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A54743	The minority of St. Lewis With the politick conduct of affairs by his mother Queen Blanch of Spain, during her regency. Being a relation of what happen'd most memorable under his reign during the year, 1226, 1227, 1228, and 1229.	Philipps, Edward, 1630-1696?.	1685 (1685)	Wing P2065; ESTC R220520	46,829	160

Bretaign became an arrier-fief to the Crown of France In this State it continued till the death of Covan Earl of Bretaign who left Issue only one daughter nam'd Constance This rich Heiress was courted by many but Henry the second King of England pretended as Duke of Normandy the Right of Marriage and partly by his Authority partly by his Addresses of Courtship obtain'd her and had four Sons by her Henry Richard Geoffry and John He design'd to leave to Henry the Crown of England to Richard the Provinces of Normandy Main Anjou and Tourain which fell to him by Succession from his Father and Mother and the Provinces of Guien and Poictou which he had in Marriage by his former Wife Eleanor Between these two young Princes and the two daughters of the most Christian King Lewis the 7th there was a solemn Treaty of Marriage and the King of England had Interest enough to bring both to effect John his 4th Son was design'd for Ecclesiastical Preferment so that a Match having been propos'd between the Heiress of Bretaign and the house of England she must now of necessity be married if to any to Geoffry King Henry's third Son In fine the was married to him upon considerations meerly Political for his person was no way taking with the young Lady but his death soon deliver'd her and left her to a second Marriage more to her content for she her self then made choice of Guy de Thouars a Knight the handsomest and bravest person of his Age by whom she had but one daughter her first Husband had left her big with Child of a Son nam'd Arthur whose death was the more unhappy for that he was depriv'd thereby of such an accumulation of Successions that of England and the French Provinces thereunto appendant fell to him by the death without Issue of his Fathers two Eldest Brothers and Bretaign being his at the same time in Right of his Mother he had doubtless in prospect had he liv'd the vastest Monarchy that had been known since the partage of the Imperial Dominion of Charles the Great but John sirnamed Lackland the only Uncle who surviv'd procur'd his death to get his Estate and by this means the daughter of Guy de Thouars became sole Heiress of the Earldom of Bretaign Philip the August who taking advantage of the villany of John Lackland had reunited the Dutchy of Normandy to the Crown of France pretended that since Henry these cond King of England had power as being Duke of Normandy to dispose of the Mother he both as Duke of Normandy and King of France together had so much the better Title to dispose of the daughter The branch of Dreux was at that time the most proper branch of the Royal Family his appennage was small he had neither Office nor Government his Alliances had not enrich'd him and it was to be fear'd he might lose his Rank for want of Estate as it hapned some time since to the branch of Cortenai supposing his publih'd Genealogy be altogether exact This made Philip the August the more willing to give the Heiress of Bretaign to Peter de Dreux with this Condition that Bretaign should henceforth be immediately held of the Crown of France that is to say that it should no more do homage to whoever should be Masters of Normandy in case that Province should ever be again dismembred from the Crown The Condition was advantagious to both the new married Parties since their Estates were now no longer held in arrier fiefs nor would depend for the time to come upon a single Duke of Normandy but only upon the first of Christian Kings Nor did any one receive prejudice by it in regard Normandy was reunited to the Crown No wonder then if Peter de Dreux and his Wife accepted gladly the Condition and observ'd it in all particulars But that soon befel the new Duke of Bretaign which is but too frequent with men of slender virtue that is to say he suffer'd himself to be drawn away and transported by this flowing Tide of good fortune The large Extent of this Country of Bretaign and its advantageous Situation gave it a very sufficient Title and Merit in this Princes opinion to an absolute and independent Sovereignty besides he was pleas'd to flatter himself with this conceit that his carrying on so high a design as the shaking of the French yoke would immortalize his Name to all Posterity which great undertaking the better to accomplish he was really perswaded that his siding with the Earl of Boulogne and his Party was as fair an opportunity as he could have wisht for taking it for granted that if the Earl succeeded he could do no less than remit his homage of Bretaign in recompense of his declaring for him In case he did not succeed the Regent in revenge that she might oblige those Princes of the blood who had taken part with him to desert him would be glad to condescend to what ever they should demand of her Thus the Duke of Bretaign turn'd Rebel upon false surmises with which he fed his fancy but the most cross and untoward occurrence in his Revolt was his drawing in upon a quite contrary principle his Brother Robert de Dreux This Person had a Soul so sensible of all benefits and so prone to grateful returns that he thought he could not better testifie the high obligation he had to the Duke of Bretaign for having left entire to him the Apennage of their branch than by serving him for or against whom soever he desir'd except the King Thus he put himself under the Banner of the Malecontents by a Motive the most excusable that ever was if any excuse can be admitted in matters of Treason The last Prince of the blood that the Earl of Boulogne drew in to his Party was Robert of Courtenay whom he found the more pliable to his Temptations by discontent because the branch of the Dreux had been preferr'd before his by the Match of Bretaign and to engage him the more deeply he had opportunity given him to make himself Master of certain summs of the Kings mony Raimond the 7th of that Name Earl of Tholouse sirnamed the young was before hand with the Malecontents to whom without staying for any Invitation from them he went and joyned of his own accord upon the first prospect he had of a civil war His main inducement to this proceeding for he had none of those pretences which the rest made use of was only to save himself by fishing in other mens troubled waters The Court of Rome whose Thunders ruin'd without Exception all those petty Princes upon whom they lighted was altogether inexorable toward this Prince and would not quit him of those Ecclesiastical Censures which had been pronounc'd against him though the refusal thereof was the greatest obstacle to the recovery of Languedoc This Interdiction had so powerful an ascendant upon his Subjects minds that they thought they might be very well

