wherein his father with the Normans had conquered the English annexing Normandy to his English Crowne his borther Robert being surprised in battaile and detayned prisoner during life He deceased in the yeare 1135 the first English-Norman king Stephen Earle of Mortaigne yonger son to Stephen Earle of Blois and Champaigne by Adcla daughter to the Conquerour king of England by the power of his faction the advantage of his sexe and the pretended will of king Henry vpon his death-bed opposed by Maude the onely legitimate daughter surviuing issue of Henry formerly wife to Henry the fourth Emperour of the Romans After long trouble warres betwixt the two sides a peace at length is concluded Stephen is continued in the possession of the Crowne to returne after his decease vpon Henry Fitz-Empresse son to Mande and to the heires of the first Henry Henry the second son to Geffrey Plantaginet Earle of Aniou in France Maude the Empresse daughter to Henry the first and Maude daughter to Malcolme king of Scotland and S t Margaret descended from king Edmund surnamed the Iron-side In this prince the surname of Plantaginet was first deriued vpon the house of England continued vnto Edward sonne to George Duke of Clarence the last Plantaginet or of the male issue hereof the rest extinguished during the ciuill warres betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster put to death by king Henry the seaventh He marryed vnto Eleanor daughter and sole heire to William Duke of Aquitaine Guienne and by armes voluntary submission made first subiect the factious and devided Irish king of England Duke of Normandy Aquitaine Guienne Earle of Aniou The dominion title of Ireland he had given vnto his yongest son Iohn Maude his eldest daughter was married vnto Henrie surnamed the Lyon Duke of Saxony and Bavaria from whom are descended the present Dukes of Brunswyck and Lunenburg in Germany bearing the same armes with the more auncient kings of England Richard the first king of England Duke of Normandy Aquitaine Guienne Earle of Aniou son to Henrie the second He accompanied Philip surnamed Augusts king of France with other Latine princes towards the East for the recoverie of the Holy Land renowned for his victories against Saladine Sultan of Aegypt and the Infidels Not the least in that journey amongst his other conquest was that of the Cyprioâ—s whom occasioned by some hostile and churlish carriages of Cursar their king against his distressed and weather-beaten Fleete he in few daies subdued exchanging that Iland with Guy of Lusignan for the kingdome or title of Hierusalem remaining in the house of Guy for many descents vntill the vsurpation thereof by the Venetians He deceased without issue Iohn king of England Duke of Normandie Aquitaine and Guienne Earle of Aniou and Lord of Ireland which last title he first added yongest son to Henry the second opposed by Arthur Duke of Britaine son to Geffrey his elder brother and Constance inheretresse of that house He lost Normandy Aniou Touraine and Maine with Poictou part of the Dukedome of Aquitaine to Philip the second surnamed Augustus French king pretending their forfeiture holding of the French kings in fee vpon the decease of Arthur whom he surmised to haue beene murthered by Iohn forsaken in those troubles by his disloyall Nobility refusing their aydes and betrayed by the natiues of those countries better effected to the French Ingaged at once in three dangerous warres against the Pope Cleargie the French king and his rebellious subjects to make his peace with the Pope his more potent adversary and the chiefe authour of those evils Innocentius the third then succeeding in the Papacy he enthralled his Crowne to the tribute and vassallage of the sea of Rome Henry the third son to Iohn succeeding in the left dominions of his father and in his warres against the French and his traiterous English Barons Edward the first son to Henry the third He subdued the Scots and annexed the Welsh to his English kingdome Edward the second son to Edward the first He marryed vnto Isabel daughter to Philip the fourth French king deposed by a joint conspiracy of his disloyall Queene subjects pretending his bad government and vices Edward the third son to Edward the second Isabel of France The male issue of Philip the fourth extinguished in Charles surnamed the Faire in right from his mother daughter to Philip the next heire generall he made claime to the rich kingdome of France assuming the title hereof and quartering his English armoryes with the French Lillies continued still in his successours Hauing vanquished the French in two memorable battailes at Crecy and Poictiers taken Iohn their king prisoner he in the end nothwithstanding fortune changing lost to that enimy all Aquitaine and Guienne the remainder of the English possessions in that Continent Calais excepted yeelded vp by the treacherous inhabitants ill affecting the English government and coveting a revnion with France He deceased in the yeare 1378. Richard the second king of England France and Lord of Ireland son to Edward prince of Wales eldest son to Edward the third deposed by Henry the fourth without issue Henry the fourth king of England France Lord of Ireland son to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster fourth son to Edward the third the first prince of the Lancastrian family whose vsurpation and vniust title gaue occasion afterwards to those long and miserable warres betwixt his house Yorke Henry the fift king of England France and Lord of Ireland eldest son to Henrie the fourth The field of Azincourt won and the vnfortunate French vnder a lunatike and weake king being devided into two great factions of Burgundie and Orleans by the aide of Burgundie hauing married Catharine the French kings daughter he is made Regent of France during the malady and indisposition hereof and declared his next successour to the Crowne Charles the Dolphin his son disinherited Henrie the sixt king of England France and Lord of Ireland son to Henry the fift Catherine of France Crowned French king at Paris in the yeare 1431. In the raigne hereof Richard Duke of Yorke layd claime to the Crowne of England in the right of the house of Clarence elder brother to Iohn of Gaunt father to king Henry the fourth ayded by Richard Nevile Earle of Warwick and other potent nobility the effect whereof was a bloody civill warre continued with variable fortune for the space of 25 yeares betwixt the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke the slaughter of the greatest part of the blood royall of both factions the deposing murder of this holy and just prince the irrecoverable losse of France by these tumults the establishing of the kingdome in Edward the fourth his succession the house of Yorke Edward the fourth son to Richard Plantaginet Duke of Yorke which Richard was son to Richard Earle of Cambridge sonne to Edmund Duke of Yorke fift son
called from the towne of Limburg first an Earledome afterwards made a Dukedome by one of the Henry Emperours By Iohn the first Duke of Brabant pretending some title hereunto it was conquered to the house of Brabant from Reinold the first Duke of Gelderlandt husband to Ermengarde the onely daughter of Herman the last Duke possessed now in this right by the Princes of Burgundy Austria The order and succession of the Princes we finde not THE EARLEDOME OF NAMVR NAmed thus from the chiefe towne thereof Namur The time when it first begun is vncertaine By Iohn or after others by Theodore or Theodoric the last Earle it was sold to Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy whose posterity the Pâ—inces of the house of Burgundy and Austria now enjoy it by that right THE EARLEDOME OF HAINAVLT IT tooke the name from the riuer Haine watering and dividing the country The estate is very auncient being sometime a part of the great Earledome of Ardenne from the which it was divided made a distinct Earledome in the person of Alberic surnamed the Orphelin one of the yongest sons of Brunulph Count of Ardenne dispossessed slain by Dagobert French King who restored dividing that country with his other brethren had this part giuen him with the title of Earle by Sigebert king of Austrasia to be held vnder the soveraignty of the French kings After long continuance and often change by Iaqueline the last Princesse wanting heires together with Holland Zealand and VVest-Freislandt vnited in that family it was surrendred vnto Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy her next kinsman in whose house the right and possession hereof now remaineth The Princes follow Alberic before mentioned one of the yonger sons of Brunulph Earle of Ardenne the first Earle of Hainault VVaultier the first son to Alberic VVaultier the second son to Waultier the first VVaultier the third son to Waultier the second He dyed without male issue Albon the first in right of his wife eldest daughter to Waultier the third Albon the second sonne to Albon the first and of the daughter of Waultier the third Manassier sonne to Albon the second Regnier the first son to Manassier Regnier the second son to Regnier the first Regnier the third son to Regnier the second Bauldwin Earle of Flanders in right of his wife Richilde sole daughter to Regnier the third Bauldwin the second son to Bauldwin Richilde aforesaid Hee succeeded only in the Earledome of Hainault Bauldwin the third son to Bauldwin the second Bauldwin the fourth son to Bauldwin the third Bauldwin the fift sonne to Bauldwin the fourth Bauldwin the sixt sonne to Bauldwin the fift Hee marryed vnto Margeret Countesse of Flanders by which meanes these two Earledomes were the second time vnited vnder one prince Bauldwin the seaventh sonne to Bauldwin the sixt and Margaret Earle of Flanders and Hainault Ioan eldest daughter to Bauldwin the seaventh Earle of Flanders Hainault She dyed sans issue having beene twise marryed to Ferdinand son to Sancius K. of Portugal to Thomas son to Thomas Earle of Savoy Margaret the second younger sister to Ioane aforesaid and daughter to Bauldwin the seaventh Countesse of Flanders and Hainault Shee married vnto William of Burbon Lord of Dampier brother to Archembauld Duke of Bourbon and deceased in the yeare 1279. Before her marriage she had by Buscart her Tutour or Guardian Prior of the Monasterie of S. Peter in L'isle a son named Iohn d'Avesnes by agreement consent of his other brethren succeeding in the Earledome hereof Flanders descending vpon the legitimate issue the heire of Margaret and William of Bourbon Lord of Dampierre Iohn d' Avesnes naturall son to Margaret the second and Buscart Earle of Hainault He marryed vnto Aleide daughter to Florentius the fourth and sister to the Emperour William Earles of Holland Iohn the second son to Iohn d'Avesnes and Aleide aforesaid After the decease of Iohn the first Earle of Holland without children in the yeare 1300 hee succeeded in the Earledomes of Holland Zealand and in the Lordship of West-Freisland continued still afterwards vnited in his successours William the first son to Iohn the second Earle of Hainault Holland Zealandt Lord of West-Freislandt William the second son to William the first He deceased without issue slaine at Staveren by the rebellious Frisons Margaret the third sister to William the second and wife to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria Countesse of Hainault Holland Zealand and Lord of West-Freislandt Younger sister herevnto was Philippa Queene to Edward the third king of England Betwixt this princesse and her vnnaturall son William the third arose great quarrels contention about the possession hereof the oceasions of the factions d'Houc Cabelliau a long time after afflicting Holland the first taking part with the mother the other with the son the controversie at length being composed betwixt them the Empresse the mother being contented only with Hainault deceasing in the yeare 1355 and buried at Valenciens William the third younger son to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria of Margaret aforesaid Earle of Hainault Holland Zealandt and Lord of West-Freislandt Tainted with this vnnaturall rebellion and wickednes against his mother he fell into a frensy wherein he languished for the space of 30 yeares deceasing without islue Albert the first son to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria Margaret yonger brother to William the third during his sicknesse malady Governour of all the provinces of the Netherlands subject to the house of Bavaria Stephen the eldest son to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria Margaret succeeded in the Dukedome of Bavaria William the fourth son to Albert the first Iaqueline daughter vnto William the fourth After long much trouble sundry vnfortunate and ill succeeding marriages shee resigned the Estates of Hainault Holland Zealand West-Frelslandt vnto Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy her next kinsman deceasing without issue Philip surnamed the Good sonne to Iohn Duke of Burgundy of Margaret daughter to Albert the first sister to William the fourth and aunt to Iaqueline by right of bloud and the resignation of Iaqueline Earle of Hollandt Zealandt and Hainault and Lord of West-Freislandt by whom these foure provinces were all brought vnto the house of Burgundy afterwards of Austria These Estates begun for the most part by the French seated in their part of Lorraine and first held vnder their right thorough the quarrels factions and sundry imperfections raigning in that nation haue since wholy withdrawne themselues from all subjection hereof acknowledging the soveraignety of the Dutch accompted part of their Empire and reckoned in their tenth circle of Burgundy At this day notwithstanding chiefely since their possession by the house of Burgundy thorough the no lesse sicknesse and maladies of the languishing German Empire they haue likewise freed themselues in a maner from all acknowledgment hereof neither suiting their Imperiall Court nor obeying the orders of their
