto Cranenbourg with an intent to depart the next day and to returne into Austria But the bishop of Cologne iealous of the emperors honour laboured to treat a peace with Cont Iohn the which was concluded vpon condition That the Earle shall take an othe and do homage vnto the emperour and should hold his earldomes of Holland Zeeland and West-Friseland of the empire he and his successors for euer This done they returned good friends euery one to his home Some Zeelanders being come downe with Iohn de Renesse to the emperours seruice came too late and leauing their ships at Heusden went into Brabant Cont Iohn followed them at the heeles and burnt all their ships which done he banished the seignior of Renesse and confisked all his goods the which hee gaue vnto some gentlemen that had serued him faithfully in that voyage yet would not the said Renesse with his small troupe forbeare to make war against the Hollanders entring vpon the lands of Berghen vpon Soom whereas the lord of Berghen went to fight with him and defeated 500 of his men at one incounter who being escaped with the rest fled into the castle of Puydroyen Cont Iohn was then in the towne of Dordrecht sending his eldest sonne Iohn without mercy earle of Ostreuant to besiege him in this castle Renesse hauing intelligence of his comming and being well acquainted with his crueltie fearing least he should be intreated like vnto them of the castle of Berendorp where he put al that he found within it to the sword without any respect or mercie for the which he was since called Iohn without mercy hee resolued with his men to retire himselfe into Flanders and to abandon the place Being come into Flanders he made a league with the Flemings against the Hollanders Zeelanders and with a smal armie of their souldiers entred into the island of Zuytbeuelandt presuming to surprise the towne and castle Ter-Goes Those of Romerswael tooke armes against him and hauing charged them with all their forces slew about 800 of those Flemings vpon the place and the rest were put to flight among the which the seignior of Renesse escaped with great difficultie The same yeare William Bertold bishop of Vtrecht a busie man seeking to bring in many innouations vpon his subiects was taken prisoner by M. Asuerus of Montfort Hubert of Vianen Iohn of Linschoten and Iohn of Lichtenbourg Bourgmasters of the towne and was detained about a yeare in the house of the said Lichtenbourg within Vtrecht in the end by the helpe of some of his partisans he escaped out of prison yet could he neuer reenter into the towne but remained banished retiring himselfe vnto his friends in Oueryssel where hee was honourably receiued as their ghostly father and temporall prince A while after he went to Rome to resigne his bishopricke into the Popes hands that he might spend the remainder of his dayes in peace and rest But the Pope refusing to accept thereof commanded the bishop of Munster to assist his brother and companion to restore him to his bishoprâ—… and town of Vtrecht by force and to subdue his rebellious subiects Hereupon at his returne from Rome he leuied men in the countrey of Oueryssel being the vpper part of the dioces of Vtrecht to seeke to recouer his towne Some noblemen and gentlemen of Holland among other Henry Vicont of Leyden Didier of Wassenare Philip of Montfort Symon of Benthem Floris of Dunen and Ieams vanden Vouden all knights enemies to the bishop and friends to Ieams of Lichtenbourg with a good number of souldiers being called by the citizens of Vtrecht and with the consent of the Earle of Holland their prince went to succor the said Lichtenbourg to chase away the bishop Being come into a goodly champion countrey neere vnto Hooch-woord the bishop was twice as strong in men as they and went to charge them first he defeated some countreymen that were out of their campe and fought valiantly against the Hollanders During the fight Asuerus of Montfort arriued with some troupes to succour these noblemen of Holland and then the skirmish was more violent then before The bishop being well mounted passed and repassed through the Hollanders army three times without any harme for that no man durst touch him knowing him to be their spirituall father but thinking to charge through againe
good order that was in it hee should profit little retired from thence and went to besiege the castell of Wlenhorst the which hee forced then hee marched before Hollenstein the which yeelded by composition to haue their goods and liues saued from thence he drew towards Heermalen the which he burnt In the end after all these petty warres a peace was concluded betwixt the Hollanders and Traiectins by the which they of Vtrecht should pay vnto the Earle 4000. crownes for his charges in the warre And as for the siegneurie of Vreeswike it was said That if the bishop and seauen of the chiefe of the towne of Vtrecht did affirme by oth that it did rightly belong vnto the church of Saint Martins in Vtrecht that then the Earle nor any of his successors should for euer pretend any interest therevnto As the bishop and the seauen personages did lift vp their hands to take the said othe Cont Albert not suffring them to sweare but contenting himselfe with their bare affirmation deliuered them vp the siegneurie of Vreeswik and made them letters vnder his seale and so all quarrels were ended In the yeare 1377. Duke William of Bauaria the madde Earle of Holland dyed at Que sn◅y in Henault his body was carried and interred at Valenciennes he left not any children His funerals being finished the lords barons knights and all the nobilitie with the townes of Holland Zeeland Henault and Friseland receiued Duke Albert of Bauaria absolutely who before had been but Tutor vnto the said William his brother and did acknowledge him for their Lord and Soueraigne Prince and so was the 26. Earle of Holland c. In the yeare 1386. about Shrouetide dyed the lady Marguerite of Briga wife to Cont Albert of Bauaria and was buried in the chappell of the court at the Hage at the great altar towards the North. After her death the Earle continued fiue yeares vnmarried entertaining a Gentlewoman called Anne of Poelgheest for his mignion of whom shall bee hereafter spoken who being dead the Earle married with Marguerite the daughter of Adolph Earle of Cleues by whom he had no children In the yeare 1389. died Arnold of Horne bishop of Liege his body was transported to Horne and buried with his fathers After whose death the Chapter did choose Thierry of the Marke who refused it and therefore Iohn of Bauaria sonne to Cont Albert of Holland being but sixteene yeares old and at that time Chanoine of Cambray was chosen in his place and in the yeare 1390. he was conducted to Liege by his father and William Earle of Osteruant his elder brother with many Princes and Noblemen accompanied with about 1200. horse where he was honourably receiued by the Deane and Chapter In the yeare 1392. on Saint Maurice eue Anne of Poelgeest daughter to the siegnior Iohn of Poelgeest a squire mignion to Cont Albert was slaine at the Hage William Kuyser Steward to the Earle seeking to defend and preserue her was also slaine with her by the same murtherers who fled presently after out of the countrie Of which murther there did rise great scandall and trouble in Holland for the siegneor Conrard Kuyser father to the said William made great instance and pursuite vnto the Earle demanding iustice of thē that had murthered his sonne or caused him to be murthered or slaine trecherously in the night with an intended purpose without striking stroake in the open Court and doing his Prince seruice Of which murther he did blame as the chiefe the lord Philip Vicont of Leyden Didier lord of Aspren his sonne Two yong ge◅lemē brethren of Leck Henry Vicont of Montfort Iohn sieignior of Heemsted Iohn of Vlyet Philip of Pola◅en the siegneor of Duyuenwoord the siegnior of Warmount and many other Noblemen and Gentlemen to the number of 54. The Earle sitting in iustice with them of his priuie councell granted a personall adiournment against all the said lord◅ and for not appearing they should bee banished out of the county of Holland And for their contumacie not daring appeare they were condemned to haue forfeited body and good and for this occasion they retired to Cont William of Osteruant eldest sonne to Cont Albert who loued them and held them in great esteeme which made him to seeke all the meanes to purge them of these murthers and to reconcile them to hi◅ father who would by no meanes giue eare vnto it The son◅e discontented at this repulse hearing also that his father would seaze vpon him departed from the Hage being accompanied by all the said noblemen and came to the castell of Altena in South-Holland which castell Cont Albert had before of the lord of Horne and had giuen it vnto the Earle of Osteruant his sonne The other noblemen which remained at the Hage with the Earle insteed of moderating things and pacifying his wrath did incense him more and more by bad reports and false sug◅estions animating the father all they could against the sonne among the which one of the principall was Iohn of Arckell lieutena◅t and treasurer generall of Holland The Earle being resolute to chase his sonne with these other noblemen that were already banished out of his countries ◅ied a great number of men in Holland Zeeland and Friseland of all qualities and of his ordinary ga◅sons with the which he sent the siegnior Conrad Kuyser to ruine all the caste's and country-houses of the banished noblemen Conrad thrust on with a re◅enging spirit did willingly vndertake this charge and first of all hee destroyed Heemstede Warmont and Paddenpoel by Leyden all belonging to the sayd vicont of ◅e den who afterward was called Nonnenpoel The Earle marched with the rest of his forces vp the riuer of Merwede and arriued on Saint Peters day the same yeare 1◅93 at Gortichom where he was honourably receiued by the lord ◅co of Arckel the next day he passed by Wandichom and so went to Altena the which he did inuest round about and besieged it very straightly The Earle of Osteruant his sonne vnderstanding of his comming was retired but before his departure hee had well furnished the place of all things necessary for a siege as well for defence as to offend with the which he hoped the said lords with their people might well defend the place The Earle did all he could to batter it breake downe and ouer-throw the towers and walls doing great harme and annoying the besieged very much During this siege Iohn of Bauaria chosen bishop of Liege sonne to the Earle with those of his councell and some noblemen and councellors of the country of Henault came to the campe before Altena where the said bishop did mediate an accord betwixt his father and his brother comprehending the noblemen that were besieged by the which it was said that the said besieged should yeeld vp the place and haue their liues and goods saued with liberty to go freely to the towne
speech and yet subiect to choller high minded and not willing to be braued of any how great soeuer as hee did often shew to King Charles the 7. and Lewis the 11. of France he was very curious to entertaine peace with his subiects whom hee loued and sought their quiet so in his time all his countries flourished in wealth and aboundance Hee was a wiseman discreet charitable and a great Almes-giuer by reason whereof hee was called the good but full of reuenge and very ambitious desiring to make himself great by what means so-euer as appeared by so many fals bounds which he played to the contesse of Holland his cosin He exceeded all his Predecessors Dukes of Bourgongne in riches Seigneories greatnes of state and pompe so as in his time there was no Christian Prince that for his qualitie might be compared vnto him He tooke pleasure to breed vp and nourish sundry strange and wilde beasts He had a Gyant and many Turks among his houshold seruants which he had caused to be baptized The Duke being dead the Earle of Charolois his onely sonne and sole heire called for the Seales the which he presently brake This done after that he had giuen order for the dead body vntill his returne he tooke poste and went to Lille where he sealed vp the chamber and the cofers of his fathers treasure appointing gardes that none might touch them then he returned presently to Bruges where hee perfourmed the funeralles of his father with great pompe and state his heart was buried in the Church of Arras and his body was layed in a coffin of leade and left in the Church vntill that it should be transported from thence to Ierusalem and interred neere to the holy Sepulchre hauing giuen great giftes to the Couent of Fryars of the said Sepulcher The Lady Isabel his wife dyed the 17. of December in the yeare 1471. in the towne of Aire and was interred in the cloyster of Nunnes at Gouvay by Bethune afterwards her bodie and the duke her husbands were carried to the Chartreux by Digeon in Bourgongne where as they lie vnder a stately tombe of brasse guilt richly curiously wrought About that time the art of Printing was inuented wherof those of Harlem in Holland challenge the first honor yet afterwards it was brought to perfection at Mentz by one that had been seruant to Laurence Ianson of Harlem the first inuentor and ranne from him to Mentz with his tooles they write his name was Iohn Faustus as they of Harlem do constantly affirme Carolus Dux Burgund CHARLES THE WARLIKE THE 1. OF that Name the 31. Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Frizeland Duke of Bourgongne Brabant Lembourg Luxemburg Earle of Flanders Arthois Henault and Namur Lord of Salins and Macklyn Of so many goodly Countries successor to my father Of three wiues I had but one only heire At Montlehery I defeyted the French brauely At Macklyn I erected my heigh Parliament Being incensed I made the Liegeois feele my splene If against the Cantons I had not taken Armes I had beene more happie and cruell death Had not shewed his force against me at Nancy The Argument of the fourth Booke CHARLES Duke of Bourgongne in the life of his father the good Duke Philip was called Earle of Charolois the 31. Earle of Holland c. At his first entrie into Gant the Inhabitants maintayned against him but he brought them vnder The Liegeois breake the peace and entred into warre against the Duke he defeats them in Battaile wherevpon the Towne of Liege yeelded The Duke of Bourgongne makes a peace with the French king who comes to the Duke to Peronne hee was in feare there least the Duke should haue detained him The Liegeois arme a newe against the Duke of Bourgongne he forceth King Lewis to go with him to the fiege of their Towne the which he ruines practises to ruine the house of Brederode The Duke makes war against the Frisons He entertaines many Princes with the hope of marrying with his daughter The french king the Duke of Bourgongne seek to deceiue one another The Constable of S. Poll growes odious to thē both they resolut to ruine him He seeks to reconcile the duke of Gelders his son besiegeth Neuse The motiue of the war against the Swisses A truce for nine years betwixt the Duke and the French king they sweare the Constables death who in the end is beheaded at Paris The duke makes war against the Swisses he is defeated by them first at Granson then at Morat wherewith the Swisses were inriched the Duke besiegeth Nancy where he was slaine in battaile by the treason of the Earle of Campobachio an Italian Marie of Bourgongne his only daughter succeeds him and was the 32. commanding in Holland c The French Long seazeth vpon the townes of Piccardie and Arthois with an intent to ruine her this Princesse being in the Ganthois power suffers much putting her cheefest seruants and Councellors to death the Flemings defeated and the yong Duke of Gellers slaine A marriage betwixt Maximilian of Austria the Emperor Fredericks sonne and the Lady Marie of Bourgongne CHARLES of Bourgongne called the Warlike for that hee had been so great a Warrior succeeded vnto Duke Philip of Bourgongne his father in all his Estates Siegneories was Duke of Bourgongne Brabant Lembourg and Luxembourg Earle of Flanders Arthois Henault Bourgongne Holland Zeeland and Namur Marquis of the holy Empire and Lord of Friseland Salins and Macklyn His father hauing left him great treasures of Gold and Siluer hee bought or as some write had in morgage of Sigismond Arch-duke of Austria the Earledome of Ferret in the Countrie of Elsatia neere vnto Basill in Swisserland vpon the Rhin somewhat neere to the Dutchie of Bourgongne and too farre from Sigismond to defend it from the incursions of neighbour Princes Hee was 33. yeare olde when hee succeeded all these goodly Estates Katherine the daughter of King Charles the 7. of France was first promised him to wife but she dyed yong before she was married Afterwards hee married Elizabeth daughter to the Duke of Burbon his cousin by whome hee had one daughter and onely heire called Marie This Dutches Elizabeth being dead he marryed Marguerite daughter to Richard Duke of Yorke and sister to Edward the fourth King of England by whom hee had not any children His father gaue him in his youth to maintaine his estate the Earldome of Charolois which is in the Contie of Bourgongne otherwise called Franch Contie with the Siegniors of Bethune Arckel and Bellain In his fathers life time he wanne from the Sea a great circuit of countrie opposite to Rotterdam causing a Village to be built there the which hee called with the whole countrie by his name Charolois and so it continues vnto this day Hee had begunne a great fort in the towne of Gorrichom vppon the Riuer of Wahal but it remained during his life
little regard the good of their Countrie nor the preseruation of their Priuiledges Freedoms but rather through ambition their owne priuate profits to the suppression of their rights and ancient Statutes Which words drew them on to proude bitter termes The common people of the partie of Iongama and Walta being stronger then the rest would haue taken Armes against the Nobles of the other partie wherevppon some great inconuenience would haue growne if the Commissioner had not cunningly pacified themâ—… intreating them to retyre for that time euery man to his lodging to consider better thereof at leisure sommoning them to come thither the next day at two of the clocke in the afternoone and whosoeuer did faile to forfeit a quart of wine the which pleased all the company and so by that meanes they departed The which the Commissioner did very discretly to draw himselfe and the Nobles that were come with him out of danger into the which they were fallen by this confused multitude of base people That night he went with Peter Camstra and the Hottingas to lodge in the castle of Iongama and the next day early in the morning they returned to Snecke being assured that he should doe no good at Bolswaert and that it was dangerous to stay there it might bee with effusion of blood the which he sought to auoyd for he see in the rest nothing but hatred and spleen The next day Iuw Iongama Tyarck-walta the Galamas and their Partisans came at the appointed hower to the Fryers where finding neither the Commissioner nor the other Nobles they were almost mad with spight not knowing how to take it exclaming against the Hottingas and their Allyes And so this Convocation proued â—…lesse The reason why Iongama the Galamas and their Partisans had shewed themselues so obstinate was for that they relyed much vppon the Groningeois who through their too great pride and presumption made no accompt neither of the Commissioner nor of any commandement from the Imperiall chamber no not of the Emperour himselfe Otto of Langen the Emperors Commissioner seeing that by their factions and bitter partialities and by the instigation of the Groningeois hee should profit nothing departed from Sneck and went to Deuenter whither hee sent againe for the parties and them of Groninghen to come vnto him the 4. of February but beeing there they were so incensed one against another with such bitternesse as they departed without doing any thing and the said Commissioner tooke his way towardes the Emperour Afterwards that which he had fore-told them came to passe That if they would not consent to the election of a Potestate within a short time other strangers would come and force them vnto obedience The which happened for they themselues digged a piâ—… into the which they fell There were yet other Commissioners sent by the Emperour to them of Groningen with Letters of Inhibition not to attempt any more but to restore Friseland to her first rights and Priuiledges but nothing auayled for the partialities and Factions as well of them that were allyed to the Groningeois as of the Schyeringers and Vetcoopers continued as violently as before so as there followed at diâ—…ers times yea in one Family of the Iongamas diuers factions and great effusion of blood Those of Harinxima and Galama did no lesse one vnto another The Townes Abbaies and Monasteries did the like calling in forces and in so great numbers to their succours as they could not be freed of them vntill they had payed them the last farthing to the great oppression of the people The which was no sooner dismist and gone out of the Countrey but Duke Albert of Saxony entertained them and came into Friseland to make them to lay aside their factions being forced therevnto by pouertie And these were the fruits of their wilfull obstinacie PHILIP OF AVSTRIA THE 2. OF that name the 34. Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland Duke of Bourgongne c Earle of Flanders c. Marquis of the holy Empire Philippus 2. Austrius My fatâ—…er with my goods gaue me a wife A peâ—…rlesse Princesse of the Arragoâ—… blood From her sixe children Kings and Queenes tooke life By 〈◊〉 twâ—…e years Helland from danger stood And by my wife I did inherite Spaine But my death prou'd my wiues who with griefe werryed Waâ—…ng â—…y corpes in tears that stream'd amaine My â—…s at Burgos in a Tombe interred PHILIP the second of that name Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland the onely sonne of the Archduke Maximilian of Austria afterwards Emperour and of Mary Dutchesse of Bourgongne daughter to Duke Charles the warlike was borne in Bruges the 20. day of Iune in the yeare 1470. hee was foure yeere old when his mother dyed Sence whose death the Archduke king of Romaines his father in qualitie of Regent Tutor or Curator gouerned his wiues Inheritance with great troubles and vexation by reason of the great factions and partialities which raigned then both in Holland and Flanders vnto the yeare 1494. that the King of Romanes by the death of the Emperour Frederick his father was crowned Emperor Prince Philip his sonne being then 16. yeares old was intituled Archduke of Austria Duke of Bourgongne Lothier Brabant Styria Carinthia Lembourg Luxembourg and Gelders Earle of Habsbourg Flanders Arthois Bourgongne Ferrette and Kiburch Palatin of Henault Holland Zeeland Namur and Zuphen Marquis of the Holy Empire and of Bourgau Landtgraue of Elsaten Lord of Windismark Portenau Salines and Macklyn The 16. of March the same yeare the Emperor Maximilian marryed in the towne of Inspruch the Lady Blanch Maria daughter to Galeas Duke of Milan and sister to Duke Iohn Galeas Maria. This marriage discontented some Princes of the Empire and many of the Emperors friends for that she was not of so noble a House as they desired for of the Viscontes side who then gouerned at Milan there was little Nobilitie and of the Sforces side lesse A while after he brought his wife into the Low-countries being accompaned by many Princes of Germanie The Archduke Philip his sonne and the Lady Marguerite his sister who had beene sent backe out of France after the marriage of King Charles the 8. to whom shee was promised with the Dutchesse of Brittaine went to meet them with the chiefe Nobilitie of the Neitherlands at Maestricht from thence they came to Louvain whereas the Archduke was with great Ceremonies and pompe put into possession of the Dutchie of Brabant and soone after in Antwerp of the Marquisate of the holy Empire The 12. of December in the Towne of S. Gheertrudenbergh of the Earledome of Holland and soone after at Romerswael of the Countie of Zeeland From thence hee went into â—…landers Arthois and Henault where he receiued the like whither the Deputies of euery Prouince came who did him homage and tooke an oath of fealtie In the same moneth of December Charles Duke of Gelders returned out of Lorraine
had caused the pioners to fill vp the ditches and began to vndermine the wall so as he forced them within to parle but Dekema refusing to accept of the conditions his souldiers compelled him thereunto and deliuered him and eighteene Friselanders more prisoners to Sonoy the rest were suffered freely to depart This castle had the wall next vnto the towne throwne downe againe and presently thereupon Sonoy caused the town to be fortified This towne of Staueren is very auncient and in times past was a lordship very rich and mightie a great towne of marchandise and the chiefe in all those Northerne parts with a very good and a spacious hauen but now filled vp with sand it had great commaund euen as farre Nimmeghen as it appeareth by an authenticke writing grauen ouer the gate of the castle of Nimmeghen whereas yet is to be seene in old letters this inscription Hucusque ius Stauriae that is Thus farre stretcheth the iurisdiction of the towne of Staueren and in another place Hic finitur regnum Stauriae that is Here endeth the dominion of Staueren Staueren in times past was so mighty as in Anno 1345 with the aid of the Frisons vpon the 26 of September they ouercame William earle of Henault with all his army in Holland hard by S. Odolf his cloyster where the said earle with many of his men were slain so that long after there were diuers dead mens bones it being two hundred yeres since found vnburied in that place for which cause in Anno 1545 Mary queene of Hungarie the emperour Charles sister and Regent in the Netherlands caused all the dead bones thereabouts to be gathered vp and sent to Staueren where they were buried In May the earle of Renenberghs souldiers came out of great Auwart downe to the Reediep and thought to make a sconce vpon the water to exclude the lord of Nyenuenoort from the sea but he being aduertised therof went to encounter them hauing laid an ambush he charged defeated them slew and took a great number of them caried away some of their ensignes After that the lord of Nyenuenoort hauing receiued 2 moneths pay for his soldiers of the Estates of Friseland vpō condition that he should in the Estates name besiege great Auwart he for that cause went besieged it with diuers companies of souldiers brought ordnance before it to batter the fort but the earle of Renenbergh being aduertised thereof gathered together all his forces from Myddelstum other places the which they did rase abandon and so passing ouer the Reediep hauing a new supply of 300 horse he marched towards Auwart which Nyenuenoort perceiuing he was in mind to haue left the siege but the most part of his captains were of a contrary opinion wherein they committed a great error for that placing the pesants of Friseland among their squadrons of souldiers they for want of experience as soone as the earle of Renenbergh came to charge presently without any blows giuen leaped ouer the ditches with their long staues ran away which put the rest into rout euery one seeking to saue himself the earle of Renenberghs forces following them who took Haspelinus Berenbroeks ensignes captaine Stuper and Vischer being taken prisoners but not many slaine Many of them fled into the sconce of Auwerderziel where the earle of Renenbergh gaue two furious charges but he was forced to leaue it with great losse of his men but comming thither againe with the canon and hauing battered it and made a breach after three assaults they forced it killing all they found in it where among the rest Schelto Iarges a wise and a valiant captaine was slaine The Friselanders presently after assembled the dispersed souldiers againe so that Nynuenoort being made strong with more souldiers went to his fort of Winsum but the earl of Renenbergh comming before it with all his power the fort being not yet finished nor able to endure the canon he was constrained by his own men to parle with the earle so as it was agreed that he should depart freely with bag and baggage and leaue all his other forts Nyenuenoort being thus ouerthrowne the earle of Renenbergh was master all ouer the Ommelands as far as Doccum In the meane time the Estates to aid the lord of Nyenuenoort although too late appointed Sir Iohn Norris to be generall ouer certaine forces and with him eight companies of Sonoy his regiment with some others who being made stronger with the remainders of the broken companies sought opportunitie to giue the earle of Renenbergh battaile and as captaine Schul with certaine souldiers had taken Monikerziel fort he tooke that from them and forced the earle of Renenberghs troupes to goe out of the village in Gripskerke in battaile Colonel Sonoy led the foreward and began the charge coldly by many skirmishes vntill the rest came on and charged in grosse wherupon the Renenberghers fled and were pursued till they came to Groning with the losse of certaine ensignes and seuen hundred of their men besides many which were taken prisoners and small losse to the victors they tooke great store of their armes which they that fled were forced to cast away and yet Sir Iohn Norris had no horsemen with him but onely his owne cornet whereby many of the Renenberghers saued their liues most by means of the ditches there was also foure peeces of ordnance taken from them and all their prouision The 23 of Iuly died George of Lalain baron of Ville earl of Renenbergh brother to the earle of Hoochstraten for griefe and sorrow of this defeat although his sicknesse was not without some suspition of poyson during his sicknes he did often grieue and lament that he had quit the Estates party whereby he had drawne himselfe into such a laberynth crying out often O Groning Groning whereunto hast thou brought me cursing the day that he had euer seene it The last 8 daies before his death he exclaimed also vpon his sister Cornille of Lalain forbidding hir to come in his sight seeing that she had seduced him and was the cause of his perdition This earle of Renenbergh was sonne to the lord of Escornets gouernor of Guelderland for the emperor who had to wife the daughter of the earle of Renenbergh afterwards by the succession of his cousin became earle of Hoochstraten as also the said George of Lalain succeeded after the death of Cont Herman his vncle by the mothers side chanon of Cologne to the said earldome of Renenbergh His elder brother earle of Hoochstraten was called Anthony of Lalain a wise and valiant nobleman who in the yere 1567 retired himselfe with the prince of Orange out of the Netherlāds was also banished by the duke of Alua as we haue formerly shewed He died of a shot in the foot in the first voiage which the prince made with his army into these countries leauing some children among others his eldest was also
of French wyne and an Aune of Remish wine eight gilders and so vpon corne flesh fish sope gold siluer silks and other things the like orders were made in Flanders and else where And in the Duke of Parmas second voyage into France the Earle of Mansfeldt gouernor in his absence gaue order for the raysing of three hundred soldiars in Brabant for 3. monthes to free the country of Frebuters especially the riuers which were much anoyed and the mart ships and passage boats often spoyled by them and this they should doe insteed of the contribution which they were inforced to pay them the which was to be leuied vpon the country villages woods medoes pastures fishponds c. Wherevpon many of these Frebuters were taken and cruelly executed in diuers places which the vnited Prouinces did little regard for that they harbored them-selues among their troupes and did no seruice vnto the country and therefore they made an order that none should goe forth vpon any exploit vnlesse they were twenty fiue or thirty strong and to bee lead by a Captaine Lieutenant Sargent or some Officer and that they should suffer no frebuters to liue among them whereby the Country was soone rid of these Frebuters to the credit of honest soldiars The mutinous soldiars in Brabant being come into the land of Vase were satisfied by the Duke of Parma so as the forts against Hulst were the more easely built after which they made Sconces against Ostende at Blanckenbergh Oudenbergh and other places where they cōmitted many insolencies for being commanded to march with the Duke of Parma in his second voyage into France they behaued themselues so insolently at Oudenbourg by Sluyes as the Inhabitants were constrayned to fly away with the best of their goods and the soldiars taking what else they found good brought it into the market place before the towne house meaning to sell it there at an outcry to them that would giue most but finding no buyers they brake all in peeces and burnt it They also tooke away all the ornaments of the Churches beating and ill intreating Priests who intreated them in the Bourgers behalfe and so those countries were spoyled not onely by Frebuters but also by their owne soldiars At Sea there were certaine Spanish and Biscaine Freebuters which had gotten Netherlanders to bee their Pilots who taught them the way to saile behind England Scotland into the North seas wher they tooke certaine fishermen which shippes they manned and tooke other shippes with them but the shippes of warre of Holland which garded the fishermen pursued them and tooke them and bringing them to Rotterdam hung 39. of them In the begnining of Ianuary in the yeare 1592 William Duke of Cleaues Iuilliers and Monts Earle of Marck Lord of Rauestine c. died being 76. yeares old in his towne of Dusseldorp hee had beene a quiet and peaceable Prince in his time after that hee was reconciled to the Emperor from the prime of his youth both he and his wife who was daughter to the Emperor Ferdinand were troubled of their sences and in their speech They haue spoken diuersly of the causes of these accidents At his death were present the Duke of Deuxponts his sonne in Law and the Duches of Prusse his daughther pretending in his life-time the administration of all those Dukedomes and Signeures as well for the weakenes of his sences as of Duke Iohn his onely sonne But nothing followed by reason of the oppositions made by the Emperor the Popes legat and the Duchesse wife to Duke Iohn being of the house of Baden and of a contrarie relligion to the Duke of Deuxponts and the duchesse of Prusse who all met the yeare before at Dusseldorp to treat Those of Groning being opprest of all sides by the Estates forces which cont William of Nassau held in many forts there abouts fearing to be beseeged in the spring they sent their deputies with letters to Peter Earnest Earle of mansfeldt lieutenant of the gouernment of the Netherlands in the Duke of the Parmas absence letting him vnderstand into what miserable Estate they were reduced hauing alwaies continued constant in their faith and duties to the King and that their condition grew daily worse These letters being full of greefe and commiseration fell into the estates hands By reason whereof Verdugo Gouernor of the said Towne went thether in person The Earle of Mansfeldt hearing therof vnderstanding the complaints of them of Gronning writ lettes of comfort vnto them greeuing with them for their miserable estate and the rather for that hee himselfe had not meanes to assist and free them from the oppression and violence of their enemies but that hee had written vnto the King and sent their letters beseeching him to haue pitty on them and to giue order for a leauy of men not onely to defend them but also to recouer all those forts which they had lost and to chase the enemy out of the country of which letters he expected a speedy answer And in the meane time for that it should not seeme they would abandon them he sent them nine thousand florins hauing demanded thirty thousand to releeue their poore commons And that hee had treated in Antwerp with some marchants of Hambourg to assist them with some quantity of poulder and that he labored to haue the soldiars which were on the other side of the riuer of Rhine wherin he did persist whilest that Verdugo should remaine in Brabant to sollicit what should be here after most fit and necessary to be done finally he intreated them to continue constant and to haue a care of them-selves and of that which did concerne them and not to suffer the honor which they had pourchased by their fidelity to be now blemished and quencht but that it may bee said of them that the Groningers haue loyally persisted vnto the end in the obedience and seruice of their Prince and King Afterwards they of Groning sent vnto the Emperor to let him vnderstand how that sence the yeare 1536. they had freely and willingly giuen them-selues to the house of Austria vpon condition that they should be mayntayned and defended by them against all their enemies the which in reason they ought to doe and not to abandon them to those dangers where-with they see them-selues daily enuironed And to assure and free them from feare they must not as they had vsually done send small suplyes of two or three thousand men with a little munition but they must imploy a mighty royall army and that the presence of the Earle of Mansfeld then gouernor was very necessary The Emperor sent their griefes and complaints from Prage to the King of Spaine accompanied with his owne letters the King receiued them the twenty of Aprill in his Escuriall by the which hee intreated him to succor and assure this good imperiall towne which was so faithfull vnto him The King did thanke the Emperor for the care
children of Cont Tbierry Cont Thierry chaseth the Flemings The Frisons will acknowledge no other soueraigne but the empire Warres bewixt the Earles of Holland and Geldres A new quarrell betwixt the two Bretheren of Holland The Earles of Holland and Geldre reconciled 1198 Trouble in Frizeland The Earles of Holland and Geldre fall vpon the bishop The bishop reuengeth himselfe of the Earle of Holland An accord betwixt the two Earls the duke of Brabant the bishop 1203 Cont Thierry sicke The death of Cont Thierry The Nobilitie of his time The Contesse of Holland maried Cont William sent for to vndertake the gouernment of Holland Cont William comes into Holland He puts the yong Contesse in guard and becomes master of the countrey Cont William conquereth Zeeland The Kennemerâ—… pacified The Zeelanders call back Cont William CoÌ„t Williams children The castle of Aspren rased 1218 The Contesse of Holland dies His wife and children The beginning of the towne of Gorrichom in Holland Cont Floris a louer of iousts and tourneys Cont Floris slaine The earle of ClermoÌ„t slain The bishop of Vtrecht guardian to the yong Earle of Holland A wonderfull del 〈◊〉 of 365 children An Epltaph of the Contesse of Henneberg mother to so many children The chiefe Nobilitie of Holland The wife and children of Cont William How Cont William was chosen king of Romans The king comes to Vtrecht and ratifies their priuiledges 1253 The contesse of Flanders pretends to conquer the isle of Walchren by arms A great deseat of the Flemings The contesse goes â—…o succours into France The duke of Aiou comes to succour the contesse The wise answer of the king S. Lewis to the duke his brother The duke of Aniou retires The birth of Cont Floris 5. The contesse labours to be reconciled The pope sends for the king of Romans to come to Rome The king being in Vtrecht is traitorously wounded with a stone The king miserably slaine being sunke into the ice They burie him secretly in a countrey house The kings body found and interred at Middlebourg in Zeeland Factions for the gouernement of the Earles person and of the countrey Great trouble an Holland Cont Floris takes armes against the Frisons The Frisons defened Foure eâ—…es â—…lt by the Earle to subdue the Frisons Friseland wholy subdued The Earles of Flanders and Holland reconciled The Earle makes war against the lord of Amstel and Woerden 1290 Cont Floris his voiage into England and why A mariage betwixt Cont Floris eldest son and the king of Englands daughter The earle of Flanders pretends to assaile Zeeland The chiefe nobilitie A historie of the death of Cont Floris the 5. The violent death of Cont Floris the fifth The wonderfull loue of 〈◊〉 grey hounds The end of the conspirators The reuenge of Cont Floris death Too cruell a reuenge The Frisons send to the king of Denmarke to be their protector The gouernment of Holland diuided during the absence of Cont Iohn The Frisons defeared The Frisons ioyned to the bishop of Vtrecht are defeated The teâ—…or of the letters of reparation submission made by the Frisons Mourmont taken and rased Troubles at Dordrecht A foolish answere of the magistrat of Dordâ—…echr The death of the Earle of Holland Who the gyant Claes van Knyten was The beginning of two wicked factions in Friseland The Earle of Henaults brethren Iohns wife and children 1301 The Earle seekes to ruine Iohn de Renesse The bishop of Vtrecht taken prisoner by his owne people The bishop goes to armes The bishop slaine in battaile being ouer-bold 1301 The Epitaph of this bishop Iohn without mercy slame 1302 1303 1304 The Earle of Flanders pretends to land in Walchren The Hollanders armie defeated The earlâ—… of Flanders wins a good part of Holland Great alteration in Vtrecht The lord of Hamstede defeats the Flemings The lord of Hamstede chaseth â—…he Flemings out of Holland A great defeat of the Flemings The Hollanders besiege Iohn de Renesse in Vtrecht The death of Iohn de Renesse 1305 Death of the earle of Flanders The death of the Earle of Holland The chiefe nobilitie The wife and children of Cont William 1311 1316 An extreame famine in Holland Amstel Wâ—… erden vnited to Holland 1323 1327 1328 The Earle ouerthrowne from his horse 1332 1336 A historie of a bailife of South Holland for a cow A memorable example of iustice The death of good Cont William The chiefe nobilitie in Holland and Zeeland The chiefe families of Friseland in those daies The wife of this Cont William 1338 1342 1345 Vtrecht besieged by the Hollanders Those of Vtrecht reconciled to the Earlâ—… Cont William slaine and leaues no lawfull heires 1346 The Earledomes of Holland and Zeeland adâ—…dged to the Empresle sister to cont William She takes possessió of those countries Confiscation of â—…cclesiasticall goodâ—… The emperoâ—… children by the empresse 〈◊〉 William of Bâ—…uaria the empresse son gouernor of Holland The bishop of Vtrecht goes to liue priuatly in France The bishop of Vtrecht goes to field He defeateâ—… the Hollandeâ—…s The Empresse resumeâ—… againe the gouernment of Holland The Earle her sonne retires into Holland 1349. The bishop of Vtrecht makes warre in Holland The Hollanders deâ—…eated A truce betwixt tâ—…e Hollanders and Vtrecht 1350. 〈◊〉 in Holland of Cabillâ—…ux and Hoeâ—…ks The fruites 〈◊〉 factions to stir the sonnâ—… against the mother Cont Williaâ—… receiued in Holland A battaile betwixt the mother and the sonne 1351. The sonne raiseth a 〈◊〉 armie The sonne dâ—… fines his mothâ—… to battaile A second battaile The mother defeated 1351. An accord betwixt the mother and the sonne The factions cease not Cont Williams wife had no 〈◊〉 135â—… The Earle de fies the bishop of Vtrecht Two strange knights â—…aken pâ—…oners The Eaâ—…le enters the country oâ—… Vtrecht with â—…n armie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fâ—…om the bishop The bishop takeâ—… Wâ—…p by assault and then Muyden The 〈◊〉 of Montâ—…ort 〈◊〉 from the bishop A combâ—…te betwixt two commanderâ—… 1357. Cont Williâ—… himselfe enters into the country of Vtrecht A finall accord betwixt the Earle and bishop 1358. The Eaâ—…le of Holland becomes mad Diuision betwixt the two factions for the gouernement Albert duke of Bauaria called by the Hoeketins He is receiued for gouernor Hee agrees with his sister in lavve Alberts wiues and children By this Marguerite the earldome of Holland Zeeland and Henault came to the house of Bourgongne The Cabillautins seeke to kill the yong lord of Brederode The castell of Hemskerke besieged for Cont Albert. The Delfoi reuolt Cont Albert besiegeth Delf The inhabitants speake of a composition The captaines oppose The captaines retire in the night The towne of Delf yeelded The duke of Gelders defies the Earle of Holland The warre ended by marriage 1365. 1367. The Baron of Enghien beheaded in Henault which caused great troubles 1373. The castell of Ghildenburch 〈◊〉 to defâ—…d the sluses The lord of Vianen and those of Dordreâ—…ht discontented for the sluses Cont â—…ert spoiles the Frâ—…sons
the Emperor Henry the fourth to whom he made great complaints and suggested falsely that Thierry of Aquitaine the first Earle of Holland and his successors had violently taken away from Odibaldus the twelfth bishop of Vtrecht and his successors afterwards from Adelbold and forcibly usurped the Earledome of Holland which the Emperour Henry the second Conrade the second and Henry the third had confirmed to the bishops of Vtrecht And by these abusiue and slanderous suggestions he did secretly obtayne letters of a reiterated donation from the said Henry the fourth vnder his seale This reuerent bishop seeing that he should neuer finde a better oportunitie to seize vpon Holland than during the minoritie of Cont Thierry the fifth hauing called all his friends to his succour and among other Godfrey the Crooked Duke of Lorrain the which at that time was called Lothier of Brabantand of Ardennes made a mightie Armie vnder the command of the said Godfrey with the which he went to inuade Holland in the yeare 1071. in the countrey of Rhynland neere vnto the Towne of Leyden The Earle Robert the Frison gouernour of Holland and father in law to young Cont Thierry hauing gathered together what men hee could went to encounter these two inuading princes where there was a battaile fought and the charge was furious on both sides but in the end Robert thus suddenly surprised being otherwise employed about his affaires of Flanders and not able to leuie sufficient forces to encounter his enemies who were twice as strong the losse fell vpon the Hollanders and the bishop remained victor Robert taking his wife and children speedily with him saues himselfe in Flanders in the Towne of Gand as the Chronicles of Holland say but those of Flanders write that he fled into Saxonie to his wiues father from whence hee was called backe by the Flemings against the Countesse Richild as wee haue before noted speaking of the said Robert After this victorie bishop William caused Godfrey the Crooke-backe to take possession of all the Townes of Holland and to hold the whole Earledome in fee and homage of his Bishopricke of Vtrecht the which he possessed and gouerned fiue whole yeares after that donation during the absence of Robert who was busied in Flanders This Prelate of Vtrecht caused all the frontier Townes to be manned with good garrisons among the rest he built a strong Castle at Isselmonde vpon the riuer of Maeuse betwixt Dordrecht and Rotterdam the which he fortified with a good garrison Duke Godfrey for a perpetuall memorie to posteritie caused a new Towne to be built betwixt the villages of Auverschyer and Risuvicke the which is at this present the goodly Towne of Delft and without it a Castle where he made his residence during his gouernment This Duke seeing all things succeed so happily and that nothing did crosse his desseignes he resolued to make warre against the Frisons making a roade into the countrey and bringing a great bootie with many prisoners into the Towne of Alcmar The East-Frisons neighbours to them that were thus spoyled came downe like men halfe madde with a mightie Armie and besieged Godfrey in the said Towne of Alcmar for the space of nine weekes Seeing himselfe thus besieged hee called the bishop of Vtrecht to his succour who posted thither with all his forces and compelled them to raise the siege he gaue battaile to the Frisons whom he defeated and put to rout where there were slaine aboue eight thousand vpon the place besides prisoners the rest were all scattered and put to flight So Duke Godfrey with the helpe of the said bishop got possession of both Friselands East and West the which he also enioyed foure yeares together vpon condition that he should hold them likewise in fee of the said bishop and of his Bishopricke of Vtrecht Afterwards in the yeare 1075. Duke Godfrey being in Andwerpe some Authors say in Friseland easing his bodie in a low chamber which was ouer the ditch of his lodging hee was discouered by one called Ghisbrecht seruant to young Cont Thierry who thrust him in at the fundament with a jaueline Godfrey being thus wounded desirous to returne into his Countrey of Lorraine he caused himselfe to bee transported into the Towne of Maestrecht whereas he died in the moneth of March leauing no children of his body nor any other heire but one onely sister wife to Eustace Earle of Blois by whom she had three sons Godfrey of Bouillon Baldwin and Eustace After which Godfrey the Crooke-backe his nephew Godfrey of Bouillon succeeded in the Dutchies of Lorraine and Brabant although at that time the Dukes of Lorraine did not write themselues Dukes of Brabant But since in the yere 1251. Henry the third of that name Duke of Lorrain began to intitle himselfe Duke of Lothier and of Brabant the which the Dukes of Brabant although they haue no pretension vnto Lorraine haue continued vnto this day This Duke Godfrey of Bouillon with many great Princes of Christendome among others Hugh the great brother to the King of France Robert brother to the Duke of Normandie Robert the young sonne to our Robert the Frison before mentioned Earle of Flanders Raymond Earle of S. Gilles Steuen Earle of Blois Brunamond or Baymond Prince of Appulia Eustace and Baldwin brothers to Duke Godfrey of Bouillon Anselme of Ribemont and some Noblemen of the house of Borsele in Zeeland Among the Gentlemen of Friseland were Tiepko Fortman Iarich Ludingama Epo Hardtman Igo Galama Fredericke Botnia Eelcko and Sicco Liaucama cousins and Obbo Hermana with 300000. which were marked with the signe of the Crosse and therefore this voyage was called the Croisadoe in which expedition they recouered the holy Land and the said Godfrey of Bouillon was crowned King of Ierusalem to whom succeeded his brother Baldwin THIERRY THE FIFTH OF THAT name Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland 〈◊〉 Theodoricus Quintus THIERRY attain'd to yeares his valour for to show Found meanes to crosse the Priest that sought his vtter ouerthrow Man oftentimes doth win great honour wealth and fame But by industry and by force he must preserue the same The Frisons he subdu'd by valour and by might That secretly conspired had to worke him some despight His wife WITHILD was and as full seuenteene yeares His Earledome he assign'd to death as by record appeares THIERRY the fifth of that name sonne to Cont Floris the first of that name Earle of Holland Zeeland and Lord of Friseland After the death of Godfrey the Crooke-backe Duke of Lorraine who as wee haue said by the instigation support and fauour of William of Geldre bishop of Vtrecht had dispossessed him being yet in his minoritie of all his countrey of Holland and Friseland he leuied a mighty Armie with the helpe of Robert the Frison his father in law and his other kinsfolkes and friends to recouer his Countrey and auncient
