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A11934	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintener of the trew Christian religion in Fraunce, Iasper Colignie Shatilion, sometyme greate admirall of Fraunce. Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding; Gasparis Colinii Castilloni, magni quondam Franciae amerallii, vita. English.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, attributed name.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 22248; ESTC S117200	64,379	124

such periuries had alwayes bred mischief in the end and that God had in all ages bene a most seuere reuenger of such forswearings To the furtherance whereof he was compelled by the Kings commaundement to fall to practises of warre in his prouince against the peace against his owne promise Hereoutof sprong first priuie hartburning afterwarde an enterance to the open hatred that was betwixt them Also this was a furtherance thereof that wheras the King had graūted a combate betweene two Gentlemen in the borders of Picardie although the Duke of Guyse was then present yet the Shatilion thought it stoode him on hand so to deale as he himself might be chiefe vmper in the matter bycause the chalendge was to be performed in his prouince Moreouer another cause of the Guyses hatred is reported to be this that wheras in their youth they had ben linked together with singular familiaritie insomuch that to testifie their frendship with all they went appareled in like rayment the Duke of Guyse asked the Admiralls aduice how he liked of his brother the Duke of Aumalls intent in purpozing to marrie the Seneschall of Valentinoes dawghter who was highly in King Henries fauour and as highly diffamed among good men To whome the Admirall answered that he made more account of an ynch of good name then of neuer so greate riches which saying of the Admirals the Duke of Guyse and the Duke of Aumall tooke in greate displeazure as though it had bene spoken to barre the howse of Gvvyse from greater power preferment and preheminence Howbeit when the Kinge was aduertized that the Spaniards leuied men of warre in the frontiers of the Lovve countreis and that their forces assembled into one place he thought it moste for the safetie of Picardie to send the Admirall thither out of hand with an armye whome we haue shewed alreadye to haue btn the Lieuetēnant of that Countrie He had scarsly marched two dayes iourney but he was certified by his espialls that the Spanyards were minded to beseege S. Quintines a towne of Picardie not vnrenowmed and to batter it out of hand with greate store of dubble Canons Therwithall he had worde sent him by Brullio the Captaine of the Castle of Ham that as soone as the townesmen had tydings therof ther rose such a feare throughout all the Citie that many housholders left their wiues children and all other things behind them and tooke them to flight When the Admirall hearde that yet he thought it meete to conceale it among his men of warre and pretending greate lustinesse of corage marched on in great iourneys towards S. Quintines When Iernacke and Lusarche whome the Admirall had made Lieuetennāt of the men at armes disswaded him from it with many wordes declaringe vnto him that the towne was nether well fortified nor well vitteled and moreouer that the townesmen were striken in feare a greate power of the enemies would be come thither before any thinge coulde be prouided for the defence of the towne therfore it was more for their commoditie praise to maintaine the warres in the open field than to studye howe to saue them selues cooped vp within walls the Admirall beinge no whit moued with those words of theirs continued in his purpozed exployt declaring to them of how great importance that towne was both to the puttinge backe of the Spanish force from the destruction of his countrey to the safetie of his prouince how greate occasion of speache he should giue to spiteful and malicious persones if he shoulde alter his purpoze The next daye worde was brought him that the most part of the sowldiers which were appoynted to him by the Kinges commaundement for the defence of the towne and whome he had sent one night afore him to cheere vp the harts of the townesmen had hid them selues in the next woods for feare and were slipt euery man home too his owne howse by bywayes That day therefore there folowed him no mo but a hūdred twentie whom six score mo followed the next day Wherof the enemyes hauing intelligēce by their skowts came too the towne in haste diuiding their woorks began too make a trenche abowt it When they had taken certein little cotages in the suburbes and drew neere too the dyches with their wynding trenches the Admirall making a salye owt vppon them commaunded faggots and fyrebronds too bee thrust intoo those howses and set them on fyre wherby he draue the enemie further of The next day when he had vewed all partes of the towne and found no bulwarkes no rampyres no towers of defence he begā too distrust the towne and too bee afrayd of long seege Neuerthelesse forasmuch as the cace stoode so with him that he was driuen either too defend the towne and too stoppe the rage of the enemies from the destroying of his