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B11843	The tragedies of tyrantes Exercised vpon the church of God, from the birth of Christ vnto this present yeere. 1572. Containing the causes of them, and the iust vengeance of God vpon the authours. Also some notable comfortes and exhortations to pacience. Written by Henrie Bullinger, and now Englished.; Von der schweren, langwirigen Verfolgung der heiligen Christlichen Kirchen. English	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.	1575 (1575)	STC 4078; ESTC S106917	68,333	200

that is to saye chiefe Princes and Capitaines in battaile The Sarracens haue made irruptions into Italy Spaine France spoiling all y euer they could wasting burning bearing away innumerable spoiles But how miserably y Church of christ was torne in péeces how much christian blood shed in so many prouinces duringe the space of so many yéeres it is impossible to set foorth in woordes For at length y Sarracens were driuen out of Spayne by Ferdinande y great the yere of Christ 1487 out of Affrica they were expulsed the yéere of Christe 1517. but the Turkes succéeded in their place for Selimus emperour of y turks slew and draue y Sara out of Affri Hervnto also apperteineth that miserable slaughter wherin there was an vnspeakable déele of blood sheden which is commonly called the Holly warre wherin the Christians went about to recouer Ierusalem and the holly sepulcher of the Lorde out of the Sarracens and Machometans handes whereby they brought none other thinge to pas but béeinge not able to obtaine the sepulcher they hastned thēselues to their owne graues and destructiō through their vnfortunate warre brought the miserable Christians of the East into hatred great daunger and persecution so y welnigh they lost all y was remaininge But to the intent that this great gréeuous longe and cruell persecution which the Sarracens haue exercised against the Christians may bée the better knowen I mean to declare y who le discourse of the warre In the yéere of Christe 1. 84. there came out of the East a certen Anchor whom historiographers do call Peter the Heremite The same filled the eares of princes and men of all other sortes declaring vnto them the miserable state of the Christians in the East whom y Machometan Sarracens oppressed with wofull tyranie and verie mutch molested wherfore that it was right néedfull for the Christians in the west to haue some care ouer them and gatheringe an armie both to ouercome the Sarracens and release the Christians Shortly after vrban y ii being Pope and schollar to Gregory the seuenth called togither a counsel at Claromōt in France wherin it was decréed that the christians with all their power should make warre vppon the Sarracens take Ierusalem and the holy Sepulcher and so delyuer the Christians from their tyrrannye This counsell was pernicyous and hurtfull to the Christian commonwealth and had the very same end with the counsel which is described in the firste booke of Kinges the last Chapter For al things were vnfortunate and the Christians were not only not released from the tirannie but most part of them slayne afterward oppressed and afflicted more gréeuously then before And albeit many holy and good men vpon a vertuous zeale yéelded themselues and consented to the warre yet lacked it the foundation of Gods worde whiche shoulde haue commaunded them to take Ierusalem and the holy Sepulcher from the Sarracens and to take in hande so great and dangerous a warre For although they atchiued sundri noble aduentures and possessed manye places yet was there no constant Fortune as to holde that which they had takē or to establish peace for the oppressed christians The byshops also in their counsells touching this warre gaue but euell counsell vnto Princes and many other godly christians as they haue done also in manye other matters Other deceits and troubles which wer annexed hereto for breuytie sake I omit at this present The Claromont counsell was holden the yéere of Christ 1095. After the Claromont counsel immediatly began Peter y heremits war who ledyng foorth with hym certen thousandes which voluntarely offred themselues in this expedition marched through Hūgary into Asia but atchiued ther no noble exploit worthy of memorye And this was the first vnluckie iourney Shortly after two rashe and troublesome priestes whom Historicians call Volcomar and Goddeschar hauynge gathered an vnfit multitude of the common people began the second expeditiō into Asia But when they were come into Hungarie spoylyng althynge rebyng and vsing themselues disordinatly so y the Hungariās iudged them worse then they vnbeléeuyng Sarracens they gathered an army and slew those lewde pilfring varlets In the yere of Christ 1096. Godfree and Baldwine of the famile of Bullein Dukes of