Diets neither yeelding any ayde or service to the Emperour with the provinces of Flanders Artois subject only to their owne princes the Dukes of Burgundy Austria THE EARLEDOME of HOLLAND and ZEALAND THey were thus named from their low maritime situations Vexed with the pyracyes of the Normans about the yeare 857 for their better defence they were first giuen with this title together with the neighbouring countrie of the Frisons vnto Theodoric son to Sigebert prince of Aquitania by the Emperour Charles the Bauld By Arnulph their fourth prince quitting the French alleagiance they were first made subiect to the fief and soveraignttie of the Dutch Emperours In Iohn the second they became added to the house of Hainault In VVilliam the third to the house of Bavaria In Philip the Good to the familie of Burgundy In Philip the second to the house of Austria wherein now the right remaineth In the raigne of Philip the second king of Spaine and the third of that name Duke of Burgundy occasioned thorough their difference in Religion and the rough goverment of his Spanish officers together with the provinces of Vtreicht Over-Ysel Gelderland VVest-Freislandt Groningen they shoke off the yoake of their princes after about 40 yeares warre treated withall and acknowledged as free estates by his son Philip the third Their Princes follow Theodoric son to Sigebert prince of Aquitania first Earle of Holland and Zealand and Lord of West-Freisland in the raigne by the gift of the Emperour Charles the Bauld Theodoric the second son to Theodoric the first Theodoric the third son to Theodoric the second Arnulph son to Theodoric the third slaine against the Frisons with whom still rebelling this prince his successours had often and continuall war Hee made subject these provinces to the soveraignety of the German Emperours Theodoric the fourth son to Arnulph Theodoric the fift son to Theodoric the fourth He dyed sans issue Florentius the first son to Theodoric the fourth and brother to Theodoric the fift Theodoric the sixt son to Florentius the first In the minority hereof Rupert Earle of Flanders second husband to his mother Gertrude and protectour herevnto being overcome driven out the countries hereof are vsurped seazed vpon by Godfrey surnamed le Bossu Duke of Lorraine slaine by treason in the yeare 1075 accompted by some amongst the Earles of Holland Zealand Florentius the second son to Theodoric the sixt Theodoric the seaventh son to Florentius the second Florentius the third son to Theodoric the seaventh Theodoric the eight son to Florentius the third Hee deceased without male issue Ada daughter to Theodoric the eight marryed vnto Lewis Earle of Lossen driven out by William Earle of East-Friesland She dyed without heires William the first Earle of East-Freisland brother to Theodoric the eight and vncle vnto Ada Earle of Holland Zealand Lord of West-Freisland Florentius the fourth son to William the first It was Margaret daughter herevnto and wife to Herman Earle of Henneberg who is so famous in the Dutch histories for her monstrous birth of 365 children christned altogether by the names of Iohn Elizabeth by Guy Suffragan of Vtreicht deceasing vpon the same day with their mother in the yeare 1276 and buried at Losdun neere vnto the Hage whose monument epitaphe are there yet to be seene William the second son to Florentius the fourth He was elected Roman Emperour slaine by the rebellious Frisons Florentius the fift son to William the second He marryed vnto Beatres daughter to Guy Earle of Flanders by whom he had in way of dowry the whole right given vnto him which the Earles of Flanders chalenged in the Iland of Walcheren Zealand for a long time controversed betwixt the two houses Meyerus in his historie of Flanders would haue him to haue beene the first Earle of Holland who should take vpon him the title and name of Earle of Zealand Iohn the first son to Florentius the fift Hee marryed vnto Elizabeth daughter to Edward the second King of England deceased without issue in the yeare 1300 the last Earle of Holland Zealand Lord of West-Freisland of the house of Aquitaine Iohn the second Earle of Hainault son to Iohn d'Avesnes Alâ—ide or Adelheide daughter to Florentius the fourth sister to the Emperour William Earle of Holland Zealand Lord of West-Freisland William the third son to Iohn the second William the fourth son to William the third slaine at Staveren against the Frisons in the yeare 1345 sans issue Margaret eldest daughter to William the third sister to William the fourth the last princesse of the house of Hainault She marryed vnto the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria William the fift younger son to Margaret of Hainault to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria Hee dyed phrenetique without issue noted for his rebellion disobedience towards his mother His elder brother Stephen succeeded in the Dukedome of Bavaria from whom haue descended the present Dukes of Bavaria Albert son to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria of Margaret of Hainault younger brother to William the fift William the sixt son to Albert. Iaqueline daughter to William the sixt Shee dyed without issue the last princesse of the house of Bavaria Countesse of Holland Zealand Hainault aâ—d Lord of West-Freislandt Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy son to Iohn Duke of Burgundy of Margaret daughter to Albert sister to William the sixt Charles surnamed the Fighter Duke of Burgundy sonne to Philip the Good slaine by the Switzers Lorrainers before Nancie Marie daughter to Charles surnamed the Fighter the last princesse of the house or name of Burgundy Countesse of Holland Zealand Hainault and Lord of West-Freislandt Shee marryed vnto Maximilian the first Arch-duke of Austria and afterwards Emperour of the Romans Philip the second son to Maximilian Mary and afterwards the first of that name king of Spaine in right of his wife Ioane eldest daughter vnto Ferdinand the fift Elizabeth Kings of Castile Aragon Charles son to Philip Ioane aforesaid heire of the houses of Burgundy Austria Spaine and the fift of that name Emperour of the Romans Philip the third of that name Duke of Burgundy the second of the name King of Spaine son to the Emperour Charles the fift vnder whose government the provinces of Holland Zealand and West-Freisland first revolted The Bishopricke or Lordship of Vtreicht NAmed thus from the city Vtreicht The estate was first occasioned by one Willebrod an Englishman the Apostle of those parts vpon his conversion of the country from Paganisme instituted first Bishop hereof about the yeare 611 and during the Regency of Pepin the Fat Majour of the Palace in France The Successours of this Willebrod in continuance of time by the liberality of the French Kings of the German Emperours haue attayned vnto as well the temporall as the spirituall iurisdiction of the countrey together with Over-Ysel
Calis from Mary queene of England Francis the second son to Henry the second Charles the ninth son to Henry the second and brother to Francis the second Henry the third son to Henry the second and brother to Francis the second and Charles the ninth These three brethren kings all dyed without issue the last princes of the house of Valois Henry the fourth King of Navarre son to Antony of Bourbon Duke of Vendosme Ioane queene of Navarre the next prince of the blood of the line masculine descended from Lewis the ninth surnamed the Saint slain at Paris by that wretched Assassinate Ravaillart Lewis the thirteenth son to Henry the fourth King of France Navarre now raigning The Earledome of Flanders THis belonged sometimes vnto the kingdome of West-France held still by the princes thereof vnder the fief of this crowne quitted vnto Philip and second king of Spaine and to the heires of the house of Burgundy by Henry the second French King the late league of Cambray Concerning the occasion and beginning of the name hereof we cannot relate any thing certainely The estate was begun after Wassenburg in the person of one Lideric Buc vnto whom the Countrey was given with the title of Forester by Dagobert the first French King at that time for the most part lying waste and without almost inhabitants thorough the vastnes of the woods and marishes and the pyracyes of the Danes In the person of Bauldwin the last Forester it was made an Earledome by the Emperour Charles the Bauld whose sister Iudith he had marryed in which stile it hath ever since continued It contayned then besides moderne Flanders the countrey of Artois and the parts of France where now lie Vermanduois Boulognois or vnto the Some By Earle Philip the first the parts of Vermanduois Artois and Boulognois were severed from Flanders given in way of dowry with Isabel daughter to his sister Margaret and Bauldwin Earle of Hainault vnto Philip Augustus French king since incorporated by this meanes vnto the Crowne of France part whereof became afterwards the Earledome of Artois The Princes follow Lideric Buc the first Forester son to Salvart Prince of Diion created by Dagobert French King according to Wassenburg in the yeare 611 after Heuterus in the yeare 621. Antony Buc son to Lideric Buc slaine by the Danes Boschart son to Lideric Buc and brother to Antony He was driuen out by Theodoric French king hauing only left vnto him the Lordship of Harlebec After this for about one hundred yeares space we reade not of any Foresters or Lords hereof the country in the meane time being miserably spoiled by the Norman and Danish pyrats Estored Lord of Harlebec afterwards Forester by whom the Normans were expulsed He liued in the time of Charles Martel Regent of France Lideric the second son to Estored Inguelran son to Lideric the second Odoacer son to Inguelran Bauldwin the first son to Odoacer Hauing married Iudith sister to the Emperour Charles the Bauld he was created by him first Earle of Flanders in whom ended the title of Foresters Bauldwin the second son to Bauldwin the first Arnold the first son to Bauldwin the second Bauldwin the third son to Arnold Arnold the second sonne to Bauldwin the third Bauldwin the fourth sonne to Arnold the second Hee had giuen vnto him the Iland of Walcheren in Zealand by the Emperour Henry the second the cause of long contention betwixt the houses of Flanders Holland quitted afterwards by Earle Guye of Flanders vnto Florentius the fift Earle of Holland Bauldwin the fift son to Bauldwin the fourth Bauldwin the sixt son to Bauldwin the fift He marryed Richilde Countesse of Hainault daughter to Regnier the third vniting for a time those two Earledomes in his succession and family He deceased in the yeare 1070. Arnold the third son to Bauldwin the sixt Earle of Flanders and Hainault slaine in battaile sans issue by his Vncle Robert Robert the first son to Bauldwin the fift and Vncle to Arnold the third His nephew Bauldwin brother to Arnold the third succeeded in the Earledome of Hainault by which meanes those two estates were againe divided Robert the second Earle of Flanders son to Robert the first Bauldwin the seauenth son to Robert the second Wanting heires he bequeathed Flanders vnto Charles surnamed the Good son to Canutus king of Denmarke and Adela Charles surnamed the Good son to Canutus king of Denmarke and Adela daughter to Robert the first He dyed sans issue William the first son to Robert Duke of Normandy eldest son to William surnamed the conquerour Duke