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B07424	The great Plantagenet. Or, A continued succession of that royall name, from Henry the Second, to our sacred soverainge King Charles. By Geo. Buck, Gent..	Buck, George, fl. 1623-1646.; Buck, George, Sir, d. 1623. Daphnis polystephanos.	1635 (1635)	STC 3997; ESTC S106071	21,009	66

continually seized thereof untill this day * His Maiesties Title to France see it more at large in the Argument So likewise his title to the crowne of France sheweth it selfe cleerely in the ancient possessions of these royall Plantagenets here presented His Majesties Progenitors first Dukes of Normandy then of Aquitaine Earles of Poictou of Aniou of Maine of Touraine and of Britaine and after Angolesme and lastly Kings of all France in the right of † Vide Iohn Froissard Tom. 3. Isabell or Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heire of Philip le bell King of France Mother of King Edward the third who made a most renowned and happy entry upon that his Royall inheritance And he his great Heires were not onely Titular Lords but also Actuall possessors of France many yeares and yet to this day in token of that ancient right have seisin of a * Gersey Gernesey Alderney c. are parcels of Normandy so consequently of France yet possessed by the King of England part of that Kingdome notwithstanding that counterfeit-heathnish law Salica maintained by al the power of France many ages against them His Majesties title and descent from the ancient Kings of Great Britaine and which is least knowne may thus readily be derived * His Majesties Title frō the British Kings The Welch Bardes as also our best Heralds Record that 1 Ruffin Rhese-ap-Gruffith surnamed Argluid Prince of South-Wales about the yeare of our Lord 1196 and issued from Cadwallader the last British King had a Daughter named 2 Faire Iulian Gwenlhiam married to 3 Edmund Edneuet Vachan Lord of Bransencle and chiefe Justice of Wales and bare to him a sonne called 4 Gerion or Jeronim Grono this Grono had 5 Theodore Tedor Tedor had Grono Grono had Tedor Tedor had 6 Veridik Meredith Meredith had Owen which Owen married Katherine Widdow of King Henry 5 and Daughter of the French King Charles the sixt by whom he had Edmond created Earle of Richmont by King Hen. 6. his Brother Vterine And this Edmond was father of King Hen. 7 who was Father of Queene Margaret his Majesties great Grandmother And lastly to finish his Majesties Titles to all those Diadems mentioned in this Poësie His Majesties title from the Saxon Kings I have inserted a Genealogie of the Saxon Kings drawne from the first uniter of the Heptarchy and the Godfather of Anglia King Egbert unto Matilda the Empresse Daughter and Heire of King Hen. 2. Ancestour of all the English Kings untill this day from whom this Poësie is a continued Pedegree unto his Majesty and his most excellent Sonne c. But it may be objected why I derive not his Title and Genealogie from some of the ancient Monarchs of this Isle Britons or Saxons or at the least from K. William the Conqueror I must answere that to have chosen any of the most ancient Kings I must have looked so farre backe as I should not onely have beene too tedious but also lost my selfe in obscure wayes as they know which know what our ancient Stories bee But as for William the Conquerour there bee many reasons why I should not begin with him although I goe as neare him as his Sonnes Daughter for first he was a Bastard Vide Lib. 5. Stephani Cadomensis de Gulielmo Conquestore editum An. Dom. 1603. and yet not that of the blood Royall of England his chiefe Title to the Crowne being but violence and his Sword as he confessed with remorse of conscience at his Death Secondly he was never possessed of one halfe of Britaine for hee had neither Scotland nor Wales and in Ireland not one foote Furthermore Girard Du. Haillan and other French Antiquaries according to their Salike Heraldry say that his line ended in his Sonne King Hen. 1. Philosalicus for all they hold as a Maxime La famille se cotinuè es masles et se finist aux filles and yet Du. Haillan notwithstanding or forgetting this affirmeth in another place that the race of the Kings of England issued out of the house of Aniow viz. from our great Henry and his ancestours continueth untill this day from whom there be many reasons on the other side why I should deduce the Genealogies of our Kings passed K. Henry 2. the greatest King c. and of our present Soveraigne Lord King Charles for