Lorraine tooke in hande the. 3. expeditiō into Asia These gathering an army of a hundred thousande horsemen three hundred thousand footemen tooke many cities of Asia and Ierusalem also Vrspurgenfies reporteth that ther was so much blood shed there that in the very temple the bloude was aboue the hooues of the Horses The yéere of Christ 1119. the citie of Ierusalem was taken by the Christians and made head of the newe kingdome of Christians in the Easte wherof duke Godfree was created king The same reigned one yéere after whō succéeded seauen Kinges in order which reigned in all about one hundred yéere in the yéere of Christe 1189. all things were lost agayne which they had taken After that tidings were come out of the East how Ierusalem was taken and a new kingdome established many were pricked forward to take their iourneie thyther hoping for ritches kingdomes Wherfore in the yéere of Christe 1101. William duke of Poicters w t. 100000. men tooke in hand the holy warfare And this was the 4. expedition which was not also very prosperous for there returned home again not many mo then a M. mē Although Ierusalē was thus taken by the christians notwithstanding the Sarracens ceased not from war but vrged them so sharply the they wer enforced to su foraid whē as S. Bernhard abbot of Clarauallis ioyned himself in this vnlucky war and taking diuers iournies in hand exhorted the christian princes to take this war vpon them and at length brought to pas the Conrade the 3. being emperour Ludouick kinge of France Friderick duke of Sueuia VVelphus duke of Bauaria with many other princes moe with great power béegan this expedition but these also profited nothinge for their armie dyinge in sundrie places in forrein countreys the princes scarsly returned in safety This great expedition was made in the yéere of our Lorde 1147. Afterward Ierusalē was taken as we haue said béefore by a very great power of Sarracens with an vnspeakable losse and spillyng of Christian bloud Which heauie tidinges béeinge arriued in the west forthwith there béetooke them vnto armour Friderick Barbarossa the emperour Philippe kinge of France Rychard kinge of England and with them many princes moe These tooke in hand the. 6. expedition into the east the yéere of Christe 1189. With an excéedinge great power who notwithstandinge brought nothing to passe but this only that the noble prince Friderik the emperour fell into a riuer and was drowned the armie for the most part died with sicknes the residew whereof the numbre was not great returned home miserably After this ther apoynted again a new and which was the. 7. expedition two most

puisaunt princes the kinges of Fraunce and England in the yéere of Christe 1191. and came into Asia wher léesinge a great multitude of men they were constrayned to leaue Ierusalem to the Sarracens In the yéere of Christe 1198. Henrie sunne to Friderick Barbarossa béegan the viii expedition into Syria but at the first receauinge a foile hée returned againe without doinge any thinge After all these expeditions Pope Innocentius the 3. a craftie presumptious man went about afresh to beegin this warre caulinge at Rome a great counsell such as hath not bin séene thée like in the yéere of Christ 1215. but hée died in the midst of this busines after whom succéeded Honorius the 3. who with no lesse diligence applied the same matter feigninge like a false prophet that hée had seene a vision and that it was said vnto him by Saint Peter that in the time of his reigne Ierusalem should bée recouered Wherfore the ninth expedition was taken in hand towardes Ancon whiche once was Ptolomais Then was taken Damniata yet with more losse then profit vnto our men which was taken the yéere of Christe 1222. and lost the next yéere followinge To be short there was almost nothinge gotten by the warre for euery thinge had but litle good successe In the yéere of Christe 1228. Fridericke the seconde Emperour of y name a wise noble and victorious prince vndertooke the tenth expedition into Syria where vanquishynge his enemies hee tooke certayne principall Citties among which also hée wanne Ierusalem But whilst this good prince maketh warre agaynst the Infidels Pope Gregorie the .ix. inuaded Apulia and tooke his natiue kyngdome and countrey and therefore contrary to his intent and purpose hée was enforced to take peace with the Soldane and so departe Which déede of the Pope Abbas Vrspurgensis in his chronicles doth woorthely blame moste sharply Afterward in y yéere of Christ 124● Ludouick king of Fraūce with his brothers Robert and Charles lead foorth an armie passing wel appointed into Syria where hée founde no better fortune then others before him had done For Robert was slayn Charles taken by the Soldan the army discomfited and the kynge Ludouicke hardly