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A02895	The pageant of popes contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of Grace 1555. Deuided into iii. sortes bishops, archbishops, and popes, vvhereof the two first are contayned in two bookes, and the third sort in fiue. In the vvhich is manifestlye shevved the beginning of Antichriste and increasing to his fulnesse, and also the vvayning of his povver againe, accordinge to the prophecye of Iohn in the Apocalips. ... Written in Latin by Maister Bale, and now Englished with sondrye additions by I.S.; Acta Romanorum pontificum. English	Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Studley, John, 1545?-1590?	1574 (1574)	STC 1304; ESTC S100602	276,183	440

euen as it were by their owne right to scratche together howge heapes of ryches to compasse honour by ill artes coniuring and sorcery and to exercise tyranny Benedict after he had raigned nine yeares died Anno. 894. 77 Iohn the sixtene IOhn the sixtene sonne of one Leo a Prieste succeded by election of the people and Clergie As sone as hee was Pope he began to beare deadly hatred against the Clergye so that he was abhorred not onelye of them but of all the people and chiefelye because he neglecting the dignitye of the Romaine Sea bestowed the riches treasures ther of vppon his kinred his harlots and bastards Which fault sayth Platina and Stella hath continued among the clergye vnto our time for an ill president to the posterity Then the which custome nothing is more perillous when our clergye sayth Platina shall couet spiritual dignities not for loue of Religion to serue God but to maintaine the prodigality gluttonye couetousnes of their kindred and frendes their concubines and bastards Of the like complayneth Mantuan of his tyme. Sanctus ager scurris venerabilis ara cynaedis Seruit honorandae diuum Ganymedibus edes At this tyme appeared a Comet after which followed both famine pestilence with terrible earthquakes which shooke both Beneuent and Capua which plagues moste men iudged were sent for the pride ambition greedines royat of the Popes and for the contempt of God so greate at this time This Iohn dyed in the viii yere of his raigne ▪ Anno. 985. 78. Iohn the 17. IOhn the 17. was verye experte in feates of cheualrye he was made Pope with the goodwill of the clergye laitye He was excellentlye well learned published diuers bookes He beinge troubled with the sedition of one Crescentius the Consull going about to make himselfe king of the Cittye gaue place vnto Crescentius conspiracye and banished himselfe into Hetruria but Crescentius knowing of Iohns displeasure and that he went about to call the Emperour wyth his armye into Italye against him hee sente those frendes and kinsefolke which Iohn had remayning in the Citye to entreat him not to sende for the Emperour but himselfe to returne to Rome wyth his autoritye and he promised to be obedient to him in all thinges Iohn being entreated by his frendes and fearing that the Emperours comminge would do more hurt then good to him and his clergye returned to Rome Against whose comming Crescentius with all the rest of the cōspiratours came forth to meete him who with the other people a great multitude wayted vppon him into the Citye in the porch of Lateran Church Crescentius and his company falling downe before the Pope kissed his feete and craued pardon This Iohn dyed Anno 995. 79. Gregorie the fift GRegorie the fift a Germaine borne but a Saxons sonne was first called Bruno He after wranglinge and iarringe was made Pope by the Emperours auctoritye because he was his cosen But after Otho the Emperour was departed the Romaynes desyringe chaunge of state did adua●nce Crescensius to be Consull againe and committed the estate of Rome to his gouernment This Crescentius and the people of the Cittye toke it greuously that Gregorie beinge a Dutchman shoulde by the Emperours auctoritye be made Pope and therefore they deposed Gregorie after which the people and clergye of Rome established one Iohn the xviii beinge before bishop of Placentia an excellente learned man and very well stoared wyth money Gregorie in fine went to the Emperour to complaine of his great iniurye the Emperour taking it dispitefully went into Italy with his armye besieged Rome assaulted it and toke Crescensius the Consull and Iohn the newe Pope and as for Iohn he had his eyes put out and so dyed Crescensius was put on a vile beastes backe wyth his face to the taylewarde hauinge his nose and his eares cut of to be seene of al men was caryed about the Cittye hauing his members quartered he was honge vp about the walles of the Cittye Then Gregorie his ennemyes beinge punished was restored who perceyuing that the estate of kingdomes were fickle and wauering through the ambition of Princes and couetousnes of the clergye while there followed great warres hard vppō his restoring he sommoning a coūsaile at Rome made a decree for the election of the Emperour Hee decreed that the election of the Emperour shoulde continue from henceforth amonge the Princes of Germanye that is the Archbishop of Mens of Treuers Collen the Palsgraue of Rhein the duke of Saxonie and the Marquesse of Brandeburge To these also he added the king of Bohemia to be an vmpier if the