of Normandy and king of England and Maude wife vnto the Conquerour daughter to Bauldwin the fift and sister to Bauldwin the sixt He enioyed not long the Earledome expulsed in regard of his tyranny and cruelty Theodoric son to Theodoric Earle of Elsatz and of Gertrud daughter to Robert the first William the Norman being driuen out slaine Hee deceased in the yeare 1168. Philip son to Theodoric Margaret eldest sister to Philip. She marryed vnto Bauldwin the sixt Earle of Hainault Namur vniting againe these two Earledomes in one family Bauldwin the ninth Earle of Flanders Hainault son to Bauldwin Margaret Ioane Countesse of Flanders Hainault daughter to Bauldwin the ninth She dyed sans issue Margaret the second Countesse of Flanders Hainault daughter to Bauldwin the ninth yonger sister to Ioane She marryed vnto William of Bourbon Lord of Dampierre She had before this marriage by Buscart Prior of S. Peter in L'isle her gurdian a base son named Iohn d'Avesnes succeeding afterwards in Hainault William the second son to William of Bourbon Lord of Dampier Margaret Earle onely of Flanders Iohn d'Avesnes son to Margaret Buscart by composition amongst the brethren succeeding in Hainault He dyed without issue Guy Earle of Flanders son to Margaret William Lord of Dampier yonger brother to William the second Robert the third son to Guy Earle of Flanders Lewis the first son to Lewis son to Robert the third Mary daughter to Iames Earle of Nevers Retel He marryed vnto Margaret heire of the Earledomes of Burgundy and Artois He was slaine fighting against the English in the battaile of Crecy Lewis the second surnamed Malan from a castle thus called the place of his birth Earle of Flanders Artois and Burgundy son to Lewis the first Margaret daughter to Philip the Long second king and Ioane Countesse of Artois and Burgundy Margaret Countesse of Flanders Burgundy Artois daughter to Lewis the second She married vnto Philip de Valois surnamed the Hardy Duke of Burgundy son to Iohn French king by meanes whereof these three Estates descended vpon the house of Burgundy afterwards of Austria The Earledome of ARTOIS THis tooke the name from the Atrebates the auncient inhabitants or otherwise from Arras the chiefe towne It was sometimes a part of Flanders giuen with other peeces anciently belonging to
ominous cast off by a decree of the states vnluckie to the Scottish French and English Monarchs son to Robert the second Iames the first son to Iohn or Robert the third murthered in his bed at Perth by Walter Earle of Athol Iames the second sonne to Iames the first slaine at the siege of the Castle of Rosburg against the English Iames the third son to Iames the second slaine in battaill against his seditious and rebellious subjects neere the towne of Sterling Iames the fourth son to Iames the third He married the Lady Margaret eldest daughter to Henry the seaventh king of England He was slaine at the field of Floddon by Thomas Howard Earle of Surrey and the English Iames the fift son to Iames the fourth and Margaret daughter to king Henry the seaventh He deceased without male issue Mary daughter to Iames the fift Iames of happy memory son to Henry Stewart Lord Darly and Mary Queene of Scotland The famous and victorious Queene Elizabeth in the yeare 1602 deceasing vnmarryed the last descended from the male issue of Henry the seaventh and Elizabeth he succeeded in the English dominions descended from Lady Margaret aforesaid the right and vndoubted heire of the three princely houses of the Saxon Scottish and Norman Kings and the first sole Monarke of Great Britaine Ireland and the neighbouring Ilands Charles king of great Britaine France and Ireland son to Iames of happy memory whom God long preserue THE ENGLISH THey were a German people mentioned by Tacitus and Ptolemy contayning part of the great and populous nation of the Suevi Ptolemy placeth them in this time about the middle of that vast continent and the riuer Albis with which riuer they were bounded vpon the North having towards the West the people of the Longobards They inhabited then most probably according to his discription the parts where now lie the Bishopricke of Hall and the Higher Saxony about Wittenberg Their interpretations seeme absurd who in regard of the affinity of the names would haue them seated about Engerne in Westphalen or Angloen in Pomerania places farre distant from the river Elb or the heart of Germany Afterwards towards the waine of the Romane Empire they flitted to the German Ocean more Westwards Beda before their invasion of this Iland placed them there betwixt the Iutes lying vpon the North of them and the Saxons vpon the South Ethelwerd an auncient Authour liuing not long after Beda more distinctly maketh Sleswiick then to be their chiefe citie situated in the Cimbrian Chersonese betwixt the two nations now mentioned The name of Angelen in the present Dukedome of Schleswiick together with these authorities manifestly proue that to haue beene their country in Dutchland immediatly before their English arriuall THE IVTES THe Iutes doubtles were the Gutae of Ptolemy inhabiting the Southerne part of Scandia which he mistaketh to be an Iland and attributeth vnto Germany In the declining age of the Westerne Empire the exact time we finde not sayling ouer the Bay Codanus or the Straights of the Sundt they flitted into the neighbouring Cimbrian Chersonese subdued or made viode which is the more likely vpon the departure of the Cimbri and other Dutch people drawing more Southwards towards the Romane frontier vniting into the common names of Saxons French or Almans Beda placeth them in this Chersonese vpon the North of the English or of Sleswiick their chiefe towne Their memorie is here yet preserued in the name of Iutlandt the part of the Chersonese or of Denmarke lying vpon the North of the Dukedome of Schleswiick THE SAXONS OF this nation we haue spoken more fully in the relation of Germany They were likewise a Dutch people mentioned by Ptolemy inhabiting then the necke of the Cimbrian Chersonese now Holstein Afterwards passing the riuer Elbe and sundry other German names joyning into this common they spread Southwards as farre as the French These conquering and remouing into Gaule they enlarged vnto the right shore of the riuer Rhijn By the raigne of the Emperour Charles the great they extended along the German Ocean from the river Eydore deviding them from the Danes vnto the Rhijn from the fall of that river vpwards as high as Colen parting them from the French These three German nations since their affaire with the Britons are onely by Beda thus particularly named and distinguished By Ammianus Marcellinus Gildas and other Authours before his time the Dutch infesting Britaine are all called by one generall name of the Saxons After Beda and the more ancient English historians they are sometimes named the English by others the Saxons and English-Saxons That they were the different parts of one generall Dutch name or people it is by all agreed In the yeare 449 according to Beda if his accompt be right Valentinian the third and Theodosius the second then governing the Roman Empire after long pyracies vpon the sea-coasts hereof they first to any any purpose enter and inhabit Britaine called in by Vortigerne and the Britons to their aide against the Scots and Picts and vnder Hengist and Horsa their Captaines planted in the Iland of Thanet in Kent given vnto them by Vortigerne The Scots Picts being vanquished and overthrowne through their valour neere Stamford after Henry of Huntingdon and the weakenesse of the Ilanders discouered new supplies from Germany are sent for by Hengist with his faire daughter Rowena marryed shortly after to the lustfull prince Vortigerne bewitched with her beauty by whom for his consent and more firme friendship with the Saxons Kent is allotted to Hengist about the yeare 455 by him erected into a kingdome the first dominion of the Saxons in Britaine This forreine friendship and alliance with the daily intrusion of the Dutch growing suspected by the Britons Vortigerne deposed and Vortimer his son by a former wife elected king hot warres ensue betwixt the two nations continued with deadly hate furie for many hundred yeares betwixt them whose effect was the finall expulsion of the Britons beyond the Severne amongst the Welsh Mountaines which happened by the raigne of their King Caereticus about the yeare 586 and the conquest of the plaine and Easterne countrey by the Saxons with fresh companies continually invading the Iland vpon occasion of those warres or allured with the happy successe of those first adventurers and beginning sundry small kingdomes in the parts where they arrived or tooke vp to inhabite whereof some one notwithstanding still bore a sway over the rest whose King was accōpted soveraigne or Monarch the kingdomes of Kent the South-Saxons East-Saxons East-Angles Northumberland Mercia and of the West-Saxons whose originall continuance and fortunes vntill their vnion into the kingdome of the West-Saxons name of England come next in place THE KINGDOME OF THE KENTISH SAXONS THis contained onely Kent It was begunne by Hengist aforesaid the first Saxon Captaine that invaded Britaine vnto whom the countrey was
eldest daughter to Edward surnamed the Outlaw eldest son to Edmund Ironside King of England by which meanes the right of the house of the Saxons Edgar Atheling the only son of Edward deceasing vnmarried and without issue descended vpon the Kings of Scotland the posterity hereof and Margaret continued herein vnto our times and the vnion of the two kingdomes in Iames our late Soveraigne of happy memory He first as is thought brought into Scotland the titles of Earles Barons with others borrowed from the neighbouring English with whom vnder Edward the Confessour during the vsurpation of Macbeth he had for a long time remained He was slaine at the taking of Anwick Castle in Northumberland after some yeares warre maintained against William the Conquerour and the Normans occasioned through his protection and ayde of the banished English Donaldus the fourth son to Duncanus yonger brother to Milcolumbus the third vsurping the kingdome by the aide of Magnus king of Norwey He was driven out by Duncanus naturall son to Milcolumbus the third Duncanus the second naturall son to Milcolumbus the third slaine by the treason of Macpendirus Earle of Merne corrupted by Donaldus the fourth liuing then exiled amongst the Westerne Ilands He thus murthered Donardus the fourth resumed the kingdome vanquished and taken prisoner not long after by Edgar the right heire son to Milcolumbus the third and Margaret ayded by his vncle Edgar and the English Edgar son to Milcolumbus the third and Margaret daughter to Edward surnamed the Outlaw His sister Maude was marryed vnto Henrie the first king of England yongest son to the Conquerour vniting hereby the royall blood of the Saxons with that of the Normans Hee deceased without issue Alexander the first son to Milcolumbus and Margaret and brother to Edgar He also deceased sans issue David the first brother to Edgar and Alexander and son to Milcolumbus and Margaret succeeding in the yeare 1124. He annexed to the Crowne of Scotland the Earledomes of Northumberland and Huntingdon acruing through his marriage with Maude daughter to Earle Waldeofus He recouered likewise Cumberland and Westmoreland from the English taken from his predecessours by William the Conquerour restored vnto him by the liberality of king Stephen Milcolumbus the fourth son to Henrie prince of Scotland son to king David Vnable to withstand the ambition and greater power hereof he quitted Northumberland Westmoreland and Cumberland vnto Henry the second king of England retaining onely the Earledome of Huntingdon of all his English possessions left for a time vnto his successours He deceased without issue vnmarried VVilliam brother to Malcolme the fourth Taken prisoner at the battaill of Anwijck to procure his libertie peace with the English he did homage and sweare fealty vnto king Henry the second for the Crowne of Scotland Alexander the second son to William Alexander the third son to Alexander the second He deceased in the yeare 1285 without heires of his body or not long surviving The whole issue hereof and of king Alexander the second and William extinguished their contended for the soveraignety Iohn Balliol Lord of Galloway son to Iohn Balliol and Dornagilla daughter to Alan Lord of Galloway and Margaret eldest daughter to David Earle of Huntingdon brother to king William great vncle to Alexander the third and Robert Bruce Lord of Annandale son to Robert Bruce and Isabell second daughter to David Earle of Huntingdon and sister to Margaret both parties