countrie or else too dye manfully in the quarell looke what was possible for him too deuyze and bring too passe by care trauel and watching he did it not ouerslipping anie thing in making of fortifications in cutting of trenches and in rayzing vp rampyres euerywhere And too the intent too giue example of peynfulnesse and trauell too the townesmen and too his sowldyers and too the Gentlemen that came with him he was the first man that did set hand too the woorks and neuer departed from them til they were ended Whyle he was in this perplexitie soodeinly vnlooked for newes was brought him that Mounsyre d'Andelot his brother of whom mētion is made afore was comme intoo the towne and had browght about .500 sowldyers with him Besydes this the King being aduertized from him intoo how greate perill the Towne seemed too bee browght commaunded the Constable too hye him thither with certein Gwidons of horsmen too carry in vittells with him and too fortifye the towne with a greater garrison But the Spanyards cōpassing him with a greater companie of Launceknyghts with a great power of footemen ouercame him in battel and tooke him prizoner and hauing made a greate spoyle of his men draue the rest backe agein further intoo Fraunce Uppon the report of which newes in the towne such a feare strake into the harts of al mē that the Admirall could scarce doo any good with his incoragements Being moued with sorrowe herat greeued with so greate perill of his countrie he called his people toogither and told them that more regard was too bee had of their countrie then of life and thervppon he tooke an othe of them all as well the townesmen as his souldyers that it should bee death for any of them too make mention of yeelding and that it should bee lawfull for euery man too kill such a one vnpunished He himself tooke the othe first of all The Spanyards being puffed vp with so greate a victorie returned too the seege of the towne neuer left beating of it with greate ordinance by the space of .20 dayes toogither and moreouer made wynding trenches

afore by Pope Clement the seuenth who thought the noblenesse of that howse fit for the stablishment of his owne estate in Fraunce and rewarded with very great and riche benefices by the king By meanes wherof the second sonne whose name was Iasper as I said afore obteined the prerogatiue that was dew too the eldest sonne This Iasper was borne the yeere of our Lord 1517. the .xvj. day of Februarie whom for the woonderfull towardnesse of vertew and witte which he shewed being yet a chyld his moother after the decease of his father cawsed too bee brought vp in lerning from his tender yeeres putting him too schoole to Master Nicolas Berald who bare the cheef fame for lerning in those dayes through all Fraunce cawsing him moreouer too bee trayned vp in feates of armes by the skllfullest teachers and maysters of Chiualrie that shee could get Iasper being trayned vp in such instructions when he came to the .xxiiii. yeere of his age shewed woonderfull forewardnesse in the seege of Bains beseeged by King Frauncissis eldest sonne comonly called the Dolphin Bellay in the tenth booke of his Historie reporteth that about the yeere of our Lord 1543 he was striken in the throte by his enemies with a pellet of lead as he aduentured too neere the diche The same yeere when woord was browght too the King that the state of his affaires in Piemoūt was such as it was lyke that they should come too a pitched feeld with their enemies he craued leaue of him and ryding thither in poste gaue greate proofe of his prowesse in that battell which is comonly called the battell of Cerisoles as the same Bellay recordeth in the sayd tenth booke of his commentaries By reason wherof within feawe yeeres after Henrye the sonne of King Frauncis did put him in cheef authoritie For whē Annas Memorancie the Uncle of Iasper was General of the men of armes he gaue this man the charge of the Frenche footemen which office is in the comon language called the Colonell of the footemen He behaued himself in such wyze in that roome as he purchaced himself great commendacion for his Iustice Ualeantnesse and wisdome within feawe moonethes after and got the good willes of all the people of Fraunce For wheras erst it was growen intoo a moste wicked custome that the souldyers myght ronne gadding euery where vnder their antsignes and make hauocke and spoyle of all things Iasper tyed them too streyter orders of warlyke disciplyne therby too restreyne their ouer-licentiowse dealings and specially too represse the libertie of their cursed swearing and blasphemie wherthrough the seede of trew godlinesse and religion appeered alreedie in his hart And forasmuch as those lawes or orders were verye wel lyked of all good men shortly after they were proclaymed by the Kings commaundement and in his name and inrolled in the booke of the Kings lawes About the same time the same King aduaunced him too the honour which is now vtterly imbaced but at that tyme was counted a roome of greate estimation namely too bee one of the Knyghtes of the order At the same season there fell a grudge betweene Henrye King of Fraunce and Henrye King of England for the Towne of Bullen Therfore