Thierry entred the Veluve with an armie destroying and burning wheresoeuer hee came so at the carried away a great spoile Cont Otto did also lâ—…nic what men he could following Conâ—… Thierry as far as Heymens bergh to rescue the prey wherethere was a sharp incounter but the Gueldrois seeing his men slip away he saued himselfe through the swiftnesse of his horse Cont Thierry pursuing them that fled tooke many prisoners among the which were some gentlemen William earl of East-Friseland hearing of the victory which his brother had gotten â—…ame to him to the castle of Horst to congratulate with him for this his happy successe Cont Thierry remembring the quarrels past and the loue his brother had borne vnto the earle of Gueldre imagining that he came now to attempt something against him he commanded an officer of his called Henry Craen to seise vpon his brother and commit him to prison the which was done But soone after William hauing broken prison he retired himself secretly to the earle of Gueldre to be supported by him against the earle of Holland his brother where he remained some time Otto earle of Gueldre knowing him to be verie valiant hauing seen good proof thereof in Palestina against the Sarracens considering also the goodly portion which he had in Friseland gaue him his daughter Alix in mariage by whom he had one sonne named Floris who was afterwards Earle of Holland Otto William and two daughters Ada who was abbesse of Rhinsburgh the which was an abbey of noble women and Ryckwyf who was a religious woman in the same cloister After the mariage of William and Alix celebrated in the towne of Staueren Otto of Gueldre returned into his countrey and William was honourably receiued with his wife and acknowledged throughout all the countrey of Friseland for their lord Soone after and the same yeare the Earles of Holland and Gueldre were reconciled together vpon condition That Adella eldest daughter to Cont Thierry should marie with Henry sonne to Cont Otto but he liued not long and died without children In the yere 1198 Didier of Holland Arnould of Isenburgh both elect bishops of Vtrecht pleading their cause at Rome the pope adiudged the said bishoprick through the fauour of some courtiers in Rome and the aduantage of his election to Arnould where he was consectated the 30 bishop of Vtrecht But as he died soone after and was buried at Rome pope Innocent the 3 gaue the said bishoprick to Didier of Holland who had been his competitor was in like sort consecrated at Rome At his returne to take possession of his bishoprick he fell sick at Padoua in Italy where he died and was there buried To whom succeeded Didier vander Are collegiall prouost of Nydrecht vpon Meuse being in commission in the realme of Sicile who after the death of these two bishops was sent for to come and take possession of the said bishoprick the which at his first entrance he found very much charged with debts so as by the aduice of his barons nobles townes and chapters he went into Friseland to demand some aid or gratuitie to free himselfe of debt William earle of East-Friseland would not suffer his subiects to be charged with any imposition or extraordinarie subsidie for the preuenting whereof he went to Staueren whither the bishop was come vnto the abbey of whom he laid hold at the end of masse thinking to carrie him away to his castle of Osterzee but the monks with the help of some Frisons fearing if they should suffer it the bishop would excommunicat them tooke him away from him by force Afterwards Thierry Earle of Holland and Otto earle of Gueldre father in law to Cont William of East Friseland beeing reconciled to his brother and freed him from any bad conceit of him banded themselues iointly against the bishop The earle of Gueldre seised vpon all the countrey of Ouerissel for his part chased away all the bishops officers and puta garrison of Gueldres into the towne of Deuenter The Earle of Holland spoiled the whole countrey on this side the riuer of Yssel and besieged the bishop in his city of Vtrecht during the which time the earl of Gueldre going with a safeconduct towards the emperor Otto the 4. competitor to the emperor Philip hee was staied by the way by the duke of Brabants people The Earle of Holland hearing of these newes raised his siege from before Vtrecht marching with his troups towards Boisleduke where he entred by force and there tooke prisoners the lords William of Paruis and Henry of Cuyck brethren to the duke of Brabant The Earle thinking to retire with his prisoners into Holland the duke being assisted by the Archbishop of Cologne the bishop of Liege the Duke of Lembourg and the Earle of Flanders pursued him with all speed to rescue his two brethren Cont Thierry finding himselfe ouercharged at a passage after that he had long defended himselfe being vriable to resist so great forces was in the end taken and so the Duke of Brabant had the two Earls of Geldre and Holland his prisoners The bishop of Vtrecht seeing these two prouinces without Lords to defend them entred the countrey of Holland with all the forces he could gather together as well of his owne as from his allies from whence hee carried a great spoyle the Nobilitie and Commons of Holland pursued after to rescue it and defeated some knights and souldiers of Vtrecht in the rereward burning in their returne some villages of his iurisdiction The next day the bishop entred into the Veluve the which he spoyled tooke the towne of Zutphen went to Deuenter which yeelded vnto him so as he recouered great store of treasure Soone after a peace was made betwixt the Earle of Holland and the Duke of Brabant whereby the Earle paid vnto the Duke two thousand markes of siluer for his ransome and so did the Earle of Geldre both which were afterwards reconciled with the bishop of Vtrecht whereby all quarrels were ended In the yeare 1203 Thierry Earle of Holland fell sick at Dordrecht lamenting much the absence of his brother William Earle of East-Friseland although there had still remained some small seeds of hatred to recommend his daughter Ada vnto him being yet to marry and her countries of Holland and Zeeland Alix wife to the said Cont Thierry euen before the death of her husband and during his sicknes without the councell or aduice of any one of her own proper motion desirous to marry her daughter had contracted her secretly to Lewis Earle of Loos to the end the Countrey during her widow-hood might be gouerned at her pleasure so desirous was this woman of rule thinking that Lewis being farre inferiour in quality to her daughter would not dare to oppose himselfe against her not caring in the meane time if her daughter were well or ill maried In the meane time Cont Thierry died hauing gouerned
Friseland 16 Guilielmus Primus This WILLIAM by great policie did breake the chaine Which crosse the Hauen of Damiet the Sarasins had layne Whereby the Harlemers great honour did obtaine Record whereof within their Towne as yet doth still remaine Two wiues he had whereof one out of Geldre came The second MARY called was a princely English dame Full nineteene yeares he rul'd and peaceably possest His countries and in Rhynsburgh died whereas his bones do rest WILLIAM the sixteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland hauing as we haue said in the time of the Contesse Ada expelled the earle of Loos remained in quiet possession of the said prouinces He had by his wife Alix daughter to the earle of Gueldre Floris who succeeded him in the said Earledomes Otto bishop of Vtrecht and William who was lieutenant of Holland the which was father to the lady Alix married to Didier lord of Brederode and two daughters whereof the one was Abbesse at Rhynsbourg and the other at Delft This Cont William did homage to the Emperor Frederic the second for his Counties of Holland Zeeland and Friseland Afterwards vpon a priuate quarell he went and besieged the castle of Aspren hauing taken it he rased it to the ground Cont Gerard vander Are brother to Didier bishop of Vtrecht in reuenge therof went and besieged the town of Dordrecht into the which he cast wild fire which burnt almost halfe of it Soone after Cont William and the bishop were reconciled together and they made an accord by the which Cont William should pay vnto the bishop a thousand pounds and restore vnto Henry of Craen all that he had taken from him for that as wee haue said before he had once put him in prison by the cōmandement of Cont Thierry his master brother to the said Cont William Item that all the Earles subiects being in the bishoprick of Vtrecht should from that time forth be vassales to the bishop as well as all his vassales remaining in Holland Item that Cont William with a hundred knights attired onely in linnen cloth and bare-footed should present themselues before the Cathedrall church of Vtrecht and being there the Earle should aske him forgiuenesse for that he had before laid hands vpon him and taken him prisoner although he were rescued in the Abbey of Staueren All which articles the Earle did accomplish fearing his excommunication and from that time the Earle and the bishop continued good friends Behold the simplicitie of Princes and the pride of prelats in those daies brauing all the world with their thundering threats At that time died Henry king of Scotland vncle by the mothers side to cont William of Holland leauing no children There was a great nobleman in Scotland who with the helpe of the king of England got possession of the realm The Earle of Holland pretending a title to the Crowne as the neerest kinsman son to the deceased kings sister imployed all his friends for the obtaining thereof and to bring it to effect being imbarked with a goodly armie he landed in Scotland where at the first he tooke many townes and castles In the meane time Lewis earle of Loos knowing Cont William to be absent and that he could not easily come out of Scotland although he had wholly conquered it leuied men secretly to make a new conquest of the Earldome of Holland but Cont VVilliam being aduertised thereof desiring rather safely to enioy his owne inheritance which he had gotten with much paine than to striue to make a doubtfull conquest in a strange countrey and farre off he returned speedily into Holland The earle of Loos hearing of his returne proceeded no further for he feared him much hauing made so good triall of him who afterwards gouerned his countries peaceably during the remainder of his dayes In the yeare 1218 the lady Alix wife to Cont VVilliam died hauing left the children aboue named and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Rhynsbourg Afterwards the said earle maried with Mary daughter to Edmond of Lancaster son to Henry the third king of England by whom he had no children About that time the inhabitants of Ziricxee in the Island of Shouven in Zeeland began to build great shippes for marchandise to traffique throughout al seas as well North as South and to make their towne famous as it was for a time by reason of their nauigation hauing fit and conuenient hauens and rodes the which haue since beene much stopped with barres of sand so as of late the inhabitants of that towne haue made a new hauen going directly to the sea before Noortbeuelandt The Earles of Zeeland who were also Earles of Holland had a palace in the towne of Ziricxee the ruines whereof are to be seene at this day It is the second towne of Zeeland We haue in the life of Cont Thier◅ the seuenth and of his daughter Ada rela◅ed briefely the deeds of this Cont VVilliam the first of that name FLORIS THE FOVRTH OF THAT name the seuenteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland Florentius Quartus My daughter in one day as many children bare As daies within a yeare complete by vs accounted are Twelue yeares I liued Earle Mars durst me not defie But iealous loue was cause that I was murthered cruelly My wife grieu'd at my death and her so hard fortune At her owne charge for women built the cloyster of Losdune VVithout the towne of Delft my sister edified Another which le champ royal she nam'd wherein she died FLORIS the fourth of that name by the death of Cont William was the seuenteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland his brother Otto was made Earle of Friseland in his fathers life and William the youngest was hereditarie gouernour of Kennemerlandt this William had one daughter called Alix the which was married to Didier lord of Brederode who had by her Alfart father to William of Brederode who was General of the Horse to the king of the Romans the eighteenth Earle of Holland Cont Floris had to wife Mathilda daughter to Henry duke of Lothier and Brabant by whom he had the said king William his successor and Floris who was gouernour of Holland then Alix which was Contesse of Henault and Marguerite wife to Herman earle of Henneberg who had that great number of children whereof we shall speake by and by In the time of this Earle Floris there was neere vnto the towne of Arckel a little castle vpon the place of Wolfard belonging to Iohn lord of Arckel about the which there liued some poore fishermen at which place the riuer of Meruve began to ebbe and flow for that the riuers of Meuse and Wahal the which before the towne of Tyel in Gelderland was very narrow and could not enter into that of Linge fell into it These poore fishermen called themselues Gorreckens whereof the towne of Gorrekom now Gorrichom tooke the name This lord of Arckel caused all the houses of
William Earle of Holland and Zeeland the which are two goodly earledomes neighbours and necessarie one vnto the other as well for nauigation as commerce would so dismember his estate to gratifie his sister wife to the said Auesnes And if he had had any disposition to dismember it from Holland it had beene more reasonable to giue it to his brother Floris to hold it in fee of his countie of Holland as his portion than to giue it in dowrie to his sister And therefore we will hold the opinion of the chronicle of Holland more true in that point than that of Flanders The contesse Marguerite seeing that the duke of Aniou fled before king William and that all her men were defeated and disbanded shee was much perplext and knew not how to resolue in the end she found no better course than to imploy many princes and great noble men yea S. Lewis king of France to reconcile her to the king of Romanes fauour vpon such conditions as she could with reason beare Although the said king William had beene too much wronged and incensed by her as well by contempt and iniuries as otherwise yet presuming that his courage would neuer oppose it selfe against a silly weake woman nor seeke reuenge of her vsing his clemencie he receiued her into grace vpon certaine conditions specified namely That she should absolutely quit her countie of Henault the countrey of Alost and the foure chasteleines of the countrey of Waes whereof she should giue full possession to Cont Iohn d' Auesnes her eldest sonne and passe it by authentike letters vnder her great seale the which was done And so the said Iohn d' Auesnes and Baldwin his brother were reconciled to the contesse Marguerite of Flanders their mother the which beeing well finished and ended king William returned into Holland Pope Innocent hearing of the death of Conrard king of Germanie sonne to the emperour Frederic and that William Earle of Holland had beene long before chosen king of Romans he sent for him by letters to come to Rome to receiue the Crowne the ornaments and all the markes of the Empire King William hauing no trust in many princes of Germany and Italy through whose territories he must passe went disguised in a pilgrims weed being accompanied with twelue of his most trustie and confident seruants and so past into Italy finding the Pope at Genoa or Genes by whom he was honorably receiued And as he came in a strange and disguised habit onely to conferre with the Pope he returned in the same maner through Lombardie and Germanie where hauing beene well receiued in some places whereas hee made himselfe knowne and there treated of the affaires of the empire he was aduertised That the West-Frisons were reuolted and according to their antient maner inuaded the frontiers of Holland from whence they daily carried away great spoyles hauing no man to make head against them he being so far off at that instant The said king being readie to returne into Italy with forces and a royall traine to be crowned at Rome hee thought it more expedient to preserue his owne inheritance and to settle peace and quietnesse in his countries and among his subiects than to goe farre off to purchase a title of honour without profit he therefore left off this voyage of Italy and led his armie to Vtrecht where being with the prelats and noble men at a banquet there was some traitor which hit him on the head with a stone wherewith he was sore wounded and yet no man could perceiue whence the blow came the which did much perplexe and trouble the prelats for that they had inuited him to this feast The king hauing the stone in his hand said See what an affront and despight those of Vtrecht do me seeking to beat me downe with stones hauing neuer deserued ill at their hands but haue euer assisted them and subdued their enemies at mine owne charge but by the liuing God this affront shall not passe vnpunished if I liue but one yeare in health and with those words he departed from thence and went to horse not without great reason being much mooued and threatening the whole citie which he resolued to ruine quite The magistrats and best bourgesses of Vtrecht were verie sad for this wicked and vnfortunat accident and hauing obtained a passeport to send vnto him they dispatcht their bourgmasters to the court at la Haye to see if they could any way pacifie his choller and displeasure against them The king answered them in few words That he had sworne the which he would neuer call backe again but would vtterly destroy the towne if they deliuered not into his hands him that had cast the stone With this answre they returned and hauing assembled their counsell they made diligent search for him that had giuen the blow This remained thus in suspence for the king made hast to go into Friseland whereof the citie of Vtrecht had great cause to thanke God for at his returne if he had liued any time it was to bee feared he would haue made a pitifull spoyle and the Traiectins or those of Vtrecht should haue endured much if he had returned victor out of Friseland The king being gone with his armie into West-Friseland at his entrance he subdued some of the first that would haue opposed themselues and stopt his passage causing a castle to bee built neere Alcmar the which he called Tornenburg which is to say the castle of Wrath. And marching on in the moneth of Februarie he went to Alcmar from whence passing vpon the ice at Vrouen he made all the hast he could to surprise his rebels sodainely But it succeeded not so happily for him as for his armie for as the lord of Brederode who led one of the battalions had incountred and vanquished the Drechters the king mounted vpon a mightie courser leading the other battalion seeking the shortest way to Hoochtwonde which he meant to burne marched before all alone vpon the ice far from his troups as if hee had beene vpon the firme land it happened that the ice brake and his horse sunke in and was almost drowned hauing no man neere him to helpe him in time The Frisons who lay in ambush in the reeds and oziers seeing a horsman thus mired ran thither and beat him downe with clubs staues not knowing that it was the king but when they had seene his target they imagined it should be some great noble man There were in that quarter some Hollanders that were fugitiues and banished for crimes who came also running thither and knew the armes and blason of their king which was an Eagle sables and a Lion rampant gules in a field partie par pale or saying vnto the Frisons that were there present That they had done very ill to haue thus murthered the king their lord and naturall prince When as they vnderstood that it was king William Earle of Holland there was not any one man
nor woman yong nor old that was not verie heauie and sorrowfull then hauing consulted together vpon this accident they resolued to burie him secretly in a house in the said village of Hoochtwonde to the end that in time the memorie and the reuenge thereof might be forgotten It was a strange thing that neuer a man neither on foot nor horsebacke of the whole armie came thither to succour him and that the Hollanders did not pursue their first victorie although they knew their king to bee dead For without doubt they had that day conquered all that quarter by the defeat of these West-Frisons if they had proceeded but they were so stroken and amazed for the death of the king their prince as they lost al iudgement and courage so as the commanders retired with their armie into Holland Behold how king William died miserably after that he had gouerned his inheritance of Holland and Zeeland one and twentie yeres and the empire seuen His bodie being found in this village of Hoochtwonde was carried and interred in the abbey of Middlebourg in the isle of Walchren in the yere 1255 then was accomplished the prophesie which said That one William king of Romans shouldbe slaine by the Frisons The same day there died in a battaile which they fought in their retreat all the inhabitants of Dordrecht except three hundred and their standard was taken and most part of those of Delft after they had slaine many of these Frisons The lady Elizabeth his wife died in the yeare 1265 and lyes buried by her husband This king of Romanes Earle of Holland and Zeeland gaue vnto the said towne of Middlebourg their principall priuiledges and among others hee graunted that in all the Beweterscheldt none should haue high iustice and iudge of life and death but the said towne and that all the criminall causes of the countrey should bee decided there and that offenders should be kept in the Earles prisons there causing this towne to be repaired and fortified FLORIS THE FIFTH OF THAT name the nineteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland 19 Florentius Quintus In iust reuenge of fathers death thou splid'st the blood Of Frisons that had him destroid and thee withstood And hauing taken his bodie from the place where 't lay Intombedst it in Middleburgh from whence thou took'st thy way To Flanders to abate their pride that quietly Gaue thee their princesse for thy spouse and for her dower Whole Flanders but when thou to hunt in woods wast gone Thy foes thee slue when thou hadst rul'd full fortie yeares and one AFter the lamentable death of William king of Romans Earle of Holland and Zeeland his son Floris being but six monethes old succeeded him and was the to Earle Floris his vncle brother to the king gouernour of Holland was his tutor who discharged it faithfully for the space of four yeares It was he which made lawes and customs in Zeeland the which they obserue at this day Floris being one day at a tourney in the citie of Antuerpe was very sore hurt wherof he died and was buried by the king his brother in the abbey of Middlebourg in the yeare 1258. Then Henry duke of Brabant sonne to this infants great vncle tooke vpon him the guardianship the which he did administer for a time till in the end through the dissolutions exactions and concussions of his officers he was chased out of Holland He being displaced the barons lords nobles with the estates of this countie did with one consent chuse Otto earle of Gueldre to vndertake the gouernment against whom those of Holland did chuse the lady Alix contesse of Henault aunt to yong Cont Floris to be his gouernesse and viceregent Which partialitie was afterwards the cause of a great battaile at Voerwoetzee whereas many were slaine on either part but the Hollandser won the battaile and the earl of Gueldres remained sole gouernour and guardian to the yong Earle In the yeare 1268 there were strange apparitions seene in the aire as armed men fighting and other strange and prodigious things after which there followed great calamities for the commons of Holland did rise against the nobles and Cont Floris being yet very yong those of Kennemerlandt did rise and bandie themselues against the nobles of the countrey destroying and pulling downe their castles houses in the country and places of pleasure the knights and gentlemen were forced for their better safetie to retire themselues into the towne of Harlem to be freed from this rable of rascals who had resolued to expell all the nobilitie of the countrey of Vtrecht to rase their castles and houses and to make all the countrey common The Frisons and Waterlanders did ioyne with them so as all together made a huge bodie of an army with the which they fel vpon the quarter of Amsterlandt Ghysbrecht seignior of Amstel seeing that he could not make head against so great a multitude of mad-men resolued to ioyne with them promising them all fidelitie and assistance Hauing therefore made choyce of him for their leader he with his people ioyned with this mutinous troupe Beeing made their captaine generall he thought to reuenge himselfe of all his enemies about Vtrecht and to ruine them beating downe their castles and houses For his first exploit he went to besiege the castle of Vredelandt the which had been expresly built by the bishop of Vtrecht against him and the seignior of Woerden his cosin but he found it so well fortified with a good garrison and of all other things necessarie for defence as he was glad to leaue it And finding that this troupe did eat and wast all his territorie of Amsterlandt he persuaded them in a faire night to make an enterprise vpon the town of Vtrecht the which they resolued and meaning to make a present proofe thereof before that it was day they had inuested the said citie round about The bourgesses and those of the guard of Vtrecht knew not what it might be thinking they had beene Scythians or Tartarians or some other strange nation that came to assaile them being in armes vpon their walles and in their towers they demaunded what they were and what they required Whereupon one of these Kennemers a man well spoken said vnto them You bourgesses and inhabitants of Vtrecht our good friends know that the franke Kennemers salute you and send you word that you chase away all the noblemen and gentlemen which oppresse and ouercharge the people and that you diuide their goods and riches among the poore in common He had no sooner ended this speech but presently there grew a tumult among the people of the towne incouraging one another with the persuasions of this Kennemer and so taking armes they chased away all the nobles and men of knowledge and authoritie in the citie or that were of the counsell and did administer iustice with fortie gentlemen of name Then they created a new magistrat aldermen and ancients
which was fallen vnto him by the decease of his great great grandmother Ada daughter to the king of Scotland who died without heires male wife to Floris the third of that name and thirteenth Earle of Holland which Cont William the first by the death of Henry king of Scotland his vncle by the mothers side did not prosecute by reason of the rebellion of some noblemen of his countrey which hindred him besides the Frisons were reuolted and the earle of Loos during his absence thought to reconquer Holland as wee haue said before Cont Floris being then with king Edward who dissuaded him from this war of Scotland for the great difficulties he should find there they concluded an alliance together which was That Iohn sonne to Cont Floris being then but young shall marie Elizabeth the kings daughter by which mariage they should remaine for euer good friends and allies as since England hath alwayes beene and is at this present well affected to Holland and Zeeland and to the other vnited prouinces of the Netherlands Guy of Dompierre earle of Flanders repining at this friendship and alliance betwixt the king of England and Earle of Holland leuied an armâ—… in the countrey of Catsand to inuade the isle of Walchren during the absence of Cont Floris but Didier lord of Brederode and Iohn of Renesse knights the one in Holland the other in Zeeland made hast to leuie men to oppose against him Cont Floris hauing hewes therof imbarked without any delay and came to land at Flessingue Cont Guy staying too long vpon his passage the seignior of Renesse by commandement from Cont Floris past into Flanders burnt the towne of Scluce and spoiled the whole countrey about This done the lords of Brederode and Renesse enter ioyntly with their troups into the isle of Catsand which they destroyed also The Flemings who were not faire from them being about 4000 men thought to compasse in the Hollanders but the seignior of Renesse who had but 300 Zeelanders choyce men and he a braue and hardie knight went first to charge them and put them to rout so as there were a great number slaine and drowned besides prisoners and the bootie which he carried into Holland returning a victor to the Earle his Prince This happened on Simon and Iudes day in the yeare 1296. The Flemings being retired after this defeat Cont Floris fortified his countrey of Zeeland with good garrisons against their inuasions and spoyles then hee returned into Holland to his court at la Haye One day among the rest he bethought himselfe that in the great wars which hee had had against the Frisons Flemings and others he had lost a good number of his knights and of his best noblemen besides many were dead of the plague the which had beene very violent in his countries so as to his great griefe he was then very destitute whereupon he resolued to send for one day in Christmas to his court at la Haye fortie of the chiefest and most substantiall of all his subiects that were not noble the which had good meanes and great reuenues to entertaine the traine and estate of a knight With these fortie good men specially chosen he held open court made them knights and gaue them armes and blasons In this sort did he honour his good and vertuous subiects who by their wealth might well maintaine their estate in the seruice of their prince Withall he did repeople his countrey with nobles and did beautifie his traine and court for the more noblemen a prince hath the more is hee honoured and feared True it is that in the beginning the antient nobilitie did scorne and hate these new knights it may be for that they had not so great meanes but in succession of time their sonnes grand-children and great grand children were taken for good gentlemen The chief knights and gentlemen issued from antient nobiline and knighthood in the time of this Earle Floris were these that follow Iohn of Holland his sonne Herman earle of Heneberg husband to Marguerite his aunt who had so many children Didier the Gentle lord of Brederode William lord of Theylinghen Iohn lord of Heusden Iohn lord of Heesben Arnoult lord of Escluse brother to the lord of Heusden Iohn lord of Arckel Hugh Butterman lord of Buttersloot Iohn lord of Heucklom Otto seignior of Aspren and of Abkoy Peregrin seignior of Lederdam his brother Ieams lord of Wassenare Didier of Theylinghen Nicholas Persin seignior of Waterlandt Simon of Harlem Ghysbrecht lord of Amstel Arnould of Amstel his brother Herman of Woerden Iohn of Leck lord of Polnen Hugh of Vianen Ghysbrecht of Yselsteyn Wolfard lord of Vere Iohn of Renesse Witten bastard to Cont Floris the first lord of Hamstede and William his brother Nicholas lord of Putten and of Stryen William of Egmond Gerard of Egmond his sonne Baldwin of Nueldwick Ieams Vander Vuoude Arnould of Heemskerke Henry of Heemskerke his brother Didier vander Goude Gerard van Velson Gerard of Heemskerke Didier of Raephorst Gerard of Raephorst his brother Hugh of Craelinghen Werembault Witten Hage Albert his sonne Gerard of Harlem Iohn Dortoghe and Floris of Duynen all knights And in Zeeland the chiefe noblemen were the lords of Borssele of Brigdam of Zandtwick of la Vere of Cats of Cortgoen of Mourmont of Renesse and of Ornyninghe all which carried the Earles order which was a coller of gold interlaced with cockle shels and the image of S. Iames hanging at it There was in the Earls court a valiant knight put in the rank of these nobles named Gerard van Velson whom the Earle held a whole yeare in prison after that he had caused his brothers head to be cut off through the false reports and pernitious counsell of some that hated them The Earle being afterwards better informed of the truth and of their innocencie hauing set Gerard at libertie he sought by all meanes to repaire the wrongs that had beene done him and to honour and aduance him among all the rest and to make him the more affectionat to his seruice the Earle thinking therein to doe him honour and sauour would haue giuen him his minion in mariage the which was a faire gentlewoman But Gerard disdaining her like a generous man would none of her The Earle insisting still to haue him mâ—…ie her in the end Gerard angrie at his importunities answered him plainly That he was not so abiect not base minded vsing a common Dutch phrase as to put his feet in his old shooes which is as much to say as to marie his leauings or strumpet The Earle displeased at this answer said vnto him And truly thou shalt haue my leauings Gerard who regarded not the Eaâ—…ls words goes from court and a while after maries the daughter of Herman seignior of Woerden neece to Ghysbrecht of Amstel Cont Floris hearing afterwards that Gerard was maried and that hee came no more to court by the persuasion of his minion he sent for him being
hee was beaten from his horse and slaine by some souldiers that knew him not This happened in the yeare 1301. on S. Martins day in Summer In this defeat there were a great number slain especially of the bishops men whose body was taken vp by the knights of the Hospitall of Saint Iohn and buried afterwards in the Cathedrall church of Vtrecht after he had gouerned his bishopricke in continuall troubles fiue yeares onely and this was his Epitaph Huic dedit agnomen celebris Meeklinia victo Occiduam foelix perdomuit Frisiam Omnia mors mutat caesus cum certat iniquo Marte suis subtus turribus occubuit Bishop William hauing bin thus slaine Iohn of Henault Earle of Holland came to Vtrecht and required the Chapter to chuse Guy of Henault his brother being treasurer of the church at Liege and chanon at Cambray who was chosen by one part of the said Chapter and Rodolphus or Ralfe their Cathedrall prouost by the other notwithstanding Guy of Henault with the assistance of his brother the Earle got possession of the towne and of the lower diocesse of Vtrecht and Rodulphus retired into the countrey of Ouerissel and so Guy remained peaceable bishop This done Cont Iohn returned into his countrey of Henault leauing his sonne Iohn without mercie earle of Ostreuant goueruor of Zeeland by reason of the wars against the Flemings and William his second son lieutenant in Holland and West-Friseland hauing resolued to lay aside all cares and to spend the remainder of his dayes in rest in his naturall countrey of Henault Afterward the said Iohn without mercy being in the seruice of Philip the faire king of France was with many princes and noblemen slaine at the great battaile which the Flemings won against the French in the yeare 1302 at Groeninghen neere vnto Courtray in Flanders so his brother William was earle of Ostreuant with the consont of Cont Iohn of Henault his father In the yere 1303 Iohn earle of Namur and his brother being come to succor the Flemings hauing ioyned with some troups with the forces of Iohn of Renesse did run ouer all the frontiers of Flanders spoyling and burning all that had held the French partie in the late warres from thence they entred into Holland and Zeeland where they did much mischiefe but the Hollanders and Zeelanders hauing taken armes chased them away and went into Flanders to reuenge the death of the earle of Ostreuant eldest sonne to their prince In the yeare 1304 Guy sonne to the earle of Flanders growne insolent by reason of his former victories and through the persuasion of Iohn de Renesse leuied a new armie which he led into the countrey of Catsandt attending a prosperous wind there to saile into the isle of Walchren William earle of Ostreuant son to the Earle of Holland and Henault by the commandement of his father leuied also a goodly armie of Hannuyers Hollanders Zeelanders Frisons with the which he landed sodainly in Catsandt and defeated the Flemings Guy hauing leuied new forces entred into Zeeland Cont William of Ostreuant went to incounter him but through treason and secret intelligences which the seignior of Renesse had there hee was twice put to rout once before Arnemuyden and the other neere vnto la Vere sauing himself at Ziricxee in the isle of Schowen there to gather together new forces Guy pursued him and in passing tooke the towne of Middlebourg from thence he went to besiege Ziricxee Cont William being within it went forth secretly in the night by one of the gates and made a braue sallie vpon the Flemings so as there were 1500 slain drowned and prisoners Afterwards they made a truce for a moneth vpon condition That they should not fortifie the said town otherwise than it was during the which Cont William went into Holland to leuie new supplies The truce being ended those of Ziricxee recouered the towne of Middlebourg by force and chased away the Flemings returning with honour and triumph vnto their towne although it were besieged Hauing aduertised Cont William thereof he returned vnto them and in passing defeated the troups which Iohn of â—…enesse had in those parts and chased them quite out of Zeeland During this warre and siege of Ziricxee Cont William was made knight and eight and fortie gentlemen with him Wee may well say that in those times they made not knights so lightly as they do at this day for that they must haue first deserued it seeing that the sons of earles themselues as the last Earle Iohn of Holland were neuer knighted After that the said Cont William returned into Holland where with the help of Guy bishop of Vtrecht his vncle he raised a goodly armie of Hannuyers Hollanders Zeelanders of other countries vnder their obedience to incounter the Flemings that were entred into the isle of Duyuelandt where being landed some yong gentlemen being disimbarked first went to skirmish with the banished men of Zeeland that were there The Hollanders and Traiectins seeing that it was late pitched their tents and pauilions vpon the causey but the Frisons began to spoile the inhabitants of Duyuelandt from whence they brought good bootie into their quarter The Flemings and Duyuelanders pursued them and at one instant assailed the Hollanders and Traiectins in their tents whom they surprised sodainly awaking them with lowd and fearefull cries and great blowes The alarum being giuen they armed as fast as they could to repulse the Flemings and to chase them out of their campe but the night being exceeding darke and not able to distinguish one from another they slew their friends as wel as their enemies and so in this confusion there died many braue men who in the day time would haue giuen good testimonies of their valour and prowesse So as the Hollanders armie was during the obscuritie and darkenesse of the night so disordered as the greatest part thereof was defeated and many of their best men died there among the rest William of Horne prouost cathedrall of Vtrecht Nicholas of Persin Didier of Harlem Didier of Zuylen Asuerus of Benewaert all braue knights with many citisens and vassals of the countrie of Vtrecht but the greatest losse was that Guy of Henault their bishop was taken prisoner with many braue knights all which were sent into Flanders vnder good guard Cont VVilliam of Ostreuant fled into a ship and with great difficultie came to Ziricxee This vnfortunat defeat happened about mid-lent in the yeare 1304. After this victorie Guy of Flanders fortified his armie and returned to besiege Ziricxee on Palme Sunday vntill the Wednesday after Easter but seeing he preuailed nothing he raised his campe passed the riuer of Meuse with Iohn de Renesse and conquers all North-Holland vnto Harlem he tooke some burgesses of Delft and Leyden prisoners the which hee carried to the towne of Goude and made M. Nicholas de Cats Chasteleine or Gouernour of Shoonhouen On the other side Iohn duke
Prouence who was condemned to be hanged being priuy to the earle Campobachios treacherous practises and not caused him to be sodainly executed at the instance of this traitor hee might haue preuented his owne death and the ruine of his estate which the said Campobachio had plotted with the duke of Lorraine to the great content of Lewis the 11. And it is friuolous to say that in such cases prisoners condemned make such suits to prolong their liues for no aduertisements in matter of war how small soeuer from whence they may draw great coniectures and from coniectures come vnto the proofe are to be reiected And therefore wee may not wonder if things succeed not well with that prince that relies too much on the passions of his counsellors whom he should alwayes suspect to be enemies or to malice and hate him to whom they dissuade him to giue audience and the prince ought herein being well assured of his person vse his owne wisedome But let vs returne to our hystorie To pacifie these great quarrels betwixt Philip the Faire king of France Iohn of Henault earl of Holland Guy bishop of Vtrecht and Guy of Dompierre earle of Flanders and his three sonnes the duke of Bourgoigne and some other princes were intercessors and mediators on either side so as in the end an accord was made betwixt them by the which it was concluded That Guy bishop of Vtrecht shold be set at libertie shold be restored to the possession of his bishoprick the which was done That the earle of Flanders with his threesons some princes and noblemen with fortie Flemish gentlemen should be set at libertie by the king the which returned ioyfully into Flanders euerie one to his owne home But the earle after his inlargement grew so sicke as he died the 20 of March 1305 and was buried at Scluce neere vnto the contesse Marguerite his mother Some chronicles of Flanders say that he died at Campeigne in France being yet a prisoner Iohn of Henault Earlé of Holland and Zeeland Lord of West-Friseland hauing aduertisement of the victorie which God had giuen vnto VVilliam earle of Ostreuant his sonne was verie ioyfull and soone after the second day of the ides of September 1305 departed this world in peace and rest after that he had gouerned Henault 30 yeares and Holland and Zeeland c. 5 yeares and was interred at Valenciennes The lady Philip of Luxembourg his wife died soone after and was buried by her husband At the time of the death of the said Cont Iohn there were many noblemen barons knights and squiers that were renowned in the countries of Holland and Zeeland amongst the which the most famous were Guy of Henault lord of Amstel and of Woerden afterwards bishop of Vtrecht brother to the said Cont Iohn Iohn without mercie earle of Ostreuant who was slaine before the death of his father at the battaile of Courtray William who succeeded him in the said earldome of Ostreuant his second son afterwards Earle of Henault Holland Zeeland c. Iohn of Beaumont earle of Blois and of Soissons all three brethren sonnes to the said Cont Iohn of Henault Didier the Gentle lord of Brederode William and Thierry his brethren Didier lord of Theylinghen Iohn of Heusden Iohn lord of Arckel Hugh Butterman lord of Buttersloot Albert lord of Voorne Nicholas lord of Putten and of Stryen Iohn lord of Leck and Polanen Iohn lord of Hencklom Otto lord of of Aspren and Abkoy Ghysbrecht of Yselsteyn Henry vicont of Leyden Didier lord of Wassenare Henry lord of Vianen Nicholas of Persin Didier of Harlem Witten bastard of Holland lord of Hamstede in Zeeland Nicholas of Cats Peregrin lord of Lederdam and of Haestrecht William of Egmond Iohn lord of Elshaut Iohn seignior of Drongelon Didier seignior of Lyenburch Ieams vander Wuoude Gerard of Heemskerke Gerard of Polgeest seignior of Almade Simon of Benthem Wolwin of Sasse Adamâ—… Escosse Baldwin of Naeldwick Floris van Duynen Floris van Tol all knights Among the squiers William of Harlem William of Assendelf Iohn van Zil Nicholas of Adrichom Wouter of Wyck were the most markable with an infinit number of gentlemen of name and armes The yeare before the death of Cont Iohn of Henault there were so great tempests and such tides on a S. Katherines day as many banks and dikes were broken and carried away in Zeeland and the isle of Walchren was so ouerflowne as the countrey men were out of all hope to recouer their banks and if William Earle of Ostreuant who made his vsuall residence in Zeeland and the lord of Borssele had not preuented it at their owne charge this island had beene lost WILLIAM THE THIRD OF THAT name the two and twentieth Earle of Holland Zeeland and Henault Lord of Friseland 22 Guil ielmus 3 Hanoniae Cogn Bonus IOANE daughter to king CHARLES de Valois was thy spouse That brought thee children worthy thy degree and noble house Whereof one did his valour great and vertue show By mounting thee againe when as thy foes did ouerthrow Thee from thy horse whereby at last God did thee send The victorie to honour of the French as then thy friend Thou punishedst a bailife that a poore mans Cow did take And ruling thirtie yeares and one this life thou didst forsake WILLIAM the third of that name before Earle of Ostreuant after the decease of Cont Iohn of Henault his father succeeded and was the 22 Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland vnited to his county of Henault for his mildnesse gentlenesse equitie and good life hee was called The good Earle William Hee was generally beloued of all knights princes noblemen and greatly honoured of all men for his valour he was surnamed The Master of Knights Lord of Princes He had to wife Ioane the daughter of Charls of Valois brother to Philip the Faire king of France by whom he had Iohn his eldest son who died yong VVilliam earle of Ostreuant who was his successor and Lewis who died also yong Marguerite wife to Lewis duke of Bauiere emperour who after the decease of her brother VVilliam was contesse of Henault Holland Zeeland and ladie of Friseland Ioane who was maried to the earle of Iuilliers another Ioane who was queene of England and the fourth Elizabeth At his comming to these earldoms and seigniories he kept open court whither came 20 earles 100 barons 1000 knights and an infinit number of gentlemen ladies and gentlewomen comming from all parts This feast continued eight daies in all kind of sports and pastimes afterwards the princes of Germany did chuse him vicar of the empire He was much renowned throughout al Germanie in respect of two strong castles which he did win neer vnto Cologne that is Bruile Wolmestein He was founder of the chanory of Middlebourg in Zeeland walled in the town fortified it This Cont VVilliam had one brother as we haue said called Iohn of
Beaumont who maried the daughter of the earl of Blois and of Soissons and who by the death of his father in law was in the right of his wife earle of Blois and of Soissons by which lady he had Iohn which succeeded him father to the earls Iohn and Guy of Blois This earle Iohn of Beaumont obtained of the Earle of Holland his brother the towne of la Goude Schoonhouen with all rights duties and appurtenances the which he repaired and fortified the castles to make them his residence In the yeare 1311 Guy of Henault bishop of Vtrecht vncle to Cont William the Good intending to make a fort at Schellinkwerff to bridle the Frisons for the effecting whereof hee sought some firme foundation but being sent for to assist the counsell of Vienna he was interrupted in this worke Being at this counsell pope Clement the fift at the request of Philip the Faire king of France would haue made him cardinall but he refused it desiring rather to liue quietly in his bishopricke of Vtrecht than to be a courtier at Rome After this counsell the king led him with him into France where he assigned him fiue hundred liuers of rent to entertaine him in his friendship and good alliance Being with the king at Pontoise he did mediat an accord and reconciliation betwixt the Earles of Flanders and Holland the which succeeded well and these two princes were by the kings authoritie made good friends Whilest that bishop Guy was in France it was bruted abroad that he was dead and therefore the Frisons of Schellinkwerff hauing taken armes for that the said bishop had pretended to build a fort vpon their limits they went to besiege his castle of Vollenhouen in the country of Oueryssel and did presse it all they could with diuers kinds of batteries The besieged who wanted neither men nor munition defended themselues valiantly with arrowes and slings so as they chased the Frisons out of their suburbs who made a high tower of wood of three stages the which they manned with their best souldiers that from the top of it they might cast and shoot more easily into the fort approaching it within fiue foot of the wal This great tower was couered on the outside with raw hides and by that meanes armed against the fire and below couered with an inclosure against their rammes crossebowes and other engins of batterie with this they laboured to beat downe the chiefe tower of the castle and to keepe the besieged from the walls thinking by that meanes to come easily to the scalado Herman prouost collegiall of Deuenter hearing in what danger his brother the chastelaine of Vollenhouen was went speedily into France to aduertise the bishop into what necessitie the besieged were brought by the Frisons The bishop hauing taken his leaue of the king made no delay vntill hee were returned into Holland where hauing gathered together some troups hee barked to passe into Friseland The besieged of Vollenhouen seeing from their highest tower this fleet of ships at sea knew well that they were succours which came to free them from this siege so as growing more couragious they filled a barrell full of flaxe mixt with lard pitch oyle rosin brimston saltpeter al together the which being kindled they cast into the tower vpon that part that was neerest vnto the wall which was the middle stage the wind driuing it inward did kindle it more and more and dispersed the flames in such sort as the fire did first burne the higher stage then going downeward it consumed all this great building with fiftie Frisons in it the fire preuenting them and such as thought to saue themselues in leaping out of it brake their armes and legs The captaine of the castle who slept not in the meane time sallied forth and fell vpon the Frisons camp the which he put to rout euery man sauing himselfe as he could in the pursute he slew fiue hundred and then returned to his fort This done the Hollanders armie began to approach ioyning to that of the bishops Floris prouost cathedrall of Vtrecht Iohn of Arckel first counsellor to the bishop Didier lord of Brederode and Nicholas Putten barons and of the chiefe of the Earl of Hollands counsell hauing prepared their tents and pauilions they resolued to land the next day in Friseland and to giue battaile vnto the Frisons but the night following there happened so violent a tempest and such stormes of wind and raine as their pauilions were carried away and their souldiers wonderfully tormented and tired with the fowle weather The next day the tempest beeing ceased and the skie growne cleere about noone these noblemen seeing that the wayes being full of water were not passable and that Winter approaching they could not march far into the countrey and much lesse do any worthy exploit they raised their campe imbarkt againe and returned euery man to his home But they had no sooner weighed anker but the people of Friseland sent vnto them to demaund peace offering to repaire the faults that had beene committed by them in this warre and presenting hostages for assurance of their reparation The bishop seeing that they submitted themselues vnto his mercie sent backe the said hostages free after that he had made an accord with them the which was set downe in writing In the yeare 1316 there was so great a famine in Holland that the poore people died for hunger as they went in the streets and going to seeke hearbs and roots in the woods fields they remained statke dead in the wayes they were growne so weake and feeble as they were not able to stand vpon their legges little children were found dead sucking of their mothers breasts neither could there be a greater pitie if the mothers had not deuoured their children During this famine there was a woman in the towne of Leyden who being greatly prest with hunger desired her owne sister to lend her some bread who answered her That she had none in her house the other insisting that she had and intreating her to lend her some If I haue any said she I am content that God shall turne it to a stone She hauing made this execration lying vnto God and to her sister going soone after to her cupboord to reach some bread she found that by a iust iudgement of God all was turned into stone It is not long since that one of these stones was to be seene in S. Peters church in the said town of Leyden After the death of Guy bishop of Vtrecht who died sodainly not without suspition of poison Cont William the Good vnited the seigniories of Amstel and Woerden to the reuenues of Holland where he placed bailifes and other officers for the gouernement of Iustice Saying That what the bishop had inioyed was onely by tolleration for his life in recompence of his patrimoniall portion and that the said seigniories were fallen before to the earledome of Holland for the fellonies and