this great Henry was not onely rightfull Heire and King of England but also the greatest King of whom there is any credible Story extant which hath beene in this Isle of Britaine since the time of the Roman Emperours who were reputed Lords of all the World which thus I demonstrate briefly He was King of England in the right of his Mother Matilda King Malcolm Knighted this King Henry 2. at 15. yeares of age Neubrig who writeth much in the honour of this K. Malcolm lib. 2. Cap. 20. the Empresse Daughter and Heire to King Henry the first by Matilda Bona Daughter of King Malcolm Canmoir and of Margaret his wife who was the Daughter of Edward Exul the Saxon Prince the Sonne of Edmund Ironside King of England Anno Dom. 1016. This Edmund was Sonne and Heire to King Etheldred who in ancient Charters is written Totius Britanniae Rex quod nota because an Anonymus in a little booke dedicated to King Iames affirmeth that never any Prince was King of this whole Isle untill then but hee is deceived for besides Constantius Chlorus and his Sonne our Country-man Constantine the great Constans Aurelius Ambrosius Vter and others which were Lords of all great Britaine Edgar also the Father of this King Etheldred was absolute Monarch of this Island and so puissant in forces both by Land and Sea as he was surnamed the Great and was styled Totius Albionis Basileus Anglici Orbis Basileus as G. Malmsburiensis Florentius Wigorniensis witnesse Britaria ab adventu Saxonum in insulam appellatur Anglica Ioan. Salisb. in Policratico Whereupon to note also by the way some thinke that the word Anglia was sometimes used for the whole Isle and which Ion Lidgate disertly assevereth in King Arthurs complaint in these words Great Britaine now called England and so likewise doth Geoffry Chaucer in the Franklins tale viz. Ranulfus Higeden in Polichronic in England that Clepid was Britaine and Ranulphus Cestrensis a graver Authour peremptorily affirmeth that King Egbert after his Conquests ordayned and commanded that the Saxons and Iutes should be called Angles and this Britaine should be called England but I leave this to be discussed by Antiquaries And to returne to the ancient Saxon Kings Progenitors of this Henry and also possessors of the whole Isle it is to be shewed for the better confirmation of that which hath beene said against the opinion of the Anonymus in diuers ancient Records and Charters of Donations of these Kings to Monasteries and to Cathedrall Churches Ex archiv is Ciscestrensis

Ecclesiae and in other ancient Monuments in these styles * Ephoca Ego Athelstanus Rex Anglorum Dominicae Incarnationis DCCCCXXX Regni verò mihi gratis Commissi vj. Indictione iij. * Ephoca Epacta xviij Concurrente iiij Nonis Mensis Aprilis iij. Lunae rotigerae vagationis i. per ejusdem omni-patrantis dextram totius Britanniae regium solio sublimatus c. Ego Edmundus Rex Anglorum caeterarumquègentium in circuitu persistentium Gubernator Rector Anno Domini 945. Ego Edredus King Edred was Uncle to Edgar Ingulf Rex terrenus sub Imperiali potentia Regis saeculorum aeterniquè Principis magnae Britaniae temporale gerens imperium c. Anno Domini 148. Ego Edgarus totius Albionis Monarcha c. An. Dom. 966. and in another Ego Edgarus totius Albionis finiti-morumque regnum Basileus An. Domini 974. These three last styles hath Ingulfus Abbot of Croyland transcribed by him from the Charters of the Monastery and the other two before going are copied out of the Records of Chichester Cathedrall Church as also these three next following Ego Eadwis Basileon totius Albionis If 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sub Rex This Edwis or Edwin was eldest Brother to the great K. Eadger Asser in Histo de Gestis Ealfridi c. Anno Domini Dcccc. Lvj. Imperij antem i. And in another place Ego Edwin Rex gentium Albionis c. And in the date of a Charter of Bishop Brighthelmus Anno secundo imperij Edwin totius Albionis Insulae imperantis there is also in Asser Meneuensis Aelured or Aelfred a more ancient Saxon King then these written Omnium Britanium Insulae Christianorum Rector An. Dom. 872. And Edward surnamed Pius and Confessor was from the yeare of our Lord 1050. King of this whole Ile if there be any credit to be given to our Stories was styled Rex Albionis Io. Twinus in Albionicis as Iohn Twin avoweth out of his Charters given to the Abby of Abington and that same King Etheldred before cited was styled in the Charters of Glastonbury Etheldred Anglicae nationis caeterarumque