voyces were euen which decree Anno a thousande ii the Emperour Otho did allowe and confirme but the kinges of Fraunce were highly offended that the Germaynes had this prerogatiue Gregorie dyed Anno 998. the third yeare of his Popedome 80. Iohn the xviij IOhn the xviii a Grecian borne of whom is spoken in the former Gregorie obtayned the place by bryberye sedition and hurlye burlye This mā was before bishop of Placentia an olde man learned ryche but proud couetous and desirous to be Pope which wrought his horrible and mischeuous ende For hee broughte so muche moneye to Rome wyth him from Constantinople whereby he was able to drawe and tempt vnto him aswel the wyse wary as the simple sort to be of his faction whereby he corrupted Crescentius the Consul violently to abuse Pope Gregorie to driue him out being a Germaine and so purchased the Popedome and the sequele thereof But of those thinges that he and his traine set to sale in his Popeshippe Mantuan wryteth thus Pernices mercantur equos venalia Romae Templa sacerdotes altaria sacra coronae I maruaile sayth Platina that the Chronographers would reckē this Iohn amonge the Popes seing he vsurped the place while Gregorie liued vnlesse in wrytinge the Popes liues they thincke to do as they doo in a continuall historye For the peeuishe deedes of tyrants are set among the great exploites of good Princes that the readers may discerne the good from the euill and so by the example of good men be moued to vertue by the example of the ill terrifyed frō vice and so liue happilye vppon earth which happines this Iohn wanted being a theefe a robber euen in his Popedome So much sayth Platina of him At the lēgth this Iohn w t his Crescētius perished hauing his eyes digged out and his bodye foulye māgled Crescentius for his doing was set vppon a vile horse as is saide before hauing his nose cut of and was so led through the Citye his face being turned to the horse tayle and afterward hauing his members cut of he was hanged vppon a gibbet Here will I alledge the wordes of Gualther out of his third homelye as touchinge Antichrist and so ende this booke Nowe sayth hee let anye noble harte iudge vvhether so manye good men haue vppon sufficient cause complayned of the tirannye

misbegotten sonne murthered the louer of the olde harlot her mother Theodora by the helpe of her husbandes seruauntes But because the people of Rome and the Clergie had not agreed vpon the election of this subordined Iohn the xii the selfe same yeare of his election he was deposed againe And thus the same Iohn of whome being set vp by force by and by thrust downe againe Carsulan Platina Stella and others do make mencion because they knew not the true story of him whiche Luthprandus wrote the ignoraunce whereof bredde muche cōfusion for some toke these twoo Iohns to be both one and some the one for the other 61. Leo the sixt LEo the sixt after that Iohn the xii bastarde of Marozia the harlot and Sergius the Pope was deposed obtained to be Pope by the election of the Romaine people and clergye being in great tumult This Pope did nothinge commendable but the establishing of peace in Italye after he had raigned vii monethes he was poysoned by Marozia wherby she might establishe her sonne againe Anno 930. 62. Steuen the seuenth STeuen the seuenth did as Leo had done he medled with nothing for after he had liued Pope ii yeares in peace securitye and liberty of the fleshe at his owne ease hauing the blinde worlde readye to bende at his becke he toke his death in a cup wherewith as they saye he was poysoned For sayth Crantzius it is a straunge thinge that so manye Popes at this time dyed so soone in their dignityes which is a great presumption that they were poysoned as the moste part of them were knowen to be 63. Iohn the xii IOhn the xii the bastard impe of Pope Sergius the third and of the famous concubine Marozia was now againe made Pope after much sedition At this time a fountaine in Genua flowed with bloud very plentifully prognosticatinge the wrath of God that immediatlye followed for the Aphricans Sarracens and Hungarians wasted and spoiled all and slue a houge nomber of people There are some wryters as is said before that make ii Iohns of this one the one going before Leo and Steuen who they said neuer enioyed the Popes Albe or Rochet the other this which nowe was set vp after Steuen of whom they saye the historyes write nothing Againe there are other some that make this beinge borne in Rome the other borne at Rauenna all one amonge whom Platina sayth that either of them was sonne to Pope Sergius but Anselmus deceiued by Platina sayth the one was brother to the other but other writers do make him a seuerall parson from the other two saying he was not knowne of the Cronographers because he did nothing worthie of memorye But Luthprandus in his thirde booke and xii Chapter wryteth thus of the mother of Iohn Marozia a shameles concubine and mother to Pope Iohn after the death of her husbād Gui doth send messengers to his brother Hugh king of Italy a Burgundian borne to desire him to come to her and to receiue of her the noble cittye of Rome vvhich she sayd vvithal she could not do vnlesse he would take her to be his vvife For whiche her incestious desire Luthprandus wrote thus