Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	castille_n	king_n	portugal_n	2,670	5	10.5073	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11878	Titles of honor by Iohn Selden	Selden, John, 1584-1654.	1614 (1614)	STC 22177; ESTC S117085	346,564	474

quem Rex nullus habet adeptus es vt Christianae Fideae Defensor scribaris tenearis sis It was giuen him about the XII yeer of his raigne Catholique is as a Surname to the Spanish King which Pope Alexander VI. gaue as an inheritance to Ferdinand V. King of Castile and Arragon Obserue the Iesuit Mariana's relation Ab Alexandro Pontifice saith he Ferdinandus puellae pater he was father to Ioan wife of Philip Archduke of Austira CATHOLICI Cognomentum accepti in posteros cum regno trànsfusum stabili possessione Honorum titulos Principibus diuidere Pontificibus Romanis datur Erat in more vt in literis Apostolicis adscriberetur REX CASTELLAe ILLVSTRI Ergo deinde nouâ indulgentia adscribi placuit REGI HISPANIARVM CATHOLICO non sine Obtrectatione invidia Regis Lusitani quando Ferdinandꝰ imperio vniuersam Hispaniā non obtineret eius tum non exiguâ parte penes Reges alios Here then according to him was the beginning of it as a title properly denominating and hereditarie although Alfonso sonne in law to Pelagius by marriage of his daughter Ormisinda and Recared or Richard Kings of West-gothique bloud there long before enioyed it the first as a surname for his religion and Martiall performance against the Maures the other by acclamation in the III. Councell of Toledo And in the old Roman Prouinciall a Catalogue of Kings is expressing Rex Castellae Rex Legionis Rex Portugalensis Rex Aragoniae with diuers others of other Territories and then REX CATHOLICVS by that generall name The Prouinciall was writen I am sure my Copie was before Alexander VI. yet I cannot vnderstand who is there ment by Catholicus except their King of Astures whose Dynastie was ioynd about M. XX. with Castile For Castile Leon Portugal and Aragon are reckon'd beside and that Alfonso about DCCXXX had the Asturian Kingdom and to him most refer the originall of Catholicus Diuers of the Constantinopolitan Emperors were wont to haue as part of their title Porphyrogenetes or Porphyrogenetus for although there be one of them known by the speciall name of Constantine Porphyrogenetus that is hee which held part of his Empire with Alexander about DCCCC X. and was sonne to Leo VI. and whose admonitions of State Constitutions and Themata are yet extant and publisht yet plainly that was no name proper to him in particular For he himself calls other u De administrando Rom. Imp. cap. 45. Filium item Romanum in libri titulo hoc nomine compellat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Basilius his Nouels are yet extant being before them the same name So Emanuel Comnenus in his inscription to the Western Emperor Conrad III. vses it And in the Bodleian Library at Oxford is a Ms. written some L. yeers since by a Cretan Scribe in Paris a worke of one Iohn Camaterus about Iudiciary Astrologie with this insciption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 x Quid sit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haùt inter doctos satis constat Maximae sanè dignitatis Officium fuisse liquet à Magno Contostaulo secundū tametsi le cum eius ignotum tradit Georg. Codinus ad quem consulas Fr. Iuniū Sed Gregentij verba Meursio citata perpendas Cancellarium fuisse fortè non iniuriâ dixeris Si de Loco testimonium quaeris adi Iuris Grae●o-Romani lib. 2. p. 184. v. Radeuic de gest Frederic 1. lib. 1. cap. 47. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who this Camaterus was or to what Emperor he wrote I confesse I cannot tell but it appears hee took this title so fit that vsing only but the name of Emperor besides he thought it Tittle sufficient for his dedication Yet you must not take it as solely proper to the Emperors To diuers of the neerer bloud imperiall its found attributed Iohn Palaeologus nephew to Andronicus first Emperor of that both name and family is called y Curopalat de Offic. Constant. the sonne of Porphyrogenetes So Constantius sonne to Constantine Ducas hath it in the Lady Anna Comnena hir Alexias This Lady Anne was daughter to Alexius Comnenus the Emperor and wrote hir fathers acts and affairs of Warre and State in the later and corrupted idiom of the Greeks Hir copies being very corrupt and maimed She is also in the title of hir book stiled Anna Porphyrogennetes Thomas brother to their last Emperor Constantin surnamd Dragasis in a confirmation z Turco-Graec lib. 4. Ep. 50. of a sale of lands subscribes himself with it More examples occurre in George Phranzes and others The reason of the name learned men haue mist. But it is plain in truth that it comes from a Palace built as a Luitprand Hist. 1. cap. 2. some say by Constantine the Great chiefly to this end that there the Empresses should be deliuerd and keep the solemnities of Childbirth The Lady Anne whom I rememberd shall iustifie it She speaking of Robert Guiscards death hee is alwayes calld in her storie Rompert and her fathers Triumph wherein hee returnd to Constantinople saies that there he found Irene the Empresse her mother in trauell in a house anciently appointed for the Empresses childbirth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith b Alexiados l. 6. shee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. They call that house from ancient time Porphyra whence the name of the Porphyrogeniti * Latinè in Porphyra geniti came into the world With her herein expressely agree Constantin Manasses and Luitprand and a place in Anastasius touching Constantin VII depriud of his eyes by his ambitious mother Irene Incluserunt cum are the words in domo Pupureâ in qua natus est Hereto I doubt not but speciall allusion is in that of a Greek c Io. Euchaitens in Hypomneum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Poet although a Bishop yet writing in a courtly form of Flatterie to Zoe Empresse and wife to Coustantin Monomachus about M. L. of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so Anna Comnena calls her selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for she was born in that Palace Briefly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Purpura natus i. born in the place so called are all one and assumd by such as were there born Neither is any question to be made of this reason of the name although Pontanus who for the Orientall story hath well deserud still leaues it as a doubt not vnderstanding Nicetas d Hist. 5. Tmemat 6. Pontanus verò ad Phranz l. 1. c. 6. de hac re dubitat Uulcanius ad Themata Constantini quod miror Diù verò est cum doctissimus Cuiacius rem doctè tetigerit Obseru 6. cap. 9. Choniates where he speaks of the Empresses being neer her time of deliuery and addes that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Palace Porphyra was prepard to receiue the Birth But Pontanus turns Porphyra by purpura as if it were for Purple cloth in such a sense