escaped with a few And this was the .xi. vnhappie expedition In the yéere of Christe 1270. Kynge Ludouicke lead foorth an armie againe into Affrica against the Sarracens which maketh the xij expedition but there a sicknesse inuadyng the army the kynge himself with one of his sunnes died for hée caried thrée foorth with him into battel a few of the people returned home salfe Although in this warre which was first kindled by Peter the Heremite afterwarde proclaimed by the Claromont counsell and successiuely mantayned by meanes and prouocation of Popes there was no constant successe so that it was manifest vnto all men that God would blesse it with no prosperous preueile and séeinge that Ierusalem was lost agayne and the state of Christians in the East was béecome most miserable from whom by reason of the warres persecutions were not taken away but rather augmented notwithstandinge these vnfortunate Bysshoppes with this vnspeakable effusion of Christian bloode were not satisfied neyther coulde bée broughte to yéelde or relent at these perpetuall and great discouragementes For Gregorie the x. callinge a great counsell at Lions in the yéeare of our lorde 1272. went about to renewe the warre but all in vaine for so mutch as therby manie had sustained sutch and so manie miseries and calamities both of body and goodes And Matthaeus Palmerius in his Cronacles writeth How that many thousandes of Christians being slayn in Syria by the Sarracens the residew for feare departed the cuntrey whiche was doone the yéere of Christe 1291. about whiche yéere Paulus Aemilius and the French Chronacles do report that this holy or rather vnhappye warre was ended which continued in all 196. yéeres whereof the like is not heard of in any history And this warre vnto the great damage and oppression of the Christians was first kindled by Peter an vnknowne heremit of whom many boast verye mutch others not without cause haue doubted whether he were a man or any thinge else I know not what many haue said that he was a dissemblinge hypocrite holpen by the Counsell and prelates and this mutch is sufficent to haue spoken of the Sarracen persecution Wherfore let vs now come to the Turkishe The persecution of Turkes wherewith they haue molested the Christians is in some respect ioyned and coupled with the Sarracen makinge it more gréeuous and cruell And the Turkes are a people of Tartaria whiche in the yeere of Christe 764. brake forth of their owne confines through the gates Caspiae planted themselues in Asia who first seruinge vnder the Sarracens for wagies afterward increasinge their power by good successe in warres about the yéere of Christe 1051. they created them princes amonge themselues who perpetually haue afflicted and persecuted the poore Christians for they also had then receaued the Machometan religion It is not to bée doubted but that God hath sent this cruell and superstitious nation of Turkes for a scourge vnto the Christians For like as in the tyme of Salomon when as he fell from the lawe of God and suffred his wiues to build temples vnto Idoles there sprange vp and increased enemies against him and all the kingdome so likewise amonge the Christians when Pope Boniface the. 8. committed many thinges repugnant to the Christian religion bringing in the Iubilee of the Iewes which was abolished by christ wherby the redemption through Christe was no litel déele diminished at the same time in the yéere of our lord 1300. sprang foorth that sharp rodde namely othomannus prince of the Turkes who at the béeginninge was but a shéepheard From this sprange out all the princes and emperours of the Turkes which hetherto haue obtayned the empire persecuting the Christians with vnspeakable harmes wasting and destroying whatsoeuer the Sarracens had left and haue established sutch a kingdome as hath desended and enlarged it self alas therwhile with impregnable force against all power Othomannus hath amplyfied his kingdome large and wyde wounderfully indamaginge vanquishynge and murtheringe the Christian Gréekes which were vnder the empire of Constantinople After the death of Othomannus there succéeded him in the Turkish Empire his sunne Orchannes in the yéere of our Lorde 1328. The same ensued his fathers steppes gréeuously afflictynge the Christians hée béesiedged the Cittie Nicea whiche when the Emperour of Constātinople would haue deliuered from siedge the armie of the Christians was miserably slayne the Cittie yéelded and the Christians most truelly dealt with all In the yéere of our Lorde a thousand thrée hundred and fiftie Amurates the first of that name thirde prince of the Turkes succéeded his father Orchannes Who sendyng an armie ouer the Sea tooke the cities Hadrianopolis Seruia and Bulgaria whom when the Christian princes assaide to driue away were