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A07363	The generall historie of Spaine containing all the memorable things that haue past in the realmes of Castille, Leon, Nauarre, Arragon, Portugall, Granado, &c. and by what meanes they were vnited, and so continue vnder Philip the third, King of Spaine, now raigning; written in French by Levvis de Mayerne Turquet, vnto the yeare 1583: translated into English, and continued vnto these times by Edvvard Grimeston, Esquire.; Histoire generale d'Espagne. English	Mayerne, Louis Turquet de, d. 1618.; Grimeston, Edward.	1612 (1612)	STC 17747; ESTC S114485	2,414,018	1,530

many being ingaged in one of his legions Some past from his campe vnto Caesar Ategua taken by Caesar. among the which were Q. Martius and C. Fundanius Ategua being sorely battered and well defended for many dayes in the end yeelded The which Pompey vnderstanding he marched towards Vcubis where he caused a search to be made for all the inhabitants which fauoured Caesar cutting off the heads of seuentie foure and casting many women and children ouer the walls which made many to flie to Caesars campe yea captaines and heads of bands and the souldiours of some legions with some townes Wherefore Pompey fearing that by his delaies he should loose both his allies his armie it selfe hauing spent some dayes in turning vp and downe in the end he resolued to giue Caesar battell neere vnto Munda In both armies besides Romanes and Italian allies and Spaniards there were many Moores Moores in both the armies of Caesar and Pompey for Boechus a Moorish king had sent two of his sonnes to succour Pompey and Bogud another king of the same nation was in person in Caesars armie yet the battell was fought in a manner by the Romanes alone On Caesars side the souldiours were encouraged by their Generals presence and did wonderfull deeds of armes In Pompeyes armie whereas the sugitiue legionaries were Battell betwixt Caesar and Pompey despaire to get their pardon made them to fight resolutely Being come to joyne the allyes of either part turned their backes presently so as the Romanes must trie it who should haue the better the which was done with great obstinacie on either side so as there could no grones nor lamentations be heard of any one that was dying or wounded but onely striking and killing one encouraging another and shewing themselues more prompt with their hands than tongues The battell was long doubtfull neither could Caesar or Pompey judge which had the better who after they had long beheld it in great perplexitie they came among them to encourage their souldiours whereof there was no great need King Bogud was the cause of Caesars victorie who standing without the battell with his Moores went vnto the trenches of Pompeyes campe to spoyle it the which Labienus perceiuing he went out of his ranke to make head against him but the rest of Pompeyes souldiours taking it to be a flight with the apprehension thereof they were all put to rout and although they did soone after find their owne errours A mistaking is the cause of Pompeyes ruine yet could they not rally themselues together againe but some fled to their campe and some towards the towne of Munde The slaughter was great on either side Great slaughter on both sides euen at the taking of the campe whereas Caesars men could neuer enter before they had slaine all those that defended it with like losse of their own men Caesar hauing gotten the victorie with great difficultie and danger he said vnto his souldiours That he had often fought for honour but now he had fought for his life There dyed of Pompeyes souldiours 30000. After this rout Cordoua being abandoned by Sex Pompeius yeelded in the which Scapula who had beene author of the souldiours sedition caused a slaue of his to kill him and to burne his bodie with all the treasure he had Seuill Munde and other places were some taken by force with great slaughter of the inhabitants and some by composition Many towns in Spaine flattering Caesar after these victories called themselues after his name Vcubis was called Claritas Iulia Ebora Libertas Iulia. At this time Caesar did not spare the treasure of Hercules temple in Gades being greatly distressed for money He took away many of their lands laid new taxes vpō those towns which had rebelled that he might reward his friends Pompey hauing escaped by flight he came to Carteia where he thought to make vse of the armie at sea which he had kept readie thereabouts but he was pursued and the ships after a great fight falling into the power of Didius were some of them carried away by him and the rest burnt so as Pompey sore wounded in the shoulder and leg seeking to flie by land was pursued ouertaken Cn. Pompeius the sonne slaine and slaine with many of his men