challenging a chiefer right and interest before the other Balliol as descended from the elder sister and Bruce as nearer by one degree to Earle David The Scots not able to determine the controversie or without armes Edward the first king of England is chosen vmpire After 6 yeares vacancy the right is adiudged on the behalfe of Balliol by king Edward with condition of his acknowledgment and homage to the English Crowne Iohn Balliol Lord of Galloway king of Scotland by the arbitration of king Edward the first He did homage to king Edward at the towne of Newcastle vpon Tine according to the agreement made betwixt them Discontenting his subjects through this his English subjection to regaine their lost loues or after my Scottish Authours provoked with some disgrace iniuries receiued from Edward he renounced not long after his homage and fealty sworne to the English warred vpon by Edward and after some ouerthrowes vnable to withstand so valiant and great a Monarcke forced to resigne into the hands hereof the whole right and interest he had or might claime to the Crowne of Scotland imprisoned afterwards in the towre of London and set at liberty by the mediation of Pope Boniface the eight and sent ouer to his inheritance and possessions in France where in a private fortune he dyed After this king Edward the first of England made a full conquest of the Scots whō he kept vnder hard subjection during his whole raigne although not without sundry defections and rebellions of this fierce stirring nation moued by William Walleys Robert Bruce and others most commonly to their losse He deceasing through their great victorie at Banocks-bourne neare Striueling obtained against Edward the second and the English and the tumults disorders hapning in England during the raigne of this weake and vnfortunate prince the Scots againe recouer their libertie Robet Bruce formerly crowned in the raigne of Edward the first is confirmed king Robert the first son to Robert Bruce lord of Anandale competitour of the kingdome with Iohn Balliol king of Scotland by right of warre his birth and the voluntary cession of Balliol the restorer of the Scottish name and liberty after a victorious and happy raigne deceasing in the yeare 1329. David the second king of Scotland son to Robert the first In the minority hereof Edward Balliol son to Iohn Balliol invadeth and by the helpe of the English obtayneth the Scottish Crowne to be held by him vnder the homage and protection of Edward the third king of England opposed by the faction of David Balliol and his Enhlish after long miserie and war being thrust out king David recovereth his almost lost kindgome taken prisoner shortly after at the battaill of Nevills crosse neere Durham invading England in favour of his auncient friends the French distressed through the many victories of Edward the third and the English He deceased without issue in the yeare 1370 the second and last king of Scotland of the house and name of Bruce Robert the second the first of the familie name of the Stewarts descended from Walter created Stewart of Scotland by Malcolme the third which name of office grew afterwards a surname to his house and ofspring king of Scotland in right from his mother eldest daughter to Robert the first and sister to Dauid the second Since this time the name and house of Stewarts haue still worne the regall Crowne of the Scottish dominions Iohn the second called Robert after his inauguration the name of Iohn as
to king Edward the third by Anna his wife daughter to Roger Mortimer Earle of March son to Edmund Mortimer Philippa daughter and sole heire of Lionel Duke of Clarence third son to king Edward king of England and France Lord of Ireland by conquest and the right of his house Edward the fift king of England and France and Lord of Ireland son to Edward the fourth deposed and afterwards murthered by his vnnaturall vncle Richard the third deceasing without issue Richard the third son to Richard Duke of Yorke and yonger brother to Edward the fourth He was slaine at Bosworth field against Henry the seaventh the last king of the name of Plantagenet Henry the seaventh king of England France and Lord of Ireland son to Edmund Earle of Richmund and Margaret his wife daughter to Iohn Duke of Somerset sonne to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by Catherine Swinford the next and almost onely surviuing person of the house of Lancaster butchered in the late warres The better to assure the kingdome to his posterity and to prevent all future quarrells he tooke to wife Elizabeth eldest daughter to king Edward the fourth vniting in his issue the vndoubted rights of both factions of Lancaster Yorke Henry the eight son to Henry the seaventh He made Ireland a kingdome and first assumed the title of Defendour of the faith Edward the sixt king of England France and Ireland son to Henry the eight Mary Queene of England France and Ireland daughter to Henry the eight sister to Edward Elizabeth of famous memory Queene of England France Ireland sister to Edward Mary Iames of happie memory the sixt of that name king of Scotland in the yeare 1602 the whole issue of king Henry the eight being extinguished in Elizabeth succeeding in the kingdome of England and the dominions therevnto belonging son to Henry Stuart Lord Darly and Mary Queene of the Scots daughter to Iames the fift son to Iames the fourth Margaret eldest daughter to king Henry the seaventh the first sole Monarch of Great Britaine and of the neighbouring Ilands Charles king of Great Britaine France Ireland whom God long preserue sonne to Iames of happie memorie In this sort the Iland of Great Britaine having suffered so many alterations is at length now become devided into two onely kingdomes governed by one Monarch but not any wise depending or subordinate to another the kingdome of England lying vpon the South of the river Tweede Solwey Frith and the kingdome of Scotland lying beyond The kingdome of England our present subject hath beene formerly devided into 52 Shires or Counties Kent Sussex Surrey Barkeshire Hantshire Wiltshire Somersetshire Dorsetshire Devonshire Cornwall Glocestershire Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Bedfordshire Hartfordshire Middlesex Essex Suffolke Norfolke Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire Northamptonshire Rutlandshire Leicestershire Lincolneshire Nottinghamshire Darbyshire Cheshire Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire Shropshire Herefordshire Monmouthshire Glamorganshire Brecknockshire Radnorshire Caermardenshire Penbrokeshire Cardiganshire Merioneihshire Caernarvonshire Anglesey Denbighshire Flintshire Lancashire Yorkeshire the Bishopricke of Durham Westmoreland Cumberland Northumberland Of these Kent retayneth yet the auncient name Essex Sussex haue bin thus called from the East South-Saxons Midlesex from the situation of the English or Dutch inhabitants planted betwixt the West South East Mercian Saxons Devonshire or Denshire from the Danmonij the auncient British inhabitants Westmoreland from the more Westerne position and quality of the countrey being hilly and full of fruitles wasts named Mores by the Northerne English Northumberland from the English kingdome of Northumberland whereof it was a part Rutlandshire most probably from the ruddie colour of the soile Barkeshire from the wood Berroc after Asser Menevensis Glamorganshire from the word Mor signifying the sea with the Britons or Welsh vpon which it lyeth Wiltshire and Somersetshire from Wilton and Somerton decayed townes sometimes the chiefe of the Shires Anglesey from the English since the possession hereof by the Nation Suth-rey or Surrey signifyeth with the English the Southerne kingdome a part of the kingdome of the South-Saxons Suffolke Norfolke the more Southerne and Northerne people compared thus together the parts sometimes of the kingdome of the East-Angles The occasion of the names of Cornwall and Cumberland we euen now related Merioneth was the auncient name given by the Welsh The reason hereof we finde not The rest haue beene named from the chiefe townes of each devision Their descriptions follow L. D. THE THIRD BOOKE Contayning the Chorographicall description of England KENT BOunded vpon the South and East with the English channell and the German Ocean vpon the North with the river Thames from Essex and vpon the West with Surrey and Sussex The country is hilly shaded with hedge-rowes woods populous and fruitfull planted with a frugall and industrious inhabitant The aire is thick and in many places agueish and vnholsome for this cause or in regard of some bad vapours from a wet cold and vnhealthfull ground Places of better note are Canterbury vpon the river Stour Darvernum of Ptolemy Durovernum of Antoninus Durovernia of Beda the chiefe towne and an Archbishops sea the Primate of the kingdome founded by Ethelbert the first Christian king of Kent in the person of S. Austine the Apostle of the English Vpon the Ocean Reculver a country village Regulbium of the Notitia the Station of the 1 Cohort named of the Vetasii Sandwich a Cinque Port. In the neighbouring fields stood the towne Rhutupiae of Ptolemy and Rhitupae of Antoninus the tract of whose streets are yet discovered by a more thin growth of corne in those places named S. Augustines crosse by the vulgar people a famous port of the Romans and the Mansion of their 2 d Legion surnamed Augusta drawne hither in the waine of that Empire from Isca Silurum now Caer Leon in South-Wales to defend the coast against the pyracies and incursions of the Saxons North hereof lyeth the I le of Tenet Thanatos of Ptolemy made by the river Stour here dividing and falling into the Ocean with two branches or channels The foreland a promontory of the Iland is named Cantium by Ptolemy in some editions corruptly Nucantium and Acantium Dover vnder the cliffs and where they divide Dubris of Antoninus and Dubrae of the the Notitia the Station of a foot company of the Tungricani a noted passage into France and one of the Cinque ports defended with a spacious and strong castle mounted vpon a high and praecipitous rocke commaunding the subject Ocean The Constable hereof is Warden of the Cinque ports The straight of the sea betwixt this and the Continent named by the French Le Pas de Calais by the Latines Fretum Caletanum containeth about 30 miles in breadth At the castle of Deale a low shore in the way towards Sandwich Caesar is thought to haue landed when he first invaded Britaine Along the cliffs Folkeston Hide a cinque port
iurisdiction or their Delegates offices for the most part hereditary to noble families The Country containeth 34 parts or diuisions Merch. Lauden Tweedale Teifidale Liddesdale c. Annandale Niddesdale Galloway Carick Kyle Cuningham Arran Cluidesdale c. Lennox Stirling Fife Strath-ern MeÌ„teith Argile Cantire and Lorne lying vpon the South of the riuer Taye and Braid-albin Loquabria Perth Athol Anguis Mern Marre Buquhan Murray Rosse Sutherland Catnesse and Strath-Navern lying vpon the South of that river the middle of the kingdome MERCH LYing vpon the German Ocean betwixt Northumberland in England and Lauden More noted places are Hume-Castle naming the familie of the Humes Kelso Coldingham Coldana of Beda and not vnprobably Colania of Ptolemy Fast-Castle belonging to the Humes vpon the Promontory S. Ebbes LAVDEN EXtended along the same Ocean betwixt Merch and the Frith of Edenburg fruitfull in corne and inhabited by an industrious and civill people Chiefer townes are Hadington in a plaine vpon a small rivulet named the Tine Below vpon the Ocean and neare vnto the mouth of that river stood sometimes the strong Castle of Dunbar in the yeare 1567 destroyed by the commande of the States iealous of the surprisall thereof by rebells Musselborough vpon the riuer Eske memorable for a great overthrow of the Scots giuen by the English vnder Edward Duke of Somerset protectour of the Realme of England in the minority of king Edward the Sixt. Leith a noted port vpon the Frith of Edenborough Bodotria of Tacitus and Boderia of Ptolemy the seate of warre of the French in the raigne of Queene Mary wife vnto Francis the Dolphin besieged and thrust out by the ioinct armes of Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie and the Scottish nobility Edenburgh the chiefe citty of the kingdome extended betwixt West and East vpon a hil or rising ground of some mile in length some halfe a mile in breadth populous faire and through the neighbourhood of the Frith and Leith rich and well traded defended with wals and a magnificent and strong castle mounted vpon a steepe and precipitious rocke towards the West end of the Towne Some suppose here to haue beene Alata Castra of