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A brief account of the royal matches or matrimonial alliances vvhich the kings of England have made from time to time since the year 800 to this present 1662 collected by a careful collation of history with records.
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Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
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Wing H3057; ESTC R41276
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A Brief ACCOUNT OF THE Royal Matches OR Matrimonial Alliances VVhich the Kings of England have made from time to time since the year 800. to this present 1662. Collected by a careful Collation of History with Records LONDON Printed by I. G. for H. Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane MDCLXII A Preamble THE Saxons having succeeded the Romans in the sway of this Country As they changed the name thereof from Britain to England so the Government also came to be altered and diffused to an Heptarchy or Septemvirat for there rul'd here seven Kings at once such as they were for the space of 400. years and more during which time as the Government was confus'd so the History is full of distraction and incertitudes there being scarce any Authentic Record to be found for asserting any thing In somuch that what is written of that Heptarchy is believed rather in courtesie or by an implicit Faith then otherwise But since Egbert King of the West Saxons came by his prowess and policy to be sole King of England which was above 800. years since the current of History runs more cleer and the Renown of the succeeding Kings rang lowder beyond the Seas which made forren Princes to seek Alliances and Confederations with us Therefore touching the present Design we will take our Rise from that time when England came to be a Monarchy and first of King Ethelwolph the Son of the foresaid Egbert Anno Dom. 837. KIng Ethelwolph the second English Monark having visited Pope Gregory the fourth at Rome and returning through France married The Lady Judith called in those dayes the Perl of Beuty daughter to Charles the Bald who was then Emperor and King of France King Edward the Outlaw as they call'd him married The Lady Agatha daughter to the Emperor Hen. 2. King Athelstans sister was married To Otho the Emperor The Lady Margaret daughter to King Edmund Ironside coming to be Queen Regnant was married To Malcolme the third King of Scotland Anno 1026. whence King James and his Progenitors are lineally descended King Canutus the first of the three Danish Kings which raigned here about 26. years married The Lady Emma sister to the Duke of Normandy and Guinhilda his daughter by her was married to the Emperor Hen. 3. King Edward the Confessor or St. Edward took a Wife at home as all the rest of the Saxon Kings did except the above-mentioned viz. The Lady Editha daughter to the Earl Godwyn We come now to the Norman and English Kings after the Conquest KIng William the first or the Conqueror married The Lady Maude Daughter to the Earl of Flanders King William the second called Rufus Had no wife but divers natural children among whom the Lord Bertran was most advanced King Henry the first married The Lady Matilda or Maude daughter to Malcolme King of Scotland by Margaret sister to Edgar Atheling whereby the Saxon or English Blood Royal was restored he had by her Maude the Empress but left 14. natural children besides viz. seven Sons and seven Daughters King Stephen married The Lady Matilda the late Duke of Bullens daughter but had no issue lived He left two natural Sons whereof the one was made Earl of Norfolk the other Abbot of Westminster King Henry the second Son of Maude the Empress by Ieffrey Plantaginet her second Husband married Elenor the divorced Wife of Lewis the seventh King of France by whom he had divers children and left besides some natural children by Rosamund King Richard the first married The Lady Berengania daughter to the King of Navarre King Iohn married three Wives two at home and one abroad viz. Alice daughter to the Earl of Morton and Avice daughter to the Earle of Gloucester and having no issue of neither he married Isabel Heiress to the Duke of Angoulesme in France of whom he had Hen. 3. who succeeded him and Richard who was Earl of Gloucester and crown'd King of the Romans King Henry the third married Elenor daughter to Raymond Earl of Province in France by whom was Edward the first the scourge of the Scots and Edmund Crouchback Duke of Lancaster who was the ground of the feud 'twixt the two Roses King Edward the first married two Wives the first was Eleanor daughter to Ferdinand K. of Spain by whom he had four Sons and nine Daughters His second Wife was Margaret eldest Daughter of Philip the Hardy King of France King Edward the second of Caernarvon the first install'd Prince of Wales married Isabel daughter of Philip le Bel king of France King Edward the third married Philippa daugher to the Earl of Henault by whom he had seven sons and five daughters the eldest was the Black Prince who married at home viz. the Lady Joan daughter to the Earl of Kent though twice a Widow he had two base Sons Sir Robert Clarendon and Sir John Sounder Richard the second married two Wives viz. The Lady Anne daughter to the Emperor Charles the fourth His second Wife was Isabel daughter to Charles the sixth King of France King Henry the fourth married two Wives the first at home viz. The Lady Mary daughter of Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford c. his second Wife was Joan Daughter to Charles King of Navarre King Henry the fifth married Yhe Lady Katharine daughter to Charles the sixth of France who being left a young Widow married Owen Tewdor of Wales who was Grandfather to Hen. 7. and thereby restored the British Royal Blood uniting it with the English King Henry the sixth was married to Margaret daughter to Reyner Earl of Anjou and King of Jerusalem Scicily and Aragon King Edward the fourth married Elizabeth Widow of Sir John Grey Richard the third married The Lady Anne daughter of Richard Nevil Earle of Warwick widow to Ed. Prince of Wales Son of Hen. 6. King Henry the seventh married The Lady Elizabeth daughter to Edw. the fourth Heir to the House of York who united the two Roses King Henry the eight had six Wives whereof three were Katharines two were Forreners the other four born within the Realm of which Wives he was divorced from two and two were beheaded His first Wife was Katharine daughter of Ferdinand King of Spain a most pious Lady from whom after 20. years cohabitation he got to be divorced The second Anne daughter of Sir Tho. Bullen Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond The third was Jane Seymor daughter to the Earl of Hartford The foursh was Anne of Cleve from whom he was divorced The fifth was Katharine widow to the Lord Latimer and daughter to Tho. Howard Duke of Norfolk beheaded and buried in the Tower with Anne of Bullen The sixt was Katharine Parr sister to the Marquess of Northampton Queen Mary was married To Philip the second King of Spain King Iames married The Lady Anne daughter to Frederick the third King of Denmark King Charls the First married The Lady Henrietta Maria youngest daughter to Henry the great of France which was the eighth Royal alliance that was 'twixt England and France King Charls the Second married The Lady Katherine sole daughter to Don John the fourth King of Portugal and sister to Don Alonso the sixth now Regnant THere was a Matrimonial Alliance once before 'twixt the Blood Royal of England and Portugal which was about Anno 1376. between Iohn the First King of Portugal and the Lady Philippa daughter to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster King Iohn had five Sons by her the two eldest with the Father were all three Knights of the Garter at one time the youngest Son was Henry who being a speculative studious Prince was much addicted to the Mathematicks and specially to the Art of Navigation which induced him to set forth some Ships for Discovery of new Countries and his Design succeeded so well that in the first voyage he discovered the Azores other Islands in the Atlantick Sea next the Coasts of Guâ—ney Cape Verd and so at last the passage by the Promontory or Cape of Good Hope to the East Indies which discoveries have proved so gainful and glorious to that Nation ever since By the former Alliance it may be said that Portugal married with England by this England hath married with Portugal And as the former was the fortunatest Alliance that Portugal ever made by their own confession to this day So may this prove to England may all the blessings of Heaven be poured down upon it according to the due and daily Devotions of all true-hearted Subjects and particularly of I. H. FINIS