them of Vtrecht to his seruice they should bee bound to send him fiue hundred souldiers at their owne charge That there should bee a breach made in the wall of twentie foot by the which he should enter into the towne as a Conquerour and that he should haue one street in the said towne at his commaundement the which is at this day called the Hollanders street first a truce was concluded vntill Saint Martins during which time the aboue recited conditions of peace were set downe but they were not effected for that Cont William during the said truce went to make warre in East-Friseland where being entred without order and not knowing the passages of the countrey Iohn of Henault sonne to the Earle of Blois came to the Cloyster of Saint Odolphe where hee planted his campe in a faire plaine called Zuytbeuer on the sea side a part of his Hollanders not staying vntill the rest of the armie were landed went to skirmish with the Frisons chasing part of them into Staueren and the rest into Saint Odolphes where going to set vpon them in their trenches the Frisons defended themselues so couragiously that many of the Hollanders lost their liues there Cont William knowing nothing of this skirmish landed on the North side of the Cloyster and aduauncing with fiue hundred men burnt the first village he found and at the first charge he gaue against the Frisons with his owne hand hee slew a gentleman that was a captaine who had valiantly defended himselfe vnto the death and would neuer yeeld to bee a prisoner The other bands of Frisons seeing this captaine dead and the villages burne fell like mad men with great furie vpon this small troupe of Hollanders whom they defeated and there Cont VVilliam was slame vnknowne before the rest of the armie could aduaunce who marching in disorder were likewise charged The Frisons encouraged the more by the defeat of the first fiue hundred Hollanders and of the Earle their Generall did fight with such great furie and courage as they did put the Armie to rout with such confusion that many were slaine before they could recouer their shippes and there were as many drowned through hast as that saued themselues This vnfortunate encounter happened in the yeare 1346 vpon the foure and twentieth of September in the same place whereas the Earles of Holland were vsually accustomed to hold their seat of Iustice when they came into East-Friseland It was the eight yeare of the raigne of the said Earle Renauld the blacke earle of Gueldres had foretold his death as hee held him at the Font to bee christened by vttering these words This child shall bee one day slaine by the Frisons There were slaine in this defeat of the Hollanders about eighteene thousand men and almost as many drowned with some fiue hundred knights the most apparent whereof were these The Lords of Horne Lygny Walcourt Manin Antoin the Seignior of la Vere Floris of Borssele the Seigniors of Cruningen Romerswael Hamstede Merwede all Barons Gerard with the great beard VVilliam of Naeldwyck Symon and Didier of Meylingen Guido of Aspren Iohn Regnier William of Montfort Didier of Sandtfort Herman of Zwieten Floris of Merwe Oger of Spangen Gerard Euer Alfert of Bergerhorst Nicholas Oom William of Drongen Didier of Valewort and Gerard Florinuille all choice knights with a great number of other Nobles Knights and Gentlemen Tenne daies after this defeat Martin Commaunder of the knights of Saint Iohn in Harlem went into Friseland and sought for the Earles bodie the which beeing knowne by some markes hee caused it with eight other dead bodies of Noblemen to be brought to the cloyster of Fleurchamp neere vnto Boswaert The Contesse Ioan of Brabant his widow went to her father and was maried to Wenselin duke of Luxembourg second sonne to Iohn king of Bohemia of whom we haue formerly spoken Cont William the fourth left one bastard called Daniel vanden Poel the which hee had of a Gentlewoman called Alix vander Merwe of Ghertruydenbergh leauing no other lawfull child that might succeed him the Empresse his sister remaining his sole heire MARGVERITE EMPRESSE THE 24. commaunding in Holland Zeeland and Friseland Contesse of Henault 24 Margarita Imperatrix Earle WILLIAMS sister MARGVERITâ—… the Emperors wife In Holland caus'd contencion and much debate and strife For though vnto her sonne her right she had assign'd With him she still contended for 't nothing could please her mind Her state was great her honour much nâ—… need her draue With him in Holland such continuall strife to haue Which in fiue yeares she was constrained for to leaue To him for that death end of all did her of life bereaue MARGVERITE EMPRESSE THE 24. commanding in Holland Zeeland and Friseland Countesse of Henault LEVVIS of Bauaria Emperor of Romains hearing of the death of Cont William of Holland slaine in warre by the Frisons whose eldest sister he had marryed and had left no children caused the Princes of the Empire to assemble to whom he declared that the Earledomes of Holland and Zeeland and the siegneorie of Friseland for want of heires lawfully begotten of the said William were falne vnto the Empire Wherevpon the Emperor interposing his authoritie for that the Empresse his wife pretended an interest as sole heire to her Brother saying that those fees were as well Feminine as Masculine as it did appeare by the succession which Iohn Earle of Henault had after the death 〈◊〉 Iohn Earle of Holland sonne to Cont Floris the 5. adiudged the said Earledomes anâ—… siegneories to the Lady Marguerite his wife This being done the same yeare 1346. the said Empresse being well accompanied with Princes Earles Barons Knights Ladies and Gentlewomen went downe by the Rhine into Holland where she was honourably receiued in all places with great pompe and acknowledged Lady and Princesse of the said Countries of Holland Zeeland and Friseland Hauing receiued their homages and fealties she did greatlie increase their liberties and freedomes and made a truce for two yeares with the Bishop of Vtrecht She did make forfeit all the goods which the Frisons might haue in her Countries of Holland Zeeland and West-Friseland whereof the Earles had beene long in quiet possession aswell Ecclesiasticall as Temporall the which she sould to diuers persons without any future hope of recouerie or restitution by reason of the death of Cont William her Brother Among other Cleargie goods there was solde the Village and siegneorie of Marcke belonging to the Abbay of Marien-garde of the order of Premonstrez scituated in Friseland which the Abbot and Couent had bought of Nicholas of Persâ—… Lord of Waterlandt This Empresse Marguerite had by the Emperor Lewis of Bauraia her husband one sonne called William which was the eldest Albert the second and Lewis the yongest called the Romaine for that he was borne at Rome during the time of her husbands coronation which three sonnes were all intituled Dukes of Bauaria not that
of May in the said yeare 1417. died William of Bauaria Earle of Holland Zeland Henault and Lord of Friseland of a sore he had in his leg which came with the biting of a mad dogge the which being opened by his chirurgeon did so impaire as it was the cause of his death The said Ladie Iaquiline widow to the Dolphin of France succeeded him in al his siegniories Her father recommending her before his death to his most faithfull seruants requiring them to marry her againe to Iohn Duke of Brabant He was interred at Valenciennes in Henault after he had gouerned his countries the space of 13. yeares The lady Marguerite of Bourgongne his wife daughter to duke Iohn of Bourgongne liued long after him and was interred at Quesnoy in Henault This Cont VVilliam was a seuere man against his rebels and enemies and very courteous affable and kinde vnto his friends a iust and bountifull Prince He had two bastard brethren Albert and VVilliam of Bauaria the which was Lorde of Schagen This William was twise at Ierusalem to see the holy Sepulcher and once at Mount Synay or Saint Catherines Mount in which voiages he was knighted and at his returne made Chastelain or Gouernor of Medemblyck Afterwards the good Duke Philip of Burgongne become Earle of Holland gaue him in West Friseland the seigneories of Schagen Bersinghorne and Harynckhuysen which William caused a goodly castle to bee built in the said village of Schagen and made a great circuit of the countrie to be dicked in and recouered from the sea neere vnto Sype and the village S. Martin calling it Nyelant he had to wife Alix the daughter of Iohn of Hodenpil by whom he had besides daughters three sonnes Albert Seignior of Schagen a knight Iohn Escoutette of Harlem and William He was a very famous and renowned knight all his life time for his vertues and valiant deeds he dyed old in the yeere 1473. His eldest sonne Albert of Schagen had to wife Adrian daughter to the Lord of Nyenrode and Velson by whome hee had one onely daughter named Iasine who was first married to VValter of Egmond Lord of Soetermeer and afterward to Iosse of Borssele Count VVilliam had also three Bastards two sonnes and one daughter Lewis and Euerard knights and Beatrix van Vlyet Euerard was the first seigneor of Hoochtwoud in West Friseland where he caused a goodly house in forme of a castle to be built and had to wife the daughter of Flores van Kyesweck by whom he had Anthonie seignior of Hoochtwoud This Anthonie had to wife Sophia the daughter of Iohn seigneor of Polgeest who bare him fiue sonnes Baldwyn seignior of Hoochtwoud a knight William Gerard Cornellis and Euerard who was a Monke in the Abbie of Egmond and one daughter named Iudeth who was a Nun in the couent of Poel by Leyden This Baldwyn sold the said seigniorie of Hoochtwood for that hee had no children to Iohn the first Earle of Egmond Bâ—…atrix the bastard daughter of count William was first marryed to Philip van 〈◊〉 a knight by whom she had no children afterwards she married againe to Iohn of Woerden siegnior of Vlyet by whom shee had Gerâ—…ard of Vlyet Esquire At that time their flourished among the chieâ—…e of the Nobilitie of Holland and Zeeland Williâ—…m lord of Arckell Wallerand Lord of â—…ederode Earle of Genap William of Brederode Iames lord of Gaesbeck Abcoude Wyâ—…k Putten and Streuen Philip vicont of Leyden lord of Wassenare Iohn and Henry â—…is sonnes Iohn of Egmond and William of Yselstein his brother Philip of Leck Wâ—…lsart of lâ—… Vere Henry of Vianen Ameiden Floris of Borssele lord of Seuenbergh Zuylen and S. Martins dycâ—… Faâ—…er to Franâ—… of Borssele the last husband of Iaqueline countesse of Holland Iames of Borssâ—…le lord of Brigdam and Dâ—…yuelandt Costin of Hemestede and 〈◊〉 of Hemestede Iohn of Cruninghen Iohn of Renesse Hubert of Culenburch Didier of Merwe Iohn of Laâ—…geraeck Didier lord of Henckelom Iohn vicont of Montfort Arnold of Lyenburch Henry of Naeldwyck and his two sonnes Wiliam and Albert squires Didier of Leck Iohn of Hodenpil William bastard of Holland first siegnior of Schagen and his brother Adrian both sons to count Albert of Bauaria â—…rard bastard to count William the first lord of Hoochtwoode and Lewis a knight his brother Iohn of Treslon bastard to Guy Earle of Blois Iohn of Vianen siegniâ—…r of Noordeloos Iohn of Woudâ—… lord of Warmoâ—…t and Alemada Iames of Woude his sons Daniel of Poele Clâ—…wer gouernor of S. Ghertruâ—…denbergh 〈◊〉 of Poelgeeâ—…t and his brother Gerrard Bartholomew of Raphorst Iohn of Hemisted siegnior of Beâ—…thusen Iohn of Vlyet Philip of Dorp Iohn Henry and Ghysbreecht of Croenenburch brethren Flores of Alâ—…mada Gerard of Woert Gerard of Zyl Giles of Cralingen Gerrard of Lyesuelt Floris of Abeele Gerard Conrad Iohn and Arnold brethren of Haerlaâ—…r Frederik of Seuenter Berthold of Assendolse Didâ—…er of Beets all knights Then Iohn of Egmond siegnior of Soâ—…termeer an other Iohn of Egmond siegnior of Wateringh Albert of Egmond of Maremsteyn â—…ugh of Alâ—…mada Herpert of Forest Didier of Assendelf Symon of Burcht Floris of Adricom Gerard vuytten Hage Gerard Potter Baldwin of Wietten Floris of Tol. Herpert of Bossche William Egger first lord and founder of the town of Pourmereinde Iohn his sonne Floris of Kyeâ—…oeck Iohn vander Myer Arnold Spyerinck Nicholas of Waterlandt William Nagle with many other squiers and gentlemen which were to long to number and most of all these noble Famylies are at this day extinct IAQVELINE OF BAVARIA THE 28 Gouernesse in Holland Zeeland and Friseland and Contesse of Henault 2â—… â—…acoba Bauariâ—… Foure times in marriage I my fruite did try Yet could I not increase my Progenie Gorrichom I won gainst William of Arckel In which Exploit three hundred English fell Beneath my Conduct while one day did shine My husbands ransome made me to resigne My Contries to the Duke of Burgondie Ten yeares with paine I sat in soueraigntye And now in one Graue with my Grandfather Peace did my bodye to his rest conferre THE Lady Iaqueline or Iacoba as the Hollanders terme her the daughter and onely heire of VVilliam of Bauaria Earle of Holland c. succeded after the death of her father in all his Earldoms and seigniories She was then widow as we haue said to the Dolphin of France being 17. yeeres old keeping with her mother the Lady Marguerite daughter to Iohn duke of Bourgongne father to Philip. Her fathers obsequies and funerall pompe being ended she was conducted throughout all the townes of Henault whereof she tooke possession and receiued the homages of her subiects and vassals By reason of her widowhood and her youth shee had much trouble in the gouernment of her Contries especially of Holland for that the two factions reuiued againe the Hoeckins holding the Countesses partie and the Cabillautins a contrarie one by reason whereof all the time of her
gouernment shee was much disquieted As soone as the Earâ—…e her father was dead all the banished men and those whom in his life time he had oppressed reioyced amongst others Iohn Lord of Egmond and William Lord of Iselstein brethren who consulted how they might recouer their Landes which the Earle had forfeited The Lord of Iselstein with some troupes hauing intellegence in his towne found the meanes to haue a port opened and entred secretly in the night without any discouerie or opposition yet he could not at that time get the Castle The Lady Iaqueline being then with her mother in Henault during her absence some Noblemen affectionate to her seruice preuailed so with the succors of them of Vtrecht and of Amerssord as they came and besieged the saide Towne of Iselstein At which siege there commanded Walrauen of Brederode and Iohn Vicont of Montfort Befoâ—…e they could be ready for the siege the two brethren of Egmond found meaens to get the castle into the which they shut themselues Those of Vtrecht did much affect this siege knowing that Herman of Lochorst and Iohn vanden Spiegel were also within it and therefore they built certen Bastillions Caualiers and other places for battery foure dayes after that the Campe was planted there almost all the townes of Hollande came with their coullors flying to conquer it Iohn of Bauaria bishop of Leige vncle to the Countesse Iaqueline came thither also with good troupes so as the Towne was besieged on all sides These brethren of Egmond seeing so mightie an armie before them consulted of their affaires so as by the meanes and intercession of Iohn of Heemskerk there was an agreement made with them by the which it was said that the said Lords of Egmond and the banished of Vtrecht should depart out of the towne and castle of Iselstein with bag and baggage the which they should deliuer into the handes of the Lieutenant and deputies of the Countesse of Holland and that all the inhabitantes of the towne aboue thirteene yeares old should take the oath of fealtie and submit themselues vnder her obedience which being done the armie entred into the towne Soone after the lady Iaqueline came out of Henault into Holland who hearing of this victorie obtained vnder her authoritie and in her name thanked her friends who had been carefull of her good Those of Vtrecht desired that the towne might bee giuen unto them to dispose thereof at their pleasure which being too lightly granted not thinking they would vse it in that sort they demanteled the Ports towers and walles and ruined the castle vnto the ground the which did much displease the Nobilitie of Holland And for that those of Vtrecht thought it was two neere a neighbour vnto them the same yeare they had leaue to burne the whole towne except the Church and Monasteries This ruin of Iselstein happened during the Consulate of Wolpert of Amerongen and Didier of Houdam Bourgmasters of Vtrecht Which towne remained thus desolate and ruined without walles vnto the time of Charles the warlike Duke of Burgongne Earle of Holland c. Of whom Frederik of Iselstein afterwards Earle of Buren obtained leaue to repaire it and to build a new castle In the said yeere 1417. the Contesse Iaqueline was in like sort receiued and tooke possession of her inheritance of Holland Zeland and Frise-land as she had been before in Henault To fulfill the will of Cont William her father hauing desired before his death that she should mary again with Iohn duke of Brabant although he were her cosin germaine The said duke hauing intelligence of the death of Cont William went to Gaunt to Duke Iohn of Bourgongne his vncle to whom he vsed some speech of this marriage Wherevpon there was a meeting appointed at Byervlyet whether came the said Duke Iohn Philip Earle of Charolois sonne to Duke Iohn of Bourgongne and many other great Noblemen and Barons The Lady Iaqueline came also with the Lady Marguerite of Bourgongne her mother Aunt to Duke Iohn of Brabant and Iohn of Bauaria bishop of Liege vncle by the fathers side to the said Lady all accompained with great traines of Noblemen There it was determined that the Will of Cont William the father should be fulfilled whereupon a marriage was concluded betwixt the Duke of Brabant and the Countesse of Holland and there they were made sure if the Court of Rome would consent thereunto wherof their were mutuall promises the first day of August the same yeere 1417. and there were letters drawn with a penaltie to be paid by any of the parties that should repent or oppose with other conditions among the which Iohn of Bauaria bishop of Liege should inioy all that which Cont Albert his father and Cont William his brother together with the Ladie Iaqueline his Neece had giuen and confirmed vnto him in consideration whereof they Bishop did consent vnto the marriage and therevpon the Assembly at Byervlyet was dissolued Presently there was a notable Embassage sent in the name of the Duke of Brabant and the Countesse of Holland his spowse to the Councell of Constance to obtaine a dispensation for their marriage notwithstanding the proximitie of blood the which was denyed them for that the Emperour Sigismond and this bishop of Liege crossed it all they could for this bishop had such a conceite and so great a desire to be Earle of Holland as the same yeere in September he went out of Liege and neuer after returned more came to Dordrecht in Holland and sent his deputies to the said councell with an ample Procuration to resigne into the Popes handes his bishopricke of Liege the which he had gouerned 27. yeers and also to hinder the dispensation of the marriage whereof the Duke of Brabant was secretly aduertised by some friends which he had in the said councell of Constance This Iohn of Bauaria hauing left his bishopricke of Leige and being at Dordrecht writ to all the townes of Holland that they should receiue him and acknowledge him for Gouernor and Tutor of the Contesse his Neece being a widow who could not be dispenced withall by the Councell for her marriage shewing that hee did onely seeke the aduancement and greatnesse of his Neece with the preseruation of her Estate But God knowes that he had a contrarie intent to dispossesse her And to that end he caused an assembly to be held at Schonhouen where he made this proposition but it was denied him by the said Ladie his Neece who notwithstanding offered to confirme vnto him what had beene concluded at the foresaid treatie of marriage Iohn of Bauaria seeing himselfe thus refused returned to Dordrecht much discontented where hee made a league with the Cabillautin faction of the which those of Egmond werethe cheef and was acknowledged in the said town of Dordrecht for Tutor and Gouernour of Holland and Zeeland Vpon which support he sent to somon the sayde Ladie to submit
was the first sieigneor of Schagen Euerard of Holland bastard to Cont William father to the Contesse Iaqueline first lord of Hoochtwoode and his brother Lewis Iohn of Vianen siegneor of Noordeloos Didier vander Merwin Gerrard of Poelgeest siegneor of Homede gouernor of Schoonhouen Gerrard of Poelgeest his cousin Giles of Cralinghen Gerrard van Zyl Berthould of Assendelph almost all Knights Iohn vander Leck WilliaÌ„ of Egmond siegneor of Soetermeer Otto of Egmond lord of Merensteyn Gerrard of Hemsted Benthuseyn Iohn of Hodenpyl WilliaÌ„ of Langerack Iames vanden Woode Siegnior of Warment and Alcmada Adrien of Raphorst Gerrard van Vlyet Wouter of Mattenesse Herpert van Foreest Ghysbrecht van Swieten Iohn van Swieten Baliefe of Leyden Gerrard witten-Hage Frederick of Seuenter and Floris of Kishoek whereof some were Knights the rest Squiers and many Gentlemen which were too long to specifie here all valiant soldiers whereof many died in the seruice of their Prince as we shall see in the course of this Historie Among the chiefe families and nobles of Friseland were Otto of Broek Aurick and Emden Sicco Syaerda Wybrandt Hermana Sicco Liaucama Peter Campstra Aelko Campstra bretheren sonnes to Tako Douwe Tyessama Ieâ—…mer op Adeleen Sybrandt Tyaerda Wybet Walta Pibo Eelcxima Wopke In die Stedde Gerrit and Tyaert Iongama Herman Dowwema with an infinite number of other Gentlemen whom in their language they call Houelinghen which is as much to say as Courtiers An end of the 2. Booke 30 Philippus Burgund Cogn Bonus PHILIP DVKE OF BOVRGONGNE Earle of Holland and Zeeland lord of Friseland Duke of Brabant Lembourg and Luxemburg Earle of Flanders Arthois Henault and Namur Lord of Salins and Macklyn The first wife I espous'd was Lady Michell The second lady Bonne the third Isabell When the false Ganthois and the Brugeois â—…re Rebellious armes a peace with France I swore The golden Fleece I first of all deuisde Laide siege at Calais Luxembrough surprisde Subdued Liege In Holland I opprest The league of Hamecons foure and thirty yeares I raignd and Dijeon drunke my funerall teares The Argument of the third Booke PHILIP the first of that name called the good Duke of Bourgongne accompting Ihon of Bauaria Vncle to the Contesse Iaqueline was the 30. Earle of Holland c. the which he wrested 〈◊〉 the said Lady in her life time he takes reuenge of the Ganthois for abandoning him before Calais he was in great danger in Brugeâ—… who in the end were reconciled Warre betwixt the Hollanders Zelanders and the Esterlings The factions of Sceringers and Uetcoopers in Friseland Those of the Hoecks and Cabillaux reuiued in Holland warre betwixt the Duke and the Ganthois Hee disgraceth the two brothers of Brederode wrongfully to aduance Dauid his bastard to the Bishopricke of Utrecht Lewis Daulphin of France comes to the Duke for refuge who afterwards conducts him into France to bee crowned King A quarrell betwixt Arnold Duke of Geldres and Adolph his sonne who deales impiously with his father The Lord of Croy and Launoy hated of the Earle of Charolois Iohn of Koesteyn hauing vndertaken to poison the Earle of Charolois is conuicted and executed A diuision betwixt the Duke and the Earle of Charolois his sonne by reason of them of Croy but in the end reconciled King Lewis the 11. dissembles with the Duke of Bourgongne he sends Ambassadors to him which accuse the Earle of Charolois who answers them brauely A new dislike betwixt the Duke and the Earle for them of Croy. Ciuill warre in France called the warre of the Common-weale The French King and the Liegeois in league against the Duke of Bourgongne The Earle of Charolois goes with an armie against the Liegeois a peace is made Dissembling betwixt the French King and the Earle Those of Santroin and Dynant in the countrey of Liege breake the peace Dynant besieged by the Duke of Bourgongne taken and punished A second peace made betwixt the Duke and the Liegeois The Earle of Charolois marries the lady Marguerite sister to the King of England the death of Duke Philip. The arte of Printing inuented at Harlem in Holland and stolâ—…e away to Mentz PHILIP the first of that name the 30. Earle of Holland and Zeeland and Lord of Friseland sonne to Iohn Duke of Bourgongne slaine at Montereau faut-yonne was at the first Gouernor of those Prouinces as we haue said then by the death of the Lady Iaqueline Countesse of the said Prouinces he was right heire and lawfull successor both by father and mother And so was Duke of Bourgongne Brabant and Lembourg Earle of Flanders Artois Bourgongne Henault Holland Zeeland and Namur Marquis of the holy Empire and Lord of Friseland Salins and Macklyn He did afterwards purchase hauing conquered it by armes in the name of the widow of the deceased duke the duchie of Luxembourg other siegneories so as he was the mightiest Prince of all his Predecessors in the said countries Hee had to his first wife Michelle daughâ—…er to Charles the sixth king of France who dyed without children in the yeere 1422. and lyes buried at Gant Then he married Bonne or Olande daughter to the Earle of Eu by a dispensation from the Pope for that shee had beene formerly married to Philip Earle of Neuers his Vncle the which was a wonderfull faire lady and dyed also without children For his last wife he had Isabell daughter to Iohn King of Portugall Aunt to the lady Elenor who was wife to the Emperour Fredericke the third This Isabell was brought by sea into Flanders and landed at Scluse in the yeare 1430. by whom he had three sonnes the eldest at Brussels in the yeare 1431. called Anthonie who liued not long Then in the yeare 1433. an other sonne called Iosse who died also very yong The yeere following 1434 she was brought in bedde at Digeon in Bourgongne on S. Martins Eue of her third sonne called Charles Martin for that hee was borne the said day There was in this Princesse as some say some thing worthy of obseruation which was that when she tooke her leaue of her father to goe into Flanders to the Duke her spouse the father hauing giuen her his blessing said unto her that she should haue three sons whereof two which she should not nurse her selfe should be short liued as it happened to the two first and therefore shee her selfe gaue sucke vnto the last sonne Charles who after that hee was baptized was made Knight of the golden Fleece and his father gaue vnto him the Earledome of Charlois the siegneories of Bethune in Artois Chasteau-Bellam in Bourgongne and Arkell in Holland This Duke had some bastards among others Dauid bishop of Teroanâ—… and afterwards of Vtretch who did much mischiefe to them of Brederode Cornellis who died in his youth being slaine at the defeat of the Gantois before Ripelmond Anthonie Earle of Steenbergh Baldwin a Knight Philip his Admirall at sea and Iohn
an armie The Duke had also his armie in field of the which the Earle of Estampes was generall who made sharpe warres against the Ganthois in the which they were some-times beaten and did some-times beate the Dukes troopes In the end after a great ruine of townes and destruction of the country of Flanders the Ganthois hauing receiued a great defeate by the succours which the Hollanders sent vnto the duke and afterwards an other where there were slaine 6000. of them vpon the place which was the 23. of Iuly 1453. They sent their deputies the 26. of the said moneth vnto the Duke to aske him forgiuenesse in the name of all the people and the 30. following by the prayers and intercessions of some Noblemen both cleargie and secular they were reconciled vnto the duke vpon certaine conditions who receiued them into grace the warre hauing continued fiue yeares The conditions of this reconciliation by the which the greatnesse of the Ganthois was much impaired and the duke assured for the remainder of his life from their mutinies and all the warres which the Ganthois had had at that time are written at large in the Chronicle of Flanders At that time Adrian of Borsselle Lord of Brigdam Duyuelant Galmeade Somersdyk and Zuyburch married Anne the bastard daughter of duke Philip of Bourgongne by whom hee had one sonne called Cornellis who dyed yong and two daughters Agnes and Anne The Lord of Brigdam was then great Chamberlaine to Duke Philip and afterwards to duke Charles his sonne The 4. of March 1455. died Rodoph of Diephont bishop of Vtrecht hauing gouernd his Bishoprick about 23. yeares After whose death duke Philip sent Cont Ihon of Nassau to the Chapter of Vtrecht intreating them to choose his bastard sonne the bishop of Teroane Arnold Duke of Geldres came in person to sue for Stephen of Bauaria Chanoine of Cologne The Chapter without any respect of the intreatie of two mighty Princes nor of these two competitors chose Ghysbrecht of Brederod their Prouost Cathedral a wise and a vertuous man This election was made ioyntly by them all except Gerard vanden Massche Iohn of Wittenhurst Chanoins who gaue their voice to Stephen of Bauaria yet seeing all the rest were of one minde they yeelded and consented to their election This election did not much please them of the Cabillautin faction in Holland for that those of Brederode were of the Hoekins seeking all meanes to hinder it and sending some of the chiefe among them to Brussels to the Duke of Bourgongne giuing him to vnderstand that if this election were of force and that Ghysbrecht of Brederode remained absolute bishop he was in danger to loose his Earldome of Holland if he did not preuent it by his wisedome For that said they Renowld Lord of Brederode his brother would with his ayde attempt to conquer it vnder a coulour that he vaunts himselfe to be issued from the ancient and first Earles of Holland hauing already purchased many friends in the diocesse of Vtrecht and in East Friseland by whose fauour he might easily seaze vpon the countrie The Duke giuing eare to these false reports beleeued them although that the lord of Brederode was well knowne to be a milde and quiet man who would neuer haue entertained such a thought hauing made it sufficiently knowne vnto his Prince with what loyaltie hee had serued him in his last warre against the Ganthois Vpon these aduertisements the Duke sent the Bishop of Arras to the Pope to presse him to haue the prouision of this Bishoprike of Vtrecht for Dauid his bastard for whom Alphonso King of Arrâ—…gon did also solicite Ghysbrecht the elect bishop had also sent his Ambassadors to desire confirmation thereof whom the Pope held in suspence yet receiuing his annuat or first fruits which was 4000. ducats but hee made them no other dispatch Whilest that these Ambassadors were at Rome the Duke and the Earle of Charolois his sonne came into Holland being resolued to install Dauid bastard of Bourgongne in the bishoprick of Vtrecht by force being at the Hage the Duke kept open court did solemnize the order of the Golden Fleece of the which hee created 26. Knights himselfe making the 27. The Lord of Brederode meant to come vnto this feast but hauing some other lets he went not the which was happy for him for his enemies had laid two ambushes in seuerall places to kill him but his stay disapointed them Another time being come vnexpected to the Dukes court at the Hage his aduersaries laide three ambuscadoes more for him with 500. men but hee departed sodenly and so well accompanied as they durst not attempt any thing returning safe to Vtrecht to his brother that was chosen bishop Those of Vtrecht hearing that the Duke ment to bring his base Sonne into the Bishoprik by force sent him word that their preuiledges and ecclesiasticall orders did not admit a bastard to that dignity The Duke to auoide and make frustrate that obiection obtained a dispensation from the Pope for his bastardise making him legitimate Those of Vtrecht being discontented fortified themselues with men and with all things necessary to resist any attempt Notwithstanding in despight of them and those of the house of Brederode hauing obtained from the Pope prouision of the sayd Bishoprick for Dauid his bastard hee forced Gysbrecht that was chosen Bishop to compound with him and to yeeld vp his bishoprik to Dauid Vpon condition that he should remaine Prouost Cathedrall and Prouost of Oudt Minster in Vtrecht and Prouost of Donas in Bruges and that yearely during his life hee should haue an Annuall pension of 4200. florins of gold out of the bishoprike of Vtrecht and for the charges hee had beene at by reason of his election 50000. Lyons of gold For the performance of all which conditions the duke of Cleues stood bound in the name of the duke of Burgongne who by reason of this accord entred with his base sonne Dauid into the towne of Vtrecht and put him in possession But those of Deuenter and other townes of the contry of Oueryssel which is the high diocesse of Vtrecht opposed themselues and would not acknowledge Dauid for their prince pastor vntil the duke besieging Deuenter forced them thervnto Whilest that the Duke held the said towne of Deuenter besieged Lewis Daulphin of France fell in disgrace with King Charles the 7. his Father beeing much perplexed and doubtfull for a time whether he should retier himselfe to the King of England or not But hee thought it best to goe vnto his couzin Duke Philippe of Bourgongne taking his waie towards Brusselles with a small trayne which made the duke yeelde to a composition sodenly with them of Deuenter that hee might go and receiue him This Prince was so honorably entertained feasted and treated as hee remained fiue yeares in the Dukes Court vntill the death of the King his Father hauing an
king Philip his sonne and giuing him his last blessing hee imbraced him and bad him farewell as hee did all the princes and noblemen then he imbarked with the two queenes his sisters and sayled towards Spain where they arriued in a short time hauing a prosperous wind Hauing rested some dayes in the citie of Valladolit he made choice for his retreat of a Monasterie of S. Ierosme the Hermit situated in Estremadura not farre from Placence an vnfrequented place and fit to meditate on heauenly things being retired from all wordly cogitations whither he caused himselfe to be conducted to passe the rest of his daies there which were not aboue two yeares spending his time in holy and godly workes and giuing himselfe wholly to a contemplatiue life And for that he would bee the better able to spend his time in prayers and the seruice of God hee would haue his sisters liue from him at Valladolit that they might not trouble him he reserued but 100000 crownes a yeare to himselfe whereof he imployed only 4000 for his diet and entertainment the rest he appointed to marry yong maids to relieue widowes and orphanes and for other workes of charitie as befits a good and Christian prince D. GShilippus Rex Catholicus PHILIP OF AVSTRIA THE SIX AND thirtieth Earle of Holland Zeeland c. the second of that name duke of Brabant c. Earle of Flanders c. By true and right discent of Holland I am Lord And of the wealthie Netherlands vnited by accord But cruell counsell of th' Inquisition Was cause that did procure their woe and great destruction Loue burning in my brest did me his subiect make And moued me foure seuerall wiues one after other take My cousin last of them a sonne onely did leaue Of tender yeares when cruell death did her of life bereaue THE EIGHT BOOKE The Argument THe birth of Philip the second of that name king of Spaine Pope Paul the fourth seeks occasions to make war against him who sends the duke of Alua for his generall King Philip giues the order of the Golden Fleece at Brussels A great famine in the Netherlands in the yere 1536 1537. S. Quintines besieged by the Bourguignons the French thinking to releeue it are defeated The â—…onstable of France and many noble men are prisoners and in the end the towne is taken by assault Ham and â—…hastelet yeelded Calais besieged by the French and yeelded by the English to the duke of Guise with Guines â—…hich was taken by assault and the castle of Hames abandoned Theonuille yeelded to the French Aaclon taken and burnt by them with the townes of Winox-Berghe and Dunkerke The same French men vnder the marshall 〈◊〉 Termes are defeated in battaile neere vnto Grauelingue The death of the emperour Charles the fifth to when his brother Ferdinand king of Romanes and Hungarie succeeded About the same time died the queens Dowaers of France and of Hungarie the emperours sisters with Marie queene of England to whom her sister Elizaâ—…eth succeeded A peace betwixt France and Spaine by mariages The king of Spaines mariage turned into teres by the death of Henry the second the French king ¶ Marguerite of Austria bestâ—…d to the emperour Charles the fifth duchesse of Parma succeeds the duke of Sauoy in the gouernment of the Netherlands The kig of Spaines last departure out of the said countries The death of George of Egmont bishop of Vtrecht to whoâ—… succeeded Frederic Schenck of Taulenburch who was the last bishop A subtill bringing in of the Spanish Inâ—…isition into the Netherlands by the creation of new bishops An abstract of the life of cardinall Granuellet A diuision betwixt the chiefe noblemen of the countrey The earle of Egmont sent into Spaine touching the trobles that were like to grow and what answer he brought Letters from the Gouernesse to the counsellors of the pouinces touching the edicts and the Inquisition The prince of Oranges answere to the Gouernesse The first beâ—…inning proceeding and effects of the Inquisition An enterview of the noblemen of the countrey A discourse â—…ewing the meanes to redresse the troubles An assembly of the nobilitie at the mariage of the prince of Parmain Brussels and afterwards at Saint Truden to preuent the troubles their compromise and confederation A petition made by them of Brabant to the king of Spaine to preuent the troubles A petition made by the nobilitâ—… against the bloudie edicts and the Inquisition The Duchesse answere thereunto and all her practises to circumâ—…nt them and disioine them as she did The first defeat of the Protestants in the Netherlands Tournay made sâ—…biect by practise Valenciennes besieged battered and yeelded The defeat of Austruel The negotiation of the lord of Brederode in Amsterdam who retires into Germanie and so dothe the prince of Orange The death of the Marques of Berghen in Spaine An apologie made by the Protestants of the Netherlands touching the cause and beginning of the troubles PHILIP of Austria the thirtie sixth Earle of Holland and Zeeland the second of that name Lord of Vtrecht Friseland Ouerissell and Groningen the onely sonne of Charles the fifth Emperor of Romanes and of the lady Isabella daughter to king Dom Emanuel of Portugall He was borne the 21 day of May in the yere 1527 at Valiodolit in Spain where he was nourished and bred vp for the space of twentie two yeares vntil that in the yeare 1549 the emperour his father sent for him to come into the Netherlands to haue made him aswel his successor in the empire if it had been possible as of all his other kingdoms and Belgicke prouinces whereof the emperour as we haue said in the former booke disrobed himselfe and put him in full possession thereof in his life-time The emperour beeing retired into Spaine to a solitarie and a contemplatiue life king Philip his sonne began to order and settle the gouernment of the Netherlands making Eâ—…nuel Philibert duke of Sauoy lieutenant-generall of his armie And hauing sent thomaâ—… ques of Pesquaire before to take possession of the realme of Naples in his naine hee 〈◊〉 â—…oice of Dom Fernando Aluares of Toledo duke of Alua to be his viccroy there And foâ—…ch aâ—… at that time the war against the French began to grow more violent he commanded the dukâ—…â—…o depart presently out of the Netherlands and to go into Italie giuing him charge to stay soâ—…e time at Milan and to dispose of matters concerning the warre In the which the duâ—… of Alâ—… as generall for the Spanyard and Francis of Lorraine duke of Guise for the French king wâ—… small honor and reputation This war of Italie was attempted by king Philip against the popâ—… in whose succour Henry the 2 the French king sent the duke of Guise with an armie whiâ—… war for that it doth not concerne our hystorie of the Netherlands we will omit and refer tâ—… curious reader to them that treat of that subiect This Summer
married before his departure in Spaine but one daughter that died very young After his death his wife maried the lord of Floyon of the house of Barlamont and after earle of Barlamont who after her death maried with the onely daughter and heire of the earle of Lalaine These lords manner of life and Religion could not escape the Spanish furie although they were most earnest and good catholickes the marquesse of Berghen being so earnest therein that he commaunded all catholicke offices to be performed within his gouernment and caused the children of those of the reformed Religion to be baptised againe neither yet could the intercession of the emperour the princes of Germany and others preuaile any thing therein Touching the liues actions and seruices of these lords done for the king and the benefite of the Netherlands many men in other countries round about were of opinion that they only were the principallest instruments both by counsell and action of the kings good and prosperous proceedings victories and greatnesse and that his affaires through his father the emperours crosses in Germanie and his weakenesse of bodie being at an ebbe were by theirs and other Netherlanders means so much furthered and aduanced that thereby they brought Fraunce to graunt to so good and an honourable peace in his behalfe But it was their euill fortunes that they were too well beloued and fauoured of the common people and by their vpright and good seruices together with other Netherlanders had gotten ouer-great credite and report in euery place whereby they had not onely mooued and enticed the people to yeeld great tributes taxes tallages and honours vnto the king but also procured great seruices to be done for him in other countries as in Germany c. And when the king with his counsell in Spaine had fully resolued to bring the Netherlands vnder full obedience and subiection by the Inquisition and other strange deuices brought into it and other countries whether it were of zeale vnto the Romish catholicke Religion or that he ouer-much desired his owne profite and greatnesse hee sought and expected from those lords that they should and would vse and put in practise their authoritie and power aforesaid among the common people as they had done before wherein they did not acquite themselues so well as the vnexperienced counsellors in Spaine concerning the affaires of the Netherlands desired and expected they should haue done which the said lords esteemed to bee cleane contrarie vnto the kings seruice and the profit of the Netherlands as also thinking it to bee a thing vnreasonable for them to withstand and contrary their owne friends kindred countrey lawes and priuiledges knowing better than they of Spaine wherein the profit and commoditie of the Netherlands and consequently the aduancement of the kings honour and seruice chiefely consisted esteeming it vnpossible to hold and maintaine a people that had alwaies liued in freedome in peace and quietnesse by such odious kind of rigour as the proclamations and the Inquisition brought in and inflicted vpon them For which cause they seeing the proceedings of their neighbour countries sought to procure and induce the king to a necessarie kind of altering or moderating of his pretended course by diuers and seuerall meanes for the maintenance and preseruation of the catholicke Romish Religion which otherwise stood in great danger to be ouerthrowne which disliked and much displeased the king and his counsell and was the matter of Treason as the Spaniards supposed for the which they must die others measuring their actions by another way esteemed and iudged them both by God and mans law to haue iustly deserued to die for that in so good 〈◊〉 cause wherein so much consisted the honour of God Religion the countries welfare and the kings profit they were not more vigilant carefull prouident and earnest than they had beene but through feare and suspition of the kings carelesnesse beeing badly informed by the enemies of the countrey suffered themselues to be easily carried away and to let such cases of importance as the abolishing of the proclamations for the assembling of the States and such like priuiledges graunted in times past to be taken away from the Netherlands by prouiso whereby they made the other lords and gentlemen become faint hearted and partly holpe and assisted to persecute them contrarie to their owne promises wils and consciences seeing and knowing wherein the honour of God the Religion the countries welfare and the profite of the king most consisted better than any other counsellors about him did as time it selfe hath sufficiently made manifest and declared Some others argued to the contrarie excusing them That they thereby hoped to pacifie the kings wrath when he should see and perceiue the obedience of his subiects and the weightinesse of the cause together with the daungers therein consisting and so might be mooued to a softer and more conuenient remedie Wherein also they were much deceiued which the prince of Orange and others had sufficiently foretold them as that they would bee the bridge and onely instrument vpon the which and wherewith the Spaniards would enter into the Netherlands counselling and aduising them rather to kepe all strangers out of the land vntill the king by aduice of the generall States should be better counselled Generally euery man esteemed that the king could reape no good nor profit by the rigor and crueltie that he had vsed against those earles and other noblemen and gentlemen but be a meanes to breed much hatred euill will and desperation among the people towards him which since hath cost many mens liues and consumed a great masse of treasure These were the common and generall opinions of all well experienced persons in matters concerning estate in other princes countries and courts touching their deaths Cont Lodowic of Nassau hauing gotten the victorie against Cont Arembergh and the Spaniards diuided his armie into two with the which he went to besiege Groningen a great and mightie towne in the countrey of Friseland not without great admiration of all men how hee durst with so few men and so little munition attempt such a towne whereas the earle of Meghen was with eighteene ensignes of Germanes and a thousand Spaniards and Curio Martinengue with three hundred horsemen The besieged made many braue sallies and among others one on the two and twentieth of Iune in the which the earle of Nassau lost aboue two hundred men seeking to hinder them from building of a fort betwixt two riuers In the meane time Chiapin Vitelli marshal of the campe to the duke of Alua gathered together what men he could with the which he aduanced whilest that the duke prepared to rayse the siege Chiapin camped on the one side of the towne not farre from Cont Lodowics Protestants who sent to offer him battaile but he excused himselfe The duke of Alua sent to entreat the emperour in the king his masters name that he would commaund the earle of Nassau to leaue the siege
men whom they carried away and among others the seignior of Laten gouernour of Middlebourg was hurt vpon the dike with a falcon shot from the Zeelanders ships which lay at anker right against them whereof he died soone after They left also one of their peeces of ordnance the which was carried by the souldiers into the Zeelanders trenches The same day the seignior of Boisot arriued at Flessingue being appointed gouernor there by the prince of Orange after the death of the seignior of Berlant And the 14 day did also arriue there the lord of Lorges son to the earle of Montgomery with about 200 harguebusiers French braue souldiers and well armed who parted the next day to go vnto the prince About that time doctor Iunius gouernor of la Vere and the seignior of Boisot gouernor of Flessingue thought to execute an enterprise which had bin long secretly practised vpon Middlebourg with a master gunner of the same towne who bragged that he had two or 300 bourgers which fauoured this designe which was that the said gouernors should come and lye in ambush with their men in a garden neere vnto the towne and at the same instant an allarum should be giuen both by sea and land at Arnemuyden causing it to be giuen out that the forces which they had gathered together were to assail Arnemuyden to whose succor in such occurrents there vsually went two or three companies of the garrison of Middlebourg and then the gate next vnto the ambush which they called the port of Dam should be opened by the said gunner and his adherents hauing first made a signe to them that should bee in the garden To execut this enterprise there went out of Flessingue about 9 of the clocke at night 1000 or 1200 men gathered out of all the neighbor garrisons who went and lodged themselues in the said garden and were not discouered And to the end they might the better discouer the signe that shold be giuen them they set 14 or 15 men in centinel in a burnt house betwixt the town and the said garden the which was also done without discouery About foure of the clocke in the morning the allarum was giuen at Arnemuyden both by sea and land and presently they heard the drums sound in Middleburg to go succor them so as before 6 of the clock 2 companies were gone forth the 3 prepared to follow The centinel that was sent out of this burnt house to discouer about the port being wearie with staying so long seeing two or three men come foorth returned to the said house whereas the others that had remained there sent two of their companie to the garden to see if their troupes were yet there but beeing discouered by them of the town of Middlebourg they began to cry arme arme at which cry the companie that was readie to goe forth ran to the rampar and the others that were gone were called backe againe and so this enterprise was made frustrat If hee that commanded the centinels a member of the garrison of la Vere had well plaid his part it was likely the enterprise would haue proued very successefull The first of Iuly about eleuen of the clocke in the forenoone captaine Pellican and Cornellis Mathew with either of them a souldier went out of Harlem by the port Zyel and came into a place whereas they did white clothes to conferre with some Spanish captains and their prouost generall Who said vnto them That their colonell desired to speake with the gouernours and commanders that were in the towne as they did the same day at fiue of the clocke in the euening Then there came the earle of Ouerstein with foure of his captaines and the bourgmaster Iohn van Vlyet with the captaines Steenbach Rossigny and Pellican who conferred together about halfe an houre betwixt the little wood and the watergate but they could not resolue any thing The next day the Spaniard planted all his artillerie against the towne he shot furiously at the tower of Pin and at Rauenstein so as the tower and the wal were beaten downe they shot violently among the houses and the tower on S. Katherines bridge was beaten downe then they brought into the ditch two floating bridges to goe vnto the assault but they that brought them were so roughly entertained as twentie of them were left vpon the place That day the besieged hung a blacke cloth out at their steeple to let the prince of Oranges ships vnderstand in what miserie the towne was the which they did againe two dayes after The fourth day there returned a pigeon with a letter from the prince who promised to come and succor them the night following Whereupon the souldiers of the towne attending howerly his succors gaue a camisado but nothing appeared The fifth day the besieged entred againe into conference with the Spaniard whereas there were six of either side For Dom Frederic came the earle of Bossu the earle of Ouerstein and foure others for the towne the bourgmaster Iohn van Vlyet the captaines Steenbach Rossigny Sohay Pellican and Cornellis Mathew but they could not agree the souldiers refusing to depart without their armes The same day the princes ships shewed themselues to them of the towne whereof the besieged being verie ioyfull went out in great numbers to second them The Spaniards seeing this gaue the allarum at the bulwarkes which made the souldiers returne againe to defend their rampars from whence they chased the Spaniards and that day were made the eight last shot of ten thousand two hundred which had beene discharged against the town during the siege The eight day there returned a pigeon with a letter from the prince promising to come the night following to succour them that his ships should giue a false allarum at Fuyck but his whole armie should come on the side of the wood Hereupon the besieged made a sally with about two thousand men meaning to fall vpon some of the enemies quarters but this designe was broken which made the besieged to faint and to bee out of hope The ninth day there came another pigeon aduertising them that the princes armie had bin defeated at Mannepat comming to succour them vnder the command of the baron of Battembourg lieutenant to the prince in which defeat the said baron and the seigniour of Clotingen and Carloo were slaine These newes being heard in the towne some captaines commanded their souldiers to be readie to depart the towne wherein they would leaue onely the women and children But this being vnderstood by the women they assembled all together making the most pitifull cries and lamentations that could bee heard the which would haue moued a heart of flint so as it was not possible to abandon them The tenth day the besieged prepared to forsake the towne so as it was ordained that seuen companies should make the foreward and nine the rereward that in the battaile the bourgesses and sworne companies should