when the King of Fraunce distrusted the Inglishmen he betoke the ordering of that Countrie and almoste of the whole matter to the Shatilion Uppon the receyt of which commission he went immediatly intoo Picardie whither King Henrye had sent his hoste too beseege the Towne and by singular pollicie bwilded a forte neere the Towne which myght bee bothe a defence too the Frenchmen and a greate let too keepe the townesmen from issewing owt That forte is yet still called the Shatilion of the bwilders name and it was a greate furtherance too the winning of the Towne Therfore it was not long after ere the Inglishmen began too treate of composition the commission of the making wherof was committed wholly to the Shatilion and too his vncle Mounsyre de Rochepote When he had dispatched these matters he returned too the Court and within feawe yeeres after was made Lord Admirall of Fraunce which is counted the cheefest dignitie within the Realme bycause he hathe the cheef rule of the Sea that beateth vppon Fraunce and the charge of the Kings Nauie and of all his seamen and seamatters Also the King made him his Lieuetennant of two shyres that is too wit of Picardie and of the I le of Fraunce inhonoring him furthermore with the Capteinship of the men of armes and making him one of the Lordes of his priuie counsell The next yeere following which was the .1554 the Emperor of Germanie Charles the fifth Marie Queene of England ioyning their forces togither made sore and sharp warre vppon Henrye King of Fraunce The Shatilion was chozen by the consent of all good men as the onely man that was able to resiste so greate enemyes by his prowesse and pollicie Therefore the ordering of that moste sharp and terrible warre which concerned Picardie moste of all was committed by the Kinge to the Admirall that he shoulde rayze a power and gouerne the marches of the Lovvecountrie Through the līking together of the forces of so mightie enemies and the opinion that was had of the Emperour Charles who was renowmed ouer all the world the whole realme of Fraunce was striken in greate feare bycause the King was vtterly vnprouided both of money and of other things needeful for the mayntenāce of warre and no man dowted but that Fraunce was likely to goe presently to wrecke consideringe the greate distresse of all thinges Whereof when the Admirall had both aduertised the King and communicated it to his freendes he thought it best to salue the matter with somme truce The King and his Counsell lyking well of this his deuyse committed the handling of the matter to him and he within fewe dayes brought it to passe to the incredible ioye and gladnesse of all the Realme and to his owne singular prayse for preseruing of his countrey bicause the condicions of the truce were both honorable and very profitable to the Realme About the same time the Guyses of the howse of Lorrein which made their vaunt that the kingedome of Sicilie and Naples belonged to them of right and that it was wrongefully wrested from them by the Spaniardes made the King beleue that nowe of late yeares they had wonne the heartes of the moste part of the nobilitie of Naples partly by liberalitie partly by fayre promises and that by their meanes the King should haue easy enterance into the Realme so that if he would graunt them a part of his power it would come to passe that those kingdomes shoulde in short time be brought vnder his Dominion without any greate truble Thus through counsell of the Guyses the truce that was sworne a fewe monethes before was broken to the greate dishonour of the frenche nacion which falsehod the Admirall tooke greeuously and sore to harte oftentimes protestinge that

as shee could with all speede and went too Rochell carying hir sonne Henry with hir to whom the inheritāce of the kingdome of Nauarre descended after hir death and one dawghter When the foresaid matters were set at a stay as is sayd alredy the Admiral toke certein peeces of ordinance out of Rochell and went to beseege the towne of Niort within feawe dayes after tooke it by composition From thence he led his armie too Angolesme This towne stādeth vpon a hygh hill cut steepe on all sides sauing one into the which Towne the aduersaries had conueyed a greate Garrison a feawe dayes since The Admirall cawsed his batterie too bee layd too that side of the Towne where it myght bee cumne vntoo and when he had assailed it certeine dayes it was yeelded vntoo him by the townesmen Anon after there was a battell fowght at Iaseneul betweene the vawardes of bothe the parties The Captein of our vaward was the Admirall who brake in vppon his enemies with such violence that they being vnable too abyde the brunt sowght too saue themselues by flyght and drewe towardes Lusignian leauing all their caryages behynde them The pray that was taken was esteemed almoste at fiftie thowsande Crownes The next day a letter of one of the Clerkes of the Counsell named Fizie wrytten too the Queene Moother was intercepted wherin he bewayled that losse adding also that since man was first made neuer anie sonne of Fraūce it is a vulgar phraze among the Frenchmen was in so great hazard of his lyfe as he had bin Not long after the Admirall going too Iarnacke