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england_n	duke_n	king_n	lewis_n	2,621	5	10.5643	5	false

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A54672	The original and growth of the Spanish monarchy united with the House of Austria extracted from those chronicles, annals, registers, and genealogies that yeild [sic] any faithful representation how the houses of Castile, Aragon and Burgundy became knit and combin'd by Thomas Philipot ...	Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682.	1664 (1664)	Wing P1998; ESTC R2459	116,519	274

Dukes of Lorrain the indisputable Heirs of the House of Ardenne were engaged to a necessary absence by the Holy War But when and by whom it was a●orned with the Title of an Earldome certain it is that of an Earldome it was erected to a Dukedome by the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa Anno 1172. Henry one of the Dukes hereof Matched his Daughter Margaret to Godfrey the third Duke of Brabant which suggested to his Successors some specious Colour to pretend unto it supported with a Title of more Authority which came in to reinforce the former on the Decease of another Henry the last Duke of Limbourg whose next Heir Adolph conveyed it to John Duke who fortified his Claim and Title to it by a colourable Pretence and Right derived from the former Match Anno 1293. But Reynald Earl of Guelders being blown up with an over-weening Conceit that his Title was established and erected on a better Foundation than that of Adolph in Right of Ermingrade his Wife Daughter to Herman a late Duke thereof cast in his Challenge to this Dukedome and attempted to evict the Title by the power of the Sword but this was ruinous and destructive to him for being subdued and made Captive by the said Duke John in the Battel of Worancan he was forced to redeem his Liberty by no lesse a price or Ransome than his total Release to all Title or Claim that he or his Successors might pretend to the Dukedome of Limbourg after which it was so folded up in the Interest of the Dukes of Brabant that it came over with it to the House of Burgundy and from that again to own ever since the Dominion of the Spanish Monarchy Guelders Zutphen and Groning GUELDERLAND is shut in on the East with Cleve and the Earldome of Zutphen on the West with Holland and Utrecht on the North with Over Issell and the Zuyder-Sea and on the South with Brabant and the Land of Gulick The ancient Inhabitants of Guelderland were the Menapii and Sicambri People very eminent in ancient Record for their Magnanimity and Courage In Ages of a more modern Inscription these Sicambri mingled with the French and under that Name and notion were entitled to the spreading Empire of the West In the partage thereof by the Posterity of Charles the Great this Province was knit to the Kingdome of Austrasia or East-France and afterwards being broken off was united to the German Empire At the beginning of its Government the Publique Ast●i●s were swayed and weilded by some who enjoyed no other Title but Guardians and Protectors and were advanced to that Dignity by the People in the Raign of Charles the Bald the first who were embellished with this Title were Wickard and Leopold two Brethren who fixing their Chief Residence in the Castle of Guelders gave an occasion to future Ages to impose the Name of Gueld●rland on the whole Province but they and their Successors were supported by a Power of so narrow a circumscription that in effect their Office was but Provincial they themselves being accomptable to the Emperours how they managed the publique Concernments of this Province The first Prince who disengaged from the Shackles of these Restraints was Otho of Nassaw who Matched with Aleida Daughter to Wickard the last Guardian and was by the Emperour Henry the third made the first Earl of Guelderland and under this Style and Title his Successors continued until the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria improved this Dignity in the person of Reynold the second to the Degree of a Duke about the Year 1339. and from him did it descend to his Son Edward the Offspring of his second Wife Eleanor Daughter of Edward the third King of England and he deceasing without Issue Mary his Sister by Matching with William●arl ●arl of Gulick brought both the Patrimony and Ducal Crown of this Province to be possest b● him and his two Sons William and Reynold the fourth successively enjoyed it but they dying without Issue Arnold of Egmond Son of John Lord of Egmond and Mary his Wife Daughter of Joan the Sister of William and Raynold the two last Dukes as Heir General possest himself of Guelderland but in the declension of his Age being worried by his unnatural Son Adolph with War and Imprisonment he was in this agony supported by Charles the