Ptolemy but erroneously Linlithquo or Lithquo vpon a Lake neere vnto the head of the Frith supposed to be Lindum of Ptolemie a citty of the Damnij of the same Authour TWEEDALE COntinued along the Tweede towards Merch Berwijck commended for sheepe and woolls More chiefe places are Drimlar Castle and Peblis and Selkirck Sherifdomes or Praefectureships for the vally all standing vpon the Tweede TIVIDALE SEated among rocky hills betwixt Tweedale and Northumberland and along the course of the river Teviot Places of more note are Iedburg neere vnto the confluence of the Ied and Teviot and Roxburg a decayed castle at the meetings of the Teviot and Tweede the Sherifdome of the country fatall to the Scots by the vntimely death of king Iames the second slaine in the siege hereof by the English These fowre seeme to containe the Gadeni of Ptolemie ESKE-DALE LIDDES-DALE AND EVSE-DALE NAmed thus from and extended vpon the rivers Eske and the Lidden and Euse by the Eske disburdened in the Solway neere to Caerlile The chiefe place is the Hermitage a strong castle in Liddesdale ANNANDALE COntinued vpon both sides of the riuer Annan falling into the Frith of Solway against Burgh vpon the Sands in Cumberland More noted places are the Castle Maban strongly seated within the Lake Maban and the towne Annand standing vpon the riuer thus named nere vnto the fall therof into the Frith NIDISDALE LYing to the West of Annandale vpon the riuer Nid Nobius of Ptolemy receiued into the Solway below the riuer Annan Places of better note are vpon the Nid Sanghuer Castle wherof are entitl'd the Lords Sanqhuer of the house or name of the Creichtons Morton naming the Earles Morton of the name of Duglas Dunfreis nere to the fall of the riuer a rich well traded Emporie the chiefe towne of these parts At the mouth of the riuer Caerlaverock castle Carbantorigum of Ptolemie the house now of the Lord Maxwels Vpon a lake more remote from the river Glencarne whereof are stiled the Earles of Glencarne of the house of the Cuninghams These from Eskedale seeme more anciently to haue contained the Elgovâ—e or Selgovae of Ptolemy imparting their name to bordering Frith of Solway GALLOWAY RIsing with grassie hils betwixt Nidisdale vpon the East and Carict vpon the North and enclosed vpon the other sides with the Irish Ocean the most Westerne part this way of the kingdome Places of more note are vpon the riuer Dee Dea of Ptolemy Kircoubright a commodious haven and Seneschaussee Wigton a Sherifdome and a commodious Port betwixt the rivers Blaidnoo and Crea Whit-herne Leucopibia of Ptolemy a Bishops sea the seat sometimes of S. Ninian the Apostle of the Northern Picts Beyond lyeth the Mul of Galloway a Promontory and Chersonese ioyned to the continent by a very narrow neck of land the Promontory of the Novantes of Ptolemy the furthest point of Galloway towards the West and Ireland CARICT SEated vpon the Irish Ocean betwixt Galloway and Kile rich in pasturages corne and commodities arising from the sea Places of more note are Bargeny Berigonium of Antoninus and Cassil Castle the seat of the Earles thus named of the house of the Kennedyes KYLE VPon the Irish Ocean or Frith of Dunbriton betwixt Carict and Cuningham populous and well inhabited The chiefe towne is Aire a Sherifdome and a noted port Empory at the fall of the river thus called into the Ocean or Frith of Dunbriton CVNINGHAM VPon the Frith or Irish Ocean betwixt Kyle and Dunbriton More noted places are vpon the Sea-coast Irwin a small Port at the mouth of the Irwin a river parting this Country and Kyle Ardrossan Castle Largis Neerer Dunbriton Eglington Castle naming the Earles of Eglington The parts inclusiuely from Galloway were the Novantes of Ptolemie CLVYDS-DALE LYing vpon both sides of the river Cluyd from the head thereof in Crawford-Moore towards the Frith of Dunbriton 〈…〉 Duglas Castle in Duglas-dale a valley vpon the river Douglas naming the ancient and noble familie of the Duglasses Lanric a Sherifdome at the confluence of the Duglas and Cluyd Hamilton Castle vpon the Cluyd naming the house and Marquesses of Hamilton Bothwell whereof the Earles Bothwell were entitl'd vpon the Cluyd Farther downe vpon the same riuer Glascow an Arch-bishops sea an Vniversity and the chiefe towne Betwixt this and Cuningham lyeth the Barony of Renfrew named thus froÌ„ the towne a Sherifdome hereditary to the Lord Sempils LENNOX LYing vpon the North of the river Cluyd whereby it is divided from the Barony of Renfrew and by the river Kelwin parted from Cluydes-dale or the Sherifdome of Glascow named thus from the riuer Levin Lelanonius of Ptolemy issuing forth of
the Earledomes of Castille Aragon being annexed the kings hereof were seazed of the whole Biscaia Olava Navarra old Castille with part of Aragonia By this prince Castille Aragonia were againe devided from Navarra giuen by him with the title of kings to his sons Ferdinand Ramir. By the after encroachments of Ferdinand the first and Alfonsus the eight kings of Castille the townes of Nagera Calahora and Logrogno with other parts of Navarra betwixt the riuer Ebro and Monte D'oca were lopped off herefrom joyned to the name and accompt of Castille Biscaia and Olava were likewise afterwards rent off But when and by what meanes we finde not Overmatched by their more potent neighbours the kings of Castille Aragon and by their interveening betwixt them the Moores being barred from enlarging any further their dominions in this continent crossing over the Pyrenaean mountaines into France by their marriages alliances with the houses of that kingdome the princes hereof in their severall times became possessed of the Earledomes of Champaigne and Brie Foix Begorre the soveraigne Lordship of Bearn the Dukedome of Eureux Albret Vendosme lastly of the most mighty kingdome of France the which now being shut out of Spaine by the armes of the Castillians Navarra won from them by king Ferdinand the fift the heires of the house at this day onely enjoye The kingdome was hereditary and whereof women their issue were capable The princes hereof were Garcias Ximinius the first king of Suprarbe deceasing in the yeare 758. Garcias Innicus son to Garcias Ximinius Fortunius Garcias son to Garcias Innicus Sancius Garcias son to Fortunius Garcias Ximinius Garcias son to sancius Garcias He died without heires the last king of Suprarbe of the house of the first Garcias Ximinius An Interregnum for 4 yeares Innicus Garcias surnamed Arista Earle of Begorre elected in the yeare 840. He conquered Pampelona the champian countrey from the Moores in whose time most probably the kingdome tooke the name of Navarra Garcias Innicus son to Innicus Garcias Arista king of Navarra He voluntarily resigned the kingdome turned Religious Fortunius son to Garcias Innicus Vrraca sister to Fortunius Ximinius the last Earle of Aragon Fortunius Ximinius Earle of Aragon deceasing without heires in right from his mother Vrraca hee got seazed of that Earledome continued in the house of Navarra vntill Sanctius the Great He dyed vnmarryed Sanctius the second surnamed Abarca brother to Fortunius Garcias Sanctius son to Sanctius Abarca Sanctius Garcias Ramirus joynt kings of Navarra sons to Garcias Sanctius Sanctius Garcias sole king of Navarra Ramir deceasing vnmarried Garcias surnamed the Trembler son to Sanctius Garcias Sanctius surnamed the Great king of Navarra son to Garcias the Trembler He marryed vnto Nunnia or Elvira sister to Garcias the last Earle of Castille by which right Garcias dying sans issue he became possessed of Castille in the yeare 1028. Deviding his dominions he gaue Castille vnto his younger son Ferdinand to Ramir his naturall son Aragonia vnto both with the title of kings Garcias de Nagera eldest son to Sanctius the Great succeeding in the rest of the dominions of the house of Navarra After this prince tainted with vnnaturall wickednes against his mother wrongfully accused by him of adultery the kingdome of Navarra continually languished never prospered daily encroached vpon by the neighbouring kings of Castille Aragon lastly in Iohn d' Albret wrested from the posterity hereof and added as a province to Castille Sanctius Garcias son to Garcias de Nagera slaine by the treason of his brother Raimund without surviuing issue Raimund broâ—her vnto Sanctius Garcias He enjoyed not long the kingdome expuâ—sed presently after his vsurpation Sanctius Ramir king of Aragon and Navarra son to Ramir the first king of Aragon brother to Garcias de Nagera Peter the first king of Aragon Navarra son to Sanctius Ramir. Alfonsus the first king of Aragon Navarra brother to Peter the first He deceasing sans issue and Aragon descending to his brother Ramir surnamed the Monke Navarra returned vpon Ramir Lord of Mouçon descended from Garcias de Nagera from whose house the kingdome had beene for a time wrongfully detayned Ramir Lord of Mouçon king of Navarra son to Ramir Lord of Calahora younger sonne to Garcias de Nagera In this Princes raigne Alfonsus the eight king of Castille pretending title to the Crowne hereof and warring herevpon tooke from Navarra the townes of Logrogno Nagera and Calahora vniting them with Castille Sanctius surnamed the Wise son to Ramir the second Lord of Mouçon Sanctius the eight son to Sanctius the Wise succeeding in the yeare 1194. Vntill this prince for the space of aboue 500 yeares the kingdome of Navarra had beene still continued in the line masculine After his decease sans issue it first fell to the right of women transported ouer the mountaines into France where transmitted from one French family vnto another it hath rested vnto our times and the vnion thereof with that kingdome Theobald the fift Counte Palatine of Champaigne Brie king of Navarra sonne to Count Theobald the fourth and Blanche sister to Sanctius the eight and daughter to Sanctius the seaventh king of Navarra succeeding in the yeare 1234. Theobald the sixt Earle of Champaigne Brie and king of Navarra sonne to Theobald the fift Henry the first Earle of Champaigne Brie king of Navarra brother to Theobald the sixt Philip le Bel king of France in right of his wife Ioane daughter to Henry the first in the yeare 1284 succeeding in Champaigne and Brie and the kingdome of Navarra Lewes surnamed Hutin king of France Navarra and Earle of Champaigne Brie son to Philip le Bel and Ioane aforesaid Philip le Long king of France Navarra brother to Lewes Hutin Charles le Bel king of France Navarra brother to Lewes Hutin and Philip le Long. Hee deceasing without issue male and the kingdome of France according to the pretended Salique law descending vpon Philip de Valois the next of the line masculine Navarra returned vpon Ioane de France daughter vnto Lewes Hutin The Earledomes of Champaigne Brie were incorporated with the Crowne of France Philip Earle of Eureux in the right of his wife Ioane of France daughter to Lewes Hutin succeeding in the kingdome of Navarra Charles the second Earle of Eureux king of Navarra son to Philip Ioane aforesaid Charles the third Earle of Eureux and king of Navarra son to Charles the second Iohn of Aragon younger son to Alfonsus the fift king of Aragon in right of his wife Blanche daughter to Charles the third succeeding in the kingdome of Navarra After the decease of his brother he succeeded likewise in Aragon Gaston the fourth Earle of Foix Begorre and Soveraigne Lord of Bearn king of Navarra in right of his wife Leonora daughter to Iohn of Aragon and Blanche aforesaid By