for that the dich was sixty foote broad and aboue 24. foote deepe the assault was hard to bee giuen but the diligence willingnes and forwardnes of the soldiars was so great as the Earle of Leicester resolued to giue an assault appointing the Earle of Hohenlo with the Dutches and Scots to begin and Sir Iohn Norris with the Englishmen and freezlanders to second them which they within perceiuing sent word to the Earle of Leicester that they would yeeld vp the towne vpon certaine conditions which were denied them whervpon they yeelded themselues only with sauegard of their liues and the captaines and officers to remaine prisoners and presently Sir Iohn Borowes and Sir William Stanley entered into the towne Sir Iohn Borrowes being made gouernor thereof After that to draw the Prince of Parma from Berck the Earle of Leicester marched towards Zutphen one of the 4. principall townes of the Duchy of Guelders and yet of it selfe is an Earledome and hath a speciall gouernment within it beeing a very strong and a good towne and for that hee had intelligence that the towne had no great store of victualls within it he was in good hope to win it or els to force the Prince of Parma to come thether as after he did Within it there lay Iohn Baptista Taxis a braue soldiar lieutenant to Verdugo gouernor of Friseland for that this town lieth vpon the riuer of Issell and by that means troubled the passage into the riuer of Velue and Holland the states long before had made a sconce vpon the other side in the Veluwe but by reason of high floods they were forced to leaue it they of Zutphen tooke this sconce and made it stronger raysing two bulwarks and 4. sconces hard by it which sconce they of Holland 2. yeares before had besieged ten months togither but could not win it so were compelled to suffer the enemy to ouerrun and spoile the Veluwe The Earle of Leicesters forces being somewhat more increased he brought his army along by the riuer right before Zutphen and vpon the 18. of September made a bridge of boates ouer the riuer within lesse then halfe a mile from the towne taking certaine gentlemens houses as Hackvoort Voorden While the army was thus busied the Earle of Leicester went to Deuenter wheras then they began to mutine would not liue friendly with thē where by means of bishop Trucse he got 400. foote and 200. horse to enter into the towne and beeing there newes was brought him that the Prince of Parma had left Berck wherevpon hee made hast to returne vnto his army which he presently caused to bee more strongly intrencht towards Zutphen The Prince of Parma fearing that the Earle of Leicester might do some thing against Zutphen and finding that Berck was to well prouided hauing taken the Island lying before it in the Reine and made it strong raised other sconces about it all wel furnished vpon the 12 of September he departed from thence marched to Weesel and tooke Burick a smal towne in Cleaueland and the castle and there made a bridge of ships and so past ouer to the other side and being ouer made certaine sconces to keepe both the bridge and his passage and went to Bunckloo from whence he sent certaine victuals into Zutphen going himself in person with his vantguard which the Earle of Leicester knowing that the towne was not yet fully victualled he thought the next time they victualled it to set vpon the conuoy whervnto he appointed Sir Iohn Norris Sir William Stanley with certaine foote and others with some troupes of horsemen The 22. of September in the morning betimes the Prince of Parma caused more victuals to be sent vnto Zutphen with the same conuoy of his vantgard as they had before being 6. or 700. horse and 2000. pikes and musketiers They staying in a strong place by a village called Warn suelt halfe a mile from the towne and so let the cartes and wagons passe along which being discouered by a troope of 30. horse Sir Iohn Norris the Earle of Essex the Lo. Willoughby Sir William Stanley Sir Philip Sidney Sir William Russel and others road thether with about 200. horse and 1500. musketiers and pikes meeting with their enemies before they expected them by reason it was then very misty they of the Prince of Parmaes side led by the Marquis of Guast vpon their watch-word giuen beganne to shoot furiously out of their ambuscadoes being a place of great aduantage as if it had bin a sconce which they on the Earle of Leicesters side manfully withstood not any one once retyring out of his place to the no little amazement of the enemy which beeing past the enemy not knowing how strong the Englishmen were and perceiuing them to aduance they sent out a cornet of horse vnder the leading of captaine George Cressier an Albanois which was presently ouerthrowne and the captaine himselfe taken prisoner after that they sent Count Hanibal Gonzaga with his cornet of horse the which was likewise valiantly charged put to rout and part therof slaine and he himselfe slaine or deadly wounded they pursewed the rest close vnder their shot where the third cornet made show to come to charge them but it being likewise driuen backe they parted one from the other in regard that the Prince of Parma began to send more men to strengthen them The Spaniards had a hundred men slaine and wounded on the English part were slaine and hurt about thirty men whereof one was Sir Philip Sidney being shot into the thigh as he changed horses whereof he died within fiue and twenty daies after A yong lerned wise valiant gentel-man very for-ward whose death was much lamented hee was gouernor of Flessing and the Earle of Leicesters sisters sonne his bodie was conuaied into England and honorably buzied with in the Cathedrall church of Saint Paul in London wherevpon the Englishmen not knowing how strong the enemy was with-drew themselues vnto their campe and so did the Prince of Parma vnto his The Earle of Leicester sought to get the sconses before Zutphen and layd his campe in the veluwe vpon the Issell there beeing an Island that lyeth right ouer against the towne from whence some-times men might goe dry-foote to the towne which was kept but by thirty men in a small sconce he caused it in the night time to be assailed and taken killing some and taking others of the soldiars prisoners the rest saued themselues by flight This Island he caused to be fortified and made stronge and so brought his campe before the sconses by Zutphen making a bridge from the land to the Island for that from that Island he could hinder and keepe backe any aide that should be sent out of the towne to the sconces and presently made his plat-formes and planted his Ordinance which being certified to the Prince of Parma and that the Island
had yet not contenting him-selfe with the Magistrate and people of the said towne which is one of the Hans Imperial townes held immediatly of the Empire and that they had freely and willingly receiued him for their protector and in respect thereof did giue him an annuell pension or gratuity he sought by all meanes to make them his Vassalls yea rather his slaues and to depriue them of all their Imperiall priuiledges granted by so many good Emperors taking violently from them their ancient liberties and freedomes But in the end he reaped little honor lesse profit of all his attempts surcharging his poore subiects of the champian country to maintaine his attempts against the said towne But let vs finish this busines Among the said papers there were some found making mention of this enterprise and how it should be managed whereby the Maigistrat knew plainely what the Earles practise and intent was which made them seeke to seze vpon the partisans of this conspiracy wherof some fled and left the towne wherevpon the Maigistrate was induced although that the towne were greatly charged to giue order to the captaine to leuy 300. men at their charge writing vnto Cont Willian Lewis of Nassau gouernor of the contries of Freezeland and Groning for the Estates that it would please him for their preseruation if neede required to assist them with some men to be redy at hand The said gouernor not onely granted them but he also caused some of the captaines of the neighbor garrisons to discharge some of their men who were presently entertained by them of Emden so long as this trouble continued which was to the end of May and was appeazed by the death of the Cofrer and of Iohn Groenen who were beheadded and by the banishment of some other prisoners whereof some were condemned in great fines Then the Earle tooke occasion to complaine of them of Emden to the Imperial chamber accusing them to haue broken the contract where-vpon he obtayned a commission of adiornement the which was signified vnto them to appeere in the said chamber the 16. of August the same yeare 1598. At which day he propounded for a complaint among other things that they of Emden had with the soldiars of the vnited Prouinces made an irruption vpon the lands and iurisdictions of Marienhoue Visquart Prostthumb and other places to haue taken many prisoners to haue put to death Iohn Groenen and Iohn Kemps after they had greeuously tortured them to haue vnworthely intreated his two sonnes the Earles Iohn and Christoper being at Emden with his instructions and by his commandement to haue vsed a notary ill to haue forced a new oth from the youth of the towne with other points where-vpon the Earle and they of Emden entred into new quarrells one against another and the ould were reuiued of the issue wherof we will treat in the yeare following We haue made mention of an Edict made by the King of Spaine at Pardo by the which he dispensed with him-selfe not to pay his debts retaynâ—…ng all his assiguations vpon his reuenues giuen by him in payment vnto Marchants which had furnished him with great summes But now meaning to discharge his conscience better and fealing him-selfe at the graues brinke hee made another contract of the 14 of February this yeare 1598. with Hector Pocamillo Ambrosio Somola Francisco de Maluenda and Iohn Iacomo Grimaldi hauing ample Procuration from all the other Marchants who dad negotiated with his Maiesty for the lending of mony By the which contract hauing first excused him-selfe for that which was giuen at Pardo he confirmes the assignations giuen by him vpon the said demaynes vpon condition that for an ouer plus and new Loane they should furnish him with the summe of seauen millions and two hundred thousand ducatspaiable euery moneth two hundred and fifty thousand ducats to the Archduke Cardinall Albert to defray the charges of the warre in the Netherlands and that for the space of 19 moneths whereof the first paiment should be expired the last of Ianuary the said yeare 98. making for the Netherlands foure millions and a halfe The rest to be payed in his realme of Spaine or else where at his good pleasure And by this meanes the King of Spaine being resolued to giue his daughter the Infanta vnto the Cardinall Albert would shew that he would not leaue him in need of mony for the continuance of the warre against the vnited Prouinces There is in Flanders a fort called Patience which a Wallon corporall in the yeare 1595. deliuered vnto the Estates of Zeeland there were this yeare some French men in garrison in this fort who dealing after the same manner with the Estates sold it and deliuered it vnto the Spaniards In the midest of Aprill the Duke of Writembergh Earle of Montbeliard sent an ambassador to the vnited Prouinces to demande that his subiects might trafficke freely vnder their safe conduct throughout the Netherlands by the riuer of Neckar which descends into the Rhine and that they would furnish him with some sufficient man for riuers and waters to make the said riuer of Neckar more nauigable His demand was granted touching the commerce and with the Ambassador there was sent on Iohn Bradley a man very expert in water works The 9. of Iuly the town of Calais was restored to the French King into the hands of the Earle of S. Pol and the Siegnor of Viques who was made Gouernor entring into it with 2000. men after that the artillery and munition had beene drawne forth according to the contract and sent to S. Omer The Spanish troupes within Ardes and Dourlans being mutined for their pay made some difficulty for a time but in the end they were pacefied and went out in August following the like did they of Monthulin Chastelet and la Capelle in Tyerash But Blauet was not so soone yeelded vntill that the Duke of Merceur was reconciled vnto the King treating the marriage of Caesar Monsieur the kings Bastard and Duke of Vendosme with this Dukes daughter wherevpon Blauet and all other places which had beene held in Brittane in the name of the Infanta of Spaine were yeelded The King of Spaine finding his strength and helth to decay daily being desirous to see an end of the resolution which hee had taken to giue the Lady Isabella his eldest daughter in marriage to the Archduke Albert his Nephew although he were aduanced to great Ecclesiasticall dignities and namely to the rich Archbishoprike of Toledo he called in his presence in the towne of Madril the 6. of May Prince Philip his only sonne being about 20. yeares old being accompanied by Don Gomes d' Auila Marquis of Vellada gouernor and Lord Stuard of Prince Phillips house Don Christophel de Mora Earle of Castel-Rodrigo great commander of Leon all three councellors of State and Nicholas Damant Knight councellor President and Chancellor of Brabant with the secretary for
of Horne put to death by the Duke of Alua 451 Earle of Rheneberg falls from the Estates and deliuers Groning to the Spaniard 734. his death 776. Earle of Warax defeated and slaine at Tournhout 1126 Earle of Hohenlo vide Philip. Earle of Egmont vide Lamoral Earle of Egmont vide Philip. Edict against them of the religion 253. A second against them 257. the third 267. a forth 273 Edict perpetuall and accord made by Dom Iuan and sent to the Estates of Holland and Zeland 624. Edict of Proscription against the Prince of Orange 763 Edict made by the generall Estates of the vnited Prouinces against the King of Spaine 782. Effigies of the Duke of Alua in the Citadell of Antwerpe 437 Eindouen in Brabant wunne by the Spaniard 773. taken for the Duke of Aniou 810. yeelded againe to the Spaniard 824. Emanuell Philibert Duke of Sauoy made Gouernor of the Netherlands 320 Emenesse reuolts from the Bishop of Vtrecht 102. burnt by the Hollanders 196. spoyled by the Spaniard Emperor sends succors to the Earle of Holland to subdue Friseland 14 Enterprise to take the Duke of Alua 445 Enchuysen the first towne in Holland which refused the tenth penie 480 Enterprise of the Duke of Parma vpon Cambray 1024. vpon Dyest 803. of the Zelanders vpon Tertolen 508. of the Estates vpon Bourbrouc 791. of Philip Earle of Egmont vpon Brusselles dishonorable 706. vpon Arschor 803. of the male-contents vpon Gand 743. of the Estates vpon Lille 771. of Prince Maurice vpon Mastricht 1056. of the Spaniaâ—…ds vpon Steenwyke 1126. of the Groningers vpon Delfzyel 1076. of the Duke of Aniou vpon Antwerpe 812. of La Motte vpon Ostend 876. vpon Zibrick 915 Ernest Archduke of Austria Gouernor of the Netherlands for the King 1076. hee seekes to purge himselfe for Renichons attempt 1079. his death 1102 Earnest Earle of Solms prisoner wounded and dyes 1104 Escouedo the Secretarie animates Dom Iuan 641. Estates of all the Prouinces seeke to assure them-selues of Antwerpe 595. they Print their Iustifications against Dom Iohn 647. they seeke succors 648. they haue three seuerall Campes 650. their Armie defeated neere Gemblours 654. their great Armie at Remenant 662 Estates of the vnited Prouinces resolue for their preseruation 587. they demand succours in England 588 they begin to distrust Dom Iohn 644. they declare the King of Spaine fallen from the Soueraigntie of those Prouinces and take vpon them the gouernment 782 Extract of the life of Cardinall Granuelle 344. Execution of rigorous Edicts in the Netherlands 353 Extract of the King of Spaines Letters to the Duchesse of Parma 408 Executions done by the Duke of Alua 449. Enschede yeelds to Prince Maurice 1132 Elector of Mentz answer to Cardinall Andrew 1205 Enterprise vpon the towne of Flushing discouered 1262 Enterprise to sacke and ouer-runne Antwerpe 1264. Estates troupes made an Incursion into Luxemborg 1292 Embden demands ayde of the vnited Prouinces against their Earle 1294 Erkelens taken and spoyled by Cont Henry of Nassaw 1366 Emperor writes to the vnited Estates touching the borders 1303 Estates of the vnited Prouinces prepare for warre 1321 Enterprise made by Prince Maurice vpon the riuer of Scheld which proued vnfortunate 1341. Emperour sends to the Hage for a Pasport for his Ambassadors to treate of a league or peace 1343 Estates refuse and denie the Emperors request 1343. Earle of Hertford sent Ambassador from England to the Archdukes 1349 Enterprise by the Spaniards vppon Berghen 1348. Enterprise vppon Graue quickly discouered 1349. Enterprise vpon Sluys ill performed by the Spaniards 1355 Estates perswade Prince Maurice to releeue Rhinberck 1363 Enterprise vpon Venlo ibid. Earles of Brouck murthered by the Spaniards 1366 F FAction of Schieringers and Vetcoopers in Frisland long and dangerous 75 Faction of Hoockins and Cabillaux in Holland 98 Factions reuiue in Holland 146 Factions in Frisland demaund succors for the Duke of Saxony 218 Factions in the Religion at Vtrecht 1057 Faction barbarous of the Admirall of Arragon to summon a neutrall place 1174 Flemings chased out of the I le of Walchren 56 defeated with bloudshed Put to rout by the Earle of Holland 66 Flemings more seuerely intreated for matters of Religion then any other 382 Fleete sent from Antwerp to victuall Middelbourg defeated 542 Floris the first the sixt Earle of Holland assailed by the bishoppes of Liege and Collogne 18 Floris the third the thirteene Earle taken prisoner by the Earle of Flanders 38. his death 939 Floris the fourth the seauenteene Earle slaine at a Torney in Clermont 52 Floris the fift the ninteene Earle subdues the Frisons 53. hee forceth a Lady basely 67. the cause of his death 68 Fort floting at Antwerp called the end of the warres 877 Flemings put Philip of Austria in possession of the Earldome 199 Floris of Holland trecherously slaine by the Earle of Cuyck 34 Frederick the third Emperor comes into the Netherlands with his sonne Maximilian 204. he dislikes the peace made by his sonne with the Flemings ibid. Francis of Valois Duke of Alanson comes with an armie to succor Cambray 778. hee is inuested Duke of Brabant 796. and Earle of Flanders 804. failes to surprise Antwerp 812. hee seekes to excuse it 815. what chiefe men of his army were slaine and taken there 814 Fort of Sas by Gant taken by the Spaniardes 827 Fort of the Hage in the country of Liege yeelded to the Estates 1045 Fort of Zutphen surprized by the Estates 1047. Fort of Delfzyel yeelded to the Estates 1049 Fort of Patience sold by certaine French men to the Spaniard 1154 Frisons subdued by the Earle of Holland 7. they rebell 27. are reconciled to the Earle 73 Frisons impatient of great exactions take armes 222. they complaine 228. and refuse Albert Duke of Saxony for their Gouernor 229 Flanders punished with three plagues togither 932 Fight at sea betwixt the Zeelanders and Spaniards 509 Fight at Coesteyn-dike 878 Fight at sea betwixt the Zeelanders and Spaniards 519 Friars burnt at Bruges 657 Furnes and Dixmuiden yeelded to the Spaniard 827 Fort at the Sluce of Outdwater basely abandoned 583 Fort built at Burcht by the Spaniard 598 Fight at sea betwixt sixe galleys and certaine English and Holland ships 1290 Frederick Spinola generall of the galleis defeated flies 1292. slaine in an other fight at sea 296 Fort of the Spaniards taken with great slaughter of their men 136 Forts taken by P. Maurice nere the I le of Cadsandt 1307 G GAnthois abandon their Duke before Calais 147. are defeated by the Hollanders rebell against Charles of Bourgongne 161. intreat Marie their Princesse ill 187. put her Councellors to death beeing reconciled they mutine against the Archduke 203 Ganthois beeing in mutiny take the Duke of Arschot and others prisoners 649. they leauie men 676. are defeated by the Malcontents 681. Articles offred them by the Estates 684. beeing in mutinie they seeke to deliuer Alost to the Spaniard 683. they yeeld to the Spaniard 862. their Cittadell built
Netherlands 217. goes with his wife into Spaine 226. is crowned King of Castille in the right of his wife 228. his death 232. Philip Earle of Hohenlo presseth the Spaniard in the Isle of Bommel 1024. marries the Prince of Oranges daughter 1012. comes to the battaile of Tournhout and giues the first charge 1126. his death 1355. Philip the second King of Spaine 317. his last departure out of the Netherlands 337. seekes peace with France 1141. hee giues his daughter the Infanta in marriage to the Arch-duke Albert 1160 Philip-ville yeelded to Dom Iohn 659 Philip of Montmorencie Earle of Horne imprisoned by the Duke of Alua 437. executed at Brussels 451 Philip Earle of Egmont makes an attempt vpon Brussels to his great dishonour 706. is taken prisoner in his towne of Nyenhouen 730. is deliuered for Monsieur la Noue 883 Philip of Marnix Signior of Saint Aldegond prisoner to the Spaniards 530. his speech to them of Antwerpe during the siege 868. his death 1205 Philip Earle of Nassau makes a road into Luxembourg for the Estates 1063. hee chargeth the Spaniards is wounded taken prisoner and dyes 1104 President appointed in the Prouinciall councell in Holland Zeeland and West-friseland 146 Preaching forborne in Antwerp 400 Prince of Spaines speech to the Duke of Alua 415. Princes of the Empire in Armes against the Admirall of Arragon 1209 Ponthus of Noielle Siegnior of Bours procures the Castle of Antwerpe to be deliuered to the Estates 645 Proclamation of the Estates for the obseruing of the pacification of Gand 604 Proclamation of the Duke of Parma against the towne of Aix 1027 Proclamation of the King of Spaine dispensing with the payment of his debts 1123 Protestants of Amsterdam propound fiue articles to their Magistrate 425 Pedro Dordoigno sent to kill the Prince of Orange executed 824 Protestants defeated at Austerweel 422 Protestants of the Netherlands make warre at Sea vnder the Prince of Orange 463. Proceeding vpon the petition of the Nobles in the Netherlands 390 Practises of Charles Duke of Bourgongne to ruine the house of Brederode 169 Protestants request for a religious peace 666. Proscription against the Prince of Orange 763. Preparation of the Spanish armie at Sea in the yeare 1588. 998 Preacher murthered at Deutecome 1200 Protestation of the Prince of Orange for his taking armes 491 Prince of Iuilliers and Cleues vnfortunately married 880 Practise to betraye Gheertruydenberg discouered 1259 Q. QVarrell betwixt them of Bruges and Antwerpe 200 Question among the Clergie of the Netherlands for incorporating of spirituall liuing to the new Bishopricks 347 Question in Spaine about the choosing of a Generall to subdue the Netherlands 415 Queene of England offers succors to the Estates 890. shee publisheth the reasons that mooues her therevnto 894 R. RAmeken a Forte in Zeland besieged and yeelded to the Protestants 518 Reconciliation of Arthois Henault c. to the Spaniard 708 Refusall to surpresse the new Bishops augments the troubles in the Netherlands 351. Remedie to stanche the bloud in the Prince of Oranges wound 801 Religious peace made 669 Resolution of the Estates of Holland 557 Renold Lord of Brederode and his brother imprisoned by the Bishop of Vtrecht 169. his processe beeing referred to the Knights of the Order he is absolued 170 Retreat of the Spaniards out of the Netherlands 625 Retreate of the ministers out of Antwerp 426. Retreat of many Protestants out of the Netherlands 410 Relation of the enterprise at Antwerp 812 Returne of the Spaniards into the Netherlands 809 Reâ—…er van Bron chuysen captaine for them of Vtrecht 196 Riuer cut from Vtrecht to Leck 107 Rhinberk besieged in vaine by the Spaniard 924. taken by Cont Charles of Mansfeldt 1025. besieged and wonne by Prince Maurice 1129. recouered againe by the Admirall of Arragon 1284. taken againe by Prince Maurice 1286. and last of all by the Marquis Spinola 1364. Richardot sent into Spaine by the Duke of Parma 1020 Robâ—…rt Dudley Earle of Leicester Generall for the Queene of England 910. discontented with the Estates 921. at his going into England hee appoints a Councell of Estate 930. prepares to raise the siege of Sluis 961. hee excuseth himselfe vnto the Estates for not doing it 964. hee failes to surprise Leyden 979. is called home into England and resignes his Gouernment vnto the Estates 982 Romerswall yeelded to the Spaniard 53 Rotterdam yeelded to the King of the Romaines ' 207 Rouard of Brabant what Office it is 1â—…6 Rowland Yorke made Gouernor of the Fort at Zutphen 928. sells it to the Spaniard 943. Ryperdas speech to them of Harlem 497 Roeroort surprised by Schenck 991 S SAint Quintin besieged and taken by the King of Spaine 323 Saint From in Liege yeelded to duke Chaâ—…ls of Bourgongne 162 Sarras Gouernor of Flussing vnfortunate 477. is charged by the Spaniards and repulseth them at Sooteland 478 Saint Guislaine a towne in Henault assured for the Estates 655 Saint Andrewes Fort besieged by Prince Maurice and yeelded 1230 Sanchio de Auila sent to succor Ter-goes and performes it happely 479 Scandall how interpreted 883 Sanchio de Auila sent to besiege Flussing 477 Sas by Gant seized on by the Spaniard 827 Sentence for the razing of Culembeurgs house 444 Schonhoven surprised by the Countesse Iaqueline 134. yeelded to the Spaniard by composition 586 Sentence of the Inquisition against the Netherlands 443 Separation of the confederate nobles of the Netherlands 410 Separation of the three iurisdictions of Holland cut to releeue Leyden 560 Sevenberghe taken and the Lord of it driuen away 139. taken by the Earle of Mansfeldt for the Spaniard 1035 Schulenbourg taken by the Spaniard 877. Seege of the Protestants of Zeeland before Ter-goes their army flies awaie amazed 478 Sichen in Brabant yeeldes to the Spaniard 654. recouered for the Estates and after yeelded to the Spaniard 826 Slyckembourg taken for the Estates 877 Sluis besieged by the Duke of Saxony â—…11 besieged and taken by the Spaniard 961 Shippes and men comming out of Spaine defeated by the Estates shippes 1347 Spinola marcheth with his army towardes Frisland 1347 Spaniards repulst at an enterprise vpon Berghen 1349 Spinola goes into Spaine 1353 Sentence pronounced against the Gouernor and Captaines which yeelded Linghen to Spinola 1354 Spinola seekes to enter into the Suider Sea 1359. Shippes of Holland taken by the Danes 251 Skyrmish at Rymenant Leguer 662 Spel a Prouost Marshall hanged at Brussells 462 Specification of the oppressions done by the Admirall of Arragons men in a neutrall Country 1190 Soubourg a Fort in Zeeland besieged by the Flussingers and yeelded 508 Spaniard beaten at the Bryele 472. they surprise Berghen vp Zome 474. they faile to surprise Camphere 475. they quit the siege of Leyden and flie 570. they mutine and faile to surprise Vtrecht 573. they surprise Alost in Flanders 590. they assemble in the Castle of Antwerp 596. they depart by accord 626. they are chased out of the I le of Bommel 1024. they mutine and
1374. They of Vtrecht 〈◊〉 Woerden â—…n vâ—…e Cont Albert 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ghyldenburch Ghyldâ—…burch yeelded by composition The forâ—… taken againe by them of Vtrecht Cont Albert makes sharpe warres against the Traiectins An accord betwixt the Hollanders and Vtrecht 1377. The death of Cont Williâ—… the madde Cont Albert receiued for Earle of Holland 1386. 1389. Iohn of Bauaria sonne to Cont Albert made bishop of Liege 1392. The murther of Cont Alberts concubine and of his Steward Noblemen 〈◊〉 for thâ—…â—…ther Thâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…men 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 The muâ—…her reuenged 〈◊〉 Coâ—…â—…bert 〈◊〉 Alteâ—… Thâ—… Earle his sonne 〈◊〉 The bishop of Lâ—…ge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tâ—…e faâ—…her and the sonne The Earle of 〈◊〉 reâ—…s into 〈◊〉 An affront done to the 〈◊〉 of Osteâ—…t the Kings 〈◊〉 The sonne all the noblemen reconciled to Cont Albert. 1396. The chiefe of the Earles arâ—…e Cont Albert enters into Friseland with a mightie armie A crueâ—… baâ—…taile The Frisons defeated A second battaile and the Frisons defeated A braue skirmish betwixt the â—…nglish the Frisons The English besieged by the Frisons A braue answer of the Delphâ—… to Cont Albert The English degaged by the Delphois The Frisons subdâ—…ed The body of cont William fetchâ—… out of Friseland and buried at Valenciennes 1398. 〈◊〉 Frisons rebell againe The Earle sends his sonne against the Frisons Staueren besieged and yeelded to the Earle of Osteruant The Frisons subdued Seuen pence faâ—…thing oâ—… thereaboâ—…s English money A new reuolt of the Frisons The Frisons submit themselues againe A priuate quarrell betwixt two Knights of Holland A battaile wherein the Frisons were defeated The Earle of Esteruant proceeds against the Frisons many sâ—… for mercy The Groeningeois acknowledge him for prince The Frisons thinke to surprise the earle but in vaine 1400. The Frisons rebell againe They besiege the towne of Staueren They flie at the comming of the Earles armie The Lord of Brederode hurt and prisoâ—…r 1401. A great contention betwixt Cont Aloâ—… the lord of Arckel He defies Cont Albert. He desies the Earle of Osteruant The Lord of Arckel braues the Hollanders The Hollanders take â—…r reuenge The Lord of Arckel burns Nyeuport in Holland The Earle of Osteruent besiegeth Gorrichom Cont Albert comes in person to the siege of Gorrichom A braue sally of the besieged vpon the Zelanders Frisons An accorde made betwixt the Earle of Holland and the Lord of Arckel A seawoman found in Holland 1404. Duke Albert of Bauaria Earle of Holland dyes Cont Williams wiues children 1404. The towne of Liege â—…ned for their Bishops pleasure 1405. The Lord of Arckel breaks the peâ—…ce His meÌ„ spoile Wandrichom The Earle makeâ—…â—…rre â—…nst the lord of Arckel The Earle â—…esiegeth Hagenstein The Bishop ioynes with the Earle and besiegeth Euerstein An assault giuen to Hagenstein The towne yeelded and burnt to ashes Euerstein ruinated A truce betwixt the lord of Arckels sonne and the Earle of Holland The yong lord of Arckel will make his peace with the Earle The yong lord of Arckel makes himselfe master of Gorrichom The Lord of Arckel shut out of the towne and â—…stell of Gorrichom and Lederdam The sonne reconciled to the father The yong Lord of Arckel excluded ouâ—… of Gorrichom The Lord of Aspren acknowledgeth the Earle of Holland The yong Lord of Arckel tâ—…s Gorâ—…hom by scaladoe He â—…geth the â—…ell of Arckell The Earle of Holland besiegeth Gorrichom The duke of Gelders desies the Earle The duke reâ—… into his country The father and sonne of Arckel transport their siegnorie to the duke of Gelders 〈◊〉 strange â—…oute An Act worthy of laughter 1408 Truce betwixt the Earle of Holland and the duke of Gelders Great warre of the Liegeois against their bishop A battell betwixt the Liegeois and the princes allyed to the bishop A great defeat of the Liegeois A reuenge vpon the motâ—…s of this warre 1409. The Earle of Holland reconciles the Duke of Bourgondie with the French king 1410. The duke of Geldres and the Earle of Holland returnâ—… to war 1412. A peace betwixt these two Princes The Articles of peace Gorrichom anexed to Holland The duke of Gelders and the Earle of Holland meet An aduertisement giuen vnto the Earle The Dukes speeches confirme the former aduertisment The Earle grovves iealous of them of Egmond 1414. The Frisons reuoult 1415. The old lord of Arkel taken prisoner The Lord of Arckel discouers who they were that practised against the Earle of Holland The kinssolke of the Lord of Egmond offer to iustifie themselues The Lord of Egmond adiourned to appeare in person For not appearing he is banished and his goods forfeited Iselsteyn sommoned and Yeelded by them of Egmond Iselsteyn restored since to them of Egmond To whom it doth novv belong The Earle causeth the Lady Iaqueline to be acknovvledâ—…ed for hiâ—… onely heire in his life time 1417 The Dolphin of France husband to the Lady Iaqueline poâ—…soned and dies Death of William the 6. Earle of Holland The first particular Lord of Schagen Cont Williams bastards 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nâ—… 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…nd 〈◊〉 â—…n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The factions reuiue againe in Holland Those of Egmond returne into Holâ—…nd The Lord of 〈◊〉 recouers his towne And the Castlâ—… into wâ—…ch the breâ—…hren put themselues The towne and câ—…tle of 〈◊〉 yeelded to tâ—…e Countesse Those of Vtrecht 〈◊〉 Iselstein The Contesse Iaqueline receâ—…ed in Holland c. Anthonie father to Iohn duke of Brabant was brother to Marguerite who was mother to Iaqueline A marriage concluded betwixt the Contesse of Holland and the duke of Brabant the 1. of August 1417. The bishop desirous to spoile his Neece Iohn of Bauaria seekes to make himselfe Barle of Holland Egmond surpriseth Gorrichom Contesse Iaqueline besiegeth Gorrichom Gorrichom taken againe The lord of Arckle with many others â—…ne The Lord of Brederode slaine The Pope dispenceth with the marriage of the Duke of Brabâ—…nt with the lady Iaqueline The Pope reuoketh his dispensation 1418. The marriage consumated beâ—…wixt the duke of Brabant and the Contesse of Holland The Pope confirmes his dispensation againe Iohn of Bauaria gets a dispensation frâ—… the Pope to marry He obtaines the 〈◊〉 of Holland c of the Emperor The answer of the Prouinces to Iohn of Bauaria Iohn of Bauaria takes vpon him the title of Earle of Holland c. He makes war in Holland The Duke of Brabant defâ—… Iohn of Bavaria A treatie â—…etwixt the duke of Brabant Iohn of Bauaria The articles of the treatie 1419. New waâ—…re beâ—…wixt them oâ—… Vtrecht and Holland The Cabillâ—… and Hoâ—…ckins â—…ke â—…rmes againe 1420. Sundâ—…y ex ploits oâ—… war The â—…king of â—…s castels by â—…n of Bauaâ—…a Leyden besieged and yeelded vpon composition The accord 〈◊〉 by the â—…d of â—…gmond The vicont forced to resigne his vicoâ—…ty of Leyden to oâ—… of Bauaria 1420. The Duke of Brabâ—…nt comes into zeeland without the priuitie of the Contesse Iaqueline Contesse Iaqueline goes from the duke of Brabant her
second bloudie Edict against the Protestants A great Tumult in Vtrecht They of Vtrecht call the duke of Geâ—…dres to bee their protector Harderwyck taken by the Geldrois The Hage spoiled by the Geldrois Hattem in Gelders yeelded Many townes and castells yeelded to the Emperor 1528. 2000. soldiarâ—… come out of Spaine Megen taken and abandoned againe by the Geldâ—…ois The Geldrois of Vtrecht defeated Vtrecht surprized by the Bishops men Executions at Vtrecht A peace betwixt the duke of Gelders the Bishop and the Emperor 1529 The Emperor comes unto Italie His stately entry into Bolognala grasta The Emperor Charles kisseth the Popes feete 1530. The Emperors coronation by the Pope An Imperiall diet at Ausbourg The protestant Princes desire to haue their confession heard Conferences betwixt the Protestants and Papists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The death of Lady Marguerite of Austria 1531. Ferdinand the â—…mperors brotheâ—… made King of Romaines The beginning of the chanell which goes from Brusselles to Antwerp Anabaptists in Holland The 〈◊〉 blouâ—…y Edict against the Protestants War betwixt them of Lubeck and Hollanders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maâ—…e 〈◊〉 â—…ror 〈◊〉 Hollandeâ—… with the King of Denmâ—… A Dyet at Ratisbone touching relligioâ—… Articles propounded to the Pâ—…otestants A forme of the conditions of peace in Germany 1532 A 〈◊〉 betwâ—…xt the Emperor and the 〈◊〉 A new Hauen at Middlebouâ—…g 1536. Two French ships cunâ—…ngly taken by them of Dordrecht The duke of Gâ—…dres enteâ—…prise vpon Amersâ—…ort Hesdin taken by the french Sâ—…int Pol taken by the Imperialâ—… The duke of Geldres entâ—…ise vpon â—…uchuysen 1537. 〈◊〉 duke exâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this â—…rise The French defeated at the battaile of Sagueletâ—… The town 〈◊〉 of Geldres mutine against thâ—… dâ—…ke and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their casteâ—… The Empresse brought in bed oâ—… 2. son 1538 The death of the Duke of Gelders The death of the Eâ—…rle of Nâ—…u 1539 The death of thâ—… Duke of â—…ues 〈◊〉 of the â—…ois The Emperor passeâ—…h through France to comâ—… to Gant 1540. The death of George Schenck The death of the 1. Earle of Hoochstratâ—… The Emperor doâ—…h punish the rebellion of the Ganthois The 4. bloudy Edict against the Protestants A dâ—…â—…t Hagâ—…u The conclusiâ—…n of Hag uenau An Imperiall dâ—…t â—…t Wormes An Imperiall diet at Raâ—…sbone The Duke of Cleues allies â—…m selfe to â—…he French King The Duke of Cleues 〈◊〉 thâ—… King 〈◊〉 Naâ—…es daughter The French 〈◊〉 â—…nto Bra 〈◊〉 The Prince of Orange defeated 1542 Mâ—…in van Rossem repulâ—… by â—…e 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Yuois taken by the Geldrois A tumult at Brussels The Emperors armic enters into Iuilliers Amersfort yeelded to Martin van Rollem 1543. The Cleuois 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Hollanders zeelanders make war at sea aginst the Freuch The Emperor arriues at Geuoa Presents giuen to the Emperor by the Netherlanders The Emperors Armie Duren beseeged by the Emperor Duren taken by aâ—…ult The Duke of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 himselâ—…e vâ—…o the Empâ—…ror Landrâ—…cy besieged A Cittadell built at Cambray 1544. A peace bâ—…twixt the Emperor and French King Queene Elenor of France comes to the Emperor her brother 1545. A Diet held at Wormes 1546. The Protestants assemble at Francfort The Emperor arriues at Wormes The Emperor seekes to abuse the Protestants whilst that he prepares to armes A conference of diuinâ—…s at Ratisbone The castell of Ramekens built A 〈◊〉 betwâ—…t the Emperor and the Poâ—…e agâ—…st relligion The Duke of Saxony and Landtgraue write vnto the Emperor The Emperor writes to the Protestant townes The answer of thâ—…m of Strausbourg to the Emperors letter The Duke of Wittemberg and the towne army A booke of the Protestants Iustifications The Emperor banisheth the Duke of Saxony â—…d the Landtgraue 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 taken by the Protestants Maâ—…klin burnâ—… by lightning The Protestant Princes defie the Emperor The Emperor râ—…useth to receiue a letter The two armâ—… neere one to an other The â—…aile of 〈◊〉 enjoynes with thâ—… Emperor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A bert of 〈◊〉 Brandebourg taken prisoner by the Prince Elector 1547. Countrâ—…s recouered from the sea in zeeland The Landtgraue submits himselfe vnto the Emperor 1548. The Lanâ—…graue put in prison contrary to promise The death of the Earle of Buren Prince phillip comes out of Spaine into the Netherlands He arriued the 1. of Aprill 1549. at Brusselles The Prince takes possession of the Duchie of Brabant The Emperor returnes into Germanyto â—…ke the Empier for his Sonne A bloody Edict against them of the relligion They murmuâ—… at Antwerp against it Magdebourg valiantly defended A controuersie betwixt the two bretheren for the Empire Why the Princes of the Empire preferred Ferdinand before Prince Phillip 1551 The Prince of Orange first marriage The Ministers chased away by the â—…mpe ror 1552. An assembly of the states of oâ—… the Nelâ—…nds Many Princes 〈◊〉 for the Landt graues liberty Ausbourg vvon by Duâ—… Maurice The French takes Metz. Toule and Vâ—…rdun Duke Mauricâ—… confeâ—…rs with King Ferdinand touching a Peace The French King retiers into Germany The French King in Luxembourg Count Mansfield prisoner The Princes vvinne the straights of the Alpes The Emperor flies from Inspruch in hast The duke of Saxony set at liberty Duke Maurice his complaint Albert of Brandenbourg makes warâ—… apart Nuremberg compounâ—… vvith him Francfort besieged by the Princes The bishops Prelats and Pâ—…ests â—…he before Albert. A pâ—…ace concluded betwixt the Emperor the Princes The Empâ—…or comes to Ausbourg The Landtgraue deliuered and staâ—…ed againe The Duke of Saxony tâ—…kes his 〈◊〉 of of the Emperor The Emperor 〈◊〉 â—…o Strasbouâ—…g Shee was daughter to Christierne King of Denmarke 1552 Metz besieged Albert of Brandebourg reconciled to the Emperor A furioâ—… batâ—…y at Mâ—… Mâ—… valiantly dâ—…nded The Emperor 〈◊〉 his siege froâ—… Mâ—… 1553. The Emperor 〈◊〉 to Bâ—…ssels A â—…umult at Brusselles against the Spaniards Teroan takeâ—… and razed Duke Maurice defies Albert of Brandebourg Hesdin taken by the Emperor and 〈◊〉 The Incoun ter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prince of Espynoy was slaine The Duke of Arschot a prisoner 〈◊〉 â—…h 1554. Thâ—… French arâ—…es against the Emperor Defeâ—… of somâ—… Bourguignons by the French The Kings reuenge â—…or the 〈◊〉 â—…cardy Renty besieged by the French King Renty releeued by the Emperor A furious fight at sâ—…a betwixt the Frâ—…nch Hollanders and 〈◊〉 â—…landers 1555 An assembly to treateat of a pâ—…ace The death of the Emperors mother The Emperor makes an Assembly of the stats to resigne the Netherlands The Emperor leaues the collor of his order to his sonne The Emperors exhortaâ—…ion to his sonne An exception of them of Louuaine vpon thier preuiledges A soâ—…lemne act of thâ—… Em perors resignation An Oration to the states in thâ—… Emperors name The emperors â—…ch vnto the Stâ—…tes The answer of tâ—…â—…s of the Netherlands to the Emperor King Philip takes the oath as duke of Brabant A resolution of the imperiall Diet held at Ausbourg 1556 A truce betwixt the French the Bourguignons of small continuance
receiued them into grace And then without any losse of his men being laden with spoile he returned into Holland But the yeare following they reuolted againe and came with great troups into West-Friseland the which obeied the Earle and therefore it was called North-Holland besieging the towne of Alcmar the which they did with such speed as the Earle could not haue his armie readie in time to hinder them before they had forced the towne and slaine all that they found within it burning it and rasing it to the ground carrieng away with them the best of their wealth many prisoners and all their cattell Then marching on they came into the countrie of Kennemers spoyling burning and killing all that made any resistance From thence they marched as farre as Egmont where they burnt the Abbie and descending lower committing dayly a thousand insolencies they came to besiege the towne and castle of Leiden thinking to carrie it at their first approch as they had done Alcmar but the vicount of Leiden a valiant knight with the helpe of the inhabitants made head against them sending to Cont Thierry that hee should come speedily to succour them else they should not possibly hold out long The Earle who had no need of any persuasions to hasten his resolution hearing in what danger those of Leiden were flies thither with his armie being assisted by the lord of Borssell and other great personages appointing the Frisons a day and place for battaile to attend him in open field But the Frisons refusing a limitted day desired to fight presently assuring themselues of the victorie relying vpon their multitudes of men The Earle hauing vnited all his forces together although the Frisons had double his number yet hee issued out of Leiden and went to charge them At the first incounter the battaile was very furious and doubtfull the Hollanders fighting for their liues wiues children houses and goods and the Frisons for honor and victorie In the end the Frisons not able any longer to endure the furious charges of the Hollanders seeing so many of their men slain and their brethren kinsfolks and friends lieng dead before them they began to faint and to flie away for their owne safeties in the which slight there was so great a slaughter made of the Frisons as very few returned to their owne houses for they were slaine euery where as they fled and there was no pittie had of them by reason of the great spoiles which they had committed in all the countrey where they had past This battaile was fought vpon the same place where as since the abbie of Rhinsburg neere vnto Leiden was built Thus the Earle subdued the Frisons with great effusion of blood forcing them to yeeld vnto the yoke and to submit themselues vnder his obedience in such sort as he constrained them to make their doores and the entries into their houses so low as they must bend their backs and stoupe very much in signe of humilitie before they could enter Then they tooke a new oath of fealtie as to their liege lord and Soueraigne with all such honor and respect as the case required The yeare following the Earle caused a Temple to be built in the place where the defeat had bene giuen the which he dedicated vnto S. Laurence where since the ladie Petronelle Countesse of Holland did erect a conuent of religious virgins of the order of S. Benet Cont Thierry hauing bene thus reuenged of the Frisons he caused the Abbie of Egmont to be reedified at leisure his father did at the first build it of wood but hee caused it all to bee made of masons worke and in steed of Religious women he placed monks of the same Order translating the nuns vnto a place called Bennenbroeck in the village of Hemsteed neere vnto the towne of Harlem commaunding they should not receiue any nâ—…w into their societie to the end that when they were all dead the goods possessions and renenues of their foundation should returne vnto the monkes of the abbie of Egmont whereof Monebaldus was the first abbot This earle Thierry the second hauing raigned a long time peaceably after his subduing of the Frisons left the counties of Holland and Zeeland more flourishing than euer so as being fourskore and eight yeres old after that he had raigned about fiftie years he gaue vp his soule to God leauing two sonnes Egbert the eldest and Arnold who succeeded his father for some reasons that I will presently specifie 3 Arnoldus Hollandiae I was as you me see when I espous'd my wife The Gâ—…ecian Emperour Thophans child the sâ—…lace of my liâ—… The lands of Brederode to hir I did assure And 〈◊〉 one of my youngest 〈◊〉 fâ—…r â—…uer to indurâ—… Thâ—… 〈◊〉 salsâ—… proâ—…d 〈◊〉 come And though ly valour I had put them to extremitie Yet â—…dst of 〈◊〉 it was my cruell chaâ—…ce to die And in the Abbie of Egmont my corpt â—…e câ—…d doth lie ARNVLPH OR ARNOLD THIRD Earle of Holland and Zeeland and Lord of Friseland ARNOLD after the death of Cont Thierry his father the second of that name succeeded in the countries of Holland and Zeeland as also in the siegneorie of Friseland He had to wife the ladie Lutgard daughter to Theophanes emperour of Greece of whom he had one sonne called as his grandfather Thierry the third of that name who succeeded him This Cont Arnold had an elder brother called Egbert who hauing ben sent in ambassage by his father to the archbishop of Treues toucht with zeale to religion and mooued with deuotion hee professed himselfe a monke of the order of S. Benet and sending backe vnto his father the dispatches of his embassage by the noblemen that did accompanie him he remained in the cloister Afterwards by the decease of the said archbishop of Treues he was chosen archbishop where he gouerned some yeares and hauing repaired the churches which the Danes had ruined and prophaned he died and was interred in the church which he had built and dedicated to S. Andrew Cont Arnold obtained of the emperour Otho the third to hold the earledomes of Holland and Zeeland with the siegneorie of Friseland in fee of the Empire and no more of the crown of France In his time there appeared a very fearefull comet there were great eclipses both of sunne and moone red as blood with horrible earthquakes there fell a fire from heauen as big as a great tower the which burnt long then followed so great and violent a plague as the liuing died in burying of the dead This earle had all the time of his reigne continuall warre with the Frisons refusing to submit themselues vnder his obedience the fift yere of his reign he leuied a great armie of his subiects in Holland to subdue the Frisons and force them to obedience as he had done the first yeare of his reigne The two armies approching one vnto the other in open field neere vnto