Warlike Duke of ●urgu●dy who rescued him from his Son and released him ●rom his Fetters and he to Ballance ●o signal a favour conveyed his Interest in Guelderland and Zutphen to this Duke which Contract was after much Contest and Effusion of Blood ratified to Charles the fifth by his second Son Arnold and accordingly the Provinces of Guelderland and Zutphen were by a voluntary Resignation surrendred to Charles the fifth and from him the Title devolved to his Son Phil●p the second King of Spain in whom it was lodged until the Barbarous Cruelty of the Duke of Alva engaged most of the Belgick Provinces to a Revolt or defection and the Prudential Conduct of Maurice Prince having much extended the Conquests of the Confederate States most of this Province was by his successful Atchievements annexed to their United Patrimony Zutphen ZUTPHEN was anciently an Earldom of it self without any Connexion or dependance on the Fortune or Seignory of Guelderland and remained in this Capacity until it devolved to be the Patrimony of Wickman the last Earl who determined in Sophia his sole Daughter and Heir who by Matching with Otho first Earl of Guelderland fastned it to that Province annd so it continued after this subservient to the Command of the Successive Earls and Dukes and when Arnold the last Duke of Guelderland conveyed all his Interest to Charles the fifth this was wrapped up in the Purchase and remained under the Dominion of the Scepter of Spain until the Defection of Holland and other Provinces from that Crown and then about the Year 1590. it was by Prince Maurice and the Army of the United States by Conquest torne from the Spanish Patrimony and hath ever since remained linked in Confederacy with those Combined Provinces Groining GROINING both City and Province did in elder Times confesse no other Seignory but of that of the Bishop of Utrecht but he either by want of Power of Inadvertency being remisse in Asserting their Liberties against Forraign Eruptions they submitted to the Protection of the Dukes of Guelderland But these Princes were disturbed in their new Acquists by the Dukes of Saxony who by a pretended Claim entitled themselves to the Propriety of it during which disorder and emotion it was surprized by Ezardus the Earl of East-Frizeland who about 1514. conveyed his Usurped Interest here to the Duke of Guelders the just Proprietary of it Afterwads they resigned themselves up with a Reservation of their ancient Liberties to Charles the fifth which being men●ced to be overwhelmed by the Fury of the Sp●niard they Combined 1594. with Holland in ●●ion and remain yet wrapped up in that Confederacy Holland Zealand and

was subservient still to those who had the Empire of the West But when the House of Charle●aigue degenerated and suffered the Imperial Diadem to be ravished from their Heads after the Year 900. an eager Dispute was managed by the Continuance of Fifty years betwixt the Italian and German Princes in relation to the Possession and Soveraignty of the Empire In Fine the Germans prevailed in the person of Otho the first and his Successors having designed and fixed their Seat of Power and Government in the Empire they afterwards were entangled in several Contentions with the Papacy which so much retrenche● and contracted their Authority that their Power in Italy began sensibly to crumble away and a considerable part of Lombardy slipt out of their Dominion and some Seignories chose to themselves Italian Lords and some elected Liberty and a Popular Government In these Confusions Milan and its Appendant Territory put it self under the Patronage and Protection of Otho its Arch-bishop Descended from the Viscounts of Angleria a place of a narrow Circuit in this Dutchy But after his Decease Matthew Brothers Son to this Arch-Bishop was confirmed in the Government of Milan by Albert Emperour of Germany but under no other Notion or Title than that narrow one onely of Commander for still it seems the Skeleton of Soveraignty was deposited in the Hands of the Emperours though those Nerves and Muscles which should make it act vigourously and move regularly were rent off and from him did the same Command devolve to his Son Galeazzo Visconti who because he exercised this Authority without the Approbation of Lewis of Bavaria the Emperour he was disseised of his Power and expulsed but his Son Actio Visconti was reinvested in that Command from which his Father had been dislodged by the same Lewis but after his Exit the same Command was successively Managed by his two Uncles Luchino and John Visconti younger Brothers to his F●ther Galeazzo and after their ●xtinction the Government of this State was dispensed and swayed by Galeazzo the second Son of Stephen who likewise was a younger Brother of these two but embellished with no other