meanes of this marriage the Earledome of Begorre Lordship of Bearn became annexed to the house of Navarra as they doe yet continue Francis Earle of Foix Begorre Lord of Bearn and king of Navarra son to Gaston prince of Viane son to Gaston the fourth and Leonora He dyed young sans issue Iohn duke of Albret in the right of his wife Catherine sister to Francis succeeding in the kingdome of Navarra the Earledome of Begorre and soveraigne Lordship of Bearn He lost Navarra vnto Ferdinand the fift and Elizabeth kings of Castille Aragon since incorporated with the kingdome of Castille retayning onely the countries of Begorre Bearne and the title of Navarra left vnto his successours Henry d' Albret titulary king of Navarra son to Iohn duke of Albret and Catherine Anthony de Bourbon duke of Vendosme prince of the blood in right of his wife Ioane d' Albret daughter to Henry d' Albret Earle of Begorre Lord of Bearn titulary king of Navarra Henry the third king of Navarra son to Anthony de Bourbon and Ioane d' Albret After the murther of Henry the third the last French king of the house of Valois â—e succeeded in the kingdome of France by the name of Henry the fourth being the next of the line masculine and descended from S. Lewes after infinite troubles mastered and ouerpast and a fast peace established in that kingdome slaine of late yeares in Paris by that bloody Assassine Ravaillart Lewes the thirteenth son to Henry the fourth succeeding now in the kingdome of France and in the right and title of Navarra THE KINGDOME OF ARAGON THE estate was begun shortly after that of Suprarbe or Navarra in the raigne of Garcias Innicus the second king of Suprarbe by one Aznarius son to Eudo the Great Duke of Aquitaine in France who hauing taken from the Moores certaine townes about the riuers Aragon and Subordanus by the good leaue of that Prince entitled himselfe from the riuer Earle of Aragon subiect then as were his successours for some time after vnto the kings of Suprarbe and commaunding here in nature of Marqueses In Fortunius sonne to Garcias Innicus king of Navarra and Vrraca sister to Fortunius Ximinius the last Earle hereof who deceased without issue the Earledome was annexed to the house and kingdome of Navarra King Sanctius the Great againe divided Aragon from Navarra giuing it with the title of king to his bastard sonne Ramir. The extent of the country was but little at what time vnder Ramir the first it was first made a kingdome By the time of king Ramir the second Saragoça Huescar and other townes being wonne from the Moores it became enlarged ouer the whole countrey called now Aragonia By the marriage of Petronilla daughter to Ramir the second vnto Raimund Berengarius the fift Earle of Barcelona in the yeare 1137 the country of Catalonia was added By Raimund son to Raimund Berengarius the fift the Earledome of Russillon By Iames the first the kingdomes of Valentia and of the Ilands of Mallorça and Menorça conquered from the Moores the present extent of the kingdome of Aragon In forreine parts Peter the third annexed to the house of Aragon the kingdome of Sicilye Iames the second the Iland of Sardinia Alfonsus the fift Naples all which the kings of Spaine in right hereof doe at this day enioy The Princes were Aznarius the first Earle of Aragon in the raigne of Garcias Innicus the second king of Suprarbe The country then onely contained certaine small townes about the riuer Aragon occasioning the name enlarging afterwards as did the conquests hereof Aznarius the second son to Aznarius the first Galindus son to Aznarius the second Semenus Aznarius son to Galindus slaine in the battaile of Ronceval against the Emperour Charles the Great Semenus Garcias vncle to Semenus Aznarius Fortunius Semenus or Ximinius He deceased without issue Fortunius king of Navarra Earle of Aragon in right from his mother Vrraca sister to Fortunius Semenus Sanctius Abarca king of Navarra brother to Fortunius king of Navarra succeeding in the Earledome of Aragon by the same right Garcias Sanctius king of Navarra son to Sanctius Abarca Sanctius Garcias and Ramir ioint kings of Navarra son to Garcias Sanctius Garcias the Trembler king of Navarra son to Sanctius Garcias Sanctius the Great king of Navarra and Earle of Castille son to Garcias the Trembler He againe divided Aragon from Navarra erecting it into a petty Kingdome in the person of Ramir his base son Ramir the first naturall son to Sanctius the Great King of Navarra the first King of Aragon advanced hereunto by his father at the earnest suite of his step-mother Elvira the defence of whose life and honour he had voluntarily vndertaken vniustly accused of adultery by her vnnaturall sonne Garcias de Nagera an honourable and iust beginning of afterwards so renowned and famous a Kingdome Sanctius the seauenth son to Ramir the first He was elected King of Navarra after Sanctius son to Garcias de Nagera Peter the first son to Sanctius the seauenth king of Aragon and Navarra Alfonsus the first King of Aragon and Navarra brother to Peter the first and son to Sanctius the seaventh Ramir the second surnamed the Monke King of Aragon brother to Peter the first and Alfonsus the first and to son to Sanctius the sevaenth Navarra by the wil of Alfonsus the first returned vpon the right heire thereof Ramir Earle of Mouçon descended from Garcias de Nagera The Kingdome of Aragon at this time contained onely the present country of Aragonia Raimund the first Earle of Barcelona in the right of his wife Petronilla daughter to Ramir the second succeeding in the Kingdome of Aragon In those two Princes the houses and estates of Aragon and Barcelona were vnited into one family and Kingdome Raimond the second King of Aragon son to Raimund the first and Petronilla Hee chaunged his name to Alfonsus Gerard the last Earle of Russillon deceasing without issue he added that Earledome to the dominion hereof Peter the second son to Raimund the second or Alfonsus Drawne on it is vncertaine by what superstitious zeale or necessity of state in the yeare 1214 he made the Kingdome of Aragon tributary to Pope Innocent the third and the See of Rome Repenting as it seemeth afterwards of this errour he tooke part with the Albigenses in France slaine in their quarrell by Simon Earle of Montfort and his crossed followers Iames the first son to Peter the second Hee tooke from the Moores their two Kingdomes of Valentia and of the Ilands of Malorça and Menorça remaining since parts of the Kingdome of Aragon He deceased in the yeare 1314. Peter the third son to Iames the first King of all the dominions of Aragon the Ilands of Malorça and Menorça excepted giuen with the title of King to Iames his yonger brother by his father Iames the first revnited notwithstanding not long after to the Kingdome of Aragon He married
succeeding in the kingdome of Burgundy dividing it betwixt theÌ„ the Mountain Iour bounding and severing their portions They also both dyed without heires or lawfull in whom ended the house of the Emperour Lotharius eldest son to the Emperour Lewis the Godly Charles surnamed the Bauld Emperour of the Romans â—ing of West-France vncle to Charles Lewis Lotharius the second brother to the Emperour Lotharius Vnder this prince this first French kingdome of Burgundy tooke end being added as a province to West-France parted by him into three divisions or governments of Burgundy on this side of the river of Soasne Of Burgundy beyond the Soasne and of Burgundy beyond the Iour contayning together and occasioning not long after the Dukedome of Burgundy on this side of the Soasne with the Earledomes of Lyon and Mascon the Dukedomes of Burgundy beyond the Iour and the kingdome of Arles or Burgundy whose beginnings and after fortunes follow The Dukedome of Burgundy on this side the Soasne THis was part of the devision of Burgundy on this side the Soasne subdevided by the Emperour Charles the Bauld into 5 lesser Cantons the Counties of Dijon Austun Chalon Mascon Lyon governed a part by their Earles not then hereditary and but such Magistrates of the Kings of West-France so named The estate was begun in the person of Theodoric Counte of Authun vnto whom Eudo King of France having given the Counties of Dijon Chalon vnited all three into one entier Dukedome from the first possession of this prince entitl'd then of Austun shortly after by Richard his son who succeeded him named of Burgundy The heires of this princely house haue in continuance of time got seazed of the many provinces of the Low-countries by the Emperour Charles the fift revnited with Germany making the tenth circle of the Empire called from hence the circle of Burgundy The Dukedome notwithstanding their first patrimony still held vnder the fief of the French Kings was in the raigne of Mary wrested from them and vnited to the Crowne of France by king Lewis the eleaventh nothing now hereof remayning vnto them but the title The princes follow Theodoric before mentioned the first Duke in the raigne of Eudo king of France He was stiled only Duke of Authun Richard son to Theodoric He first tooke vpon him the title of Duke of Burgundy Rodulph son to Richard Becomming afterwards Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine hee left this Dukedome vnto his younger brother Hugh surnamed the Black Hugh surnamed the Blacke brother to Rodulph the last Duke of Burgundy of the house of Theodoric Duke of Austun succeeded vnto by the house of Aniou and the brethren of Hugh Capet king of France by composition agreement made herewith forced by that potent family Otho the first Duke of Burgundy younger brother to Hugh Capet the vsurping King of France Eudo the first brother to Otho the first Henry the first brother the Otho Eudo the first They all three died without heires Robert the first King of France sonne to Hugh Capet Duke of Burgundy by the greater swey of that familie kingdome Otho Guillaume first Earle of Burgundy being excluded to whom the Dukedome had beene assigned by Duke Henry the first son to his wife Gerberge Robert the second eldest son to Robert the first French King His younger brother Henry succeeded in the kingdome of France Hugh the second son to Henry son to Robert the second Hee became Monke of Cluny resigning his temporall estates vnto his brother Otho Otho the second brother to Hugh the second He founded the famous Monasterie of Cisteaux Hugh the third son to Otho the second Otho the third son to Hugh the third Hugh the fourth son to Otho the third He deceased in the Holy Land left commaunder there of the army of Philip Augustus French King against Saladin the Infidels after the returne of that prince towards France Otho the fourth son to Hugh the fourth Hugh the fift son to Otho the fourth Robert the third son to Hugh the fift Hugh the sixt son to Robert the third He dyed vnmarryed Eudo the second brother to Hugh the sixt and son to Robert the third Philip the first son to Philip son to Eudo the second He deceased sans issue the last Duke of Burgundy of the house or name of Capet succeeded vnto by the house or name of Valois Iohn French king sonne to Philip de Valois French King and to Ioane of Burgundy daughter to Robert the third and sister to Hugh the sixt Eudo the third succeeding in the Dukedome of Burgundy in the yeare 1361. Philip the second surnamed the Hardy younger son to Iohn French King Duke of Burgundy Hee married vnto Margaret daughter to Lewis Malan Earle of Flanders heire of the houses of Flanders the Free County of Burgundy Artois Nevers Rethel Brabant Limburg by meanes whereof they all became vnited in the family of Burgundy Iohn the second son to Philip the Hardy slaine by Charles Daulphin of Vienne the occasion of the bloody civill wars in France betwixt the houses of Burgundy Orleans Philip the second surnamed the Good son to Iohn the second As thâ— next heire of that house after Iaqueline before mentioned he became Earle of Hainault Holland and Zealandt and Lord of West-Freislandt transmitted to his posterity He also added to his house the Dukedome of Luxemburg bought of Elizabeth the last Duchesse thereof and the Earledome of Namur purchased of Theodore the last Earle Charles surnamed the Fighter son to Philip the Good slaine in battail before Nancy in Lorraine by the Switzers and Lorrainers Mary Duchesse of Burgundy daughter to Charles the Fighter Shee lost this countrey vnto Lewis the eleaventh French King ever since incorporated with France retayning only the title left vnto her Successours Shee married vnto Maximilian the first Arch-duke of Austria afterwards Emperour of the Romans the last princesse of the house or name of Valois Philip the third son to Maximiliam the first Archduke of Austria and Emperour of the Romans and to Mary de Valois aforesaid succeeding in the provinces estates of the Netherlands and in the title of Duke of Burgundy Hee marryed vnto Ioane eldest daughter vnto Ferdinand the fift Elizabeth Kings of Spaine Charles the second of the name Duke of Burgundy the fift of the name Emperour of the Romans son to Philip the third Duke of Burgundy and to Ioane of Spaine heire of the three houses of Burgundy Spaine Austria He added to the dominions of Burgundy in the Low Countries the countryes of Gelderland Zutphen Vtreicht Over-Ysel and Groningen Philip the second of that name king of Spaine and the fourth of the name Duke of Burgundy In the raigne of this prince the provinces of Holland Zealandt Vtreicht Over-Ysel Gelderlandt Zutphen West-Freisland Groningen part of the dominions of Burgundy revolted from vnder the government of their princes knowne now by