Wickin and Gadezo earles Lazo Alger and Zuveer that is to say Asuerus knights with a great number of squires and gentlemen besides the men at armes and common souldiors which were very many The bishop Adelbold was much perplexed for this defeat yet he fainted not but gathering together his dispersed troupes would make a second proofe and hazard another battaile the which was more preiudiciall and fatall vnto him than the first for not only his armie was defeated but himselfe was taken prisoner hauing lost among the men of marke Volckert a priest and chanon Bertold a deacon Iohn and Godfrey earles Hiddo Halmeric Wabtelin Hubert and Hildebold knights Zidfrid and Heyman barons with a great number of braue souldiors Cont Thierry after these two victories his men being laden with spoile and good prisoners returned into Holland leading his bishop with him whome he entreated very courteously seeking to comfort him and to moderat his passions in this his aduersitie being much troubled for his ouerthrow and imprisonment One day among the rest Cont Thierry asked of him by way of familiar discourse What had mooued him so to malice the Hollanders and to make war against them seeing that neythâ—…r they nor he himselfe had euer wronged him or don him iniurie The bishop answered Sir I confesse that I neuer receiued any wrong from your selfe nor your subiects neither yet from any of your predecessors but that which moued me to attempt war against you and to oppresse and molest your subiects was only for that I was giuen to vnderstand that the countrie of Holland did antiently hold of my bishoprike of Vtrecht for proofe whereof we read in Hystories that Vtrecht was in old time the chiefe and capitall towne of Holland and that at this day it is so held and therefore in my opinion Holland in former times did belong to my predecessors for this cause I did moue and incite the Frisons to rebell that by the help of their forces and succours I might expell you out of your countrey and ioyne it vnto my seigniorie But seeing I haue taken a wrong course and am taken in the snare which I prepared for you I will foretell you by way of prophesie That there shall neuer bee any pâ—…rtect loue and friendship betwixt them of Vtrecht and the Hollanders and that in future ages they shall much vexe one another by warre robberies oppression and spoiles sometimes one being victor sometimes the other Whereunto Cont Thierry answered Gods wil be done in al things both in my countries and elswhere according to his good pleasure yet I would haue my lord bishop vnderstand that the princes of Holland do little esteeme the towne of Vtrecht but I grieue for the poore commons who endure much through the spoyles and insolencies of men of warre Yet if you will promise me vnder your hand and seale neuer to stirre vp nor incourage my Frisons to rebell I will suffer you to depart free and will giue you leaue to doe what you can for that I do not much apprehend what you and yours can doe vnto me To whom the bishop said Although I do it vnwillingly yet necessitie will force mee vnto it Whereupon the Earle replied If my lord bishop will not accept nor effect that which I haue propounded he may remaine here with me and I will take order for his charges and for all other things necessarie yet my lord must vnderstand that neither he nor any of his predecessors had euer any right of proprietie or temporal iurisdiction vpon Holland nor on the dependances thereof in any sort whatsoeuer Neither shall it bee found in any writings and euidences That the bishops of Vtrecht were euer intitled Earles of Holland seeing that Charles the Bald king of France and afterwards Emperour hauing succeeded by the death of his father Lewis the Gentle sonne to Charlemaigne in the countries of Holland and Zeeland as wel as in the realme of France and other countries of his inheritance after that hee had defeated the Normanes gaue them to my great grandfather Cont Thierry the first sonne to Sigehert Duke of Aquitaine And for the better assurance and confirmation of the said grant at the instance of Pope Iohn the 9. he himselfe in person put the said Count Thierry in full possession of the said Earledomes and subiected them vnto him by force of armes instituting him as his royall letters patents make mention the first Earle to protect and defend them against the incursions of the Danes and by good and mild courses to draw this rough and vnciuile people to his deuotion as he hath done The like I may affirme and proue by good testimonies that Friseland is of the iurisdiction of Holland for that Lewis king of Germanie brother to Charles the Bald gaue all that countrie to the said Cont Thierry vnto the riuer of Lanuvers and beyond it bending towards the East Charles the Great king of France and Emperour gaue it vnto Godefroy king of Denmarke in dowery with his wife vpon condition That he should be baptised who afterwards was slaine And therefore if Godefroy hath made any cession or gift vnto the bishop of Vtrecht I am well pleased therewith and will not pretend any interest to that which lyes beyond the said riuer of Lanuvers My lord must also vnderstand the great ingratitude of them of Vtrecht for the benefits which they receiued of my great grandfather for he and his brother Walger Earle of Teysterbaudt remaining at Anezaet neere vnto Tyl made so long warre against the Danes which did then possesse the towne of Vtrecht as they forced them to abandon the place and restored the bishop Rabod who as an exiled prelat kept at Deuenter to his episcopall seat These be the thanks we receiue now from them of Vtrecht who require me euill for good I therefore conclude with the truth That neither my lord bishop nor any of his predecessors had euer any right interest nor title of temporall iurisdiction in the countries of Holland nor of Friseland for as much as is contained within the riuer of Lanuvers vnlesse your lordship can shew produce some sale transport or donation which my predecessors haue made vnto the bishop of Vtrecht as they had the power and meanes to do the which doth appeare by the letters granted by Emperors kings their benefactors Bishop Adelbold hauing wel duly considered of all Cont Thierries reasons confessed his error and that being ill aduised he had first attempted warre against him and that in all the lands and seigniories of the said Earle he had no other iurisdiction but spirituall in that which concernes the administration and gouernment of the church onely as it had beene giuen from Emperours and kings to Willebrord the first bishop as farre as it may extend vnto this day It is true said the Earle and we acknowledge you for our spirituall father commaunder in diuine things and which concerne the saluation of
first are found in the Church of the Abbey of Egmont as followeth Ecce iacent fratres Regni spes gloria Patres Regum stirpe sati vermibus aesca dati Bello magnificus prior horum Theodoricus Hostibus in Patriam iure negando viam Per Caprae sydus dum Ianus volueret Idus Caesar erat fomes quo cadit iste Comes Florens flos florum Florentius alter eorum Splendidus eloquio viribus ingenio Cui Troiae rector bellanti cederet Hector Dum nimis emicuit hoste latente ruit Morte viri flendas quarto decimoque Calendas Iunius axe gerit cum Comes iste perit Destructor mortis vitae reparatio fortis Raptos valle soli collocet arce Poli. GERTRVDE WIDOW TO CONT FLORIS Mother and Guardian to young Cont Thierry sonne to Floris 7 Gertrudis Saxoniae I was by blood and line of Prince HEMMES house And to the first Earle FLORIS was his first and onely spouse In widow-hood I rul'd the Countrey full a yeare With care for my young infants weale as plainely did appeare The Frison sought of me a second mariage state Which I accepted but such was my hard and cruell fate That death restored me vnto my former loue To lie with him in earthly tombe my soule in Heauen aboue ROBERT CALLED THE FRISON Aduocat Generall to young Cont THIERRY second husband to the Countesse Gertrude Robertus Cognomento Frisius Like Hector valiantly my Countries defence I sought resisting th'emperour and draue the Germane thence Becomming amorous I married FLORIS wife And did defend her sonne and her in bloodie warre and strife Protecting them eight yeares by my victorious hand Cypres Salamine Amathont I wan in Heathen Land But shunning of my foe within my natiue soyle At Cassel death encountred me and put me to the soyle AFter the death of Cont Floris the first of that name and the sixt Earle of Holland and Zeeland and Lord of Friseland successiuely being slaine in battaile neere vnto Heusden as we haue formerly related the lady Gertrude his widow daughter to Heyman duke of Saxonie gouerned these foure Countries in the name of Thierry her eldest sonne being in his nonage Afterwards in the yeare 1063. with the consent of all the Nobilitie and the Estates of the Countrey shee married againe with Robert the Frison a wise and valiant knight sonne to Baldwin of Lisle de Bucke earle of Flanders who by the valour of this Robert his sonne ouerthrew the Emperour Henry the fourth in battaile and for his vertues was by the Estates of Holland and Zeeland made guardian of yong Cont Thierry sonne of the Earle Floris and of the said Lady Gertrude who in this second marriage had three sons by Robert that is Robert the yong who went with Godefroy of Bouillon to the conquest of the holy Land and after the decease of his father was Earle of Flanders then Philip who was father to William of Ixre and the third was Baldwin bishop of Teroanne She had also three daughters by him the eldest was called Alix or Alice married to Canutus king of Denmarke and of Norwey by whom she had Charles which was Earle of Flanders the second Gertrude who was Countesse of Louaine and afterwards married to a Landtgraue of Elsatia mother to Thierry of Elsatia who was also in his time Earle of Flanders This Robert the Frison was not so called as if he had beene borne in Friseland but as the Chronicle of Holland sayes for that he was strong big and couragious as a Frison borne in such esteeme and reputation of valour those of Friseland haue alwaies beene as when they would speake of a strong man or commend him for his force they said Strong as a Frison the Chronicles of Flanders say that hee was so called for that hee subdued the Frisons imitating the ancient Romanes who called Scipio the Africane and others by the names of the Provinces which they had conquered and subdued This Robert was a valiant and a vertuous Prince and who had liberalitie in singular recommendation the which mooued the Nobles of Holl◅nd Zeeland to chuse him for their gouernor during the minoritie of their prince Thierry wherein he carried himselfe both wisely and valiantly for the space of eight yeares Hauing at his cōming to the gouernment subdued them of Friseland hearing of the death of Baldwin de Mons his brother Earle of Flanders he demanded to be admitted to the Earledome grounding his pretencions vpon a certaine diuision the which he said Baldwin de Lisle his father had made among his children at Audenarde by the which he had decreed that the said Robert the Frison should succeed in the said County to Robert de Mons notwithstanding any lawful heires that he should leaue But he found so great opposition made by the Countesse Richild widow to Baldwin de Mons and by her two sonnes being fauored by the Nobles and Commons of the Countrey as for a time hee did forbeare to attempt any thing Afterwards the said Richild behaued her selfe so insupportably in her gouernment as shee became odious to all the Flemings so as they sent secretly to call in Robert the Frison who came and ouerthrew the king of France in a great battaile so as there was an accord made betwixt the said Robert and the Countesse Richild and her sonne Baldwin who remained satisfied with the Countie of Henault so as Robert remained peaceable Earle of Holland where hauing setled a good order for his affaires he was desirous to go in pilgrimage to the holy Sepulchre and to Mount Synai from whence being returned into Flanders he died in the yeare 1077. at Wyendael and was interred in the Cannons Church of Cassell the which he had founded GODFREY THE CROOKED DVKE of Lorraine the ninth in number of the Earles of Holland the which he vsurped for a time 9 Gothiphredus Lotharīgae Gibbus I am if you will know that crooke-backt GODFERY That by the fauour of Vtrecht wan Holland valiantly Whereas in foure yeares space to shew my great renowne I built the goodly Towne of Delft in the Septentrion The Frisons I subdu'd that could me not withstand And manfully maintained warre both on the sea and land Till I in Antwerpe traitrously my death did get And left no issue but now serue to crawling wormes for meat THe quarrell of them of Vtrecht against Holland as Bishop Adelbold prisoner to Cont Thierry the third had prophecied vnto him not able to be reconciled William sonne to Widikind prince of Gelderland the 21. bishop of Vtrecht mindfull of the taking of his father in a battaile which the bishops of Cologne and Leege together with other Germane princes had against Cont Floris father to the Infant Thierry Earle of Holland thrust on by ambition and an insatiable desire to augment his estate although it were but too great for the maintenance of a Church-man and one that made profession of sanctitie went to
come he sent him in commission out of the countrey for some businesse of importance wherin Gerard held himselfe much honoured during his absence the Earle went with a small traine to the castle of Croonenbruch where as Gerard made his ordinarie residence as if he would refresh himself there The ladie Gerards wife receiued him honorably and courteously as her lord prince The Earle making shew that he had some priuat matter to treat with her in secret hee willed her to lead him into some priuat chamber where there might not bee any present but they two that he might the more freely deliuer what he had to say vnto her The good lady doubting no harme led him into her owne bed chamber The Earle hauing made the doore fast forced her to his will and then presently departed She being exceeding sorrowfull for this violence which had beene offered vnto her by her owne prince who aboue all things should haue maintained the honour of ladies especially of his vassals of her qualitie shee cast off her rich attire and pretious ornaments and put on the plainest and simplest mourning weed shee could Gerard being returned from his commission and hauing made his report vnto the Earle tooke his leaue and returned to his house where comming he found his wife all desolate and hauing vnderstood the occasion he did comfort her seeming to the world as if hee knew nothing and commaunded his wife to go vnto the house of the seignior of Woerden her father and to let him vnderstand the whole fact the which she did crauing pardon for that which had happened forcibly vnto her vnder a colour of hospitalitie Gerard of Velson demanded of the seignior of Woerden his father in law how he should best gouerne himselfe in this fowle fact and withall sware by his knighthood neuer to suffer it to passe vnreuenged after which time he neuer came to court but did meditate day and night vpon reuenge On the other side Herman of Woerden could not forget the wrong and dishonour which had beene done vnto his daughter for the which he became a mortall enemie vnto the Earle These two knights being thus discontented with the Earle drew vnto their partie Ghysbrecht of Amstel their kinsman to conspire against the Earle And by the counsell of the said seignior of Amstel and Woerden Gerard did secretly call vnto the towne of Cambraye the bishop of Duras for the king of England the earle of Cuyck in the name of the duke of Brabant two counsellors for the earl of Flanders before all which being assembled Gerard made his complaints of the base treacherie of Cont Floris with an aggrauation of the fowlenesse of the fact proceeding from a heart full of bitternesse despight and choller desirous of reuenge where it was concluded among them to attempt all meanes to seise vpon the Earls person and to send him into England to the king who should retaine him and make him end his dayes in prison and in the meane time should send Iohn of Holland sonne to Cont Floris his sonne in law husband to his daughter Elizabeth who kept then in England to take possession of the earldoms of Holland and Zeeland by the ciuile death of his father the which he had worthily deserued for an expiation of so fowle and villainous a fact In the same yeare 1296. Cont Floris being ignorant of this conspiracy and resolution taken against him at Cambraie by the deputies of the king of England the duke of Brabant the earl of Flanders and the lords of Amstel Woerden at the instance and suit of Gerard van Velson went to Vtrecht to end a certain difference growne betwixt the lord of Zuylen and some of his counsellors wherof the said seignior of Amstel and Woerden were The Earl going to the church with his knights and houshold seruants there came a woman which deliuered him a little note the which he caused his secretarie to read containing these 4 verses of the Psalme My deerest friend whom I did trust With me did vse deceit Who at my Table eate my bread The same for me layed wait My lord said she remember it well and marke this prophecie of Dauid The earle contemning this aduertisement went to make good cheare with the noblemen prelats of Vtrecht after dinner being laid downe to rest a little thinking to spend the remainder of the day in sport and pleasure the lord of Amstel went to wake him inuiting him to ride abroad with his hawkes saying that they had found a goodly flight of Herons and other wild-fowle but they were such fowle as no hawke could take and were lodged there to take the Earle himself who louing hawking exceedingly went to horse with a Merlyn on his fist being very slenderly accompanied of his followers riding about halfe a mile out of Vtrecht he was led into the middest of the ambush of these conspirators when as suddenly the Seigniors of Woerden of Amstel of Velsen of Beuscop of Crayenhorst of Theylingen and Van Zanthen with many horsmen who knew nothing of this enterprise issuing forth of their ambush enuironed the Earle on all sides Gerard van Velsen who held himselfe much wronged was the first that offered to lay hold vpon him but like a couragious Prince casting away his Merlyn which he caried he laid hold on his sword to defend himselfe desiring rather to die than to yeeld but not able to make resistance he was taken meaning to carry him secretly that night to the castle of Muyden and from thence send him into England by the riuer of Flye The bruit of this prize was suddenly dispersed ouer all the which moued the harts of many The Kennemers and Waterlanders with the West-Frisons tooke armes presently in their barkes and shaloupes to deliuer their lord but the conspirators being aduertised of their comming departed suddenly leading the Earle through marishes and vnknowne places Those of Naerden who first went in search of him encountred them full in the teeth they being much perplexed knowing that the Kennemers pursued them were doubtful what way to take The Earles horse whereon he was mounted and bound was little and weake so as not being able to leape like vnto the rest he fell into a ditch where they laboured to get him forth but could not hauing no leisure by reason of the pursute of them that followed Gerard van Velsen full of furie and rage seeking nothing but reuenge seeing that they must of necessitie abandon their prey not able to carry him any further his other companions being already fled not knowing how to vanquish his courage rather than to leaue him without reuenge of the wrong which he had done him he played the part of a desperate man giuing him one and twentie wounds with his sword most of the which were mortall then mounting vpon a good horse he saued himselfe in his castle of Croonenbruch In the meane time the Kennemers arriue who find their Earle halfe
dead in this ditch speechlesse drawing only his breath There were some of these conspirators seruants taken whom in the Earles presence they cut in pieces and hauing drawne him forth of the ditch they carried him vpon the Mount of Muyden whereas he breathed out his last gaspe after that hee had gouerned Holland Zeeland and Friseland as well by himselfe as by his tutors two and fortie yeres He was a generous prince of a goodly stature and louely countenance gracious and eloquent in his speech a good musitian stately and liberall To conclude he had all that might be desired in a prince except this vice of incontinencie and the villanous adulterie which he committed with violence which was the cause of this sudden death His body was carried by boat to Alcmar where his bowels were buried in the church and his body being imbalmed was layed in the Quier vntill that Cont Iohn his sonne were returned out of England Cont Floris had two grey-hounds the which had alwaies followed him going in and comming out of the castle of Muyden and which were found lying by him in the ditch where he was slaine carrying him into the boat they followed and leaped into it and would neuer eat nor drinke although it were offered them yea they would haue starued themselues if they had not beene drawne away from the Earles dead bodie Amongst those that had assisted at this murther many fled out of the Countrey and among the rest the Seignior of Woerden went vp and downe like a vagabond and died poorely and miserably in a strange countrey The lord of Amstell who was a good old man and had suffered himselfe to be suborned by the Seignior of Woerden and Velsen after that all his goods had bin confiscated was entertained by his friends in a far countrey All Holland Zeeland Friseland and the neighbour countries were troubled for this fact the which was taken so grieuously as the Hollanders to begin the reuenge by him that had bin the author of this conspiracie and actor of the murther went to besiege the castle of Croonenbruch they within were quiet as if the Seignior of Velson had not bin there and yet he was The news of this murther was written to all Cont Floris friends and allies but especially to Iohn d'Auesnes earle of Henault and to Cont Iohn his sonne who came before the castle of Croonenbruch whereas they planted their engins of batterie The earle of Cuycke hearing that the Seignior of Velson was straitly besieged in his castle as the said earle had bin present at the resolution of the taking of Cont Floris in the name of the duke of Brabant did write vnto the earle of Cleues being at that siege intreating him to be a means that the besieged might depart at the least with their liues saued the which he promised him to do whereupon he sent for his men about him that he might at need preserue them as he might well haue done But the Hollanders hauing some notice therof were much discontented and aduertised the lord of Loef brother to the earle of Cleues thereof who came himselfe to tell him that if he meant to saue the life of the besieged it was certain the Hollanders would fall vpon them besides the scandale and reproch wherewith they should be taxed for euer and therefore he aduised him to let the Hollanders and Zeelanders alone and if he were otherwise resolued he with his men would retire being loth to incurre dishonour and the danger of his life The earle seeing how ill it was taken and that he should auaile little caused the castle to be attempted both by scaladoe and otherwise the which he did force and take by assault and all the prisoners that remained aliue were taken and put into safe keeping In ◅e meane time it was bruited abroad that the earle of Cleues meant to saue the Seignior of Velson his companions that were prisoners Whereupon the Kennemers running to armes cried out That if there were any one that would carry away the murtherers of their prince or saue their liues that they themselues should first die by their hands wherupon the earle was forced to deliuer them the prisoners Those of Dordrecht had Hugh of Baerlandt the Kennemers had William of They lingen and two others those of Harlem had William van Zaenden those of Delft had Arnold van Bienschop the earle of Cleues had Gerard of Craenhorst foure others al which were beheaded and laid vpon wheeles those of Leyden had Gerard van Velson the author of this conspiracie and the murtherer of Cont Floris whom they tormented more than any other for they put him starke naked into a pipe full of sharpe nailes and so was rolled vp and downe throughout all the streets of Leyden then after all these torments they cut off his head and laid him vpon a wheele all his kinred vnto the ninth degree that could be taken were put to death and set vpon wheeles many being only suspected that they were ready to serue their lords and masters and not knowing the cause were banished for euer out of Holland wherof some meaning to retire thēselues into Denmarke mistaking their course were driuen beyond the straight of Weygat and not knowing whether they went coasting along Tartary they entred into the riuer of Oby from whence they came into Persia and by the kings consent did inhabit a marish part of the countrey after the maner of Holland where they haue continued in their auncient language manner of life and labour vnto this day As in like sort we may say that within these 70 yeres the Hollanders that fled for religion haue throgh the grace of Christierne the third king of Denmarke planted themselues in a little Island right against Coppenhaghen called Amack the which they do labour dresse after the manner of Holland so as this little Island which is not aboue two French leagues in circuit is called the garden of Coppenhaghen in the which the chiefe market of the towne is called Amacker-markt And thus much for them The Hollanders did rase the castle of Croonenbruch to the ground from thence they went to doe as much to that of Muyden but finding the place abandoned and no man in it all being fled they gaue it in guard to Didier of Harlem who took it into his charge on the countries behalfe and is at this day a good Chasteleine After which time the Nobilitie Townes and Commons of Holland made an agreement iointly together confirming it by a solemne oath whereof publike letters were drawne neuer to receiue into grace those of the houses of Amstel Woerden and Welsen nor any of their kinred nor allies whom they sought to root out by all meanes or to chase them out of the country by which meanes there were many persons banished and vagabonds so as there remained not any one of these families in Holland and if any were left they durst not
quiet If all things go well and are in quiet said the Earl how comes it that thou bailife and judge of thy quarter hast vsed force and violence against a poore countrey man that is my subiect taking away his cow out of his pasture in despight of him then calling for the poore man he asked him if he knew him and what he could say for his cow The bailife answered That he had giuen him another Yea said the Earle but if it were not so good as his doest thou thinke to haue satisfied him therewith no no not so I will take the cause in hand and be the judge The bailife and the countrey man referred themselues willingly to what it should please the Earle to decree Wherupon the Earl appointed the escoutette of Dordrecht that as soone as he should returne to his house hee should presently without delay pay vnto the countrey man a hundred crownes of good gold to be leuied vpon the bailifes goods and that he should neuer after molest the countrey man neither in word nor deed This sentence thus pronounced both parties were satisfied which done the Earl said vnto the bailife Thou hast now agreed with the poore man but not yet with me then he commanded the escoutette to retire himselfe and to fulfill what he had inioyned him but the bailife should remain by him to make reparation of his fault and hauing sent for a ghostly father and the executioner he condemned the bailife to loose his head to serue for an example to others then being confest the Earle caused him to come before his bed and he himselfe drawing out the sword gaue it to the executioner who cut off the bailifes head in the Earles presence beeing thus sicke in bed who hauing called the escoutette said vnto him Take your cosin with you and beware of such facts least the like happen vnto you The escoutette returning to Dordrecht carried backe the bailife in two parts and paid the countrey man his hundred crownes Soone after this good Earle William worne with yeres and with sicknesse called for the earl of Ostreuant his eldest sonne to whom he gaue many godly and fatherly admonitions first of the loue and feare of God then of the administring iustice equally to all men to entertaine his subiects in peace and rest not to surcharge his people with extraordinarie impositions and taxes to reuerence church men and not to be offenciue vnto them with many other goodly exhortations to liue well Hauing ended his speech he gaue vp the ghost the 9 of Iune 1337 after that he had gouerned the prouinces of Henault Holland Zeeland and Friseland 32 yeares He was a very vertuous prince victorious in war a good man at armes well spoken iudicious a great louer of peace gratious to all men and well beloued in all courts of princes He was interred with great pompe in his towne of Valenciennes After his death the contesse his widow went and liued among the religious women at Fontenelles where she died fiue yeares after her husband We haue before made mention how that the Frisons slew the gouernor whom the king of Denmarke had giuen them whose wife was deliuered six monethes after of a sonne the which was bred vp in the court of the king his vncle This sonne being growne great and desirous to be reuenged of the Frisons hauing no meanes nor power of himselfe he intreated the king to giue him only one ship well appointed to see if by policie he could exploit any thing against the Frisons with this ship he entred into the riuer of Ems where he vnderstood that the judges and officers of the countrey of Friseland were assembled about Groningue he resolued therefore to cast anker there thinking that if hee stayed any time they would come and demaund what hee was and what hee did the which fell out accordingly for the officers seeing this goodly ship in the road went to see it and to heare somenewes comming neere they demanded according to their custom of whence the ship was what commodities he carried whither he was bound This yong man shewing himselfe vpon the hatches saluted them honourably and answered them modestly That hee had no great marchandise in his ship that hee was a rich marchants sonne and that hee was desirous to see hauens and port townes and especially the countrey of Friseland requesting them to come aboord and tast his wine and he would do the like on land with them They doubting nothing went aboord the yong man receiued them courteously presenting them a banquet whereas they dranke so well as most of them were drunke and fell asleepe He finding so fit an oportunitie weighed anker sayled directly towards Denmarke with these drunkards who hauing disgested their wine found that they were cousened This young gentleman comming into Denmarke presented them vnto the king who blamed their disloyaltie much hauing murthered his lieutenant they excusing themselues that it was not done by them nor in their time besought the king to saue their liues The king answered although I haue good reason to put you all to death yet I will giue you all your liues if you can settle me in Friseland as I was before The which they promised In the end the Frisons by the persuasion of one of these Iudges that was sent vnto them were content to acknowledge the king of Denmarke for their lord and to receiue a lieutenant in his name with whom the Iudges and Officers were sent home The gouernor hauing receiued the homages of fealtie of the Frisons caried himselfe modestly ynough for a good time but in the end seeking to bring in the Danish lawes and to entreat them extraordinarily beyond their priuiledges they reuolted againe as the Dutch Chronicle sayth Vel odio seruitutis vel amore libertatis and expelled their gouernor out of their countrey In the life of good Cont William the chief noblemen in Holland and Zeeland were William earle of Ostreuant eldest sonne to good Cont William Iohn of Beaumont earle of Blois his brother Henry and Didier of Brederode brethren Symon and Didier of They lingen brethren also Iohn lord of Heusden Iohn lord of Drongelen his vncle Iohn lord of Arckel Didier Seignior of Valkenburch Monioye brother to the wife of the lord of Brederode lady of Voorne Nicholas lord of Putten and Streyen Philip vicont of Leyden lord of Wassenare Iohn Seignior of Leck and Polanen Iohn Seignior of Henckelom Otto Seignior of Aspren Iohn Seignior of Egmont Walter his son Ghisbrecht Seignior of Iselstein Henry Seignior of Vianen Iohn of Persin Seignior of Waterlandt Guy of Holland Seignior of Hamstede Arnold Seignior of Cruyningen William Seignior of Naeldwick Floris of Spyck Ieams vanden Voude Floris Merwen Didier and Herman Zwieten brethren Gerard of Hemskerke Gerard of Raphorst Gerard of Polgeest Floris vanden Tol Ogier van Spanghen VVilliam Kuser baylife of Rhinlandt Didier of Sassenhem Daniel of Matenesse and Didier
they were proprietaries in possession but for that they were issued from the right stocke of a Duke of Bauaria for the Emperor Lewis was but second sonne to Lewis Duke of Bauaria Palatin ofRhine The Duchie of Bauaria hath alwaies had that priuiledge that all those which were descended of the bloud of Dukes might also intitle themselues Dukes although they had not a foote of land The which is at this day vsed in all the families of the Princes of Germanic yea among Earles and Barons This William the Emperors eldest sonne was at the beginning made Earle of Oesteruant and Albert was siegneor of Nubingen The said Lady Empresse hauing taken possession of all these Countrieâ—… before her returne into Germanie to the Emperor her husband she appointed the said Cont William her Sonne and successor in the said Countries Regent of Holland Zeeland and Friseland vpon condition that he should pay vnto her yeerely ten thousand French Crownes or for want of payment that she might resume and take vnto her againe all the profit of the said siegneories as before of which resignation letters Pattent were drawne and promises made in the presence of many Princes and Prelates Yet a while after through ill councell the Earle would not hold nor performe any thing touching the pension carrying himselfe like an absolute Prince as we will presently shew The Bishop of Vtrecht after the death of Robert of Arckel his Brother and Lieutenant temporall being siaine in Battaile neere vnto Liege finding himselfe greatly indebted to spare and to pay his debts he retired himselfe to Tours in France meaning to liue there as a man vnknowne with a small traine during the truce which hee had with the Empresse Countesse of Holland leauing in this diocesse sixe Noblemen or Knights to gouerne during his absence In the yeare 1348. the Bishoppe finding the truce to bee well neere ended returned into his countries and found his debts rather increased then diminished through the ill husbandrie of the sayd sixe Gouernors Eight dayes after the expiration of the truce on Saint Marguerites day the Bishop went out of Vtrecht with a great number of his Bourgesses in armes and camped in the open plaine neere vnto the great Village of Emenesse The Hollanders being not farre of went to fight with them so as this skirmish turned into a battaile in the which those of Vtrecht had the better the Hollanders were put to route and many of the inhabitants of Emenesse slaine vpon the place Melis of Muyden commander of the Hollanders troupe was taken prisoner and put to a great ransome Those of the said Village of Emenesse which hath not lesse then a good French league in length were forced to leaue their new title which they had giuen themselues calling themselues East-Hollanders to resume their ancient name of Emenesse and to subiect themselues vnder the obedience of the Bishop and of the Diocesse of Vtrecht as they be yet at this day After the death of the Emperor Lewis of Bauaria the Empresse Marguerite his widdow came into Holland to Dordrecht whither shee sent for Duke William her sonne who being come resigned vnto the said Lady his Mother the gouernment and possession of her Counties of Holland Zeeland and Friseland the which before she had deliuered into his hands for an annuall pension of ten thousand Crownes of the which he had not to that day paid any thing This reintegration made William retired into Henault his mother remaining sole Lady regent of her countries the which she gouerned but loosely In the yeare 1349. the Bishop of Vtrecht gathered together a great number of soldiers with the which he entred into Holland and besieged the towne of Oude-water the which he tooke by force burnt a part of it and carried away many prisoners besides other spoile at which siege there dyed of the Bishops men Iohn of Rysenburch two brothers of Lichtenburch Ieames Ihon and Euerard of Dryel three brethren all Knights with many Gentlemen and good Bourgesses of Vtrecht The Hollanders mooued with the losse of this towne leuied an Armie to enter into the Bishops countrie Hee on the other side gathered together all the soldiers and Bourgesses hee could with the which hee went and camped before Schoonhouen where there was a furious charge and a hard incounter but in the end the Hollanders were put to route the Bishops men remaining maisters of the field There were prisoners among others Ghysbrecht of Langerack Herpert of Lyesuelt and Conrade of Oosterwyke knights with many squiers soldiers who were put to ransome the which yeelded a good sum of money vnto the Bishop Soone after by the meanes of some Noblemen a truce was made vnto Saint Martin in the yeare 1350. In that yeare there sprong vp two most dangerous factions in the countrie of Holland whereby they were long afflicted with great miseries and calamities almost to their totall ruine Those of the one party were called Cabillaux or Merlus the which is a deuouring fish in the Sea by which terme they meant that those of this partie should swallow vp their aduersaries Those of the other faction termed themselues Hoecks with the which they catch fish as if they would say If you thinke to swallow vs vp we will first take you with a hooke The chiefe of the Cabillautin faction were Iohn Lord of Arckel father to the Bishop of Vtrecht Iohn Lord of Egmond Gerard Seigneor of Hemskerke with many other Noblemen and Knights of the Hoecketins partie Didier Lord of Brederode Philip Vicont of Leyden Lord of Wassenarie Iohn Lord of Leck and of Polarien Ieames Lord of Binckhorst and many other both Knights and Gentlemen It was a cursed plague which Sathan had powred into the hearts of the Hollanders the which brought forth nothing but hatred quarels rancor hostillities rapines violence detraction false reports deadly foods ruine and desolation ouer all the country In which two factions the chiefe Noblemen and Barons were ingaged seeking nothing but to ruine and destroy one an other For as our Lord IESVS CHRIST saith Euery Realme diuided in it selfe shall be desolate And Salust in his Historie of the Iugurthin warre Small things increase by concord but by discord great things come to ruine Cicero in his Booke of Friendship saith What house is so strongly builded what Citie so surely seated the which by hatred and discord may not perish As we may see by the destruction of Rome at diuers times of Bologne of Genoa and of many others the which haue beene ruined by diuision from the which God by his grace preserue all estates and common-weales that flourish at this day The factions increasing more and more in Holland and the consuming fire of this intestine discord kindling more dayly not onely in the hearts of Noblemen but also in the commons was the cause of great murthers spoiles robberies burnings of either side These heart-burnings
was also inuited both by the King and the Queene his Ante of whom he was honourably receiued with great shewes of loue At his returne from this voyage into Holland this poore Prince I know not by what vnknowne accident was distempered of his sences and vnderstanding so as being very big and strong of all his members he slue Gerard of Wateringhen a Knight with one blow with his fist so as they were forced to shut him vp and to set good garde vpon him where he was keâ—…t for the space of nineteene yeares vntill he dyed Hauing before his distemperature gouerned his countries of Holland Zeeland and Friseland seauen yeares and Henault two Foure yeares after him dyed also the Lady Mathilda his wife who lyes interred in the Abbay of Rhynsbourg by Leyden ALBERT OF BAVARIA 26. EARLE of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland and Palatin of Henault Adelbertus Bauariae I had two wiues both which one name did beare The one a Polonois the other was Marguerite of Cleues the Frisons stood in feare Of my strong hand that did their strength surpasse And oft subdu'd their proud rebellions Delfe taken by me I demantled it At t'Hage iâ—… Holland I appointed Chanons Good men I choosd and for their places sit Hage Castle in the Chappell now containes My body freed from all his eâ—…thly paines DVke William of Bauaria Earle of Holland Zeeland and Henault Lord of Friseland being as we haue said distracted of his sences put into safe keeping the faction of the Hoecks Cabillaux reuiued for the Cabillautins would haue the lady Mathilda wife to the said Cont William to be gouernesse of the said Countries but for that the said lady had no children the Hoeketins did choose Albert of Bauaria Palatin of Rhine siegneor of Nubingen brother to the said Cont William The Nobles of the Contie of Henault consented for their parts to this election and sent a notable Ambassage vnto him into Bauaria beseeching him that hee would take vpon him in his brothers place who was distempered in his braine the gouernment of the said countries Albert vnderstanding the iust request of the Estates by their Ambassador went well accompanied with many Barons Knights and Gentlemen going downe by the riuer of Rhine into Holland where he was honorably receiued of both parties as well Cabellaux as Hoekes and acknowledged as Tutor to the Earle his brother and gouernor of his countries and siegneories Then it was agreed that he should pay yeerely vnto the Countesse Mathilda his sister in lawe the summe of twelue thousand French crownes and no more by meanes of which accord both parties were content and continued good friends but not long This Prince Albert of Bauaria had receiued the order of Knight-hood before making warre in the country of Granado against the Moores and Sarazens At the first hee was married vnto Marguerit daughter to the Duke of Briga in Polonia by whom hee had three sonnes and foure daughters the eldest was called William Earle of Osteruant who was borne in the yeare 1365. the second named Albert siegnior of Nubingen who dyed yong the third was Iohn chosen bishop of Liege borne in the yeare 1374. The eldest daughter Katherine was first married to Edward Duke of Gelders and Earle of Zutphen after whose decease being yet a virgin she married with Duke William of Iuilliers and of Geldres but she had not any children The other daughter named Ioane had to husband Venceslaus King of Romaines and of Bohemia sonne to the Emperor Charles the 4. who also had not any children Marguerite the 3. daughter married with Iohn Duke of Bourgongne Earle of Flanders and Arthois sonne to Duke Phillip the hardie by whom shee had Phillip Duke of Bourgongne called the good and afterwards Duke of Brabant Lembourg and Luxembourg Earle of Flanders Arthois Henault Bourgongne Holland Zeeland and Namur Lord of Friseland and foure daughters the first Iolente Countesse of Poitiers the second Anne Countesse of Bedford the third Agnes Duchesse of Bourbon and the fourth Ioane wife to Duke Albert of Austria by whom shee had one sonne called Albert who married the daughter of Sigismond King of Hongarie who afterwards was Emperor of the Romaines after whose decease this Duke Albert did inherit all these realmes in the right of his wife and was afterwards chosen Emperor but he raigned not long for hee died in the flower of his age his wife was brought in bed soone after his death of a sonne named Lancelot who dyed at two and twenty yeares of age leauing no children This Albert had one cousin germaine sonne to his fathers brother named Frederick who afterwards was also Emperor the third of that name and had to wife the daughter of the King of Portugall by whom hee had Maximilian Archduke of Austria who was also Emperor the first of that name who had to wife Mary the daughter and sole heire of Charles the Warlick Duke of Bourgongne who was slaine before Nancie by whom he had one sonne named Philip and a daughter named Marguerite Philip married with Ioane daughter to Ferdinand King of Arragon and to Elizabeth Queene of Castille Marguerite was married to Iohn Prince of Castille and of Arragon who dyed yong and after married againe to the Duke of Sauoy Philip had by the said Lady Ioane his wife two sonnes Charles the â—…ift and Ferdinand both Emperors and foure daughters Elenor Ioane Mary and Elizabeth The Emperor Charles the sift had one onely sonne Philip king of Spaine Lord of the Low-countries father to King Phillip the third now raigning Behold in briefe the genealogie of the Kings of Spaine and of foure or fiue Emperors issued from the houses of Holland Bourgongne and Austria As for the second wife of Duke Albert of Bauaria Earle of Holland of whom wee now intreate wee will speake of her hereafter The said Cont Albert displaced Iohn of Blauwestein from the Baylewike of Kermerlandt inuesting Renald the eldest sonne to the Lord of Brederode in his place the which those of the faction of the Cabillautins tooke in very ill part and laide ambushes neere vnto the village of Castrichom to kill him when hee should passe that way One day this yong Nobleman doubting no harme riding towards Castrichom he incountred them that lay in ambush for him but hauing discouered them a good way of he saued himselfe by flight they pursued him and slew three of his seruants Those of the village of Castrichom seeing it went to armes to defend their new Bayliffe so as they were forced to retire Some of them saued themselues in the Castell of Walter of Hemskerke the rest fled to Delf where they were receiued for that the said towne was of the Cabillautins faction Cont Albert hearing of these newes did presently leuie some troupes and marched towards Kermerlandt where he besieged the Castell of Hemskerke for that Walter who was Lord thereof had receiued
of Boisleduc to the Earle who attended them there Cont Albert hauing this castell caused it to bee ruined all but the two great towers and Cont William giuing place to his fathers indignation retired himselfe into France to king Charles the sixt where being in the yeare 1395. set at the kings table with many Princes and Barons there came a Herald or King at Armes who cutte the cloath before him saâ—…ing that it did not belong to any one how great a prince soeuer to sit at the Kings table if he had not armes and a scutchion The Earle answered that he had them as well as any other Then there was an old Herauld by which said pardon me sir for Cont William your great vncle was not onely vanquished by the Frisons but lyes yet without any reuenge taken buried among his enemies The Earle being ashamed thereat from that time forward did nothing but dreame by what meâ—…es he might repaire this disgrace and so retiring out of France much troubled he came into Henault And for that he durst not shew himselfe boldly before his father he writ secretly vnto him of the affront that had beene done him in France beseeching him most humbly that he would be pleased to aduise how he might reuenge himselfe and all his race of such a disgrace Cont Albert hearing these newes said This dishonor shall neuer be more reproched to me nor to my children for I will if it please God go my selfe in person the next yeare into Friseland and demand the body of Cont William mine vncle bring back his armes and reuenge his death Soone after the sonne was reconciled to the father and all the Noblemen that were with him who went all together to the court of Holland at the Hage The yeare following 1396. Cont Albert hauing resolued to make warre against the Frisons leuied a mighty army as well out of his owne prouinces as out of France England and Germanie in the which there were many Princes Earles and Barons and a goodly troope of choise men at armes The cheife of his hereditary prouinces were William Earle of Osteruant his eldest sonne Iohn bishop of Liege his yongest sonne and Albert lord of Nubingen his middle sonne the chiefe of the French troupes were the Earle of Saint Pol the Earle of Namur and the Admirall of France of the English the lord Scales and of the Germaines the Earle of Solms The Noblemen of Holland Zeeland and West-friseland were Guy Earle of Blois Iohn Lord of Arckell lieutenant of Holland Iohn of Brederode Philip vicont of Leyden Lord of Wassenare the siegniors of Aspren Seuenberghe Drongelon Henckelom Leydenburch and Waerdenburch with many other Knights and Gentlemen Their Rendez-vous was at the Hage where all these nobles attending the preparation of the army spent the time in iousts torneys and other goodly exercises of warre to adresse themselues in armes and to harden themselues to labour On Sonday after the feast of the Ascention Cont Albert arriued with all his forces at Enchuysen where 3000. ships and 4000. barkes did attend him to passe into Friseland where there is but foure or fiue leagues to crosse In this voyage the Earle made many knights among others Floris of Alcmada and Gerard of Voort Hollanders Hee had 180000. men well armed with the which he entred by Cuindert into Friseland The Frisons of Stellingwerf hearing him to approache gathered together all the men they could out of their owne villages and from their neighbours and with a valiant resolution went to incounter him the day that Saint Iohn Baptist was beheaded The Earle charged them the incounter was furious and the combate cruell and bloudy when they came to ioyne There was many a man ouerthrowne many heads armes eares and legges cut off targets head-peeces broken with the waight of battle-axes with hideous and fearefull cryes of men wounded and dying In the end the Frisons not able to withstand so great a multitude were broken and put to flight some heere some there so many men so many waies who thinking to saue themselues by the marishes and quagmiers many were smothered and drowned there Others flying by the ordinary high-wayes were pursued and taken whereof there were foureteene hundred prisoners After this first victory Cont Albert sent Peter Beets sonne to Didier Beets a Knight with them of Amsterdam of West-frisland of Kennemer and Waterlandt vp the riuer of Lanwere to assaile the Frisons on that side and giue them another battaile The which being discouered by them they planted themselues in such great numbers vpon the sea shore to hinder the Hollanders landing as no man durst offer to go to land but they lay still at anchor to keepe the Frisons from putting to sea In the meane time the Earle marched with the body of his armie towards Staueren and from thence through Gheesterlandt to Saint Odolphus cloister to aduise which way he might best assaile and subdue the Frisons who notwithstanding that they lamented their first losses gathered together new troopes being resolued to hazard a second battaile against the Hollanders The Earle seeing his enimy ready to fight hauing put his armie in good order went first to the charge and there was a second battaile giuen which the Frisons lost The Earle remaining maister of the field caused his tents and Pauilions to be pitcht and staied there ten daies to see if the enemy would come to seeke him During which time not any one presented himselfe euery man redoubting his power During this abode there were certaine Englishmen notwithstanding the Earles expresse defence which would goe and discouer and skirmish with the enemy Being two leagues from the campe they set fire on certaine villages and laded themselues with booty thinking to returne to their quarter the Frisons lying close in their ambushes seeing them approach discouered themselues of all sides The English men being not much amazed put themselues in good order retiring gently fighting with their arrowes and slings but the multitude of Frisons was so great for that their numbers increased continually as the English began to defend themselues casting themselues into a neere fort which they made good against the Frisons who held them there besieged all the rest of the day and the night following The Earle vnderstanding the danger in which the Englishmen were intreated the townes of Holland to goe thether and to vngage them some of them answered That if their Prince went with them and marched before they would follow him The Earle hearing this answer said to them of Delse Goe you and vngage them At this commandement the Delphois made him a modest answer My Lord although you haue heretofore destroyed vs yet for the loue of you we will willingly goc and succour them or dye all in the enterprise beseeching you to remember this seruice when any good occasion is offered Herevpon they marched directly towards the Frisons The English