Title but that of Commander of Milan and here this Appellation expired with him and was entomb'd in his Urne for after his Decase John Galeazzo Visconti Son of Galeazzo the first above-mentioned coming to graspe the Command of this Province by the Benefaction and Munificence of the Emperour Wenceslaus about the Year 1395. as some compute or about the Year 1397. as others calculate received his Investiture into the State of Milan with the more splendid Title of Duke which was successively enjoyed by his two Sons John Maria who in a popular Sedition fell an early Oblation to the Disorder and Fury of the Vulgar and Philip Maria who likewise made his Exit without Issue so that the Right of Inheritance was lodged in Valentina their Sister and Heir who about the Year 1398. was Matched to Lewis Duke of Orleans Son to Charles the fifth King of France and by the Contract of Matrimony it was manifested and declared that upon Defailance of the Masculine Line of Galeazzo the Children of Valentina should be invested in the Succession of this Dutchy notwithstanding this Clause had this emient Defect that this Dutchy being established a Masculine Fee Galeazzo could not make it Feminine without the Emperours Grant or License which was not demanded or required because the Empire was then vacant by the Degradation of Wenceslaus whom the Electors had devested and deposed because of his dull and sluggish Administration of the Affairs of the Empire but it is asserted by the French that Pope Benedict the thirteenth who then held his See at Avignon ratified and approved the above-mentioned Contract for that Right the Popes challenge in the Vacancy of the Empire But this Succession falling in the Confusions of France under Charles the seventh when the two Sons of Valentina Charles Duke of Orleans and John Count of Ango●lesme were Captive in England where the first continued twenty five years and the last almost thirty It was a Design of not much difficulty for Francis Sforza a man of a vigorous Resolution and a deep speculation who had Wedded Bona Natural Daughter to Philip Maria the last Duke of Milan above-mentioned in that interval of Time and the Desolation of the House of Orleans to surprize and seize the Dutchy of Milan of which he had procured and obtained an Investiture of the Emperour Frederick the fourth But this did not so supersede the int●insique Right of the House of Orleans but Lewis the twelfth coming to be King of France about the Year 1498. so powerfully prosecuted his Right that he expulsed Lodowick Sforza who h●d by a cla●destine Assassination destroyed his two Nephews the Sons of his Brother Francis abovesaid entrusted to his Guardianship and Protection and violently ravished away the Possession of this Dutchy and having made him his Prisoner carried him into France where he dyed in Captivity in the Tower of Loches Lewis remaining thus Master of this Dutchy to secure his Claim and fortifie his Title he obtained two Investitures of the Emperour Maximilian the first in the Year 1506. and the second in the Year 1509. But this did not so support his Possession but that towards the latter end of his Government he was supplanted by Maximilian Sforza Son to Lodowick and the Concomitant Succours of the Suisse with the Consent of Maximilian the Emperour who was disgusted because Claude eldest Daughter to Lewis who had been promised to his Grandchild Charles was ●spoused to Francis afterwards King of France by the Name of Francis the first which Francis after Decease of Lewis being emp●l'd with the Diadem of France so Successfully vindicated his Claim and Title that he regained this Dutchy and rendered Maximilian his Prisoner but he either neglected o● the d●dained to do Homage to the ●mperour for a new Investiture which Contempt of his Charles the fifth who succeeded his Grandfather Maximilian re ented with so much Regret that his Animosity against Francis grew inveterate and implacable which blazed out in the Flame of a Publique War in which Francis was made Captive at the Battel of P●via and from thence transported and put under Restraint at Madrid and there remained until he purchased his Enfranchisement with a plenary Release and Surrender of his Right to this Dutchy into the Hands of Charles the fifth though the French affirm this could onely prejudice himself but not the Children of Claude his Queen who were entitled to a Right by Descent from their Mother and that this Concession of Madrid is null by the Fundamental Laws of France which will not permit the Alienation of the Soveraign Rights of the Crown without the Consent of the Estates General and they never ratified this Concession but the actual Possession of the Spaniard hath been more strong than these Pretences who have so secured their Interest in this Dutchy against