gentium triniatim intra ambitum Britan. Insulae degentium c. Basileus and another King in old inscription Britinniae Anax and many such more which were too long to recite And some Kings of the Norman race which is more rare have beene so styled For the Lord Bishop of Bristow voucheth a Coine of King Iohn wherein is stamped Ioannes In his Treatise about the Union Rex Britonum But his Grand-child K. Edward 1. and after him K. Edw. 3 Vide Th. Walsingham in K. Edw. 1. in Ed. 3. were greater Monarchs here then he But this great Henry Plantagenets Empire extended beyond the bounds of the Britanish world and his greatnesse so farre exceeded all other Kings his Ancestours that hee was styled Maximus Britaniae Regum as I will shew by and by and by good right Jo. Praesul Carnotensis in Policratico for besides this his great Britaine and Ireland he was possessed of a great part of France by these Titles Hee was Duke of Normandy by right of Inheritance from his Grandfather King Henry 1 K. Edw. 3. erected Aquitaine into a Princedome for his eldest sonne Ed. Duke of Normandy c. He was Duke of Aquitain that is Gascoine and Guien sometimes a iKngdome and Earle of Poictou by the marriage of Queene Elinor Daughter and Heire of William Duke of Aquitaine Jean de la Hay and Earle of Poictou whose wife Ieanne was daughter of David King of Scots He was Earle of Aniou Seminary of Kings of Touraine and Maine his native Countrey by right of inheritance from his Father Geoffry le Bel Earle of them all He swayed in little Britaine which authority he acquired partly by the Marriage of Const daughter and heire of Conan Earle of Brita with his third sonne Geoffry Earle of Richmond but chiefly by his Sword as it appeareth by Gu. Lib. 11. Cap. 18. Neuburgensis who then lived and thus writeth Cum a potentioribus in Britania inferiores premerentur Regis Anglorum auxilium expetentes ejus se ditioni spontanè subdiderunt c. ipsosque potentes viribus subegit sicque in brevi tot a Britania potitus est He also conquered Auuergne For Ireland he twice invaded that kingdome and by Armes seconded with Letters of favour of his good Friend Pope Adrian an Englishman hee brought the discording Princes there Girald Cambr. in Hibern expugnata G. Canden to submit their differences and their Titles to him and so obtained the possession of the Isle As for those parts and parties in this our Great Britaine viz. of England Scotland and Wales which did not acknowledge his Soveraignty he reduced them in good time to the ancient subjection and obedience which they owed to the British and Saxon Kings his Progenitors The Welch-men in their Stories acknowledge this but for the other if any doubt be made G. Neuburgensis veridicus Autor as Polidore Virgill observeth him will thus satisfie him speaking of this King Henry and of David K. of Scots his prisoner being then both at Yorke Occurrit ei Rex Scotorum cum universis Regni nobilibus qui omnes in Ecclesia beatissimi Apostolorum Principis Regi Angliae tanquam principall Domino hominum cum Ligeantia id est solemni cautione standi cum eo pro eo contra omnes homines Rege proprio praecipiente fecerunt ipse quoquè Rex Scotorum coram universa multitudine nobilium utriusquè regni Regem Anglorem modis solemnibus Dominum suum seque hominem fidelem eius declaravit eiquè tria praecipua regni sui munimina scilicèt Rokesburke Berwick Castellum puellarum loco obsidum tradidit c. But Iohn Bishop of Chartres maketh his Empire yet much greater Jo Bish Carnotensis in Policratico for he boundeth it to the Southward with Spaine and to the Northward with the Isle of Orkney and might as well if it had pleased him with the North-Pole as Giraldus Cambrensis did and then styleth him maximum Britaniae Regum and goeth further and compareth him to Alexander and ascribeth as some interpret the first discovery of the West-Indies which was made by Madok a younger sonne of Owin Gwineth D. Powell Prince of North-Wales An. Dom. 1170. to this King because it was done by his auspices as we may as well also attribute to him the redeeming of our great Arthur from the injurious imputation of a fabulous Heros because he caused his Monument to be sought out which was sunke deepe into the ground in the Isle of Aualon by the occasion of a Bardes song D. Powell in the Hist of the Princes of Wales which he heard in Pembrooke but I will set downe Gyraldus his owne words written in manner of a Panegyrick to this King elegant enough for those times Sil. Giraldus in Tepographia