by the horsemen and some companies of foot which were sent after him For these victories gotten in Spaine not against strangers but against citizens of Rome Caesar Q. Fabius and Q. Pedius did triumph at Rome to the great griefe of the people After that these things had been exploited by Caesar and all ciuile dissentions quenched as he thought to enjoy his Dictatorship suffering kingly honours to be done vnto him he was slaine by Cassius Brutus and other conspirators Then was the estate of Rome in greater confusion than euer by the diuision betwixt Octauius Caesar and M. Anthonie and afterwards by the cruell proscriptions of Octauius M. Anthonie and Lepidus which Lepidus had triumphed for Spaine in the yere 707 I know not for what victories It is certaine that he gouerned the hither part of Spain by Caesars gift Lepidus gouerns Spaine vnder Caesar. but it was by his lieutenants hauing neuer done any exploit of warre Dio saith That he persuaded Sex Pompeius to leaue Spaine promising him restitution of his fathers goods Domitius Caluinus C. Norbanus Flaccus and Asinius Pollio were afterwards Gouernours of Spaine of whose exploits there is no memorable mention In the yeare 713 Cornel. Balbus borne at Calis was Consull at Rome and in the yeare 714 the second diuision of the empire being made betwixt Octauius Caesar M. Anthonie and M. Lepidus after the reconciliation betwixt Octauius and M. Anthonie and the Perusine warre among other prouinces Spaine fell to Octauius and from that yere the Spaniards began to account their yeares by the Arke or rule of Caesar the which was 38 years before the comming of our Sauiour the which they did continue vntill the yeare 1383 of our saluation when as this custome was left as shall be said 20 In the yeare 726 of the foundation of Rome Augustus in Spaine Augustus being sole Emperour he vndertooke to subdue the Cantabrians Asturians and Gallicians who had alwayes held their libertie lawes and auntient customes to rob and spoyle their neighbours and would wholly subject them vnder his empire wherefore he resolued to goe in person into Spaine where he found those nations assured in their countenances and full of contempt relying in the strength of their mountaines from whence they made many sudden enterprises verie prejudiciall to the emperours armie the which camped at Sigisama the which some thinke was that which at this present they call Veisama in Guipuscoa or Biscaye and not Sigisama Iulia where he made three troupes of his forces Hauing spent many dayes there and nothing aduanced his affaires Augustus fell sicke with care and trauell wherfore hauing left the charge of the warre to C. Antistius he caused

yeare and was slaine by his owne men in disdaine that he was too desirous of peace He left many children Giseric Huneric Guntemaud Trasamund and Hilderic yet Vallia succeeded him to the end he should breake the peace with the Romanes but God had otherwise decreed for he confirmed it more With him according vnto some begins the reigne of the Vice-Gothes in Spaine Vallia first King of the Gothes 7 IN the yeare of Christ 418 Vallia was chosen king of the Gothes whereof next vnto Narbone Ann. 418. Tolouse was the royall seat In his time the French began to erect a kingdome in Gaule vnder Pharamond Constantius Patricius Gouernour for the Emperour in Gaule and Spaine was admitted by Honorius to the dignitie of Caesar which in those dayes was a degree to attaine vnto the Empire as in our time the dignitie of king of Romanes during the life of the Emperour of Germanie Vallia a friend to the Romanes makes warre against the Barbatians in Spain This Vallia shewed himselfe a friend and well affected to the Romane Empire He restored to Honorius Placidia his sister widow to king Ataulphe whom he had honoured and kept in his house since the death of her husband She was afterwards married to Constantius Caesar aboue mentioned by whom she had Valentinian the third who was the last Emperour in the West vntill Charlemaigne Vallia vndertooke by a contract made with Constantius to chase the barbarous nations of Vandales Alanes and Sueues out of Spaine to the benefit of the Romane Empire and his owne whereupon he entred into Spaine Alanes and Vandales defeated by the Gothes being called by Constantius to begin this warre in the yeare 420 and assailed the Alanes and Vandales who held Betica and Lusitania slew their king Atace and reduced them to that extremitie as those few which remained went and joined with Gunderic who reigned ouer the other Vandales in Gallicia the battaile wherein they were wholly defeated was giuen neere vnto Emerita the which is Merida in Portugall These victories obtained he meant to passe into Africke but he was put backe by a storme and therefore returned into Gaule