the lord of Humbercourt the last hated him mortally for a lie which the Constable had giuen him in a conference of State betwixt the King and the dukes men the which did afterwards cost him his head This assembly of Bouines was in the yeare 1474. In the which it was concluded by both their deputies that the Constable for certaine reasons set downe in writing was guilty of high treason against both these Princes and all that should serue or assist him Moreouer the King should giue vnto the duke the towne of S. Quentin withall his treasure and mouables that should be found in the Realme of France with all the lands and Seigneuries which he had held of the duke Among others Ham and Bohain strong places and well appointed And at a certaine day prefixed the King and the duke should haue their armies ready to goe and beseege the Constable in Ham. But hee flattered the King in such sort as all that was disapointed for afterwards there was an entervewe betwixt the King and him the Constable comming armed conferring togither at a bar where he was reconciled to the King and to the Earle of Dompmartin making his excuse that hee came armed for the hatred and feare of him from thence the Constable went to lodge at Noion and the next day at Saint Quentin well reconciled as hee sayd and thought The King hearing what the world sayd of this his conference with the Constable he excused himselfe for his folly and basenesse to haue treated with his subiect and seruant accompanied with 400. men at armes all his owne subiects and entertained at his charge hauing a barre betwixt them From that time the Kings hatred increased daylie against the Constable Herein the Kings basenesse is excused for if hee had not done it the duke of Bourgongne would easily haue receiued him yeelding vp Saint Quentin We haue said before that Prince Adolph of Geldres deteined his father Duke Arnold in prison in the yeare 1464. which was the cause of great warres The Duke of Bourgongne did often seeke to reconcile them but he could not in the end the Pope and the Emperor dealt in it commanding the Duke of Bourgongne to drawe Duke Arnold out of prison the which hee did vpon a sommons made to Prince Adoph the which he durst not refuze seeing so many Potentates to deale in the cause and fearing the dukes forces so the duke of Geldres was brought to Dourlans to the duke of Bourgongne at such time as the French King was about Amiens Prince Adolph his Sonne appeered also vpon the same adiournement Once among the rest being called into the dukes chamber thinking to reconcile them in a great assembly of his councellors where they pleaded their cause the good old duke presented his gage of battaile vnto his Sonne The duke of Bourgongne for the alliance which Prince Adolph had made in his house and through the recōmendations of the deceased duke Philip his Father desired much to reconcile them yet he fauored the yong Prince most offring vnto him the title of gouernor of Bourgongne and the country of Gelders withall the reuenues except the towne of Graue scituated in Brabant the which should remaine to the father with the title of duke the Sonne should be called M◅bour Gardien or Regent of the country The lord of Argenton in his memorials writs that hee was commanded by the duke of Bourgongne to deliuer this message vnto Prince Adolph who answered That hee had rather haue cast his Father headlong into a well and himselfe after then make such an agreement That his Father had beene duke forty foure yeares and that it was now time hee were in his turne but hee would willingly yeelde him 3000. florins a yeare vpon condition that hee should neuer come into the Countrie of Geldres with manie more wicked and impious speeches The Duke of Bourgongne hearing the villanous speeches of this young Prince was very much mooued and would force him to make an ende with his Father But as the duke after the taking of Amiens parted to goe to Hesdin this Prince attyred himselfe like a Frenchman and escaped away with one man in his company to goe into his country passing a bridge neere vnto Namur where there was a certaine Toll to bee payed hee payed a Florin for his passage But a Priest knowing him discouered him to the Tol-gatherer who stayed him and caused him to be ledde to Namur from thence he was carried to Gand where hee remayned prysoner vntill the death of the duke of Bourgongne duke Arnold his Father was verie ioyfull of his imprysonment who to reuenge the iniury and outrage that had beene done him resigned his Duchie of Geldres to the duke of Bourgongne who kept his sonne prysoner who tooke possession thereof notwithstanding the great resistance he found there and inioyed it vntill his death The duke of Bourgongne after the Inuestiture of this Duchie of Geldres returned into his country hauing his heart swollen with pride to haue inlarged his territories and increased his reuenues with this goodly Prouince He beganne to haue some taste in these matters of Germany for that the Emperor Frederic was a quiet still man who suffred much to auoide charge and who of himselfe without the Princes of Germany had no great power Hauing a desire to take something from the Germaines hee prolonged the truce with the French For the effecting whereof there fell out happily for him a quarrell betwixt two Noblemen competitors for the bishoprick of Cologne the one was brother to the Landtgraue of Hessen the other kinsman to the Palatin of Rhine The duke of Bourgongne would hold the Palatins partie and vndertooke to put him into possession by force hoping to get some share And in the same yeare 1474. hee went to beseege Nuys fiue leagues from Cologne and of that Diocesse a strong Towne in the which the Landtgraue of Hessen himselfe was and many of his Kinsmen and friends to the number of 1800. horse The duke had neuer such goodly troupes of Caualerie and among the rest 1000. Italian launces which the Earle of Campobachio a Neapolitan led who afterwardes betrayed him and was the cause of his death Those of Cologne did their best endeauors to succor the towne The Emperor and the Princes of Germany assembled about this businesse and resolued to rayse an armie The French King had sent to sollicit them vnder hand The Princes sent an Ambassador vnto him intreating him that as soone as the Emperor should goe to field he would straight gather him with 20000 men the which hee promised vnder the commande of the lords of Craen and Salezard This Germaine armie was great for all the Princes both spirituall and temporall with the Bishoppes and Townes had sent their forces The Emperour was seauen monethes in raysing of this army with the which hee went and campt within halfe a league of
Freezland the Ganthois and Brugeois mutinue againe and keepe the King of Romaines prisoner to whose succour the Emperour Frederick his father came against whom and against the Frisons he made Albert Duke of Saxonie his generall a priuate warre in Holland a peace betwixt the Flemmings and the Arch-duke diuers Factions armed in Freezland Duke Albert seekes a quarrell against them both a peace betwixt the Arch-duke Philip of Austria and Charles the 8. the French King the Arch-duke takes possession of the Neitherlands war betwixt the Duke of Gelders the Arch-duke the Estates of Freezland held at Snâ—…cke whereof followed great wars Duke Albert obtaines of the Emperour the hereditarie gouernment of Freezland the continuance of the warre in Freezland Duke Albert slaine before Groningen the Arch-duke inherits the Realmes of Spaine by his wife Duke George of Saxonie after the death of Albert his father contiâ—…ues the warre in Freezland the Duke of Gelders reconciled to the King of Castile the death of the said King warre renewed betwixt the Geldrois and the Bourguignons MAXIMILIAN Arch-duke of Austria sonne to the Emperour Frederick was borne the 12. of March 1459. from his infancie vntill he came to be fourteene or fifteene yeares old he was of a heauie disposition and slow in speech for he grew some-what big before he could pronounce his words but being come to age hee recompenced that defect by wisedome and readinesse of speech especially in the Latin tongue Nature and the bountie of God did adorne and inrich him with so many vertues for the good of the Empire as by the iudgement of euery man he did exceed all the Christian Princes of his time in vigour viuacitie and quicknesse of spirit in domestick publike polliticke and militarie vertues in zeale to religion in bountie worthy of such a Prince and of an invincible courage as well in prosperitie as in aduersitie Hee was about 20. years old when hee married his first wife Marie Dutchesse of Bourgongne Countesse of Holland Zeeland c. By whom hee had the first yeare of their marriage one sonne named Philip who was father to Charles the fift the second yeare he had one daughter named Marquerite the which in her infancie was betrothed to Charles Dolphin of France sonne to King Lewis the 11. The third yeare he had a sonne named Francis so named by Francis Duke of Brittaine The fourth yere he dyed as we will shew in the deduction of this Historie This vertuous Prince marrying this Princesse of Bourgongne was withall wedded to great warres which we will discribe heare for that which shall concerne the Neitherlands as succinctly as wee can referring those of Italy and Germanie to Paulus Iouius Francis Guichardin and others that haue written of that subiect The French King had no care but how he should deuoure all the siegneories of this Princesse but hearing of her marriage whereon hee thought least he did somewhat moderate the least of his greedie couetousnesse He had already notwithstanding the Truce made with the Duke father to the said Lady wrested away violently all the Townes of Picardie on this side the Riuer of Some the countrie of Arthois with Tournay and Tournesis practising all hee could the Towne of Gaunt and the Flemmings beeing easie to mooue and which since gaue many crosses to the Arch-duke Maximilian It was therefore needfull for this Prince to craue the succours and means of his father and his friends in Germanie for the Neitherlandes were much vnpeopled both of their Nobilitie and of their best Commanders in warre and of common souldiers which had beene lost in those three defeates and those fewe which had remained in Picardie as the Lord of Cordes and others of the countrey of Arthois had imbraced the French Kings partie some for that their liuings lay in those Countries and others being drawne away by gifts and goodly promises The Arch duke hauing visited all the Prouinces of the Dutchesse his wife where he was well intertained and hauing receiued the oathes and hostages returned to Bruges where hee called an Assembly of all the Princes Earles Barons Knights and chiefe Gentlemen of the said Countries with the generall Estates to resolue of the best meanes and course that was to be taken to resist the attempts of the French king who did dayly seaze vppon some piece of his estate But for that hee was not yet Knighted his desire was before hee vndertooke any warre against the French to receiue the order of Knight-hood of the golden Fleece with the solemnities and Ceremonies accustomed as the good Duke Philip his wiues grand-father had instituted it Hauing therefore receiued the choller from Adolph of Cleues Lorde of Rauesteyn he held a generall Chapter of the said Order which hee renewed and added some other Knights Among the which were William of Egmond brother to Arnold Duke of Gelders father to Prince Adolph The feastes and tryumphs of this Ceremonie being ended the Arch-duke began to leuie men of all sides to expell the French out of his Territories who had already taken many places in Henault But hearing of this preparation for warre and of so great a leuie of men they left all and abandoned the countrey whether the Arch-duke went in person in a short time reduced all the countrie vnder his obedience and subiection after some light skirmishes and incounters which hee had often against the French in the which for the most part hee was victor The 22. of Iune in the yeare 1478. was borne in the cittie of Bruges Philip of Austria first child to the Arch-duke and the Lady Marie of Bourgongne which brought great ioy to all the Neitherlands giuing thanks vnto GOD that had giuen them a Prince who in time to come might gouerne them in peace and defend them against the French their naturall enemies Wee haue formerly sayd that Duke Arnold of Gelders had sold the Dutchie to Duke Charles of Bourgongne by reason of the great wrong which Prince Adolph his sonne had done him by his imprisonment wherof Duke Charles had taken possession in the life time of Duke Arnold But after the death of Duke Charles of Prince Adolph who was slaine as we haue said before Tournay the Geldrois did reuolt especially the Townes of Numeghen and Zutphen with their dependances The children of Prince Adolph were at that time bred vp in the Court of Bourgongne wherevpon the Geldrois sent for the Lady Katherine of Gelders sister to prince Adolph to come and gouerne the countrie the which she did which was the cause of great warre betwixt the house of Bourgongne and the Geldrois The Arch-duke Maximilian hauing reconquered the Countrie of Henault he marched with his troupes towards the Contrie of Gelders hee came to Ruremond where hee was receiued and at Venlo also and in all the quarters there abouts then he returned into Flanders went to Gaunt to set things in order In the Meane time
Duke Frederick of Brunswick whom the reuolted Geldrois had chosen for their Gouernor fell sicke and so retyred into his countrie Then the Geldrois tooke Henrie of Swartsenbourg Bishop of Munster for their new Gouernour who tooke vpon him the charge and came well acompanied About the end of the same yeare 1478. the Arch-duke went from Brusselles with all his Nobility of Brabant and Flanders leading with him a goodly army and marched into the Contry of Arthois being resolued to recouer the townes and places which the French King had taken from the Dutchesse his wife He went and camped at Pont a vendin which is a small towne betwixt Lille and Arras The King was far of beseeging the towne of Lens in Arthois These two armies were there for a time fronting one an other during the which there were diuers messages past on either side so as in the end a truce was made and they retyred euery one to his home The truce being expired in August 1479. the Earle of Romont Gouernor of Arthois surprized Cambray and Bohain a little towne three leagues from thence The Earle of Saint Pol brother in lawe to the saide Earle of Romont hauing married his sister was made Gouernor of Flanders for the Archduke although he were much tormented with the gout yet he was a wise and valiant knight The Archduke accompanied by the Earle of Romont and Saint Pol by Cont Engelbert of Nassau Philip of Cleues sonne to the Lord of Rauesteyn the Lords of Fiennes Beueren Lalain and other Noblemen of the Netherlands being followed by a goodly army went and camped neere vnto Teroanne being resolued to beseege it The French namely the Lord of Cordes coming out of Picardy with 1800. pikes and 14000. Archers thought to fight with the Archdukes army and to charge them in their campe But the Archduke being aduertised thereof in time hauing left some troupes of soote with 800. horse vnder the commande of Philip of Cleues to guard the campe the vittelers and the baggage he went himselfe in person to meet them in the open field The Earle of Romont Marshall of the army hauing ordred the Battalyons with the pikes in the forward and the Earle of Nassau commanded the reerward The French men coming downe from the mont of Esguinegate charged the forward of the Bourguignons the Earle of Romont with his Flemings stood firme and maintained the fight valiantly against the French archers In the meane time the garrison of Teroanne meaning to charge the reerward fell vpon the campe where they grew amazed and made so small resistance as they did what they would so as the horsemen that were there ingard hauing beene defeated and put to rout were pursued euen into the suburbes of the towne of Aire The French whome the Earle of Romont had in front noting them that fled being greedy of spoile left their places and fell vpon the baggage The Arch-duke seeing that the French had forsaken their rankes of them-selues to runne after Pillage he went and charged them so furiously as he put the Archers to rout so as there were about 5000. slaine vpon the place and a great number of prisoners he remayning maister of the field with a memorable victory which GOD gaue him on the seauenth of August 1491. After the Battaile the Arch-duke returned victorious into the towne of Aire and the Earle of Romont with part of his troupes went to beseege the castell of Malonoy neere to the Abbaie of Han belonging to the house of Croy in the which there was a French garison from whence he brought Captaine Cadet a gentleman Gascon prisoner to the Arch-duke who for his presumption and brauery caused him with 50. of his souldiers to be hanged The French King much displeased for this fact in reuenge there of caused 50. men to bee chosen out of those which the garrison of Tournay had taken in the Arch-dukes campe and commanded his prouost generall to goe and hang them giuing him for his garde a thousand horse and sixe thousand foote which was in the very place whereas Captaine Cadet had beene hanged ten before the gates of Arras ten at the Port of Douay ten before Saint Omers ten and at the gates of Lille the last ten After this victory of Esguinegate the Arch-duke led his army before Tournay the which he beseeged so straightly as in the end necessity forced them to yeeld vpon composition with a condition that if they did euer rebell any more against him they should forfait al the rents and fees that they had in Flanders and for reparation of the death of Duke Adolph of Geldres they should build vp a Chappell in perpetuall memory thereof The French King seeing the happy successe of the Arch-duke Maximilian and that he had a sonne borne sent a notable Ambassage vnto him with rich presents betwixt whome there was a truce made for a time At that time there reuiued in Holland the factions of Hoecks and Cabillaux for that one Martin of Velaere Baylife of the towne of Horne the which was of the Hoeckin faction and hee a Cabillautin hauing beene expelled the towne without any hope of returne resigned his Office to the young Lord of Egmond promising to giue entrance to him and all the Cabillautin faction into the Towne they laide two plots to surprise it but both failed where-vpon the towne of Horne allyed it selfe with Enchuysen Eedam Monick Endam-Metemblick other villages there abouts These factions were the cause of great troubles at that time in Harlem Rotterdam Leyden and else where one party chasing an other out of these townes The Cabillautines surprised Oud-water seased vpon the court at the Hage from whence they chased away the seruants and spoyled the moueables plate and Iewels of the Lord of La Vere Gouernor of Holland who had his reuenge in chasing away the Cabillautines against whom the Hoekins committed great insolencies A while after the Gouernor went to Rotterdam to remaine there for his better safety but few of the Councell went with him for the most of the towne were of the Cabellautin faction when the Noble men of that faction which had fled from the Hage heard that the Gouernor was retired with his followers they returned forced the Hoekins lodgings and brake downe all they found as they had done to them before And they were not content there-with vntill they had drawne the Arch-duke into their quarrells who to please them put the Lord of La Vere from his gouerment of Holland for whome the Cabillautins laid ambushes to kill him at his returne to La-Vere in Zeland whereof hee was aduertised at Gorrichom whether the Archduke was come to setle the affaiers of Gelders and to subdue Ghysbrecht Pyecht Lord of halfe the towne of Aspren against Wessel of Boerslaer Lord of another moeity and of an other Castell this holding of Holland and the other of Gelders which Castel the Archdukes men tooke by
being in the presence of the Archduke Philip and of duke Henry deploring the miserable estate of their coūtry made a long speech of the causes motiues of the alteration which had happened wherof insued the siege of Franicker which had not bin but through the excessiue and insupportable exactions and taxes which were daily laied vpon them without intermission wherewith the country was not onelie exhausted of money but made poore miserable and desolate and all through the horse-leeches of gouernors and officers which the duke had placed there the which thrust them into such dispaire as the miseries and calamities which followed tooke their spring and beginning from thence They therefore beseeched him that it would please duke Henry of Saxony in regard of a certaine summe of money although by reason of the extorsions past it would bee heauy and burthensome such as should bee agreed vpon from that time forward to relinquish and giue ouer the siegnorie of the country of Friseland the which had been alwaies wont to remaine free or else to resigne it to the Archduke Philip his couzin their neerest neighbour either by sale transport or otherwise to whome they would promise and sweare all fealty gouerning them according to their ancient preuiledges and preseruing them from all wrongs and oppressions of all other fortaine Princes or enemies that would inuade them as duke Albert had promised and sworne vnto them at his reception the which his Lieutenants and officers had broken in sundry sorts whereof all their miseries haue growne Answere was made to this petition that they would send some of them of qualitie and Iudgement two of the quarter of Oster-gooe two of Wester-gooe and two of the seauen Forests the which should goe into the sayd quarters to vnderstand from the Inhabitants whome they would more willingly obey the Archduke Philip or the Duke of Saxony and by what meanes for the greater good of the country the might be treated of and accorded According to the which there were on the Suppliants behalfe deputed Edo Iongama and Syurd Wybes for the quarter of Oster-gooe Aggo Lanckam◅ and Baldwin Lattiens for Wester-gooe Syres Hyl◅ko and Vlbe Igles for the Seauen Forests These sixe being arriued at Cuinder sent vnto Cont Hughe of Linsenach the duke of Saxonies lieutenant to craue a Pasport at his handes the which hee sent them but in such obscure and doubtfull tearmes as they durst not trust vnto it For in truth this resignation of the siegneury of Friseland vnto the Archduke Philip which was then in question did nothing please the said Lieutenant the councell nor the Nobles of Friseland that were partisans to the Saxons wherevpon they sent them this defectiue pasport meaning to intrappe them For contrariwise insteed of giuing eare to this resignation they forced all the countrie of Frieseland from Staueren vnto the riuer of Lauwers to sweare vnto the dukes Henry and George of Saxony Brethren sonnes to the deceased duke Albert exacting vpon all the townes and villages of the country a yeares contribution of aduance except the Clergy whome they did free for that time Moreouer they raised certaine newe Impostes vpon the Wine Beere and Cloth Whereof they made an estate the which they sent vnto these two dukes Brethren that seeing the great reuenues and the profit which did ariue yearely vnto them from those countries they should bee the lesse inclined to resigne them But it was not the profit of these Princes that did so much rule them as their o◅ne priuate interest without any respect to the publike good We haue sayd before that Ferdinand Prince or Infant of Castille the onelio sonne of the King Don Fernand of Arragon and of Queene Isabella had married the Ladie Marguerite of Austria and sister to the Archduke Philip which Prince died within a yeare after his marriage leauing his wife with child who was deliuered of a sonne the which liued not long after so as there was none neerer to succeed in the realmes of Castille Arragon Naples Sicile and others then the Lady Isabella eldest daughter to the King Don Fernando who was married to Don Emanuel King of Portugal and then the Lady Iane wife to the Archduke Philip the Lady Isabella Queene of Portugal died leauing one only son named Michel who liued not long Al which being dead that is to say the Prince Don Ferdinand and his son that was borne after his death the Queene of Portugal Prince Michel her son there remained only to succeed in the said Realmes the Lady Iane Archduchesse of Austria duchesse of Bourgongne mother to Charles Ferdinand Emperors in their times Wherfore the Archduke and his wife were aduised and councelled by the Bishop of Besanson to go into Spaine before that the King Don Ferdinando of Arragon and Queene Isabella of Castille father and mother to the sayd Ladie Iane Archduchesse should die to prepare themselues to the sucession of the sayd Realmes and to take their way through France And the rather for that Lewis the twelfth the French King the duke of Bourbon Vncle to the Archduke had a great desire to see him Comming into France with a stately traine of Princes and Noblemen as well Germains as Netherlanders they were honorably receiued in all townes by the Kings commandement with power to pardon prisoners for crimes The King and Queene attended them at Blois being accompanied by the Princes of the bloud dukes Earles Barons Cardinalls Archbishops and Bishops where they staied six daies then hauing taken their leaues they went on in their vo◅age vntill they arriued in Spaine where they were welcome to the King and Queene who were ioyfull to see their daughter and then their onely heire The Archduke hauing staied sometime in Spaine tooke his leaue of the King and Queene to goe vnto the Emperor his father in Germany and there take possession of his estates and siegneuries for which cause the Emperor had sent for him He returned as he went by France leauing his wife in Spaine where there fell out a quarrell in Court betwixt the French and the Spaniards in the which the duke of Nemours was slaine whereof the Archduke purged himselfe vnto the King yet hee was so terrified as hee fell into so violent a feuer as for a time they doubted of his health yet through the care of the King and the duke of Bourbon with the helpe of good Phisitions he was soone recouered and so departed taking his way towards Germanie where the Princes attended him vpon the Rhine who receiued him very honorably All this time the warre continued betwixt the duke of Saxony by the conduct of Cont Hugh of Lynsenach and the Groningeois by many prises and reprises of either side as of dam of Delfziel and other places The exiled Frisons were reconciled to the duke of Saxony who chose rather to receiue them into grace then to enter into contention with the Archduke his couzin In the
their departure was made Gouernour of all the Neitherlands in the Kings absence and recommended his sonnes Charles and Ferdinand to the Ladie Marguerite his sister Douwager of Sauoy The French King hearing that they tooke their way by Sea and would not passe through France he sent Philip of Cleues Earle of Neuers and the bishop of Paris vnto them in Ambassage requiring first That the marriage which had beene concluded betwixt Prince Charles their sonne and the Lady Claude of France the Kings daughter should bee diasnulled and made voyde for that the Princes of the blood and the Parliament did not thinke it conuenient And for the second point That the King of Castile should not attempt any thing vpon the Soueraigne iurisdiction of Flanders in ciuill causes and in Arthois touching Appellations both in Ciuill and Cryminall causes The which was wholy granted These Ambassadours dispatcht away King Philip and Queene Iane of Castile his wife accompanied with a goodly traine of Princes Noble-men Princesses and great Ladyes parted in the ende of the yeare 1505. from Antwerp and came into Zee-land where waying anchor at Arnmuyden the day after tweft day 1506 they went to Sea with a rich and mightie Fleet of shippes but they had not beene long at Sea before that there did rise a great tempest of winde snowe and such mists as being long before they knew what course they went they were hourely in great danger to perrish in the Sea Euery man wondered that in the depth of winter they would commit themselues to the danger and perrill of the Sea GOD letting them for to vnderstand that the greatest Kings and Princes are subiect vnto these dangers as well as the poorest Marryners but he preserued them and they put to land at Weymouth in the West part of England all the rest of the fleet was so dispersed as they knew not what was become of them whereof some shippes were cast away Henrie the seauenth King of England hearing of their being in the Harbour sent some of his Princes to receiue them in his name and to intreat them to come on land and refresh themselues whether he himselfe went and entertained them very louingly shewing them all the delights hee could and giuing them many goodly presents to make them forget their troubles past at sea At one time King Henry intreated King Philip that he would deliuer him the Earle of Suffolk who as we haue sayd was taken with the bastard of Geldres in the Castell of Hattem King Philip after great importunity vpon promise that King Henry should not touch his life consented that the Earle of Suffolke should be brought into England the which did much discontent many good men He was kept in the Castell of Namur from whence hee was brought and deliuered to the King of England who caused him to be lodged in the Tower of London Afâ—…er that King Philip and the Queene his wife had stayed for a faire season from their landing which was in Ianuary vnto the 24. of March they put to sea and hauing a prosperous winde they arriued soone after at the Groyne from whence they went to visit the râ—…licks of Saint Iames in Compostella going from thence towards Castille where they were royally receiued by all the Princes and Noblemen of Spaine The King of Castille had no sooner left the Netherlands but the Geldrois went to horsbacke against the treaty made at Roosendael falling vpon those townes and places which by the sayd treaty remained to the King of Castille among the rest vpon Groll and Waganengen the which they tooke running from them into Holland and Brabant The lord of Cheures hauing leauied an army went and besieged the sayd towne of Wagenengen but it was furnished with such good men which made continuall sallies vpon his campe as in the end seeing that he preuailed nothing he retired his army In August the same yeare 1506. there appered a Comete which did rise at the North-east and did set in the North-west drawing the taile which was great and large in forme of a rod towards the West the which was seene eighteene daies togither In the same moneth there was a poore woman in Holland betwixt the villages of Beuerwic and Vyc vpon the sea great with child and readie to bee deliuered Fifteene daies before her lying downe the fruite that was in her won be â—…as heard almost continually to cry and lament The which many worthy men for a greater approbation of the truth went daylie to heare it and since haue certified it Whereof some learned men in Philosophy and the Mathematiks haue diuersly written inferring that the crying of this child with the Comete did pronosticate the death of the â—…ing of Castille Pâ—…ince of the Netherlands and the great miseries which haue since happened in Holland and other of the sayd Prouinces The King and Queene of Castille beeing arriued in Spaine went from one Realme vnto an other and from oâ—…e cittie vnto an other to take possession according to the Preuiledges and customes of places Although that the King Don Fernando of Arragon father to the Qâ—…eene offred to King Philip 500000. ducates a yeare to remaine in the lowe countries and not to come into Spaine yet hee and his wife would goe and themselues in person end the controuersie that was by reason of the succession of the deceased Queene Isabella betwixt them and the King Don Ferdinando their father The which they did and Philip in the right of his wife was acknowledged King of Castille Leon Grenado c. But he enioyed it not long for the 27 of September in the same yeare 1506. he died sodenly in the citty of Bourgos not without suspition of poison being but 28. yeares old He desired before his death that his heart might be carried and buried at Ierusalem ioyning to that of the dâ—…ke of Bourgongnes his great grandfather the which was done His bowells were carried to Bruges in Flanders and his body was interred in a Couent of Chartreux Monks called Amesâ—…ur vpon a mountaine without the citty of Bourgos The Lady Iane his widoe was with child of a daughter whereof she was afterwards deliuered The newes of the death of this Prince caused great mourning and heauines throughout all the Netherlands fearing other troubles and reuolts by reason of the warre betwixt the duke of Geldres and them Those which at that time pretended to knowe the affaires of State sayd that the marriage which the Archduke Philip made with the Lady Iane of Castille was vnhappie for the Netherlands not for the miseries which the Spaniards haue of late yeares brought in and which the countries haue suffred for they could not fore-see these things so long before but for the great charges wherwith they were burthened to enter into those realmes of Spaine with a rich and stately pompe the which he did by the councell of his wife to impouerish the said countries
many goodly villages was likewise drowned and a peece of the towne gate was carried away with the violence of the water The Island of Noorbeuelandt did suffer verie much first neere vnto Loo right against Wissen-kerke the daie following the sayd tempest the Scluse of Bomvlyet betwixt Emelisse and the towne Cortgeen was also carried away so as in lesse then three daies all the countrie was vnder the water The towne of Cortgeen Cats Emelisse and other villages were wone from the sea and they were in hope to recouer them the sommer following but they could not vntill the yeare 1597. that Count Philippe of Hohenlo husband to the Ladie Marguerite of Nassau recouered them and walled them in the name of his wife The Island of â—…houwe was also peerst through in diuers places The wall was broken in three or foure places about Bordendam Burch and Hamstede so as the whole countrie was couered with waters for eighteene daies togither but the Inhabitants of Ziricxe caused the breaches to bee repayred with great labour and cost The Island of Duyuelandt was also ouer-flowne in diuers places so as the whole country and causies thereof which in their vulgar tongue they call Poldres were all ouer-flowne except the quarter of â—…heeren-Islandt In the Island of Annelandt there was the like wrack by inundation the which notwithstanding was soone recouered The I le of Tolen did also feele of it whereas the bankes were wonderfully broken but soone repaired againe In the countrie of Borsseles which was defended on the side of Zuydbeuelandt had six parishes drowned the which remained all winter subiect to the ebbing and flowing of the sea The Island of Philippelandt was in the like case In the countrie of the newe and olde Tonge there were certaine Poldres or Causeis ouer-flowne but they were soone recouered againe By reason of these tempests and vnreasonable tides there was so great a desolation throughout all the countrie of Zeeland and else where as it can hardly bee described for there was an incredible number of al sorts of cattell as Horses Oxen Kyne Sheepe Swine and other beastes swalloed vp in the sea manie faire country houses and farmes with their barnes full of corne were ouerthrowne and carried away with the violence of the water But that which was most lamentable manie men women and children were drowned and could by no meanes be releeued Many rich men keeping good houses and possessing great lands were vtterly ruined by these inundations and who before were accustomed to be serued were now forced to go and serue and to labour for others some were faine to begge their bread a pittiful thing to behold Those that could saue themselues from the furie of the waters being come into the neighbor quarters of Zeeland died languishing with greefe and others with want and miserie Many villages in the Island of Zuydbeuelandt remaine vnto this day in the botome of the sea and of all the East quarter there remaines nothing but the towne of Romerswael the which through the mallice of these last ciuill warres is now very disolate whereas it was wont to bee a good and a rich towne The six villages which were drowned in the country of Borssele which was wont to bee one of the most ancient the most famous and the greatest Islandes of Zeeland ioyning to that of Zuydbeuelandt were Monster Saint Catherine Ostkerke Westkerke Walfardorp and Deuyâ—… whereas the Lords of Borssele did vsually make their residence These villages were the Sommer following recouered but two yeares after 1532. they were againe drowned and so remained vnto the yeare 1597. that Nortbeueland was recouered of this memorable and lamentable Inundation happened in the yeare 1530. these two Latin verses were made shewing the date of the yeare and the day Anno terdeno post sesquimille Nouembris Quinta stat salsis Zeelandia tota sub vndis The 27. of Nouember the same yeare the Ladie Marguerite of Austria Douager of Sauoy Aunt to the Emperor Gouernesse of the Netherland died at Macklyn she desired to be intretred at Bruges by the Ladie Marie Dutchesse of Bourgongne Countesse of Holland Zeeland c. her mother In December the same yeare 1530. the Emperour parted out of Germany with King Ferdinand his brother and the Princes both Electors and others and many great Noblemen both Clergy and Temporal and arriued at Cologne the fift of Ianuary 1531. where the sixt of that month Ferdinand his brother was chosen King of the Romaines by all the Princes Electors except him of Saxony After the election the Emperor and his brother accompained with all these Princes and Noblemen entred into Aix la Chapelle the tenth of the sayd month where hee was the next day crowned with all the sollemnities required for a King of Romains This done Ferdinand returned with the Princes into Germany and the Emperor came to Brusselles the 24. of the moneth where soone after he went to see the Lady Mary Queene Douager of Hungary his sister whom he made Gouernesse in his name of all the Netherlands by the death of the Lady Marguerite their Aunt MARY OF AVSTRIA QVEENE DOWager of Hongary sister to the Emperor Charles the 5. Gouernesse of the Netherlands MARIA REGINA HONG GVB BELGII SOROR IMPERAT CAROLI QVINTI To Lewis Kinâ—… of Hungary I was wife King to my Father Emperor to my Brother Amongst the Turkes my husband lost his life And euer since I liu'd without another Not vnto second marriage haâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…art But kept my state oâ—… widdow-hood to the end My Brothâ—…r vnto mâ—…â—…re his depart The rule of the Low-Countries did commend Mary of Austria second daughter to the Arch-duke Phillip and the Lady Iane King and Queene of Castile sister to the Emperors Charles the 5. and Ferdinand the 1. was married to Lewis King of Hongarie who was slaine in battell by the great Turke Solliman and remained a widdow By the death of the Lady Marguerite Dowager of Sauoy she was by the Emperour Charles the fifth her brother appointed-Gouernesse of all the Netherlands During the Emperours aboad at Brusselles the inhabitants of the Towne obtained of his Maiestie a confirmation of the grant which they had obtained long before of the Lady Mary Duchesse of Bourgongne and of the Emperour Maximillian her husband for the making of a 〈◊〉 riuer or chanell betwixt Brussells and Antwerp in the which after that time they began to labour vntil it was fully ended and that ships came vnto it in the yeare 1560. The Anabaptists which began in those times to raigne in Germanie crept in like sort into the Low-countries namely in Holland to Amsterdam where the Proctor general of the Hagâ—… caused nine to be apprehended at one time whereby a sentence giuen by the Emperour they lost their heads All this yeare 1531. that the Emperour staied in the Netherlands there past nothing that was memorable onely the 3. of December hee renued the order of the golden
The Dukes men were diuided to goe to Nymegen and Zutphen hoping to recouer by some Intelligence within the Townes but they were so well entertayned by the Inhabitants and soldiars as they were forced to retire with shame The Duke much discontented that hee could not preuaile ouer these Townes sent his horsmen into the quarter of the Veluwe to ruine the peasants and to spoile the country What doth a Prince get in ruining his owne subiects through wilfullnes to make him selfe poore he sent his Deputies to the aboue named townes to know the reasons why they ruined his Castells who answered that they did acknowledge him for their Prince and Lord and that they desired no other so long as hee liued And for the Castells which they had beaten downe that it had not beene for any other reason but that they feared they should haue bene forced to receiue in the French by them and to take an oth to the French King the which they were not resolued to do But during his life they would not acknowledge any other and that hee being dead they would receiue him for their Lord that had most right This remayned a while in suspence not long after hee sent his Comissioners againe to these Townes to command them to pay him his reuenues and that they send their Deputies with them of the Townes to Arnhem where hee was resolued to hold an Assembly of his States they answered that they were not resolued to paie him any thing vntill that hee discharged his horsmen and sent them out of the Country These Townes hauing beene long thus in bad tearmes with their Prince and that sometimes their soldiars fell vppon the Dukes men who ouerunne the Veluwe ill intreating the poore countrymen in the end by the meanes of some Noblemen an Accord was made about the end of December betwixt the Duke and the Townes after the which the Country of Gelders and the Country of Zutphen were at rest vntill the Dukes death About the end of this yeare the Lady Issabella Empresse was deliuered of a second sonne in Spaine called Iohn whereof there was great ioy in the Netherlands hoping to haue a particular Prince but hee died in Aprill following The second of Iuly in the yeare 1538. Charles of Egmont Duke of Gelders died beeing 71. yeares old hauing gouerned and molested his Country for the space of thirty six yeares Hee was the cause through his violence that the Prouince of Friseland the Diocesse of Vtrecht the Towne of Groninghen and the Ommelands came vnder the Emperors obedience the which he might easily haue preserued for himselfe if he had not continuallie ouercharged the people with new exactions by the which he lost the hearts of men This prince was of a turbulent spirit and a great louer of Innouations Being dead William duke of Cleues came into Gelders where he was honoubly receiued and sollemnly put in possession of the said Duchie and of the Country of Zutphen The 13. of September in the same yeare 1538. Henry Earle of Nassau father to William prince of Orange died in his Castell of Breda eight daies after hee had feasted the Queene of Hongarie Gouernesse of the Netherlands with great Pompe In February 1539. died Iohn Duke of Cleues to wome William his sonne succeeded who was Duke of Cleues Iulliers and Bergh Earle of La Marck and Rauensbourg Lord of Rauensteyn c. and heiâ—…e to the Ducthy of Gelders by the death of Duke Charles of Egmont The 17. of August the Ganthois began to mutine the companies of trades and occupations assembled togither in their seuerall halles and then they went to armes seeking to extort many things from the great Bayliffe and from the Magistrate of the Towne They committed many of the Court of Flanders to prison and among others one Lieuin Pin whome vppon their owne motion and authoritie they caused to be publikely beheaded The 25. of September the Bayliffe Bourgmaister the Secretary of the towne of Maestricht in a great popular tumult were all three massackred The 24. of October died Floris of Egmont the first Earle of Buren in his castell of Buren Maximilian his sonne Lord of Iselstein succeeded him whose daughter and onely heire William of Nassau Prince of Orange tooke to his first wife of which marriage are issued Philip of Nassau at this day Prince of Orange and the Lady Mary of Nassau widow to Count Philip of Hohenlo The thirty of the sayd month the Earle of Roeux entred into Gant hauing giuen them to vnderstand in the Emperors name that they should hold their lawes rights and accustomed preuiledges And the tenth of December the Emperour trusting to the French Kings word and safe-conduit parted from Spaine to come by land into the Netherlands through France The Prince Daulphin and the duke of Orleans the Kings sonnes were to receiue him at the foote of the Pyrenee Mountaines who conducted him to Paris Hee was receiued with great State in all townes where he passed with acclamations and great shewes of â—…oye hoping that his comming should bee a confirmation of a perpetuall peace Approching neere vnto Paris the King went to meete him beeing accompanied with all his Princes and Noblemen and 1500. gentlemen all richly appointed The Marchants did him all the honour they could comming to the Lovure his reception was great and stately by the King and Queene the Emperors sister Hauing taken his leaue of the King and Queene hee was conducted by the Daulphin and many Princes and Noblemen to Valenciences the first towne in Henalt whereas the Lady Mary Queene of Hungary went to receiue him from whence they went to Brusselles where hee arriued the nineteene of February 1540. In the beginning of the sayd moneth of â—…ebruary died that valiant captaine George Schenck Baron of Tautenbourg knight of the order of the golden fleece Gouernor of the countries of Friseland and Groningen in whose place succeeded to the same Gouernment Maximilian of Egmont Earle of Buren Lord of Iselsteyn The second day of Aprill died in the citty of Gant Anthony of Lalain Earlâ—… of Hoochstraten after that hee had beene eighteene yeares Gouernor of Holland Zeeland c. to whome succeeded Rene of Chalons Prince of Orange Earle of Nassau and Lord of Breda The Emperour beeing arriued at Brusselles hearing the many complaints that were made vnto him of the rebellion of the Ganthois hee parted from Busselles with foure thousand men towardes Gant comming neere the towne the Magistrates went to meete him and brought him into the towne with great honour During his aboad hauing beene dulie informed of all matters hee caused many Bourgeses to be apprehended and among others the great deane who was a carpenter by his trade the chiefe motiue of this rebellion Their Processe being made finished nine of the chiefe were beheaded and the Burgeses were forbidden to carry any kniues vnlesse the pointes of them
the Protestants armie being deuided the Prince Elector went with his troopes against Maurice and recouered all that he had taken from him The Emperour seeing the Protestants army thus dispearsed vppon no occasion and that the Landtgraue was retyred to his owne home he writte letters full of threates to the duke of Wirtembourg who sent to sue for pardon by his Ambassadors and so in a manner did all the Protestant townes whome he did ransom for money and many peeces of Artillery The warre beeing thus inflamed betwixt the two Noble couzins of Saxony and the Emperor hearing in what estate duke Maurice was hee sent Albert of Brandebourg vnto him with some troupes who was taken at Rochlick and brought vnto the Prince Elector and soone after the towne was also taken Ferdinand the Emperors brother King of Hungary Bohemia by the Lady Anne his wife would haue forced the Bohemians to serue against the Prince Elector of Saxony the which they refuzed to do by reason of the old leagues betwixt the Saxons and Bohemians and seeking to force them they rise in armes against him The Protestants had sent their Ambassadors to the French King and to the King of England to shewe the equitie of their cause and that they had taken armes against the Emperor for the defence of their liues goods religion and the liberty of Germany who hauing had audience of the French King past into England whereas they found King Henry the eight verie sicke so as hee died in the end of Ianuarie 1547. The French King had sent by these Ambassadors two hundred thousand crownes in lone to the Protestant Princes to ayde them in this warre And as the King of England died whilest the Ambassadors were there so at their returne into France they found King Francis extreamely sick who died at Rambouillet It was a happy chance for the Emperour among many other good fortunes that two so great and mighty Princes which had the meanes and as manie thought a desire to crosse the Emperor in his enterprises and high disseignes died both in a manner at one time In the same yeare 1547. Adolph of Bourgongne Seignior of Chappelle and Wackene Ierosme Sandelin Seignior of Herentont Receiuor of Bewesterscheldt in Zeeland and some priuate gentlemen did recouer and wall in about Sheerenskerke and Heinkensandt in the country of Zuydbeuelandt otherwise called the I le of Ter-Goes the old inclosure or Polder which is a land wonne from the sea the which before the Inundation was vsually called Zeeshuys so as it remayned a long time vnprofitable but since that it was recouered they call it Cray at this present a most fertill country whereby those that haue thus defended it from the Sea with their bankes haue made great profit The Emperor hauing an intent to ruine Iohn Frederick Prince Elector past the riuer of Elbe with all speed to fight with him on the other side which done the Prince hauing not all his armie in one bodie as the Emperor had was there forced to make head against him and to giue him battaile in the which the duke beeing verie greatly wounded in the cheeke was ledde by the duke of Alua Lieutenant of the armie to the Emperor The duke Ernest of Brunswyck was taken with him The Emperor and King Ferdinand vsed the Prince Elector very roughlie in wordes giuing sentence of death against him the which hee bare verie patiently but the Emperour durst not proceede to the execution thereof yet hee propounded heauie and rigorous conditions vnto him taking from him the greatest part of his Seigneuries the which hee gaue to Maurice his couzine with the dignity of the Electorship As for the Landtgraue of Hessen vpon the assurances which the duke Maurice and the Marquis Albert of Brandenbourg his sonnes in lawe gaue him he presented himselfe vpon his knees vnto the Emperor crauing pardon for all that was past wherevnto answere was made him in obscure tearmes which did not shew an absolute pardon Yet this Nobleman thinking that all went well with him thanked the Emperor and for that he suffred him to kneele too long he rose of himself He was led to supper with the duke of Alua when after supper thinking to retire with the two Noblemen his sons in lawe he was stayed prisoner the which ministred great matter of discontent who not-with-standing all the Protestation which duke Maurice and Brandebourg could make was detained and put into the gard of Spaniardes The two Noblemen charged the Emperour with his promise that hee would not keepe him in pryson his aunswere was that hee had promised not to keepe him there in perpetuall pryson wherevpon the Duke of Alua sayd vnto them that if in steede of foureteene daies the Emperor should restraine him 14. yeares he should not breake his word So the Landtgraue remained a prisoner being carried from place to place alwayes garded by the Spaniards of whom he receued a thousand indignities and he was not freed but by constraint no more then the Duke of Saxony which was the cause that the Emperor was chased out of Germany as we shall here-after shew The 23. of December in the said yeare 1548. died that valiant Captaine Maximilian of Egmont Earle of Buren after that he had arriued so happely to serue the Emperor in his warre of Germany of an extraordinary death for being fower daies before his death abandoned by all his Phisitions who had foretold him the day of his death hauing called all his houshold seruants and made them goodly exhortations giuing to euery one some thing by his testament he died speaking and appareled in his chaier Maximilian of Austria eldest sonne to Ferdinand hauing married the Lady Mary eldest daughter to the Emperor Prince Phillip 21. years old being sent for by his father began his iorney to come into the Netherlands leauing his cosin and Brother in law Maximilian to be Gouernor of Spaine in his absence and hauing set saile the 25. of Nouember with a goodly fleet of shippes and Galleis commanded by Andrew Doria he landed at Genoa accompanied with many Princes of Spaine among others by the Duke of Alua and the Cardinall of Trent from thence hee came to Milan and passing by Mantoua and Trent hee came to Ausbourg and Spyer so crossing the Country of Luxembourg hee arriued at the Emperor his fathers court at Bruslelles Duke Maurice went to meet him intreating him to moue the Emperor for the Landtgraue of Hessen his Father in law who was Prisoner the which he did It were tedious to make particular relation of his stately entery into Brusselles whereas the Lady Elenor the French Queene and the Lady Mary Queene of Hongary his Aunt 's receiued him and conducted him to the Emperor his father The fourth of Iuly the Emperor with his two sisters and the Prince his sonne went to Louuaine the most ancient and cheefe towne of the Duchy of Brabant to