The Princes Electours are they who haue the power to chuse the Emperour for this cause enioying praecedency and place before the other and making a seuerall house by themselues in the generall Diets These are the Arch-bishop of Mentz Chancelour of Germany the Arch-bishop of Colen Chancelour of Italy the Arch-bishop of Triers Chancelour of France the Counte Palatine of the Rhijn Sewer the Duke of Saxony chiefe Marshall of the Empire and the Marquesse of Brandenburg great Chamberlaine To these is added the King of Bohemia chiefe taster whose place is next aboue the Paltzgraue who hath the casting voice in case of aequality and difference amongst the six The Inferiour Princes whom I name and distinguish thus in regard of the praeheminence of the former because of their right of Election for otherwise some of them may equall or surpasse the other in riches and revenue comprehend againe two distinct rankes those of the Spirituality the Lay Princes The Cleargy who haue the right of Princes are the Arch-bishops and Bishops before mentioned together after Birtius with some thirty of the Abbots Priours and Abbatesses The Lay Princes containe sundry different names and titles of Arch-duke Duke Paltz-graue Lant-graue Burgraue Marques Prince Earle Baron and Lord. The more eminent sort of them for this cause placed in the diets amongst the cleargy before the Abbots are the Arch-dukes of Austria the Dukes of Bauaria Burgundy Lorraine Savoy Cleue Gulick Bergen Saxony Brunswijck Lunenburg PomereÌ„ Mecklenburg Wirtenberg Zweibruck Holstein Lawenburg the Lantgraues of Hessen Luchtenburg the Marquisats of BraÌ„deburg Baden the princes of Anhalt the Earles of HeÌ„neburg The lesser Saeculars ranked after the Abbots and Cleargy follow The Earles of HelfeÌ„stein Kirchberg Wisenstaig Lauffen Montfort Furstenberg Zimmeren Otingen Sultz Hohen-Zollerne Castel Vertheim Rheineck Hohenloe Erpach Leiningen Falkenstein Hanaw Luchtenberg Nassaw Breda Dillenborg Wilbaden and Iltstain Sarbruchen Waldtpurg Nassaw en Weilpurg Beilstein Koningstein Epstein Eisenburg the higher Eisenburg the Lower Mersen Budinghen Vinnerberg Solme of the Rhijn Horn Seyn Arsnberg Vintzlingen Reyen Bitch Salm Veldentz Dengen Rappin Hardeck Hohenstein Wolkenstein Schaumburg Giengen Dierenburg Mullingen Gleichen Schwartzenberg Schonberg Iude the same Lord en Ruech Pless Weda Ringelburg Olnburg Loebestain Regenstain West-Friestandt Oost-Freislandt Lippe OldeÌ„burg Delmenhorst Hoya Westenburg Lemgow Waldeck Diepholt Steinfort BentheÌ„ BruÌ„chorst Wergestein Spigerberg Bivers dorff Tekelnberg Dortmund Winsdorff Ortenberg Hagen Hoonfels Leiseneck BergeÌ„ Manderscheid Reiferscheid Egmont Iselstein Tubingen BlaÌ„kenberg and Kirchingen the Marchgraue Ebetstain the Barons Gundelfingen Geroltzeck Ober-hewen Rapotzkirchen Stauffen Plawen Degenberg Ober-Sultzberg Bergen and Waelhem Hauere Wildenfels and Tautenberg the Lords Tussen Stutgart Iustingen and Schenslingen Hohen-Richperg Hohenfeldt and Tipoltzkick Braides Sonnenberg Reichelspurg Limburg Falkestein Kunseck Kunseckerberg Geraw Reichenstein Muntzenburg Loffenstain Ridberg Linges Somiriss Senster Roggendorff Alendorf Kuning fuckerberg Morspurg Brandestain and Rausse Wolfstein Permont Fronsbeck Flackenstein and Witten The Imperiall townes are such which exempted from the command of the Princes immediatly acknowledge the Empire gouerned notwithstanding in manner of absolute common-wealths by their owne lawes and magistrates They are the citties and townes of Colen Aken Worms Spire Strasburg Francfurt Lubec Hamburg Vlme Auspurg Noremberg Regenspurg Costnitz Metz Toul Verdun Basil Besanton Duisburg Danzick Elbingen Turckheim Hagenaw Weissenburg Ober-Ebestain Roshaim Schlestat Colmar Altach Kaisersburg Mulhausen in Sungow S. Gregoris Munster Landaw Kausmans-Sarbruck Camerick Fridberg Wideraw Gelnhaâ—sen Gosler Gottingen Barkel Wartburg Lemgow Rotterburg vpon Tauber Weissenburg in Nortgow Donawerd Winshaim Schweinfurt Wimpsen Hailbrun Hal Norlingen Dinkelspuel Giengen BopsingeÌ„ Gemundt in Schwaben Estingen Yssui Lewkirch MeÌ„mingeÌ„ Kempten Weil Pfullendorff Kaufbeurn Northausen Vberlingen WangeÌ„ Buchorn RaueÌ„spurg Bibrach Lindaw OffeÌ„burg Gengenbach Rotweil Zel Hamersbach Schaffhausen S. Gal Buchaw Of these 3 estates assembled together with the Emperour coÌ„sist the Parliaments Diets wherein as in some aggregate chiefe lyeth that soueraigne power we now called of the Empire in whose onely right and free disposition it is to giue lawes vnto the princes and states to determine of generall warre and peace to lay taxes and impositions vpon the people to appoint iudges and magistrats of the empire with all other rights appertayning to absolute and soueraigne iurisdiction They are most commonly appoin in the preceding Diets or in cases extraordinary by the Emperour and the Electours in such citties as are thought for the time most fitting containing three seuerall houses of the Electours of the Princes Ecclesiasticall and Temporall and of the delegates of the townes Imperiall after the number and order of the states before mentioned the matters propounded being carried according to the maior part hereof which are any two houses against the third and these seuerally by a maior part of their voices Vnder this authority is held the Imperiall court at Spire ordained for the putting of the lawes hereof in execution and otherwise for the legall determining of all suits and controuersies which may happen betwixt state and state these and the Emperour although both these most commonly are now decided by armes and betwixt priuate persons in euery particular commoÌ„-wealth from whence appeale may be made hither consisting saith Bodin of 24 judges appointed by the Diets or after others of an annuall president and 32 judges whereof six are chosen by the Emperour who are two princes two lawiers two knights holding of the Empire one by each Electour and two by each circle halfe Lawiers and halfe knights Besides this here are the Courts of the ten Circles which are so many provinces the generall state since the Diet of Noremberg in the yeare 1422 hath beene diuided into of Frankenlandt Bayerne Ostenreich Schwaben the Rhijn the 4 Electours of this limit Westphalen the two Saxonies BurguÌ„dy which are for the ordering of the special occurreÌ„ces proper to these diuisions the speedier more easie executioÌ„ of the imperiall edicts directed by one chiefe iudge who must be a prince of the empire 4 CouÌ„cellours assistants all of the Laity chosen out of their seueral Provinces or Circles From this policie and order we may gather the nature strength and condition of this great body of state huge and vast like the people but slow and vnweildy since not to be moved but by direction of the Diets which cannot easily or quickly be called neither are obeyed but as it shall please the cities and princes or as the Emperour shall haue power to constraine them We adde the sundry factions necessarily attending this divided goverment or otherwise casually hapning herevnto disabling the country well to preserue and defend it selfe much lesse to enlarge its bounds and to encroach and grow vpon others A first is betwixt the states and the Emperour whereof this might endeavour to encrease and mainetaine his prerogatiues the other to keepe downe his too eminent authority for this cause being vnwilling to assist him
of Imperiall townes Dukedomes Earledomes and pettie Baronies The estates of chiefer note partly arising out of those ruines and partly before this maine dissolution divided and cut off from the great body hereof were the Dukedome of Zeringen the Earledomes of Habspurg Pfirt Friburg and Elsass the Marquisate of Baden the Dukedome of Wirtenberg and the Palatinate of the Rhijn whereof part are at this day extinguished and not in being part yet remaine of which in the next place THE DVKEDOME OF ZERINGEN This took the name from a Castle thus called whose ruines are yet seen nere vnto the towne of Friburg in Brisgow The Princes thus named were sometimes Lords of Brisgow with a great part of moderne Zwitzerlandt Of these we finde much mention in the Dutch and French Antiquaries but obscure and confused The last Duke of Zeringen was Berchtold a name affected by this familie deceasing in the yeare 1218 vpon the birth-day of the Emperour Rodulph the first What became of the possessions hereof it will appeare afterwards THE EARLEDOME OF HABSPVRG This was so called from a Castle of this name standing sometimes vpon the river Aar in Argow in Switzerlandt now ruinated It contained Argow or the greatest part thereof The Princes hereof after Gerard de Roo were first named Earles of Altemburg or of Argow the first of whom whereof there is any certaine mention was one Guntram living about the yeare 950. It was after that this Castle was builded that they were entitl'd Earles of Habspurg From Guntram they were continued as followeth Betzelinus Earle of Altemburg sonne to Guntram Rapato sonne to Betzelinus conjectured by Gerard de Roo to haue first founded the castle of Habspurg and to haue taken vpon him the title of Earle of Habspurg Warnerus the first Earle of Habspurg sonne to Rapato Otho son to Warnerus the first Warnerus the second son to Otho Albert the first sonne to Warnerus the second Rodulph the first son to Albert the first Albert the second son to Rodulph the first He laid to the possessions of the house of Habspurg the Vpper Elsatz Rodulph the second son to Albert the second created afterwards Roman Emperour by the name of Rodulph the first Falling at odds with Ottocarus king of Bohemia he tooke from him the countries of Austria Steirmarck Karnten and Krain with other neighbouring peeces which he then lately had got seazed of since possessed by this familie the first raiser of the house of Habspurg since named of Austria the most numerous great and potent of Europe at this day branching over the most part of the princely houses of Christendome whereof more eminently amongst others are the German Emperours and the Kings of Spaine THE EARLEDOME OR ADVOCATESHIP OF FRIBVRG This comprehendeth Brisgow named thus from the towne of Friburg the cheife of the country The Princes hereof succeeded vnto the Dukes of Zeringen but by what meanes and who was the first it is vncertaine Eggon the last Earle or Advocate of Friburg turmoiled with civill warres of his rebellious subiects sold his whole right and interest hereof for 12000 Ducats to Albert and Leopold Archdukes of Austria and sonnes to Albert the Short whose successours of the house of Austria are now Lords hereof THE DVKEDOME OF PFIRT THis contained Sungow was named thus from the towne of Pfirt yet standing herein When this Earledome began we finde not Vlric the last Earle deceasing without heire male the estate became seazed by Albert surnamed the Short Archduke of Austria in right of his wife Ioane daughter herevnto Vrsula the other sister being compounded with for her part for the summe of 8000 crownes By this meanes the Princes of the house of Austria vnto this day haue continued in the possession hereof THE DVKEDOME OF WIRTENBERG THis was first a petty Earledome containing only the Castle of Wirtenberg standing now not farre from the towne of Stutgard the Neccar with some little portion of country about it occasioning the name It encreased to its present greatnes through the addition of sundry neighbouring states accruing to the princes hereof by marriages purchase and armes and their ancient names abolished vniting into this common These were after Crusius the Dukedome of Teck whereof the princes are yet entitled and of Vrslingen Schiltach the Earledomes of Calb Tubingen Gryningen Vrach Achellen Vahingen Herrenbergen and Aspergen together with the Baronnyes of Niffen Winspergen Hohen-stauffen Ebenspachen and Helfenstein Birtius addeth Zabergow Kreichgow and Zolleren The Princes follow Conrade the first which we can finde of the Earles of Wirtenberg descended from the ancient Barous of Beutelspach and living about the yeare 1100 in the raigne of the Emperour Henry the fourth Vlric the first sonne to Conrade Iohn son to Vlric the first Lewis son to Iohn Henry son to Lewis Eberhard son to Henry Vlric son to Eberhard Eberhard and Vlric sons to Vlric Vlric and Henry sons to Eberhard Eberhard and Vlricke sons to Vlric Vlrick son to Eberhard Eberhard son to Vlrick Eberhard son to Eberhard This Prince having marryed Henrica daughter to Henry Earle of Mompelgard augmented his house with that Earledome Lewis and Vlric sons to Eberhard Eberhard son to Lewis first Duke of Wirtenberg created by the Emperour Maximilian the first He founded the Vniversity of Tubingen He dyed without surviving lawfull heires Eberhard and Henry sons to Vlric brother to Lewis father to Eberhard the first Duke Vlric son to Henry expulsed by the confederate states of the Suevian League his Dukedome by the Emperour Charles the Fift being given to his brother Ferdinand Archduke of Austria restored againe by the armes of Philip Lantgraue of Hessen His younger brother George succeeded in the Earledome of Mompelgard Christopher son to Vlric Lewis son to Christopher He deceased without issue Fredericke son to George Earle of Mompelgard brother to Vlric the house or succession of Vlric being extinguished in Lewis succeeding in the Dukedome Iohn-Fredericke son to Fredericke now Duke of Wirtenberg THE PALATINATE OF THE RHIIN COncerning this state see France THE MARQVISATE OF BADEN THe estate was occasioned by the Emperour Otho the third ordaining in this frontire against the Frenchmen a Limenarch or Marquesse in continuance of time becomming haereditary and named thus of the towne of Baden his seat or residence The first Marquesse after Irenicus was one Herman liuing about the yeare 1120. agreeing with the time of the Emperour Henry the fift more probably the first who deriued this title and honour to his issue and succession Others more distinctly place this Herman in the yeare 1155 and in the raigne of Fredericke Barbarossa created Marquesse by this Emperour The Princes continuing the house follow Herman the first before mentioned Marquesse of Verona created Marquesse of the Empire by the Emperour Fredericke the first He is said to haue maried Imutha daughter to a former Earle of Baden From the towne of Baden their first seat the Princes