against her in Uerse VVhye broyling thus vvvith Venus brand Marozia doest thou raue Thunlavvfull loue and vvilt thou of thy husbandes brother haue Dare bucksom dame Herodia tvvo naturall brethren vved Lo Ladye blinde Iohn Baptists lavve is quite out of thy hed VVho did forbid that brother vvith his brothers vvyfe should me●l And Moses Lavve doth not allovve thy doing to be vvell VVho did commaunde the brother rayse vnto his brother seede If that the former by his vvyfe had issue none in deede But that thy husbande children hath by the can be declarde T is so saye you but dronken loue doth nothinge it regarde Kinge Hughe euen as an Oxe to death for thy desire is brought Vvhose mind not for to gaine thy loue but rather Rome hath sought VVhat boteth it thou cursed dame this noble man to spoile For se●king thus by sinne to gaine a Queenely place a vvhile Iehouah iudge doth make thee leese both Rome and all the toile Uppon the said message the king leauing his armye aloofe came to Rome who being honourably receiued passed forth vnto the stronge hould S. Angels castell and so into the bedde chamber of Marozia After he was established in vncesteous mariage with her he began to cōtemne and despise the Romaines at which time Marozia had a sonne named Albericus brother to Pope Iohn but begotten by Marques Albericus While this Albericus at his mothers bidding gaue water to king Hugh washinge his handes the king because he did it not handsomelye gaue him a bl●w on the face Herevppon Albericus to reuenge this iniurye callinge the Romaines together spake thus vnto them The honour and dignity of Rome is brought to such doultishnes and follye that it is nowe controlled euen by harlots For what is more abhominable what more shamefull then that Rome should be brought to obeysaunce throughe the incest of one woman and that the Burgundians whilom slaues to the Romaines shoulde now be lordes ouer them If he beinge yet especiallye but a new come gest take vppon him to dashe me on the face being his verye sonne in lavve hovve thincke you vvil he deale vvith you in processe of time Knovve ye not the pride of a Burgundian c This being sayde without any delaye the Romaynes all defyed king Hughe chose the same Albericus to be their Prince King Hughe being driuen into this terrible feare was compelled to forsake Rome and leauinge Marozia fled to his owne companye Then Albericus and his mother Marozia did only enioye the Monarche of Rome and his brother the Popedome who spendinge fiue yeares in Popishe practises dyed Anno 937 while the harlotte his mother ruled as well the estate temporall as spirituall in Rome 64. Leo the seuenth LEo the seuenth succedinge Iohn because hee desired to liue quietlye medled wyth no matters but as a slouthfull parson did nothinge worthye remembraunce In his time sayth Luthprandus the said kinge Hugh forsaking his wyfe Berta loued especiallye three concubines Bezola Roze Stephana and because they were such notorious harlots hee gaue them the names of three Goddesses callinge Bezola Venus Roze Iuno and Stephana Semele by Bezola he had a sonne called Bozones whom hee made bishop of Placentia by Stephana he had Theobaldus made Archdeacon of Millain Churche and by Rosa he had another greate prelate of the Churche and a doughter beside In those dayes many sawe bloude rayne oute of the Sunne as Masseus wryteth and after it followed a great pestilence amonge men Leo dyed An. 941. 65. Steuen the eight STeuen the eight a Germaine obtained y Popes chayre after this Leo yet this seemeth straunge to many how it should be doone because no Emperour out of Germany procured it But Steuen being notwithstandinge Pope was so vexed with ciuill seditions among the

sommoned a councell into his Pallaice in Viciana sylua where the whole assemblye subscribed against the Popes heresye and therefore the kinge sent to Pope Iohn willinge him both to reforme his heresye and also to deliuer the prysoner so the said Thomas was set at libertye This Pope reformed and transposed the orders decrees of the Church at his owne pleasure made Colledges of Scribes according to the nomber of the Apostles who receyuing their fee should write such letters as he should appoint He cōdemned Iohn Poliacus a deuine because he taught that mē should not trust the begging fryers He cōpelled certaine Nonnes called Biginae to marrye and detested pictures He helde it for a grounded article that Christ gaue none other rule of godlinesse to his Apostles then to other Christians and that the Apostles neuer vowed pouertye Iohn Mandeuil in his first booke and seuenth Chapter sheweth that this Pope wrote at large to the Greekes that there is but onely one Christian Church and that he was head thereof and vicar of Christ to whō the Greekes aunswered briefely VVee do assuredlye acknowledge your highe power ouer your subiectes but wee cannot abide your high pride wee cannot stanch your greedye couetousnes the deuill is with you but God is with vs. Thus briefely in a worde they reuealed the Popes estate This Pope condemned Lewis Bauare a noble Emperour to be a rebell to the Church a scismaticke and hereticke because he toke vpon him by the Electours choyse the gouernment of the Empyre not vowing anye fealtye to the Pope Thus wryteth Iohn