where hee purchased vnto the Gothes all the countrey from Tolouse to the Ocean bounded in by the Pyrenee mountaines and the riuer of Garonne 8 Sometime after the Alanes which were retyred to Gunderic in Gallicia shooke of his yoake being loth to subject themselues vnto him and returned into Lusitania Betica and the prouince of Carthagena yet not chusing any prince ouer them there they obtained certaine lands and liued tributaries to the Romanes dispersing themselues as farre as the riuer of Ebro and to the foot of the Pyrenee mountaines where some maintaine that of their name the countrey of Cattelogne was called Cattalania for that they did inhabite there being mingled with the Cattes a nation of Germanie which had passed with them into Spaine In Gallicia which contained at that time part of the realme of Portugall there grew debate betwixt Gunderic king of the Vandales and Hermeric king of the Sueues so as they fell to armes Warre in Spaine betwixt the Vandales and Sueues and the Sueues were besieged in the mountaines called Narbaseens but the Vandales left them there despising that barren countrey and came into the prouinces of Betica and Carthagena the which they forraged then passing into the islands of Maiorca and Minorca they sackt them returning into Spaine they tooke and ruined Carthagena Betica takes the name of Vandalusia of the Vandales and brought backe their armie into Betica the which was afterwards called Vandalusia of their name there they ruined the towne of Seuille and made the countrey desolate Gunderic died at the sacke of Seuille vpon the threshold of S. Vincents temple which he had commaunded should be spoyled he was sonne to Godigisque after whose decease Giseric or Genseric his bastard brother was chosen king of the Vandales Vallia entred againe into Spaine to suppresse the spoyles and cruelties of these Vandales whither there was also sent by the Emperour a captaine called Castinus who should joyne with Boniface Gouernour of Africke and joyntly make warre against the Barbarians But as Castinus had nothing in him but vanitie and foolish presumption he disdained Boniface who was a valiant and wise nobleman Dissention betwixt the Emperors lieutenants causeth the losse of Spain and Africke against whom hee did also bandie Aetius Gouernour of Gaules either through emulation and enuie or for some other cause of hatred so as when Vallia came with his armie of Gothes to set vpon the Vandales Boniface who was retyred into his gouernment of Africke being incensed sent messengers vnto Genseric to sollicite him to passe the strait promising to giue him means to lodge himselfe in Africke with all his men in despight of the Emperour the which fell out happily for him being oppressed with many enemies wherefore he left Spaine but not without bloud for in a battaile which was giuen him by the people of Spaine Boniface deliuers Africke to Gonseric and the Vandales subjects to the Romanes and by the Gothes he slew twentie thousand of his enemies vpon the place at his departure The Vandales being then passed into Africke with all their families there remained not any forraine power to make head in Spaine but that of the Sueues with their king Hermeric who being fallen into a grieuous sicknesse died about that time after he had languished long In the meane time Vallia incensed against the Vandales prepared to pursue them into Africke but he was preuented by death hauing reigned 22 yeares 2. Theodoric or Roderic 9 THeodoric succeeded Vallia Valentinian the third being Emperour in the West Anno 440. in the yeare 440. Hermeric about a little before his death had so pacified the people of Gallicia as he reigned ouer them and of two nations he made one taking his sonne Rechilan for companion whom he made his heire and successor in the kingdome and sent him into Betica or Vandalusia against Andenot a Romane captaine whom he defeated neere vnto Singil a riuer vpon that continent where he was much enriched Returning he besieged Merida tooke it and enlarged the kingdome of the Sueues the which had a beginning about the yeare 437. Theodoric reigning ouer the Gothes Romans assailed by the Sueues in Spaine and by the Gothes in Gaule they brake the peace made by Vallia with the Emperour Honorius besieged Narbonne the which was relieued by Lictorius Gouernor in those parts for the Empire vnder the Generall Aetius but Lictorius was defeated soone after by the same Gothes the which was a great prejudice to the Romanes By reason of this defeat the peace was renued among these potentates Rechilan being king of Gallicia after his fathers decease hee sought also to enlarge his limits Rechilan 2. king of Sueues in Gallicia wherefore he first assayled Vandalusia and the countrey about new Carthage the which he made subject