wise temperate stout and high minded prince of great experience and fortunate but somewhat selfe-willed Before his death he obtained the full power and gouernment of the dukedome of Guelderland the carldome of Zutphen the baronies of Vtrecht and Oueryssel the baronie of Groning the towne of Cambricke and the earledome of Linghen all in the Netherlands he had the earledome of Flanders and other prouinces that as yet were in a manner contributaries to the crowne of Fraunce but freed from the same for euer by contract the kingdome of Tunes the countries of America Naples Sicilia and Myllan which hee woon and assured vnto himselfe his souldiers woon Rome he tooke prisoners Pope Clement the seuenth the king of France the king of Nauarre and the elector of Saxon the duke of Cleue the Lantgraue of Hessen and others submitted themselues vnto him In his latter daies fortune was not so fauourable vnto him by reason of his obstinacie bad counsell and hard resolution Keeping the Lantgraue prisoner he was by Maurice elector of Saxon and other princes that had made a contract with the king of France compelled not onely to set the Landtgraue free but also to lose the fruits of his victorie in Germanie as many hystories sufficiently declare the same He left issue by lady Isabell of Portugall king Philip his onely sonne daughters Mary married to the Emperour Maximilian and Ioanna princesse of Portugall with more naturall children or bastards as Don Iohn de Austria and Marguerite dutchesse of Parma And so king Philip in one yeare lost his father his wife and his two aunts In December after he celebrated their funerals in Brussels but aboue all the rest he made a most triumphant funerall for the Emperour his father with a victorious ship armes standards and banners of all his honours which was most triumphantly borne throughout the streets In the same yeare and about that time there died two kings in Denmarke as Christian then king and Christierne that had laine two and twentie yeares prisoner because of the tyrannie that he had shewed vnto his subiects being neuerthelesse a mightie king of three kingdomes as Denmarke Swethland and Norway but he fell into such hatred of his people that they forsooke him and chose another king and in Anno 1532 when with a great armie and by the aid of the Emperor Charles he thought to win Denmarke againe he was by them ouerthrown and taken prisoner which was a wonderfull worke and punishment of God shewed vpon him for his vnmercifulnesse and tyrannie and an excellent example for princes in our time Not long before he died he was friendly visited by king Christian where they forgaue each other from their hearts This Christiern married Isabella sister to the Emperour Charles the fifth by whom he had issue a sonne that died in the Netherlands at the same time that his father was taken prisoner and two daughters the one Palsgraueni the other called Christiana that was dutchesse of Lorraine and in Anno 1558 was a mediator of the peace betweene Fraunce and Spaine whose sonne being duke of Lorraine maried Claude second daughter to the king of France vpon the last of Ianuarie 1559. As I said before the death of the queen of England prolonged the treatie of peace between the kings of Fraunce and Spaine but in Februarie after the Commissioners on both sides assembled againe in the castle of Cambryse where also there came the queene of Englands embassadours as the bishop of Ely the lord Howard baron of Effingham Doctor Wotton and the Deane of Canterburie and for the duke of Sauoy two deputies and with all those the aforesaid dutchesse as mediator with her sonne and after some delayes at last they proceeded so farre that there seemed nothing resting to be done but onely that the Englishmen desired to haue Callis restored againe vnto the queene wherein king Philip sought to haue her satisfied and contented or els he would accept of no peace because that during his warres and by his meanes it had beene lost but the Frenchmen boldly alleadging that queene Elizabeth was not lawfull queene of England but the Scottish queene as being right heire thereunto by discent from the grandmother king Henry the eights eldest sister that as then had maried the Dolphin of Fraunce they said and affirmed that she had nothing to do therewith Whereby the queen of England began to suspect that the peace which as then was entreating of might be made only to compell her to hold and obserue the Catholicke Romish Religion which as then she began to alter and change within her kingdomes to the dishonour of king Philip and therefore thought it best for her to make an assured peace with France wherein on both sides one Guido Caualcanti a gentleman of Florence was specially employed by whose meanes vpon the second of Aprill 1559 an agreement was made in the castle of Cambresis and after much debating of the cause it was agreed That Calis should be vnwalled and so deliuered ouer vnto the queene but in the end they concluded That Calis and the Earledome of Oyen should continue eight yeres in the French kings hands and then should be restored to the queene againe without any defacing with all things that belonged therunto only with sixteene brasse pieces of diuers greatnesse and for assurance thereof the French king should giue six or seuen sufficient marchants for sureties of the same which should be bound in the summe of fiue hundred thousand crownes and vntill such time that the peace might not be delayed as those marchants should be committed prisoners in Bruges there should be fiue French gentlemen put into the queenes hands for hostages which euery fiue months she might change but for that this contract concerned many matters touching Scotland the queene of Scots then taking on her the title and armes of England and Ireland for the which after that there grew some contention part of the said hostages got away and others by new contracts were set at liberty and discharged and so the Frenchmen still held Calis The queen of England thus contented satisfied the peace betweene the two kings of France Spaine was concluded at Cambresis vpon the third of Aprill 1559 and proclaimed in Brussels vpon the fifth of April after The old controuersies that had continued for the space of fiue twentie yeares were on both sides wholly excluded out of the same as the soueraignty that France pretended to haue ouer Flanders Artois Rissel Doway Dornick the kingdome of Naples and the dutchie of Millan c. and the king of Spaines pretence ouer Burgundie Prouence the townes vpon the riuer of Some and the earledome of Bolonois The principall articles of the said peace being as followeth for the rest I refer the Reader to diuers hystories wherethey may see them at large this seruing onely for a memoriall First That a good peace should be holden betweene the said kings their children and subiects
of the contract of matrimonie in Paris for him and in his name with the lady Isabella and at the same time the duke of Sauoy rid thither with a great traine to marry with the kings sister which was done with great triumphs where there was a great running at tilt appointed to be holden in Paris wherin the king himselfe the duke of Guise the prince of Serrare and the duke de Nemours were chalengers against all commers The king in the first and second daies ran brauely and the third day the queene fearing hee would ouer-labor and heat himselfe too much or hauing a secret conceit of some misfortune that might happen vnto him desired him to refrain from running that day but he would not and the third day when he had run two houres and was about to giue ouer he would needs shew that he was not wearie and calling Monsieur Lorges earle of Montgomery then captaine of his guard that was esteemed to be one of the best runners at tilt in France willed him to breake one launce more with him who excused himselfe by the wearinesse of his horse and other things but the king would not be denied and so as they were running one against the other it fortuned that Montgomery breaking his launce vpon the kings breast the splinters thereof slew into the kings visor of his helmet which was forgotten to be close shut and by reason that the visor gaue vp one of the splinters strucke the king in the right eye and wounded him deadly and when he began to stagger he was vpholden and taken downe from his horse sore bleeding with great crying of all the court and many of the people and being vnarmed and his wound visited by diuers expert surgeons whereof one was Andreas Vesalius sent thither by king Philip it was found to be mortall and altogether deadly and yet by the great experience and policie of the said surgeons he liued ten daies after and died vpon the tenth of August 1554 at the age of fortie yeres and in the twelfth yere of his raigne at his death complaining of his owne lightnes and also amongst other things that he had been ouer-rigorous against those of the reformed religion but the Cardinall of Lorraine told him that it was the diuell that troubled his mind so much willing him to striue and resist against him He was a wise prince and a right souldier couetous of honour and high minded The earle of Montgomery after the deed done fell downe vpon his knees before him acknowledging that hee had well deserued to die but the king would not in any wise that it should bee imputed vnto him but freely forgaue him as hauing compelled him thereunto but he presently departed from the court keeping himselfe solitarily as a man desolat comfortlesse but being counselled to read the holy Scriptures for his consolation as the Frenchmen write in the end it was the meanes to cause him to alter his religion and being before that a Romish Catholick and one that earnestly persecuted the reformed religion after that became a great protector defendor thereof in Fraunce and at the last being besieged in a small towne of Normandy called Damsron he was taken prisoner from thence caried to Paris and there openly beheaded whose death was imputed vnto the queene her children to be a point of cruelty reuenge King Henry left issue foure sonnes and three daughters Isabella the eldest was then espoused to the king of Spaine the second was dutchesse of Lorraine and the third queene of Nauarre Francis the eldest sonne was maried to the queene of Scotland and succeeded his father after him Charles after him Henry that was also king of Poland Francis the fourth son in Ann. 1582 was made duke of Brabant all which died without issue In K. Henry the seconds time two great sinnes raigned much in France as Atheisme Nigromancie which was much imputed to the Italians that were attendants vpon Q. Katherine de Medices and thought to be they that brought it in wherein many French poets and rymers were great helpers which many wise and learned men ascribe to be the cause of the deserued punishment that fell vpon the country of France Those of the reformed religion in Fraunce write that strange death of the king to be iustly sent vnto him and a great fauour of God towards them as thereby shewing his church his great power and a deliuery from a great persecution which the duke of Alua being there at that time sought to put in practise by the said kings aid according to the first article of the last peace concluded tending to the destruction of all those of the reformed religion throughout the world which it seemeth that the king sought to begin with the lords of his parliament among the rest committed Anna du bourg prisoner that openly spake vnto the king in the parliament house to be fauourable to those of the reformed religion for which cause the K. being fore moued threatned him that he would himself see him burnt which God by the wound in his eie would not suffer him to do but the said duhourg was afterward burnt notwithstāding the kings death This yere in August Pope Paule the fourth of the familie of Caraffa that was the cause of breaking the peace and had made war against the king of Spaine and the first founder of the Iesuits died in Rome at such time as with all his kinred and sect he had vndertaken and concluded to make a great persecution vnder pretence of religion against all good persons His death gaue many men cause to reioice especially the inhabitants of Rome in regard of the innumerable warres taxations burthens that he his practised procured so that the people of Rome arming themselues ran vnto the Inquisition house where they wounded the chiefe Inquisitor the rest flying away to saue their liues which done they burnt the house and released the prisoners would haue burnt the cloyster of Minerua because they were addicted vnto the Inquisitors if by meanes of Marcus Antoniu◅ Columna and Iulius Caesarino it had not beene preuented who by many faire words dissuaded them from it whereby also the Popes nephewes and kindreds houses were likewise spared The Popes image standing in the Capitoll they beat downe and drawing it through the streets cast it into the riuer of Tyber and commandement giuen in the name of the counsell and people of Rome vpon paine of great punishment that all the Popes and his familie of Caraffes images armes shields and titles should be broken downe in euery place of Rome as deadly enemies vnto mankind whose memorie deserued not to bee kept in the world Pope Pius the fourth his successor although hee had promised Cardinall Caraffa and the duke of Paliano his cousin and their familie to forgiue all offences fore-past and assured them thereof by his hand writing yet neuerthelesse he caused them all to
in the yeare 1572 in diuers townes thereby to compell them to yeeld to the tenth penie What horrible murthers were done and committed in Naerden and Harlem contrarie to the faithfull promises made in Dom Fredericks name is manifestly knowne to euery man where hee caused all the souldiers not sparing their young boyes and pages to bee executed suffering their dead bodies starke naked to lye a whole day and a night vpon the scaffolds and in the market place to the great shame and feare of the women and maids and some of them that had deliuered the towne vnto him hee determined to send them into Spaine to bee gally slaues and those that lay in the Fuyck by Harlem hee suffered them to die for hunger saying That he promised them their liues but not to giue them meat The good bourgers hee compelled to bee pioners before the towne of Alcmar that so hee might bring them vnto their ends There is no honest nor godly Christian but abhorreth and is ashamed to doe any iniurie vnto the bodies of the dead and the buriall of the dead is thought a fit and an honourable thing amongst the Heathens and Barbarians but the duke of Alua caused diuers dead bodies to spight both God and man after they had beene buried and layne certaine daies in the ground to bee digged vp againe and to bee drawne vnder the gallowes and there to bee hanged or burnt alledging that they died without receiuing the Sacrament or being confest but in trueth it was done onely that according to his proclamation hee might confiscat their goods The state of mariage the onely foundation of all societie in euerie place and towne and the bond of loue and peace the right ground of all good life and conuersation amongst men which most consisteth in true and right consent was by the Duke of Alua broken and disanulled for that the parties that were maried in the reformed assemblies were held as heretikes vnlesse they maried againe which many did by that meanes to bestow the rich women vpon his souldiers for a prize To conclude hee did openly breake and disannull all honest amitie and loue that one man is bound to shew vnto the other murthering and executing women that holpe their husbands and children that comforted their parents in their vttermost and greatest extremities and such as did but comfort them with a letter as was to bee seene in the towne of Mastricht where the father was cruelly put to death because hee lodged his sonne that hee had not seene in long time before one night and another because hee gaue a poore widow whose husband had beene put to death for religion certaine corne for almes another for that hee sent certaine money vnto his friend which was then in England and confiscated the goods of many honest and rich women because they had lodged their husbands in their houses whereby they were compelled to beg their bread Hee likewise prophaned the holy Sacrament of Baptisme causing the children that had beene openly and publikely baptised in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to bee Baptised againe because they had beene Baptised as hee said by heretikes which was against the decrees of Counsels and all the lawes both of God and man To shew his extreame pride and high mind in the castle of Antuerp hee caused his image to bee made and erected of brasse like Nabuchadnezer placing vnder his feet the nobilitie and states of the countries of the Netherlands and at Antuerpe in the market place where hee published a pardon hee caused a princely throne to bee erected which is vsed to bee set vp onely therewith to honour princes and kings which hee of himselfe caused to be set vp and sat therein to the diminishing of the kings honour which no lieutenant to the king before him euer durst attempt This is that wherewith the countries of the Netherlands both of the one and the other religion doe charge him The duke being safely arriued in Spaine was well esteemed and accounted of by the king but not of the common people which appeared when as he was committed to prison by Bulloa his owne prouost in times past in the Low countries for the mariage of his sonne Dom Frederic whereat the people generally reioyced the cause was for that his sonne Dom Frederic that lay prisoner in Tordesilias because hee would not marie one of the queenes maids of honour was by him counselled and prouoked to get out of prison and to be maried to Alua Maria de Toledo daughter to Dom Garcia de Toledo who beeing maried returned into prison againe After that he was alwayes one of the principall of the kings priuie counsell with one Dom Iohn Idiaco a man of his owne humor and hee made him generall of his armie in the conquest of Portugall where nine yeares after hee died vpon the twelfth day of September in the yeare of our Lord God 1582 and in the seuentie fourth yeare of his age Hee was a tall leane man going verie vpright with a long leane visage hollow eyes sterne and fower of countenance hauing a great and a verie proud heart a man well experienced in subtile courtly policie endowed with great gifts of nature good vnderstanding and great experience Hee was neither couetous nor liberall but verie costly and exceeding proud and glorious in his house Hee was generally hated and enuied and euill spoken of in regard that hee was sower sterne and proud both to his inferiours and equals hauing too great a conceit and opinion of himselfe Hee was not beloued neither of the emperour Charles the fifth nor of the king of Spaine his master although hee had serued them both for the space of threescore yeares Hee was an old and well experienced souldier not onely surpassing all Spaniards but one that in his time gaue place therein to no man and a verie strict obseruer and keeper of militarie discipline when need required Hee was a man of great iudgement and vnderstanding to conduct and lead an armie in regard that for the most part he had vsed defensiue warre He was couragious and bold ynough of his owne person when hee aduentured himselfe but to come to a battayle without great aduantage hee was not much addicted Hee had serued the emperour Charles and the king of Spaine his sonne in their principall warres as in the countries of Italy Spaine Fraunce Hongarie Germanie the Netherlands and Affrica complaining that hee had not seene the Turkes campâ—… Hee neuer got lesse honour and reputation thaâ—… hee did in the Prouinces of the Netherlands alwayes behauing himselfe more wisely and discreetly in crosses than in prosperitie By reason of his sternnesse hee could doe much with the king whom hee procured to bee much sterner than hee was by nature although the emperour Charles the fifth his father often said That his sonne was the sowrest sternest prince in the world and that the Netherlands should find him so
of Spaine should take any exception a cepted He complained of the reuolting of the male-content Wallons who had taken vpon them to make warre against their vnited friends contrarie to their oths at such a time when the forreine souldiers and the enemie should haue beene driuen out of the countrey and the towne of Mastricht releeued He likewise complained of the reuolted noblemen and gentlemen who being descended of noble houses and antient families should discouer their lightnesse and inconstancie First seruing the duke of Alua and the great Commander like mercenarie slaues and making warre against him after that they reconciled themselues vnto him and became enemies to the Spaniards When Dom Iohn came into the countrey they followed him serued him and practised the princes ruine Dom Iohn hauing failed of his enterprise at Antuerpe they forsake him and call in the prince whom presently they abandon againe and without any counsell or aduice send in all hast for the arch duke Mathias whom they presently left and without his priuitie called in the duke of Aniou promising him wonders But seeing they could not persuade him to be their head against the Estates and them of the religion they forsake him and ioyne with the prince of Parma and their enemies whose counsellors they had so long held prisoners which shewed their lightnesse and inconstancie Whereas they obiected That he had made himselfe to be chosen by force and tumult gouernor of Brabant he shewed that he had refused it and that in regard of the lieutenant generals place he would not accept thereof without the consent of the commanders that were in the armie which they sent him signed vnder their hands The gouernment of Flanders he also refused notwithstanding the instance that was made vnto him by the foure members of the countrey And whereas this proscription found the vnion of Vtrecht of very hard disgestion he said There was no better remedie against the disunion of the male-contents than this vnion and no surer antidote against the poyson of discord than concord Confessing that he had procured aduanced and sought to entertaine it As touching the receit of money hee said he neuer medled therewith And the rest of the accusations as the chasing away of the nobilitie hypocrisie distrust and the offers that were made him being of lesse importance he refuted At the last he came to the sentence of banishment saying That al those stormes of thunder and lightning did not amaze him and that if any Spaniard or other affected to them of what qualitie or condition soeuer had said or should say as this infamous proscription had published that he is a traitor and a villaine had spoken falsely and against the truth And although the vse of water and fire was forbidden him yet he would vse the same so long as God should giue him leaue And touching the twentie fiue thousand crownes with recompence of gentry and pardon for all offences promised to him that should attempt to murder or poyson him hee said That he doubted not but God had and would preserue him so long as he pleased wherin his enemies had shewed their basenesse that not able to vanquish him by the due course of arms they seeke dishonourably to murder or poison him And although hee feared it not yet if it should so happen which he hoped God would not permit he said there was not so meane a gentleman to be found in any nation where they knew what belonged to gentrie that would eat and conuerse with such a wicked and infamous villaine as had murdered any man for money And that if the Spaniards esteemed such for gentlemen and that men by such meanes were aduanced to honour in Castile he said That it was no maruel if all the world beleeued that the most part of the Spaniards especially those that held themselues nobles and gentlemen descended from the Moores and Iews and obserue that good qualitie as ingrafted in them from their forefathers that betrayed our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and gaue Iudas money to deliuer him vnto them that they might crucifie him For which cause he said he would beare that misfortune the more patiently if it so fell out Wherefore hee gaue the States to vnderstand that their peace and quiet depended vpon his death for that so long as hee was among them their warres should neuer haue end and therefore he wished that his death might free them from the miseries which his life procured the which should be a sweet and acceptable death vnto him That for their cause hee had suffered his lands and goods to be taken from him lost his brethren yea and his sonne and yet hee desired to purchase their freedome and libertie with his bloud and that if they thought it fit and conuenient they should presently command the same saying That his head was readie ouer which no prince nor potentat had any command but onely they whereof they might dispose as it pleased them for their welfare But if they thought good still to vse him and his experience woon by continuall toile and trauell together with his life and goods hee was desirous to imploy himselfe in theirs and the Netherlands seruice wherein he desired their resolution Whereunto the generall Estates vpon the seuenteenth of December made answer as followeth The generall Estates hauing not long since seene a certaine proscript made and published by the enemie against your Excellencies person whereby they seeke to charge you with some slanderous and vnworthy crimes thereby to bring you into hatred as if by vnlawfull meanes and practises your Excellencie should haue sought the dignities and gouernments which you now enioy and withal abandoning your person as a prey to them that would bereaue you of your life and thereby depriue you of your honour Hauing in like sort seene the answer made thereunto by your Excellencie wee find That for as much as concerneth the Netherlands it is plaine and manifest that the aforesaid crimes and false imputations are vniustly laid vpon you And touching the place of Lieutenant generall the particular gouernments which your Excellencie now enioyeth that a lawful choice and election being made of you you would not haue accepted thereof but at our earnest intreaties and desires and haue still continued therein at our requests with the full consent and liking of the countrey seeking the same at your Excellencies hands with intreatie still to continue and hold the same promising all helpe aid and assistance not sparing any of their meanes together with all obedience vnto your Excellencie And for that the said Estates are well sufficiently assured of your Excellencies good and true seruice done vnto the Netherlands and which from henceforth they expect and attend of you they offer and present vnto your Excellencie a cornet of horsemen for the better safetie and guard of your person desiring you to accept thereof from them who acknowledge themselues bound to
had confessed himselfe sufficiently vnto God and that hee had grounded the hope of his saluation vpon the merits of Iesus Christ the Redeemer and Sauiour of the world as those haue testified that were present at his death He desired to be interred with the ornaments armes and blason of the dukes of Brabant the which the French kings counsell did not thinke conuenient for feare of offending the king of Spaine This death of the duke of Aniou did breake the bankes which did bound and keepe in the ouerflowing ambition of the league in Fraunce for that they feared him more than the king but it began now to shew it selfe as you may reade at large in the French Inuentarie vnto which I will referre you for that it doth belong properly vnto that Historie Hee that brought the first newes of the duke of Aniou his death vnto the Estates in Holland was within one moneth after the murtherer of the prince of Orange as we will presently shew The third of Iuly the prince of Parma sent colonel Mondragon with fiue thousand men and tenne pieces of artillerie to goe and besiege the forts of Lillo and of Lyefkens hoek both opposite one vnto another at the mouth of the riuer of Escaut which goes from Antuerpe into the sea The Vicont of Gant then newly called Marquesse of Roubay besieged Lyefkens-hoek on Flanders side the which he caused to be battered with all speed being not yet fully finished where after he had spent three hundred canon shot he caused an assault to be giuen but at the first charge they were sharpely repulsed At the second assault hee caused certaine carts laden with hay and straw to be brought neere vnto the breach and to be set on fire which made such a smoake carried through the fort by the wind as the besieged being not able to stand at the rampar to withstand the furie of the assaylants they were forced the marquesse causing all that hee found armed to bee slaine and amongst the rest many bourgers of the towne of Antuerpe who were come for fresh supplyes He caused some to be hanged afterwards in cold bloud the which was deere for the Spaniards that were prisoners He also slew with his owne hand N. Berendrecht a captaine in the fort who in former time had beene steward to the prince of Espinoy his brother Colonell Petaine borne in Arras seeing the place forced and the massacre of his men hauing almost escaped was taken and brought before him being desirous to see him whom he also stabbed and being vpon the ground he caused his men to make an end of him exercising his accustomed rage and madnesse vpon all that hee could meet for hee was of such an humour as he cared not for the death of a man or two hauing begun tenne yeares before his first apprentiship of murthering vpon Cont Philip of Mansfeldt sonne to Cont Peter Ernest gouernour of Luxembourg in the towne of Brussels and the second a yeare or two after vpon a gentleman named Ponthus Naye Seignior of Chapelle in the open market place of Bethune being a prisoner in the hands of iustice These first beginnings in his youth could yield no good fruits in his riper age Whilest that the Marquesse was busied before this fort of Lyefkens-hoek the Superintendents of the towne of Antuerpe whom it imported more to guard the fort of Lillo sent a full companie of their best trained young men and some hundred men out of their sworne bands to fortifie the garrison who in the beginning were but sixe score men Soone after captaine Gau being come from Terneuse entred with a companie of Gascoines Mondragon beeing busie to plant his artillerie the said captaine Gau made a braue sally vpon the Bourguignons so as hee put fiue companies to rout with the losse of aboue a hundred and fiftie men bringing away two captaines prisoners The Seignior of Teligny sonne to the lord of la Noue was sent by the Estates of Brabant to commaund there who entred with good troupes of Frenchmen whereas a little before there were foure Scottish companies entred being of the regiment of colonel Balfour Mondragon seeking to plant foure canons vpon the dike on Zeeland side these Scottishmen sallyed forth thinking to take it from thence or else to cloye it but as the dike was too narrow to make any speed thither in troupe they could not aduaunce themselues but the Spaniards made head against them yet they did them a great affront slew about three hundred of them and carried away their master myner prisoner with them who discouered vnto the Seignior of Teligny all the mynes which Mondragon had caused to be digged remayning after that time in the Estates seruice where hee did discharge himselfe both faithfully and truely in his place of Master myner Mondragon after he had spent fiue hundred canon shot and made a faire breach he made his preparatiues to giue an assault vnto the fort The besieged perceiuing it they presently made a spacious myne vnder the breach which they should assayle that hauing drawne their enemies thither and then they retyring as if they gaue backe to blow it vp The inuention was not bad if it had beene well followed But as the besieged went out by the sayd breach to goe and encounter with their enemies comming to the assault making presently their retreat and being pursued euen into the breach he that had charge of the said myne gaue fire too soone so as there were some thirtie of their owne men blowne vp and no harme done to the Spaniards that pursued them whom the canon of the fort notwithstanding did much annoy and tooke from them all appetite to approch any neerer They of Antuerpe sent two great canons more with the which they did dismount a part of the enemies artillerie Colonel Mondragon finding that notwithstanding all his endeauours he could not stop the passage of the riuer but that they of Lillo receiued what they needed from Antuerpe the better to stop this passage he caused certaine ordinance to be planted on the other side of the riuer right opposite vnto the sort and neere vnto Lyefkens hoek which might shoot close by the water euen vnto Lillo but for all that they did not forbeare to goe in and out and to passe and repasse from Holland and Zeeland to Antuerpe and seeing that they made no esteeme thereof he brought other artillerie to the dike that was broken at Calloo where the riuer was most narrow assuring himselfe that by that meanes hee should take away their nauigation but he preuailed no more than before In the end the prince of Parma considering the strength of the place the which had alwaies a port open by the riuer and could not bee taken away hearing also that the besieged were reenforced with fifteene or sixteene companies and sufficiently prouided of all things necessarie hee commaunded him to rayse his siege not without shame and losse hauing spent three weekes
remayned vpon the place And then began the cannon of the Campe to play through the thickest of their squadrons so as they were sorced to make a retreat alwaies skyrmishing yet marching away like soldiars as if they had resolued to come a second time The beseeged seeing their succors retired being without all hope finding their rampars to be so sapt as there remayned nothing but to set fire on them their defences and parapets quite beaten downe so as there was not any man that durst shew him-selfe if hee were not weary of his life they were content to yeeld the place by composition Verdugo being thus retyred with his troupes and Couoerden fallen vnder the obedience of the Estates Prince Maurice who during the seege would not goe out of his campe to fight with the Spaniards fearing to loose so good an occasion as was offred to make him-selfe Maister of that place after that hee had put a garrison into it and given order for the reparation of the rampars and ruines thereof and for the making plaine of his trenches hee parted withall his armie and pursued the Spaniards marching towardes the Rhyne thinking to passe it at Bercke But the Prince following them at the heeles as they had no meanes to make their passage there Verdugo finding his men so much discouraged as they slipt away in small numoers passing along the towne of VVezel the Prince pursuing him still meaning to doe him an affront hee went and campt vnder the fauor of a little towne in VVestphalia called Bucholt whereas the Prince would willingly haue charged him if the Spaniard had not so well obserued his retreate whereas there was but one narrow passage to come vnto him and a great bogge or moorish plaine betwixt both For which consideration the Prince not able to approach neere vnto him being loath to pursue him any further for that Autumne was well aduanced and the moist wether and the bad time of winter approached hee left him there and went backe with his armie sending euery man to his garrison vntill the Spring following After the Duke of Parmas retreat out of France from the releefe of Rouen the leagguers held an assembly of Estates at Paris and the partizans of Spaine were in hope that the Duke of Parma would returne the third time with a mighty army to performe some great worke and assure the Crowne of France to the King of Spaine or to the Infanta his daughter but death cut of his life and all his enterprizes for marching towards Picardy with an army of seauen or eight thousand men horse and foote his foreward being neere vnto the tree of Guise hee staid in Arras to call an assembly of the Netherlands that were vnder the King of Spaines obedience He had beene alwaies sickly and ill since his last retreat Being in the towne his sicknes increased in the beginng of September and he died the second day in the Abbots lodging of Saint Vast. His body was conducted through Lorraine into Italy with eight scorehorse all in mourning They say that he ordayned in his testament to be buried in a Capuchins weed He was much lamented by them of Arthois and by many others who are of a mylder disposition then the Spaniards or the Iesuits by whome he was not much moned He was held the honestest man and although an Italien a lesse dessembler then any of the former gouernors which the King of Spaine had sent into the Netherlands Iealous of his honor and holding his word aboue all things He died being about forty eight yeares old Being dead and opened they found his vitall parts much perished so as he could not haueliued long He lies interred in his towne of Parma At his funeral in the towne of Brussells there had like to haue fallen out a great tumult for that the Earle of Mandsseldt marching after the herse as his Lieutenant and then the officers of his household the Spanish gentlemen would haue marcht before the Italiens who kept them backe by force as in truth it was not then the Spaniards rancke The like funeralls were made vnto him in many townes of Italy and the tenth of Aprill 1593. in Rome as the great champion and defender of the Romish Church of the which hee was standard-bearer by inheritance and there was a statue of marble set vp for him in the Capitoll after the manner of the ancient Romains VVith this inscription QVOD ALEXANDER FARNESIVS PARMAE PLACENTIAE DVX TERTIVS MAGNO IN. IMPERIO PRO. REPVB CHRISTIANA GESSERIT MORTEMQVE OBIERIT ROMANIQVE NOMINIS GLORAM AVXERIT S. P. Q. R. HONORIS ERGO MAIORVM MVLTIS SECVLIS INTER FVSIS REVOCANDVM CENSVIT STATVITQVE CIVI OPTIMO EIVS VIRTVTIS SVAEQVE IN. ILLVM VOLVNTATIS TESTIMONIVM EX S. C. P. CLEMENTIS 8. P. M. ANNO. 11. GABRIELE CETARINO I. V. C. IACOBO ROBERO PAPIRIO ALBERO CELSO CELSO CAPO REG. PRIORE Besides the Dukes Image there stood a faire table wherein was written as followeth ALEXANDER FARNESIVS OCTAVII F. PARMAE ET PLACENTIAE DVX 3. PROVINCIAM NACTVS BELGICAM PHILIPPI HISPANIARVM REGIS IMPERIA DETRECTANTEM MAstrichum vrbem munitissimum expugnauit Birronium Gallum diuersarum partium Ducem collatis signis praelio vicit Dunchercham Gandauvm Brugas Hypras Denremundam Bruxellas Exclusam aliaque plurima Belgiae Oppid◅ aut vi cepit aut ad deditionem compulit Antwerpiam humanis viribus inexpugnabilem ingenti ad scaldin fluuium operum magnitudine circummunitam in deditionem accepit Nusium acceptum Coloniensi archiepiscopo reddidit Belgas omnes qui continentē incolunt in Philippi regis potestatem ad Romane ecclesiae obedientiam reduxit Hasce ob res alisque fortiter gestas S. P. Q. R. summus imperator elogio prope maiorum triumphus quorum gloriam aut vicit aut certe aequauit ornatus est ALexander Farnesius sonne to Octauius the 3. Duke of Parma and Plaisentia being Gouernor of the Netherlands which disobeied the King of Spaine wanne the strong towne of Mastricht defeated the Marshall of Biron generall of the French army he tooke Dunkerke Gand Bruges Ypre Denremonde Brusselles Sluys and many other townes in the Netherlands Antwerp inuincible to be wonne by mans force lying vpon the riuer of Sheld hee forced to yeeld He tooke Nuys and restored it to the Archbishop of Cologne All the Belgick Prouinces vpon the maine land hee subdued to the King brought vnder the obedience of the Romish Church for which and other his worthy deeds he hath beene honored with the title of Emperor by the citty of Rome deseruing a tryumph such as were made to the ancient Romains whose glory if he did not surpasse yet did he equall it This standeth in Rome for his honor and perpetuall memory The Argument of the fourteenth Booke COnt Phillip of Nassau runs ouer the country of Luxembourg with some of the Estates troupes Prince Maurice beseegeth Gheertrudenberg and takes it in vew of a royal
army led by Peter Ernest Earle of Mansfeldt who beseegeth Crevecâ—…ur in vaine warre made in Freezeland by Cont William of Nassau for the Estates The Earle of Solms makes warre in Flanders Otmarson in Oueryssel and many other forts in Freezelond recouered by the Spaniard The Archduke Ernest comes to be Gouernor of the Netherlands for the King of Spaine Michell Reuichors a Preest vndertakes to kill Prince Maurice for the which he is executed whereof the Archduke Ernest being taxed he seekes to excuse him-selfe by his letters to the Estates where-vnto they make answer The sayed Archduke makes warre against the King of France Prince Maurice deliuers Cowarden beseegeth Groning and takes it Peter de Four pretends to kill Prince Maurice for the which he is executed Cont Phillip of Nassau ioynes with the Duke of Bouillions troupes The marriages of the Earle of Hohenlo and the Duke of Bouillon Huyville and the Castle surprized by the Estates in the country of Liege and soone recouered by the Spaniard The death of the Archduke Ernest Collonel Mondragon a Spaniard comes neere vnto the Estates campe he is pursued by Prince Maurice The Earles Phillip of Nassau and Ernest of Solms are hurt taken prisoners and die Cont Frederic of Nassau remayning prisoner The Earle of Fuentes makes sharpe war against the French King The Spaniards offer a peace in the Netherlands Liege in Brabant surprized for the states but recouered the same day Cardinall Albert made gouernor for the King of Spaine he takes Callis from the French King who recouers La-fere from the Spaniard The Cardinal beseegeth Hulst in Flanders the which in the end yeeldeth The king of Spaine dispenseth with him-selfe for the paiment of his debts The English and Estates shippes takes Cadiz in Spaine The Mareshall of Biron makes warre in Arthois he takes the Marquis of Varâ—…nbon gouernor of the country A league betwixt the French King the Queene of England and the Estates against the Spaniard Prince Maurice defeats the Earle of Varax by Tournhout who is slaine there Amiens surprised by the Spaniard beseeged and taken by the King the which Cardinall Albert offers to succor in vaine Prince Maurice beseegeth and takes the Townes of Alpen Meurs Rhinberg Grol Brefort Enscheyde Oldâ—…nzeel Otmarsom Goor and Lingen all in three months The King of Denmarkes Ambassador to the Estates and to whâ—…t end The King of Spaine makes a peace with the French King The Admirall of Arragon sent Ambassador to the Emperor and to what end Peter Panne vnder takes to kill Prince Maurice and is executed The Estates subiects sayle to the East Indies Atumult at Emden the King of Spaine giues his eldest daughter to Cardinall Albert. AFter the Death of Alexander Farnezâ—… Duke of Parma Peter Ernest Earle of Mansfeldt his Lieutenant during his absence in France was by prouision appointed to the gouernment by the King of Spaine of all that which remained vnder his obedience in the Netherlands attending the comming of Ernest Archduke of Austria the Emperor Rodolphus Brother being chosen for Gouernor lieutenant and Captaine generall To which Earle of Mansfeldt as the Spaniards haue neuer fully trusted the Noblemen of the Netherlands there were ioyned in all affayers the Earle of Fuentes a Spaniard Brother in law to the Duke of Alua and one Stephano Ybarra Superintendent of the Kings treasure a Spaniard also without the aduice of which two hee could not doe any thing neither yet treat nor dispose of a denier About the end of this yeare 1592. as Cont Charles of Mansfeldt was sent vnto the fronters of Picardy to prouide worke for the roialists to the aduancement of the league and to beseege Noyon the which he did and tooke it the King being otherwaies imployed the vnited Estates on the other side sent Phillip Earle of Nassau with some 4000. horse foote into Luxemburg to make some enterprize as well vpon the towne of Saint Vyt belonging to Prince Maurice by inheritance as else where and also to force them to their contributions The Earle of Mansfeldt father to Count Charles to make head against him sent the Earle of Barlaymont thether with the garrison of Liere Macklin and others places both Spaniards and Italiens But Count Philip seeing his men laden with bootie which they had gotten as well in Luxembourg as in Cempeine hee retired quietly without any losse The gouernment of the Kings countrie beeing as wee haue sayd put into the hands of the Earle of Mansfeldt the father an old and pollitike captaine with the assistance of the sayd Earle of Fuentes Stephano d'Ybarra and other Spaniards and of the Spanish faction they were of opinion to breake quarter and as they were wont to say to make foule warres not suffring any souldiars of what qualitie so euer captaines or other Officers to bee ransomed nor exchanged for other prisoners thinking thereby to make their men more resolute to fight and to vanquish or die for if they escaped and were noâ—… slaine in the fight being prysoners there were no ransome exchange nor mercie for them And by this meanes they should also coole the heate of the Estates souldiâ—…rs from the doing of such violent executions by the right of warre for the leauy and payment of their contributions for they made a generall defence vpon all the fronters ioyning to the confederate Prouinces with other accustomed places dated the fift day of Ianuary in the yeare 1593. not to pay any such easments and taxes to the Estates collectors and Receiuors But Mansfeldt and his associates were much abused by this manner of proceding for their souldiars who commonly seeke more for profit then honour had rather draw a ransome from their prisoners then deliuer them into the hangmans hands or by this willfull breaking of quarter to suffer themselues to bee hanged Moreouer the gentlemen the Clergie and such as receiued rents were more willing to pay a light contribution to the Estates to saue the rest then to receiue nothing at all and moreouer to haue their castles houses and farmes burnt at the first roade they should make The vnited Estates made a publication to the contrary of the 27. day of Februarie by the which they declared that the Spaniard sought nothing else by the breaking of quarter and for biding to pay the contributions but vtterly to ruine all the Netherlands and the inhabitants thereof And therefore they signified vnto them of the Champian country that were of the aduerse partie that if they did not aduise otherwise for there safâ—…ties after the 10. of Aprill next ensuing that there would be no quarter for any person place Bourrough or village as now many did reside there and were free with any safegard of the sayd Estates lying vnder the command of their enemies This countermande of the Estates was the cause that all the world ranne to Brusselles to complaine of the first proclamation so as nothing was put in execution but all things remained