Marius of this Emperour Lewis Pope Iohn sayth he hated vnto death Lewis Bauare partly because he beinge chosen by the estates of Germanye kinge of the Romaynes did disdaine to receyue at the Popes hand according to the Canon of Pope Clement the fifte the name and title Emperiall partly againe because he defended from the Popes power certaine monkes whom he had condemned for heretickes therefore Pope Iohn auouched Lewis to be an hereticke Lewis comminge into Italye appointed his deputies in euery Cittye and came to Millen and because he desired to qualifye the Popes displeasure he sent Embassadours to him kepinge his courte then at Auenio in Fraunce to require of him the ornamentes belonging to the estate imperiall with freindlye affection as his auncestours had done the Pope did not onelye denye the sute but sent awaye the Embassadours with great reproche and cited the Emperour him selfe peremptory wyse as they terme it to come to Auenio submit himselfe to the Canons of the Church The Emperour knowinge the Popes tyrannye vsed in his Church vnderstanding that he had his estate giuen him from God desired to keepe and defende the same holye and vndefiled and therefore woulde not submit himselfe like a slaue vnto Popes and so denyed to come to Auenio And yet being desirous of peace he besought the Pope by Embassadours once againe to bestowe on him with curtesye the ornamentes of the Empyre the Pope stoode peuishlye in his wilfulnes vaunting and boasting in his wrytings that he had power to playe make marre w t Princes and that at his pleasure he might set vp and depose whom he listed and that the Empyre being voyde the Pope is ful Emperour And for malice against Lewis he excōmunicated the Uicounts whom the Emperour had appointed to gouerne Millen The Emperour perceyuinge the Popes obstinate minde taking with him many Princes of Italye came to Rome and was honourablye receyued of al the people and required according to the custome to receiue the solemnityes of the Empyre The Romaine peeres and all the people sent Embassadours to Pope Iohn in Fraunce and humbly besought him to come to visit his City Rome to bestowe vpon the king of the Romaynes the imperiall rites which if he would not do they said plainly that they them selues would keepe the ould law priuiledge of the Romaynes Iohn hauing heard the Embassadours vsing great threates and terrours draue them away with foule rebuke frō him The Romaynes seing this decreed to yeld to the noble Lewis his lawfull request and so by the commaundement of the clergy and people both he and his wyfe together were crowned by Steuē Nicolas being Senatours in the meane time the nobilitye shouted oute saying God saue Lewis Augustus Emperour of the Romaynes The Pope hearing this though the Emperour did nothing but that was lawful and godly did accuse him for a traytour and an heretick he published sore processe against him put him frō his estate imperial depriued him of his kingdome condemned him by vile and cruel curse of excōmunication as a rebell and Captaine heretick againste the Church of Rome by meanes whereof he enflamed all Christendome with such discord deadly warres as could not afterward be quenched in thirty yeres Thus farre wryteth Marius Thus the Pope had nothing to defende his forged supremacye and auctoritye but the dreadfull boultes of his excommunication But there were certaine at this time as well deuines as lawyers which preached that Christe and his Apostles did possesse nothinge properlye and that the Emperour in temporall cases was not subiect to the Pope Amonge these men were Michael Coesenus VVilliam Occam minorites Marsilius of Padua Iohn of Iandane lawyers with diuers other Lewis the Emperour was so comforted by these that he did stoutly withstand the Popes ententes and published this his appellation about the coastes of his Empyre ¶ The Emperours letters WE Lewis kinge of the Romaynes doe pronounce against Iohn who saith that hee is Pope that he doth naughtelye execute the testament and will of Christe cōcerning peace troubling the cōmon tranquility of Christendome neither is he mindfull that what honour soeuer he nowe doth enioye was first giuen by the holye Emperour Constantine to Syluester euen when he forfeare lurked in forrestes Thus doth he shewe himselfe vnthankful to the Romaine Empire from whence hee reaped all the roialty which now he abuseth c. Thus when Lewis and the peeres of Rome perceyued well the iniquitye of Pope Iohn and the people of Rome from the hyest to the lowest did take it in euill part that the Embassadours whō they had sent were so mocked of him they all agreed together that the ould custome of chosing the Pope should be brought into the Church that is that he being chosen by the people of Rome should be admitted and allowed by the Emperour Therefore one Peter of Corbaria a minorite was made Pope and was called Nicolas the fifte and as for Iohn they cōcluded of him that he was an heretick and a tyrant of the Church not a pastour but a breaker of the common peace of Christians In the meane time Pope Iohn Anno 1335. in the fourscore x. yeres of his age dyed at Auenio About the yeare of our Lord 1326. in the time of this Pope Iohn the prelats of Englād played a stout prancke for the bishop of Hertford