THE MINORITY OF St. Lewis With the Politick Conduct of Affairs by his Mother Queen Blanch of Spain during her Regency BEING A Relation of what happen'd most Memorable under his Reign during the Year 1226 1227 1228 and 1229. LONDON Printed for R. Bentley and S. Magnes at the Post-house in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden 1685. To the most Illustrous Prince HENRY DUKE of NORFOLK Earl Marshal of England Earl of Arundel Surrey Norfolk and Norwich Baron Mowbray Howard Seagrave Bruse de Gower Fitz-Allan Clun Oswaldestrey Maltravers Talbot Verdon Lovetot Furnival Strange of Blackmere and Howard of Castle Rysing Constable and Governour of His Majesties Royal Castle and Honour of Windsor Lord Warden of Windsor Forrest Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Norfolk Surrey and Berks and of the City of Norwich and County of the said City and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter MY LORD I Should not have presum'd to approach with an Address of so small importance a Personage of your Dignity and Grandure in whose present station all the Honours and in whose Person all the Virtues of your Illustrious Family so eminently shine but for this consideration that there is an obliging condiscention which ever attends upon true Nobility and Native Greatness But my Lord I have this moreover to plead that in this so small a Volume there are such Arcana Historiae and such well weigh'd Characters of persons that those even of the highest Sphaere and Imployment may I judge think a few hours not ill bestow'd in the perusal of them The last pretension I lay to your Graces pardon is that I have taken care to give your Grace as little interruption as possible to your more weighty affairs in striving to express the ambition I have of paying my Mite of those honours and respects which you merit from all the world and thereby of aspiring to the Title of MY LORD Your GRACES most humble most obedient and most dutiful Servant Edw. Philips The MINORITY OF St. Lewis OR A Relation of what happen'd of most Memorable under his Reign during the Years 1226 1227 1228 and 1229. NEver any Christian Prince merited of History more solid serious and univerversal Praise than Lewis the 9th of that Name King of France firnamed the Saint and consequently never any Christian Prince hath been so ill treated by the generality of Historians both French and Foreigners Ancient and Modern Good and Bad of all sorts of People and of all Religions The Hereticks of latter times haply offended at the Reason he gave for refusing to go to see the Body of Christ become visible in the hands of a Priest namely that he had no need of ocular Testimony to convince him of a Truth whereof he was already so well satisfied have with that prejudice represented even the most Heroick of his actions that were their Credit valuable this Prince could certainly be allow'd no better a Character than any of the nine last Kings of the Merovingian Race They will needs have that haughtiness wherewith he treated his Brother Charles of Anjou who after he was crown'd King of Naples and Sicily let loose the Reins to licence pass for an Effect of secret Pride and Ambition they brand with rashness and imprudence the two Expeditions he made against the Infidels and will have the extraordinary Charge he was at in those Undertakings no other than Profuseness and Prodigality That Majestick Air which he exprest in all his Actions and which descended to him from the Queen his Mother they interpret to be only a natural Surliness and Austerity of humour in him and though more Covertly they forbear not to censure his frequent Visitations and regulations of Hospitals The plainness of his habit they attribute to a poorness of Spirit in him and from his aptness to conceal and pass over all private Injuries offer'd him they are ready to accuse him of Pusillanimity and Cowardice His Conversation though obliging enough they account too Reserv'd and Morose considering the Familiarity and Freedom that had been allow'd to Courtiers in those times They cavil at the sincerity of his Answers both by word of mouth and in writing to foreign Ambassadors in the Affairs he had to concert with the Crowns of England and Spain they tax him of too much Severity in the Execution of his Laws especially against the Jews and of too much adhering to particular Justice to the prejudice of the publick in the renuntiations he made to the Dutchy of Guien and Kingdom of Castile Nor is this noble Prince and Saint King Lewis better dealt with by the Catholick Historians though perhaps not with such an apparent and design'd prejudice and that by Reason for a more probable cause cannot be guess'd at of that pragmatick Sanction which came forth under the Name of this Prince occasion'd by the quarrel he had with the Court of Rome They look'd upon as Criminal the zealous Concerns he had for the Rights of his Crown and upon this pretence took upon them to bespatter all his actions without Limit or Distinction Of this last sort of Writers some there are who not daring to launch out into those high Intemperancies have yet fallen into another default equally disadvantageous to the glory of this Royal Saint They have a conceit forsooth that there is no extraordinary Sanctity to be found but in Monasteries or at least that it is not to be attain'd but by such Mortifications of the body as are there in use and upon this presupposal they carry on the main part of their design throughout all their Writings so that they make it not so much their buisiness to represent this holy King Lewis such as really he was but such as in their Opinion he ought to have been that is to say in stead of making him a great King as he was they set him forth a very Monk of the most reformed Order Insomuch that in a Manuscript Imbellisht with curious Figures in Miniature which came to light about 12 years after his death he is pourtray'd in several Exercises of Penitence the most severe and bloody that were than practic'd in Cloisters Moreover one Richard a Monk of the Abby of Enove de Votsge describes him yielding to the Temptation of a certain Jacobin who urg'd him to take upon him the Order of St. Dominick and from which nothing but the powerful and incessant Interposings of the Queen his Mother Philip the Hardy his Son and Charles of Anjou his Brother could have diverted him Mathew Paris an English Benedictin an Historian otherwise the most faithful and best informed of his Time brings in our Princely St. Lewis at his restitution of Guien to the English uttering himself in a Speech no less void of Sense then Regal Authority and gives him a very lame at least imprudent Character when he tells us that without fear or respect of the Barons of his Realm he had given up to the English those other Provinces which