a Towne neere by was driuen too fight whither he woold or no and he was euen at the verye poynte too comme intoo his ennemyes handes For his aduersaries spyes vnderstanding that he pourpozed too passe the Riuer that ronneth by the Towne which is not verye brode vppon a bridge of Boates ambushed them selues secretly on the other side of the Riuer and assoone as they perceyued the Admirall too bee there by and by the Hargabuts began too discharge at him and other some indeuered too get ouer the bridge by force As God woold there was one Hargabutter that stopped their brunte with his often shoting of of his peece but yit was he strikē through with a nomber of shot and fell downe dead Abowt twelue other being stirred vp with his noyze succeeded in his roome The Admirall himself stepping too the banke with his naked swoord for he had no leyzure too put on his corslet did cutte asunder the ropes wherwith the boates were fastened during the which tyme his aduersaries which hild the further side of the Riuer neuer left shooting at him which thing cawsed him too haue a gard abowt him from that day foorth for the defence of his persone against such suddein chaunces A twoo dayes after when the aduersaries had passed ouer the riuer of Sharent the Prince of Condey for feare of being inclozed by them althowgh he had lately hyred thre thowsand swart Rutters and had more ouer six thowsand Swissers whom he had interteyned from the beginning of the warres yit notwithstanding being a man of a noble and stowte stomacke in battell he determined too stop them of their passage howbeeit not too fight in pitched battell In the meane whyle woord came too the Admirall that his men which had taken the Towne next their enemies the day before were beset browght too vtter perill but yit stood manfully still too their defence The Admiral minding not to abandon them gathered certein horsmen quickly togither marched to them apace Whom when the enemies knew they suddeinly cast themselues in a ringe and beset him rownd abowt with greate force Wherof the Prince of Condey being certified and being much redyer in corage then fortified with strength brake into the middleward of his enemies and there being oppressed with multitude had his horse striken throwgh so that he was ouerthrowen slayne The Admirall being soore greeued with the greate losse and distrusting what might insew to the whole retyred with his brother the Andelot intoo the towne of S. Iohn d'Angeli And wheras the foyle that he had receyued in the bodie of the Prince of Condey he could haue reuenged vppon the bodies of dyuers his enemies that were of greatest power and nobilitie and haue requyted their dishonorable dealing with like for like yit determined he to hold himself within the bownds of nature and manhod and to giue the dead their dewes and in that mind did he continue as long as the warre lasted As I told you before Ioane Queene of Nauarre was the same time at Rochell who hearing of the greate losse that was receyued went with all haste intoo the Campe where hauing comforted the cheef of the whole host and incoraged the sowldiers too be myndful of their auncient prowesse shee told them that shee gaue and deliuered vntoo them hir only sonne Henry too whom the kingdome of Nauarre should descend after hir dicease to bee their Generall protesting openly that the life of hir only sonne was not deerer vnto hir then the welfare of the whole armie Henry Prince of Condey the sonne of the foresayd Levvis late deceased was ioyned with him in societie of the honorable charge Neuerthelesse the Lords and all the Capteines and vnder capteines betooke the charge of the warres and the ordering of all martiall affaires to the Admirall with one consent as to him that was knowen to be of greatest credit and authority among the protestants For besids his singular skil in martiall affaires and besids his iustice his stayednes it was wel knowen to all men that he was the first of all the nobilitie of the Realme which imbraced the trew religion and professed it openly which reformed the order of his howse according to the order of religion which durst breake with King Frauncis the second who was hild intangled with the alyance of the howse of Gvvyse concerning the demaunds of the Churches put vp supplications in their names to the Kings counsell which gaue example of godlines to the french nobilitie whom al men knew to haue bin most horribly infected with euill manners by reason of that wicked custome of the Kings court And it is further knowen that after he had once imbraced the religion he neuer gaue any cause of offence to the reformed Churches and that wheras men resorted vnto him on all sids in the name of those Churches he alwayes gaue them the wyzest counsell and tooke weapon in hand not to rebell ageinst the King as sum reported of him but at the request and intreatance of the Queene mother which thing neuerthelesse he did not vppon his owne head or to satisfie the Queenes mind but bycawse the King was not yit full twelue yeeres old he grownded himself vppon the authority of the generall counsell holden at Orleance as is sayd afore and also vppon the Kings edict that was wrotten and proclaymed at Paris