the affaiers of the Netherlands Laloo and no more whereas the rosolution of the cession and transaction of the Netherlands made by the King vnto his said daughter was read signed and sealed in the French tong as followeth Phillip by the grace of God King c. To all present and to come that shall see read and heare these letters greeting Whereas we haue thought it fit and conuenient as well for the generall good of all Christendome as of our Netherlands not to deferre any longer the mariage of our deere and wel-beloued eldest daughter the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia being the more inclined therevnto for the preseruation of our house and for certaine other good respects In consideration also of the loue we beare vnto our most deere and welbeloued brother cosin and Nephew the Archduke Albert gouernor and captaine generall of our Netherlands and of Bourgogne in our name hauing cast our eyes vpon his person and chosing him to be future husband to our eldest daughter as well by the consent of our holy father the Pope who hath there-vpon granted his dispensation as also hauing imparted it to the most high most excellent and most mighty Prince our most deere and wel-beloued brother cousin and nephew Rodolphus the second of that name Emperor of the Romaines and in like manner to our most deere wel-beloued good sister the Empresse his mother All which considered and to the end our said daughter may as reason requiers haue meanes according to her graces vertues and merits And the rather to giue a testimony of our behalfes of the great loue and affection which we haue alwaies borne and do yet beare vnto our countries of the Netherlands and Bourgogne we haue resolued to giue vnto our said daughter in ayde and fauor of the said marriage our said Netherlands and all that depends thereon in the forme and manner as shall be hereafter set downe and specified And that by the meanes and mediation will and consent of our most deere and wel-beloued good Sonne Prince Phillip our onely Sonne and heyre according to the aduertisments which haue beene giuen by vs and our said Sonne to the heads and Noblemen knights of our order councellors and Estates of our said Netherlands being vnder our obedience together with them of our country and Conty of Bourgogne who haue shewed and testefied by their answers the ioy and contentment which they haue had of this our kind resolution the which they know and confesse to bee so necessary for the good of our Netherlands Being the true meanes to attaine vnto a good peace and vnion and to be discharged of this painfull warre wherewith they haue beene afflicted for so many yeares which peace and rest we haue alwaies wished and desired considering also the which is notorious to all the world that the greatest happines which a country may inioy is to see them-selues gouerned by the eye and presence of their Prince and naturall Lord. God is our witnes of the paine and care we haue often had that we could not performe that in person which we willingly desired if the affaiers of great importance of our realmes of Spaine had not tied vs to continue our residence there and not to absent our selfe as we yet are bound at this houre And although for the age of the Prince our sonne it seemes it might be now more conuenient then at our first voiage yet the will of GOD hath beene such hauing giuen vs so many Realmes and Prouinces in the which there want neuer affaires of great importance by reason whereof his presence is here very requisite Wherefore we haue thought it expedient to take this good resolution not to suffer the Netherlands to runne into the inconueniences which they haue done heretofore together with the reasons of portion and partage which we ought to make vnto our said daughter the Infanta according to her merits the greatnesse of her birth Wherefore we giue all men to vnderstand that desiring now to put duly in effect that which hath beene resolued by vs to transport vnto our said daughter the Infanta in aduancement of the said marriage all our said Netherlands and Bourgogne in manner and forme and with the conditions here-after mentioned 1. The first condition is that the said Infanta our daughter shall ioyne in marriage with the Archduke Albert and that by way of donation or gift shee receiue our sayd Netherlands and the Contie of Bourgogne and in case the said marriage should bee hindred by any occasion whatsoeuer then this present donation or cession shall bee voide and take no effect as in that case we do presently reuoke and disanull it 2. Item that the children and successors of this marriage be they males or females lawfully borne and no bastards although it were by a future marriage the elder going before the yonger and the male the female shall from hand to hand successiuely bee heires in the same degree of all the said prouinces ioyntly without taking away or ecclipsing any thing Declaring that the eldest sonne or daughter of the father deceased shall be preserreâ—… before the Vncles or any other of the collaterall line 3. Item vpon condition that if there be neither sonne nor daughter which God forbid of this marriage or that they bee dead after the death either of the Archduke Albert or our daughter the Infanta comming of this present marriage the said donation cession and transport shall be voide of no force In which case if our said daughter the Infanta should remaine a widdow her lawfull portion on the fathers side her donation of the mothers side such as shall belong vnto her shall follow her beside that which wee or our sonne the Prince shall doe for the loue wee beare her And if the said Archduke Albert should suruiue the said Infanta he shall remaine Gouernor of the said countries in the name of the Prince Proprietary to whom they shall fall 4. Item vpon condition that if all the descendants males and females proceeding of their marriage should chance to faile so as there should not any one remaine that is called to these countries In that case they shall all returne vnto the King of Spaine which shall be descended of vs. And according to this donation and cession in that case we make him donatarie presently as being giuen vnto him 5. Item vpon condition that whosoeuer shall be Princesse and Lady of the said Netherlands shall marry with the King of Spaine or the Prince his sonne that shall bee then liuing with a dispensation if need shall require And if then they haue not the will nor the power to make any such marriages for themselues in that case the Lady cannot take any husband nor meddle with any donation nor any part thereof without the aduise and consent of vs and our heires and successors in our said realme of Spaine which shall be issued from vs. And in case of contrauention
all that hath bin giuen and granted shall returne as if this donation cession and transport had neuer beene made 6. Item vpon condition that our said daughter the Infanta nor any other called to the said succession shal not for any cause whatsoeuer part nor diuide the said countries nor giue or exchange without our consent of those shall succeed vs in these realmes 7. Item that euery Prince and Lord of those countries shall be bound to marry their sonnes and daughters with our consent of those shall be our heires Kings of Spaine 8. Item that our said daughter the Infanta nor her husband nor any of their successors to whom the sayd countries shall descend shall in any sort whatsoeuer negotiate traffick or contract to the East and West Indies neither shall they send any sorts of ships vnder any coulour or pretext so-euer vpon paine that the sayd countries in case of contrauention shall be forfeited by them And if any subiects of the said countries should presume to goe contrary to the defences the Lords of the said countries shal punish thē by confiscation of their goods other grieuous paines yea with death 9. Item that if the said Archduke Albert our good cousin should suruie our daughter the Infanta leauing either sonne or daughter that he shall haue the gouernment of such sonne or daughter with the managing of all their goods as if our daughter the Infanta were yet liuing And ouer and besides our said cousin the Archduke shall in that case enioy and reape the fruites during his life entertaining the said children according to their qualitie giuing vnto the eldest sonne or daughter the country and Duchie of Luxembourg and the countie of Chiny which shall belong vnto them to inioy it during the fathers life after whose decease that child shall haue all as sole heire Being here expresly declared that this clause of vsufrute shall be vnderstood onely in fauour of our good Cousin the Archduke Albert and not to be drawne in consequence To the end that none of his successors may vrge any president nor pretend right in the like case 10. Item for that it is the principall and greatest bond aboue all others that all the children and descendants of the said marriage shall follow the holy religion which doth now presently shine in them and shall liue and dye in our holy Catholick faith as the holy church of Rome doth teach and entertaine and that before they shall take possession of the sayd Netherlands they shall take an othe in the same forme that it is set downe in the article following And in case which God forbid that any of the said descandants should decline from the sayd religion and fall into heresie after that our Holy father the Pope hath pronounced them so they shall be depriued of the administration possession and propertie of the said Prouinces and that the vassals subiects thereof shall no more obey them but they shall admit and receiue the next that is a Catholick of the same descent which should succeed vnto such a one that is fallen from the faith and that hereticke shall be as if he were naturally dead Ego Iuro ad sancta Dei Euangelia quod semper ad extremum vitae meae spiritum sacrosanctam fidem Catholicam quam tenet docet predicat sancta Catholica Apostolica Ecclesia ◅omana communium Ecclesiarum mater Magistra constanter profitebor fideliter firmiterque◅redam veraciter tenebo atque eam a meis subditis teneri doceri predicari quantum in me erit curabo Sic me Deus adiuuet hec sancta Euangelia 11. Item that for the greater assurance and confirmation of the peace loue and correspondencie which ought to be betwixt the King and his realmes our descendants and successors and the Princes and Lords of those countries being also our successors enery one of thē which hereafter shall come vnto the possession of the said Netherlands and Bourgogne shall aduow approoue and ratifie what is conteined in this article 12. And for a much as our intention and will is that the said articles shall take full effect by their meaens We giue grant quit transport renounce and accord in gift of fee in the best and most auaileable forme way and manner that may be deuifed by law to the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia our most deare and best beloued eldest daughter All our Netherlands and euery Prouince thereof with the Country and County of Bourgogne comprehending that of Charolois therin the Duchies Principalities Marquisats and forts which are in our Netherlands and Bourgogne together with all the regalities and all sorts of iurisdictions which wee might pretend by reason of the same as also all preheminences gards and all other kind of soueraignty whatsoeuer in the same forme they are now or may be ours to haue the full possession as wee haue had without any exception vpon charge notwithstanding that they shall inuiolably obserue all here aboue mentioned the Pragmatick made by the deceased of immortall memory the Emperor my Lord father who is in glory in the month of Nouember 1549. touching the vnion of the said Netherlands without consenting to any separation thereof for any cause whatsoeuer 13. And it is our intention that in regard of this donation our said daughter the Infanta and her future husband the Archduke Albert shall be charged and bound to pay and acquit all debts made by vs or in our name or by his deceased Imperiall Maiesty vpon our patrimonie and demaines of the said Netherlands and of the Contie of Bourgogne and they shall bee also tied and bound to beare and discharge all the rents annuities for life and all other donations pensions and recompences which his said Imperiall Maiestie wee or our predecessors haue made to any persons whatsoeuer And so we do make create and name by these presents our said daughter the Infanta Princesse and Lady of the said Netherlands and Earle of Bourgongne and Charalois We do also grant vnto our said daughter that ouer and aboue the particular titles of euerie of the said Prouinces of the Netherlands and countie of Bourgoigne she may also write intitle and name her selfe Duchesse of Bourgoigne notwithstanding that we haue reserued for so long as it shall please vs for our selues and for the prince our sonne the said title of Duke of Bourgoigne with all the rights that may belong vnto vs together with the soueraigntie of our order of the Golden Fleece whereof we retaine the power vnto our selues to dispose hereafter as we shal think most fit We consent and agree and do suffer our said daughter the Infanta giuing her absolute irreuocable power of her own priuat authority without any further consent to be demaunded by her selfe or by her deputies sent to her future husband to take full and absolute possession of the said Netherlands and of the countie of Bourgoigne
all speed to whom captaine Iohn vander Corput was sent with certaine companies who beeing neere vnto the towne and the earles messengers comming to Emden met with them of the towne vnto whom captaine Corput spake and tooke them away with him saying there was no reason the towne of Emdèn should agree with the earle vnlesse the vnited prouinces according to the contract and agreement made at the towne of Delfziel might haue their voices and consent therein by which meanes the pretentions of the said factions for that time ceased Not long after Edsard earle of east Friseland died leauing fiue sonnes by his wife who was daughter to the king of Sweathland their names were cont Enno the eldest Gustanus Iohn Christopher and Charles whereof Enno vntill that time was called baron of Esens by his mariage with the heire of Esens who tooke the rule and gouernment of the countrie vpon him his brother Christopher went to serue the archduke Albert in the Netherlands who made him colonel of a regiment of foot the which hee raised this yeare in Brabant and elsewhere Enno earle of Emden comming to the gouernment by the mediation of Iohn Fredericke bishop of Breme sonne to Adolph duke of Holst and of the duches dowager of Holst the said Enno hauing for his second wife maried one of his daughters made an agreement with them of Emden and with their adherents together with the vnited prouinces according vnto the contract made at Delfziel foure yeares before This accord was afterward proclaimed in Emden the sixt day of October in the yeare 1599 and cont Enno was installed in his earledome As certaine troupes were leuied this yeare in France by monsieur la Noue for the vnited prouinces cardinall Andrew of Austria gouernour of the Netherlands sent the earle of Bassigni sonne to the lord of Boytel to hinder the same and to make complaint vnto the king for that he had suffered such aid to goe vnto the rebellious Netherlands contrarie to the contract and agreement of peace whereunto the king made a short answer saying that he vnderstood that such as went thither were Huguenots who went to aid their brethren for that the warre which he had beene constrained to maintaine with the leaguers wherein they had faithfully serued him had made him so bare as hee could not reward their seruices whereby they might haue meanes to liue quietly at home in their houses and that if the cardinall had need of as many leaguers out of his realme that hee was content to graunt them to doe him seruice and if it should be construed to be against the peace he said that he should not be found to bee the first that did infringe it but rather the king of Spaine who supported the duke of Sauoy against him whereby he did not yeeld the marquessate of Salusses vnto him whereunto he had so iust a title as all the world did know and besides he had suffered an armie of 30000 men to enter into the duke of Cleues countrie beeing his friend and allie In the beginning of this yeare the old countesse of Arembergh a wise and discreet ladie widow to the earle of Arembergh who was slaine in battell by Lodowicke earle of Nassau dicd at Seuenberghen where shee liued as in a neutrall place so as vpon the 24 of Februarie they of Holland decreed that her lands and goods which were of great value in Holland by her death descended vnto her two sonnes who as then serued the king beeing their enemies should be againe confiscated and so held to the vse and benefit of the countrie But omitting to speake of any other thing we will returne to the admiral vpon the frontiers of the empire The princes electors of the Rhine and of the inferiour circle of Westphalia hauing their deputies assembled in the citie of Cologne the 21 of Ianuarie to take some future course for the admirals disorders by way of armes seeing that the emperours letters were of so small credit with him to that end they did write to the princes and estates of the circle of Franconia and the lower Saxonie to mooue them to ioyne with them and with their common forces to chase the Spaniards out of the limits of the empire and that the said princes to the number of fiue circles would to that end send their deputies of Conflans on the 11 of March following the which they did In the meane time the emperour did write againe from Prague the 11 of Februarie 1599 to cardinall Andrew of Austria gouernour of the Netherlands in the absence of the archduke Albert reiterating his commaundements with other letters to the like effect to the admirall who on the other side as it were in despight of the emperour and the princes of the empire tooke Emmeric againe beeing in the country of Cleues the which prince Maurice had before taken from them and deliuered to the duke free The archduke Albert meaning to excuse himselfe of all these disorders by his letters written vnto the emperour from Milan on the 29 of December he seemes to lay the blame vpon cardinall Andrew that the imperiall commandement for the retreat of the Spaniards out of the territories of the empire was not executed whether he did it fainedly or with a good intent may well appeare by the taking againe of Emmeric The deputies beeing at Cologne by letters of the 21 of Ianuarie made their complaints vnto the emperour as well of the admirall and the Spaniards as of prince Maurice and the Estates armie beseeching that they might haue an imperiall armie granted them which ought commonly to bee of fourtie thousand men to force both the one and the other to depart out of the territories of the empire and repaire the hurt that was done Whereupon the admirall sent a commissarie in his name to Cologne to treat with the said deputies of the princes and Estates but especially with that of cont Vander Lippe captaine generall of the lower circle of Westphalia which commissarie before hee would propound any thing in the assemblie of the deputies required a copie of the reasons why the admirall was sent for with the names of all the deputies and of the princes lords and Estates their masters saying that if they thought those affaires should be decided according to the constitutions of the empire they were deceiued but it was his intention that they should be ended according to the forme of a councell of warre whereupon answer was made him that seeing hee auowes himselfe to bee for the king of Spaine the archduke Albert and the cardinall Andrew they would see his letters of credit and heare his propositions the which beeing seene the commissarie would not say any thing vntill the next day In the meane time the deputies of the princes and Estates of the circles beeing somewhat diuided the commissioner sent to the deputies of cont Vander Lippe that they should send one to conferre with him which was onely
were iudged and for that their action was not found to proceed of malice but of meere cowardise or want of experience had saued their liues whervnto also the weakenesse of the countrie at that time was some helpe who could hardly punish them hauing many friends In the beginning of this springe Count Ernestus of Nassau was called by Duke Henry Iules of Brunswicke to bee Lieutenant of his army against them of the towne of Brunswycke in whose aide the Hans townes of the East countries leauied certaine men The said Duke gaue vnto Cont Ernestus one of his daughters in marriage the which was celebrated at Wolffenbuytell where the Duke keepes his court The Barron of Barbanson brother to the Earle of Arembergh did leauy at that time for the Arch-duke a regiment of three thousand Germaine foote the Earle of Busquoy one of two thousand fiue hundred Wallons and the Lord of Luxembourg an other of the like number which was to fortefie them vpon the iealousie they had of the duke of Bouillon brother in law to Prince Maurice least he should haue some secret intelligence with the French King and that both of them hauing ioyned their forces togither should fall vpon him For as the duke beeing in disgrace with the King was retired to Sedan where hee leauied men for his defence so the King made preparation of an armie to goe and assaile the duke but by meanes hee was reconciled to his Maiestie vpon these distrusts the Arch-dukes sought to fortefie their army with new leauies sending one part of all his forces into Luxembourg and an other into Henault Arthois Namur and other frontier countries but the Duke beeing reconciled to the Kings fauour the King dismist his army and the Duke discharged his men The Earle of Busquoy hauing gathered some troupes togither in march about Keesers-weert he made shew as if hee would build some new fort vpon the Rhine neere vnto Berck But vpon the foureteenth day of the month about mid-night hee surpriâ—…ed the towne of Brevoort the gouernor and some of the souldiars seeing the townes thus taken retired into the Castle which they defended against the enemy The Estates horsemen which had conuoyed Cont Ernestus towards the Duke of Brunswick were by good hap returned the day before out of Germany into those quarters who presently cut of the enemies victualls so as the pesants could not bring them any thing vnto the towne Cont William of Nassau gouernor of Freezland and Groning hearing of this surprize and that the Castle held good for the Estates sent presently all the horse and foote hee could gather sodenly together in his gouernment who went and beseeged them that had surprized the towne Cont Henry Frederec of Nassau was also sent from the Hage and captaine du Bois hauing charge to command all the forces they could get of Breda Berghen and other places to follow them Prince Maurice meaning to bee there present him-selfe parted from the Hage the twenty one of the month carrying all his owne horses with him with his tents and all his other bagage fit for such an exploit But as they were vpon the way they had newes that the enemy had beene forced to abandon the towne againe where-vpon he determined to returne to the Hage In the begining of the yeare 1606. Philip Earle of Hohenloo Baron of Langerbergh Lieutenant generall of Holland Zeeland West Freeseland Bomell and Thieldwert c. being sicke of a long lingering disease which grew to be a generall lamenes both of hand and feet so as hee could not stire nor helpe him-selfe died at Iselstein vpon the fift of March being aboue fifty yeares of age A man of a tall comely stature and of good experience in Marshall affaiers but somewhat stout and hasty hauing serued about thirty foure or thirty fiue yeares in the Netherlands in great and continuall troubles especially after the death of the Prince of Orange when as the vnited Prouinces were wonderfully perplexed Prince Maurice his sonne being then very young so as then there was not any man that seemed able to take ther cause in hand to direct their marshall affaiers and to be tutor to Prince Maurice but onely this Earle to whome euery man had a respect to the end he should vndertake their affaiers in regard of his authority and credit amongst the soldiers as also for his skill in marshall affaires being also very rich and withall very bountifull and affable hee married the eldest daughter of the Prince of Orange borne by the Contesse of Buren who died without children his lands hee gaue to his brothers children whereof Ernestus Earle of Hohenlo was then in the Netherlandes with him and commanded his cornet of horse being a gallant young gentleman of great hope his funerall was apointed to be kept at Iselstein vpon the 6. of April with the accustomed ceremonies where Prince Maurice and others of the house of Nassau were present with the Deputies of the general Estates the counsel of Estate and the counsel of Holland and others but by reason of the taking of Breuoort it was put of for a while his body was set in a coffin in the Church of Iselstein vntill his kindred came out of Germany to fetch it and so carried it to the country of Hohenlo The Arch-duke being freed of the feare he had of the French King the garrisons of Flanders attempted a certaine enterprize vpon Sluce being conducted by Frederik Vanden Bergh which was very secretly vndertaken but not fortunately effected Not long before there were two Spaniards who hauing for a time serued in Sluce ranne from the Estates againe and gaue intelligence to them of Flanders how that the watch house without Sluce which stood vpon the bridg of the East gate was burnt downe so that as then there was no gard held that bridg serued to come from Coxy Cadsant and from all the parts of the drowned land into the towne being very long with two draw bridges and a good pale on the one side but onely where the sconses which had beene broken downe stood thinking it very difficult that the enemy should attempt any thing on that side in regard that the drowned land was round about fortefied with sconces being almost impossible for them to passe that way The towne gate as then was very weake being onely of double plankes nayled one vpon the other and along by it but a slight low wall which they might easely climbe ouer Mounsier vander Noot the gouernor of the towne being partly aduertised of an enterprise to be made vpon that part of Flanders had sent to all the sconces and forts round about to giue them warning thereof he him-selfe talking his ease not once fortefiing his gards neither had he any suspition for which his negligence hee was afterwards much blamed It was an enterprize well managed and better executed then that which was led by Mounsier de Terrail but by GODS prouidence
in Holland taken by the Protestants 589 Creuecaeur yeelded to Prince Maurice 1230 Cruelty of the Spaniards against the French at Mons 490 Cruelties of the Spaniards in Neutrall countries of Germanie vnder the Admirall of Arragon 1174 Cruelties of the Liegeois 164 Confirmation of the Baron of Montignies accord with the Spaniard 689 Cloet Gouernor of Nuys cruelly executed 920. Conuoy of three thousand going to Cologne defeated by their owne party 952 Conditions whereby the Estates did yeeld vnto the tenth penny 467 Conuoy of the Spaniards defeated by the Lord Willobies troopes 952 Conuoy from Bruges to Ypre defeated 830 Castle of Gand besieged by the generall Estates 612 Castle of Huede treacherously deliuered to the Prince of Parma 660 Collenborch taken by the Estates 1047. Crapoll Castle surprised by the Estates 1261 Cracowe taken for the Estates 1262. Catris Generall of the Spaniards slaine before Ostend 1270 Cornets eight of the Archdukes horse defeated 1290 Crueltie of the Earle of Embden 1293 Crueltie of the Spaniards 1301 Cadsandt taken by Prince Maurice 1306 Coxie taken by Prince Maurice ibid. Conuoy going to victuall Sluys put to route 1311. Considerations concerning a peace in the Netherlands 1322 D. DAniel vanden Meulen sent for to Brussels and why 1171 Death of the Emperor Charles the fift his qualities 528 Death of the Princesse of Orange 803 Death of the Duke of Parma 1061 Defeate of the succors of Harlem and of the Prince of Oranges Armie 510. of the Princes shippes before Harlem 513. of the Protestants at Austerwele 422. of the Protestants of Amerongen 422. of the Estates at Gemblours 654. of the Estates men at Costeyns-dyke 879. of the Spaniards at Tournhout 1126. of the Marquis of Warembom by the Estates 1024 Deliuery monstrous of 365. children at one birthe 52 Deputies from the Queene of England to the Estates and from them to her 984. from Brusselles to the Estates of Aâ—…thois 695. from Antwerpe to the Gouernesse 423. from the Nobilitie to an Imperiall Dyet 372. from the Estates to the French King 868. from Groning to the Emperor 1055. from the Queene of England to treate with the King of Spaines deputies at Bourbrough in Flanders 995. from the Duke of Cleues to Prince Maurice 1185 Denremonde Nihouen and Audenarde surprized for the Archduke Philip 200 Denremonde redeemes it selfe from spoile 860. Dearth extraordinarie of corne in the Netherlands 931 Deâ—…cription of Groning 1087 Delf rebels besieged and yeelded to Cont Albert 106 Delfois doe great seruice in Friseland to Cont Albert. 112 Disunion among the Prouinces of the Netherlands 708 Description of the Duke of Aluas Image 461. Deuenter in Ouerissel besieged by the Estates 687. sold to the Spaniard by Stanley 942. beseeged and yeelded to Prince Maurice 1048. Deutecom taken by the Admirall 1186 Diuision in Holland during their Earles absence 72 Disgrace done to the Earle of Osteruant at the French Kings table 110 Discourse of Maister Francis Baldwins shewing the true meanes how to pacifie the troubles 356. Dissimulation of the Duchesse of Parma with the Nobles 421 Discourse of aduice to the Earle of Leicester 932. Diuision among the Nobilitie of the Netherlands 349 Dislike betwixt the Duke of Parma and Champigny 1019 Dinant beseeged by the Earle of Charalois taken and razed 157 Dinandois brake the peace with the Earle of Charolois ibid. Double practise at Bryele 730 Dousbourg yeelded to the Spaniard 874. besieged and yeelded to the Earle of Leicester 924. Dourlans in Picardie taken by assault by the Spaniard 1106. Dordrecht surprised by the yong Earle of Egmont 195. Dix Muyden taken from the Ganthois 210 Duke of Lorraine inuades Holland for the Bishop of Vtrecht and defeates Robert the Frison 24 Duke of Saxonie ruines the faction in Holland and Zeland 211 Duchesse of Parma writes to the King and delayes the Estates of Brabant vnder a proiect of moderation of the bloudie Edict 373. she entertaines them with pollicie 385. she playes her part 421 Duke of Alua sent Gouernor into the Netherlands 431. seekes a quarrell against the Queene of England 460. thinking to assure Flushing he looseth it 473. he spoiles Macklin 495 hee labours to bee called home 532. Duke of Medina Celi sent to gouerne the Netherlands 479 Duke Iohn Cassimire succors the Estates 673. hee comes to Gand. 676. he retires with his armie 686 Duke of Parma Gouernour of the Netherlands 681. hee passeth the Meuse 682. comes before Antwerpe 863. and takes it 884. hee goes to the Spawe 1019. his death 1061. Duke of Bouillon marries the Prince of Oranges daughter 1102 Dunkerke taken and burnt by the French 326. recouered by the Bourguignons basely yeelded vp by the French 827 Dyest yeelded to Don Iuan 654. is surprised by the Estates 746. beseeged and yeelded to the Spaniard 825 Deane of Emmerics speech vnto the Admirall of Arragon 1186 Duchesse of Parma departs out of the Netherlands 444 Disposition of Prince Maurice Campe before Sluys 1310 Death of Peter Ernest Earle of Mansfeldt his life 1319 Demands of the Councell of Estate of the vnited Prouinces touching the warre 1321. E. EDward Duke of Gelders takes his brother prisoner and defies the Earle of Holland 107. Earle of Benthen slaine 34 Earle of Loos defeates the Earle of Holland in Zeland 46 Earles of Holland and Geldres make warre against the Bishop of Vtrecht 42 Earle of Saint Pol made Reuward of Brabant 135. Earle of Enghien beheaded in Henault 106 Earle of Embden made Protector of Groning 230. buildes a Cittadell there ibid. Earle of Meghen at Vtrecht 421 Earle of Arembergh defeated and slaine in Friseland by Cont Lodowicke of Nassau 449. Earle Adolph of Nassau slaine in Friseland with Arembergh 449 Earle of Meurs leuies Reysters for the Estates which mutine 931. his death 1025 Earle of Hochstrate adiorned by the Duke of Alua iustifies himselfe by writing 445. hee hurts himselfe by chance whereof hee dyes 458 Earle of Bossu chased away from Bryel 472. Earle Lodowicke of Nassau brother to the Prince of Orange enters Friseland with an armie 449. beseegeth Groning 455. defeated through the mutinie of his Germaines 456. surprizeth Mons 477. comes to succour the Protestants of the Netherlands is defeated and slaine with his brother and Duke Christopher 545 Earle of Lodron taken prisoner by his soldiars 460. intreates them cruelly in Antwerpe 462. Earle of Ouerstein drowned at Antwerpe 597. Earle of Bossu intreates them of Rotterdam in Holland ill 473. hee is taken prisoner by the Hollanders and carryed to Horne 528. hee is Generall of the Estates Armie his death 687 Earle of Marke Lieutenant to the Prince of Orange surprizeth Bryele 472. he becomes maister of a great part of Holland for the Prince 488. accused to the Estates for his crueltie 515 Earle Uanden Berghe takes Zutphen and other townes in Gelderland for the Prince of Orange 488 Earle of Solms makes warre for the Estates in Flanders 1073. hee marries the daughter of the Earle of Egmont 1103 Earle
husband The Earle of S. Pol sent 〈◊〉 into Brabant An assembly of the states of Brabant Thâ—… Earle of S. Pol made Reuward of Brabant The Lord of Berghen slain in the Dukes chamber Many of the duke oâ—… 〈◊〉 seruants apprehended The Emperor anâ—…â—…ce Elector write into Bâ—…abant so the prisoners The prisoners set a libertie Whâ—…t the office of Reuwâ—…rd â—…s Many beheaded at Brussels The Contesse Iaqueline causeth the Dâ—…ke of Brabant her husband to be cited to Rome The Contesse Iaqueline made â—…re to the duke of Gloceâ—…r He comeâ—… with an Army into Henault 1423. Iohn van Vlyer beheadded at the Hage Iohn of Bauaria gouernor of Holland dies The Duke of Brabant acknowledgeâ—… Earle of Holland in the right of his wife Captaine Albert Beyllincâ—… buâ—…ied aliue 1425. Schoonhouen besieged A Truce made at Schoonhouen The duke of Brabant bebesiegeth the Contesse his wife in Mons A treatie made by the duke of Bourgongne to atteme vnto the Countesses countrey The Contesse laqâ—…e is deliuered into the Duke of Hourgongnes hands The Contesse of Holland led against her will vnto Gant The Contesse it freed out of the duke of Burgongnes hands The Contesse comes into Holland The battel of Alphen whereas the Coneesse was victor The English and Zeelanders defeated by the Duke of Bourgongne at Brouwershâ—… Anno 1424. The Cardinals sentencâ—… touching the duke of Brabants marriage with the Contesse of Holland The Duke of Glocester abandons the Contesse Iaqueline The Duke of Bourgongnes ambitious desugne Scuenberghe besieged And yeelded vp in despight of the Lord. 1426. Harlem besieged by the contesse A second battaile at Alphé where the Contesse is victorious The Contesse makes knights William Nagel Captaine of the Kennemers Captaine Na gel by the Kennemers defeated 1427. The death of Iohn Duke of Brabant A sâ—…a battaile fought neere to Wyeringhen The Lord of Brederode defeatâ—…d and taken prisoneâ—… An accord betwixt Duke Philip and the Contesse Iaqueline 1429. Philip of Bourgonge buyes the County of Namur 1430. Philip Duke of Brabant dyes Philip of Bourgongne makes his entrie as duke of Brabant The Lady Iaqueline Contâ—… of Holland 〈◊〉 thâ—… fourâ—…h tiâ—…e The Contesse denyed mony by her seruants Reasós which moued the Conâ—…esse Iaqueline to louâ—…â—…ranc of Borsselle â—…he marâ—…yes him secretly The Lord of Borsselle appâ—…ended by the Duke of Bourgongne The Contesse resignes aâ—…l heâ—… Coâ—…ntries to the Dukâ—… for her husbands liberty The Duke of Bouâ—…gongne takes possession of Holland c. 1436. The death of the Conâ—…esse Iaqueâ—…ine Noblâ—…men in the time of the Contesse Iaqueline The chiefe Nobility of Friseland 1437. Duke Philip right heire to Holland zeeland and Friseland His wiues and children Duke Philips â—…ards 1438. Warre betwixt the Esterlins the Hollanders zelanders 1444. The factions reuiued in Holland A tumult at Amsterdam by the factions The Dutchesse comes into Holland to pacifie the troubles She returnes without any effect The Duke sends for the heads of both factions Institution of the 〈◊〉 President in Holland A tumult at Leyden The Duke comes into Holland He reconciles the two factions War betwixt the Duke of Bourgongne and the Ganthois 1452. The cause of this warreâ—… 1453. The Ganthois submit themselues vnto the Duke and are reâ—…onciled 1455. The death of the Bishop of Vtrecht Great competitors for the bishoprick Sugiestions by the â—…oeckin faction against the bishop of Vtrecht The duke belâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…ports against them of Brederode The duke of Bourgongne meanes to make his bastard sonne bishop of Vtrecht by force Dauid the duke of Bourgongnes bastard made bishop of Vtrecht Levvis Daulphin of France comes to Brusseles to the Duke of Bourgongne 1460. Death of king Charles of France Levvis King of France falles in dislike vvith the Duke of Bourgongne 1461. Certaine signtories come to the Earle of Charolois 1462. What Iohn of Koesteine vvas Croy lanoy Koestein conspire against the Earle of Charolois They seeke to poison him The practise discouered vnto the earle Koestein committed to prison He is condemned to loose his head Iohn of Iuy â—…hat accused Koestein beheaded also Causes of dislike betwixt the king of France and the duke of Bourgongne The answer of the Lord of Chymay to the French King 1463. The Freâ—…ch King comes to 〈◊〉 to the Dukâ—… of Bourgongne The Earle of Charolois 〈◊〉 to come to the King which discontents his 〈◊〉 The duke of Bourgongne and his sonne reconciled The Earle comes to his fathâ—…r 〈◊〉 speech vnto the Duke his father The Duke of Bourgoâ—…gne reconciled to his sonne 1464. Which is 20000. pound starling Certaine demands made by the French King vnto the duke of Bourgongne The Dukes requests vnto the King The bastard of Rubempre sent into Holland to surprise the Earle of Charolois Rubempre his companions apprehended The Kings intention touching Rubempres acte The duke of Bourgongne reâ—…res in hast from Hesdin 1464. The â—…rench king sends Ambassadors to the duke of Bourgongne The French kings demands The Earle of Charolois answere The Earle of Charolois sends a message vnto the King The Duke of Bourgongne falles sicke The Earle of Charolois made Gouernor of his fathers contries Hiâ—… speech vnto his friends A new quarrel betwixt the Duke of Bourgongne and his Sonne The Earle of Charolois writs to all the Townes 1446. The towne castell of Lanoy taken taken Letters from the Earle of Charolois to them of Arras 1465. The Earle of Charolois reconciled to his father The duke of Bourgongne leauies an army to succor the duke of Berry The Earle of Charolois forces The dukes speech to his Sonne at his parting The French King makes a league with them of Liege The Liegeois in armes against the duke of Bourgongne The death of the Contesse of Charolois Peronne surprized for the Duke of Bourgongne The insolencie of them of Dynant The Earle prepaâ—…res an armie against the Liegeois The Liegeois sue for peace 1465. A peace concluded with the Liegeois The Liegeois offer an affront to the Earles men The Earle of Neuers reconciles himselfe to the Earle of Charolois 1466. The Dynandois 〈◊〉 the peace Dinant besieged Dinant taken and razed The Liegeoiâ—… reconcile themselues againe to the Earle of Charolâ—…is 1467. The Earle of Charolois marries Marguerite sister to the King of England The death of duke Philip of Bourgongne Duke Philips qualities Printing first â—…uented Duke Charles pourchaseth the County of Ferrette His wiues Duke Charles takes posseâ—…on of his coun tries The Ganthois mutine against their Duke The Duke yeelds to the Ganthois The Ganthois submit themselues vnto the Duke A tumult at Macklyn The Liegeois breake the peace The Duke goes with an armie against the Liegeois The Duke sends back the 300 hostages The Liege ois came to raise the â—…eege at Saintron A battaile betvvixt the duke and the Lâ—…geois The Liegeois defeated Saintron yeelded Tongres yeelded Liege yeelds vnto the duke The Liegeois in doubt to deliuer the town The duke enters
1598 1598 1598 The Infantaes procuration to the archduke 1598 Embassadors from the elector of Cologne to the Estates for Rhineberek A sentence against the magistrat of Aix 1590 The lamentable estate of Aix The duke of Cleues recouers his sences 1598 1598 1598 A summe of the articles propounded to the cardinal at Brussels The archduke Albert leaues off his cardinals weed 1598 The Queene of England sendâ—… vnto the Estates Goodly offers made by the archduke vnto the vnited Estates 1598 1598 The oppression of the Admirals souldiers 1598 Letters intercepted from the Spanish campe 1598 The end and death of the king of Spaine 1598 The kings speech vnto his sonne 1598 The king of Spaines instruction to the prince his son 1598 A hardie attempt of certaine mariners of the Spaniard 1598 The archdukes letters to the princesse of Cleues 1598 The admirall summoÌ„s Berck They of Wezel write to the admirall 〈◊〉 his answer 1598 The earle of Broek besieged in his castle and yeelds The earle of Broek murthered The admirall doth ransome the towne of Wezel 1598 The admirall besieges Rhineberck The powder in the towne set on fire 1598 Rhineberck yeelded Prince Maurice writes to the deputies of the circles 1598 Deputies from the duke of Cleues to prince Maurice 1598 The deane of Emmeric's speech to the admirall 1598 The deputieâ—… of the circles letters from Dortmont 1598 The princes electors letters to the emperour 1598 1598 The emperors commissioner writes vnto the admiral A discourse of the insolencies committed by the Spaniards 1598 1598 1589 The emperours proclamation against the admirall 1598 1598 The emperours commandement to the general Estates 1598 1599 A proclamâ—…tion in the 〈◊〉 name forbidding all traffique into Spaine A proclamation made by the vnited Estates to forbid traffique with Spainâ—… 1599 A proclamation made in Friseland forbidding contribution to the enemie 1599 Orders made by the Estates for their horse and foot 1599 A preacher murthered at Deuenter 1599 The death of the old countésse of Aremberghe 1599 The substance of the admirals letters to the deputies at Cologne 1599 1599 1599 Aldegonde Longolius die 〈◊〉 The elector of Mentz answer to cardinall Andrew 1599 Letters from the vnited prouinces to the princes of Germany o 1599 Letters from the Estates to the deputies of the circles 1599 The deputies write againe to the Estates * It is a minerall matter which they vse about copper The Estates answer 1599 1599 Letters from the deputies of the circles to the Estates The German deputies send to the Estates for a pasport 1599 The estates send commissioners to the deputies Counsell propounded to ioyne both the armies against the Spaniard 1599 Letters from the imperiall commissioners to the chiefe of the Spaniards like to them of the Estates 1599. The Spaniards retire from Bomel The successe of the Estates armie at the Canaries 1599 The armie lands The castle of Gâ—…atiosa yeelded to the generals mercie The towne castle of Alegoenâ—… abandoned 1599 The Estates men slaine in the mountainâ—… The armie retires and burnâ—… Alegoenâ—… 1599 1599 The progresse of the Estates armie at sea 1599 Deutecom taken by William of Nassau S. Andrews fort built by the Spaniard 1599 The end of the Germans enterprises against the Spaniards 1599 Prince Mauâ—…ice breaks vp his armie 1599 The admirall breaks vp his campe and payes not his souldiers who mutine The Estates letter to the emperors embassadors concerning a peace 1599 1599 The embassadours answer to the Estatâ—… letter 1599 1599 The instalmeÌ„t of the archdukes 1599 Knights of the golden fleece made The archdukes installâ—…ent at Loâ—…aine 1599 The archdukes installing in Antuerpe The forme of the archdukes oath in Antuerpe The oth of the magistrat of Antuerpe 1600 WachtendoÌ„ck in Gueldres taken by prince Maurice 1600 The souldiers of Carpen mutine Mutineisin the Spanish campe The garrisonâ—… in S. Andreweâ—… foâ—…t and in that of Creuecâ—…ur mutine 1600 The fort of Creuecoeuâ—… besieged and yeelded to the prince The prince builds many forts 1600 S. Andreweâ—… fort yeelded 1600 The articles of the accord 1600 Iohn Petit. The Estates force them of Groningue to pay their contribution They of Zeeland complain of their charge 1600 Henry prince of Orange made one of the counsell of Estate in the vnited prouinces Propositions made by the archdukes to the prouinces vnder their command 1600 The Estates de mand an exposition of the propositions 1600 The archdukes demand The Estates desire to know what the staâ—…e of the wars would be The death of the countesse oâ—… Moeurs 1600 Embassadors sent from the emperoâ—… to the Hage The Estates answer to the emperors embassadors 1600 1600 Emmeric yeelded by the Estates to the duke of Cleues The archduke refuseth to deliuer Rhineberck to the Elector of Cologne Briaute fights a combat is slaine treacherously 1600 The Estates resolution to make war in the countrey of Flanders The deputies of the â—…es go to assist the prince 1600 The fort of Philippine in Flanderâ—… ye elded to the prince 1600 Alberts fort before Oostend besieged and yeelded to the Estates 1600 Nieuport besieged 1600 Cont Ernest and Scottish men defeated Iohn Petit. 1600 The archdukes armie The order of the princes armie 1600 1600 The charge begins The archduke flies and the prince had his armes and his horse of combate 1600 The losse on the archdukes side The lâ—…sse on the princes side The dead men The prisoners The bootie 1600 The prince returneth again to besiege Nieuport 1600 The crueltie of the viceadmirall of Dunkerke 1600 The Estates shew the archdukes meanes how to make a peace with the vnited 1600 A gallant exploit done by the blacke galley 1600 A treatie betwixt the prouinces vnder the archduke and the vnited prouinces The contents of the Estates oâ—… Brussels letters to the vnited Estates Barneuelts answer to the general Estates The answer of the deputies of Brussels Barneuelts reply 1600 The Estates of Brussels answer The conference breaks vp at Berghen 32000 pounds â—…ing 1600 A taxe imposed vpon victuals 1600 The whole charge of the archdukes demands Demands and complaints made by them of Brabant 1600 The generall Estaâ—…es complain vnto the archdukes The archdukes answer to the general estates An order for the execution of the taxation A rate set downe by the archdukes 1600 Letters of com for t money sent out of Spaine to the archdukes * To our Estates 1601 The admirall set at libertie 1601 1601 The castle of Crapoll surprised 1601 The castle of Crâ—…cowe taken for prince Maurice An enterprise vpoÌ„ Flessingue 1601 Commissionâ—…rs beâ—…wixt the French 〈◊〉 and the archduke Mutinies among the archdukeâ—… soldiers 1601 An enterprise to sacke Antuerpe Adolph earle of Bergh taken prisoner and his troups deâ—…ated Rhiâ—…berck â—…siged 1601 The archduke resolues to besiege Oostend The description of Oostend 1601 Oostend walled fortified 1601 Sir Francis Veer sent to Oostend 1601 The estate of Berck Berck yeelded vpon honourable cearmes
estate and traine appointed him as if he had beene the Dukes owne Sonne In the yeare 1460. died the sayed French King Charles the seauenth called the Gentle The Duke of Bourgongne being aduertised thereof assembled all his Barrons and cheife Nobility to conduct Lewis Daulphine of France and to see him take possession as the eldest Sonne of the deceased King of the Realme and Crowne of France The King being crowned by the helpe of the Duke of Bourgongne being desirous to shewe himselfe thankefull for so great a seruice hauing as it were led him by the hand vnto the Crowne gaue him great thankes and to recompence him in some sort he gaue vnto the Earle of Charolois his Sonne certaine townes and castells in France with a yearly pension The King would haue make an exchange with the Duke of some townes but they could not agree so as many yeares after the King discouered a spleene and dislike which hee had conceiued against the Duke and that before hee had confirmed the donation made vnto the Earle of Charolois of the sayd townes and castells The Earle of Charolois besides his seigneuries of Bethune Chasteau-Bellain Archel Putten Streyen and the Country of Goyelandt receiued in the yeare 1461. by Adrian of Borselle his Atorney in that behalfe the possession of the moeity of the Seigneury towne and castell of Aspren by reason of a certaine murther committed by one William van Buren vpon Rutger of Boetselaer lord of the other moeity And in the yeare 1462. the sayd Earle was receiued lord of the towne of Henkelom being but a quarter of a league from Aspren by the forfeiture of Iohn of Henkelom and Otto his Sonne who in the ende did resigne it vnto him by agreement And so this signeury of Henkelom returned to that of Arckel from whence it issued at the first At that time there fell out great troubles in the Duke of Bourgongnes Court for the causes which followe Iohn lord of Croy had in his youth bred vp a poore boye in his house named Iohn of Koestein whome hee aduanced to be first an assistant and then a groome of the Dukes chamber who carried himselfe so loyally and vertuously as the duke esteemed him very much giuing him great meanes and hauing made him knight hee was his taster for his drinke By which aduancements both in goods and honours hee grewe so proude and arrogant as hee beganne to contemne others yea Barons so gracious hee was in the Duke his Maisters fauour as hee seemed to bee the onely man to mannage his most important affaiers At the same season Iohn of Croy and Iohn of Lanoy Gouernor of Holland conceiued a secret hatred against the Earle of Charolois the dukes Sonne their Prince for that hee had obtained of his Father the countrie of Arckel the which the Duke had giuen a little before vnto the sayd lord of Lanoy and the gouernment of Namur and Boulenois to the lord of Croy who had inioyed it manie yeares for which guifts the Earle had growne in hatred of these two Noblemen who notwithstanding did wholie gouerne and possesse the dukes person who by their means shewed his Son the Earle of Charolois no good coūtenance The Earle finding it left the duke his Fathers Court and retired himselfe into Holland hoping that this dislike would passe and die Some of the cheife Noblemen of Brabant and Flanders came vnto him and furnished him with all that hee had neede of These two Noblemen of Croy and Lanoy full of spight to see his traine so great and the cheife Noblemen runne after him consulted for the better maintenance of them selues how they might supplant and ruine the Earle the which they did impart vnto Iohn of Koestein who fearing likewise to bee disgraced and put from his Offices after the dukes death beeing also wholie bound vnto the lord of Croy for his aduancement gaue ◅are willingly vnto them and tooke the charge vpon him corrupting a poore younger brother a Bourguignon with the promise of a great sum of money and sending him into Piedmont to buy poison descouring vnto him to what ende it was This gentleman called Iohn d'Iuy hauing performed his voiage and brought this poyson to Koestein demanded that which he had promised him the which he not onely refused to pay him but also abused him with iniurious words ◅Iuy discontented at this answere complained to an other gentleman of Bourgongne called Arguenbant and discouered vnto him the whole secret This Arguenbant being wonderfully amazed aduised Iuy to goe speedily and discouer the whole truth of this matter vnto the Earle of Charolois saying that if he went not hee himselfe would goe and accuse him Iohn of Iuy without any farther stay went vnto the Earle and casting himselfe on his knees before him he beseeched him humbly to pardon him the offence which he would reueale vnto him and then layed open the whole truth of the matter The Earle being much amazed thereat went presently to the Duke his Father to descouer vnto him all that hee had heard of this villanous practise crauing iustice of the Author thereof naming Iohn of Koestein The duke hauing promised to do him iustice the Earle went vnto his lodging commanding Iohn of Iuy to goe vnto Rupelmond and to attend him there as he did The next day morning Iohn of Koestein beeing a hunting in the Parke at Brusselles the duke called him commanding him to go with the lords of Aussy and Creueceur to Ruppelmond to make answere to a gentleman that did greatly taxe his honour Koestein answered him proudly after his accustomed manner that hee feared no man liuing whervpon he pulled on his bootes and went to horse-backe with fiue seruants and so went to the lord of Aussy whome hee found on horse-backe with the lord of Creuecaeur with fifteene or sixteene Archers of the Dukes garde Being come to Ruppelmond soone after arriued Anthony bastard of Bourgongne the Bishoppe of Tournay with the lords of Croy and Goulx The Earle of Charolois came also and caused Koestein to bee put into a Tower of the which hee him-selfe kept the keyes so as no man might speake vnto him but in his presence These foure Noblemen made the processe of the sayd Koestein after that hee had beene confronted with Iohn of Iuy declaring him guilty and condemning him to loose his head and his bodie to bee cut in foure quarters Beeing brought to the place of execution which was vpon one of the highest Towers of the castell hee disired to speake with the Earle of Charolois who went vnto him and heard him long in secret which made them presume that hee accused some one namely the sayd lords of Croy and Lanoy the which the Earle dissembled Hee intreated that his bodie might not bee quartered the which beeing graunted him hee lost his head This done Iohn of Iuy was called of whome the Earle demaunded if Koestein had kept his