the Rhijn Lewis the first Duke of Bavaria son to Otho Otho the second son to Lewis the first Marrying vnto Gertrude sole daughter vnto Henry Count Palatine of the Rhijn he added to his house the Palatinat Electorship of the Rhijn created Paltzgraue and Electour by the Emperour Fredericke the second Henry Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhijn sonne to Otho the second Lewis the second Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhijn sonne to Otho the second and brother vnto Henry Lewis the third Duke of Bavaria sonne to Lewis the second Hee was elected Roman Emperour and deceased in the yeare 1347. His elder brother Rodulph had for his share the Palatinate of the Rhijn and Nortgow or the vpper Palatinate together with the title of Electour the founder of the house of the present Paltzgraues and Electours Stephen Duke of Bavaria sonne to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria His brothers William and Albert were successiuely Earles of Haynault Hollandt and Zealandt and Lords of West-Frieselandt Lewis another brother succeeded in the Marquisate and the Electourall dignity of Brandenburg Stephen of Ingolstadt Iohn of Munchen and Fridericke of Landshut named thus from such parts of the Dukedome they possessed Dukes of Bavaria sonnes to Stephen the first Ernest Duke of Bavaria son to Iohn of Munchen Albert surnamed the Godly sonne to Ernest. Albert the second son to Albert the first William sonne to Albert the second Albert the third sonne to William William sonne to Albert the third Maximilian and Albert sonnes to William the second Dukes of Bavaria in the yeare 1610. The rest of those who haue borne the title of Dukes of Bavaria and haue deceased without issue or not continued the house in regard of our promised methode wee omit Hereof were sometimes parts the Dukedomes of Steirmark Karnten and Earledome of Tirol with part of Austria whose relations follow THE DVKEDOME OF AVSTRIA THis State was first occasioned vpon the warres of the Hungarians who vexing Germanie with continuall excursions and alarums during the raignes of the Emperours Lewis the fourth Conrade Henry the first were the cause that there were ordained by these Princes in the border of the Empire betwixt this enimie and the Bavarians certaine limitary prefects to defend that frontiere from Oosten-reich or the Easterne kingdome by which name Germany was then distinguished from France of whose limit they were Guardians called then the Marquesses of Oosten-reich and by Latin writers corruptly Austrasia and Austria becomming afterwards haereditary and deriving this their title and name to the country now thus called accruing vnto them by their conquests and winnings from the Hungarians and by their after encroachments vpon the Dukes of Bavaria Vnto the Princes of this familie the most potent at this day through the Christian world are now subiect the Kingdomes of Spaine of the Indies Naples Sicilie Bohemia and Hungary the great Dukedomes of Milan Schlesi Steirmarke Karnten and Krain the Marquisates of Lausnitz and Marheren the Earledomes of Burgundie and Tirol Brisgow Sungâ—w the vpper Elsatz the greatest part of the Low Countries together with the kingdome of Germanie and the Empire of the Romans They were first as before stiled Marquesses then Dukes and now lastly Archdukes Their order and succession follow Leopold surnamed the illustrious sonne to Henry Earle of Bamberg descended from the Dukes of Schwaben the first Marquesse of Austria deriving the title and honour hereof to his ofspring and posterity the former after the custome of those times being only but such Leiftenants or Deputies of the Emperours created by the Emperour Henry the first about the yeare 928. Henry the first sonne to Leopold the Illustrious Albert sonne to Henry the first Ernest sonne to Albert. Leopold the second sonne to Ernest. Leopold the third sonne to Leopold the second Leopold the fourth sonne to Leopold the third Henry the second sonne to Leopold the fourth Marquesse of Austria and Duke of Bavaria He was the first Duke of Austria and added to the name and account hereof the country betwixt the rivers Ens and Inn giuen vnto him by the Emperour Fredericke Barbarossa in lieu of the Dukedome of Bavaria adiudged from him vnto Henry surnamed the Lion Duke of Saxonie Leopold the fift Duke of Austria brother to Henry and sonne to Leopold the fourth Hee most iniuriously detained prisoner Richard the first king of England in his voyage homewards out of the Holy Land suffering shipwrack vpon the coast of Istria and surprised travelling disguised through his country Hee added to the house of Austria the Dukedome of Steirmark purchased from Ottacarus the last Duke with the mony gotten by the ransome of the king of England Fredericke the first Duke of Austria sonne to Leopold the fift His elder brother Leopold succeeded in the Dukedome of Steirmarck He deceased without heires of his body Leopold the sixt eldest sonne to Leopold the fift and brother to Fredericke the first Duke of Austria and Steirmarck Fredericke the second Duke of Austria and Steirmarck sonne to Leopold the sixt Hee deceased sans issue in whom failed the line masculine of Leopold the Illustrious the two Provinces of Austria and Steirmarck becomming after this vsurped by stranger families Ottocarus sonne to Wenceslaus the first king of Bohemia by the pretended right of his wife Margaret daughter to Leopold the sixt succeeding in both Dukedomes Hee became likewise seazed of the countries of Karnten Krain and Marca Trevisana sold by Vlric their last Prince Overmatched by the greater power of the Emperour Rodulph the first hee quitted vnto him and the Empire all these his new got possessions vpon a new quarrell not long after slaine by him in battle at the riuer of Marckh Rodulph the first Emperour of the Romans and king of Germany by right of warre of the Empire Lord of Austria Steirmarck Karnten Krain and Marca Trevisana gotten from Ottocarus In the yeare 1283 by consent of the estates of the Empire assembled in a Diet at Auspurg hee divided these countries and other his hereditary possessions amongst his two sonnes Albert Rodulph and Meinard Earle of Tirol his brother in law whereof Albert the elder brother had Austria Steirmarck and Krain Rodulph Argow the vpper Elsatz and other peeces in Schwaben the proper inheritance of the house of Habspurg with the title of Duke of Schwaben and Meinard Karnten and Marca Trevifana Albert the first eldest sonne to the Emperour Rodulph the first Duke of Austria Steirmarck and Krain of the familie of Habsping created in the yeare 1283. After the decease of his father hee was elected Emperour of the Romans and king of Germanie Hee was slaine by Iohn sonne to his brother Rodulph Duke of Schwaben whose guardian hee had beene in his minoritie discontented with him for detaining his inheritance from him Rodulph created the first Archduke in a Diet held at Nurenberg Frederick the third Leopold the seauenth Henry the third Otho surnamed the
Mauritius miserably vexing and afflicting the Romane provinces Their dwelling during this their first mention was altogether in Sarmatia beyond the Ister with the Antae coasting along the greatest part of the shore thereof and thwarting vpon the other side of that river the countries of Illyricum and Thrace Iornandes who lived in the raigne of Iustinian the first nameth them then a part of the populous nation of the Winidae Their name and accompt being communicated afterwards to all the rest of the Sarmatians and these after the custome of other barbarous nations swarming into neighbouring countries they overspread in a short time the whole Easterne moitie of Europe extending from the river Tanais the Euxine sea Westwards as farre as the river Elb in Germany and Southwards from the sea Baltique and the Frozen Ocean vnto the Mountaines of the Alpes Haemus besides the whole Sarmatia comprehending Mysia Dardania Illyricum and Dalmatia with part of Pannonia now the Russes Muscovites Hungarians Polonians Moldavians Walachians Transylvanians Bulgarians Rascians Servians Croatians and Sclavonians particularly so called all descended from and speaking their language togither with one halfe part of the ancient Germany contained betwixt the river Wixel and the rivers Saltza and the Elb the occasion of this discourse When these first disbourded into the continent of Germany cannot be defined out of any approved authours Most probably with Becanus this hapned presently vpon or shortly after the departure of the Almans Burgundians Boioarians and other people of the Suevians towards the South and the Romane confines whose left or ill inhabited roomes they tooke vp We first finde them here named in the raigne of Clotarius the second king of the Frenchmen agreeing with the raigne of Heraclius Emperour of the East vpon occasion of one Samo a Frenchman by birth chosen king of the Scalves Winidi They comprehended the whole North-east moity hereof divided from the rest of Germany by a line drawne from the towne of Stargard vpon the sea Baltique vnto the river of Elb about Hamburg parting them from the Saxons beyond the Elb the river Elb from Hamburg vnto the meeting thereof with the river Saltza dividing them from the Saxons Ostphali the river Saltza parting them from the Thuringians and the mountaines of Bohemia from the Boioarians They contained here at this day the Dukedomes of Schlesi Mecklenburg Pomeren and Lawenburg the Marquisates of Meissen Lausnitz and Marheren the Midle and New Marches of Brandenburg Saxony about Wittenberg Wagerlandt the kingdome of Bohemia with parts of Poland and Hungary They were divided into foure generall names or nations the Winithi Bohemians Moravians and Poles whereof in order THE WINITHI THese with the Winidae Winidi Vendi Vindae Winuli and Heneti for all those names we finde were but the corrupt languages of the ancient Veneti or Venedae accounted by Ptolomie amongst the nations of the Sarmatae The more exact bounds hereof after their descent into Germany were vpon the North the sea Balticke intercepted betwixt the towne of Stargard the river Wixel vpon the West a line drawne from the towne of Stargard vpon the sea Baltique vnto the river Elb or Hamburg the part of the Elb taken from Hamburg vnto the meeting of that river with the Saltza together with the river Saltza dividing them from the Saxons and Thuringians vpon the South the Mountaines of Bohemia and vpon the East the riuer Wixel and Poland They comprehended the sundry names and people of the Wagrij containing now Wagerland part of Holstein the Obotriti Polabi Linguones Warnani Kircani Circipani Redarij and Tholenzi now the Dukedomes of Mecklenburg and Lawenburg the Wiltzi now Pomeren on this side of the river of Odera the Pomerani the part now of Pomeren betwixt the rivers Odera and Wixel the Rani or Rugiani now the Iland Rugen the Helveldi Leubuzi Wilini Stoderani and Brizani now the Middle and New Marches of Brandenburg and the Sorabi containing now Meissen and Lausnitz Their gouerment whilst that they were a free people was vnder sundry Princes Their Religion was Gentilisme maintained with great stiffenesse and hatred to Christianity vntill their subjection or rather extirpation by the Dutch After long wars with the neighbouring Saxons sundry revolts and much obstinacie they were by the raigne of the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa at length totally hereby subdued their country being planted with new Dutch Colonies accounted afterwards part of Saxonie containing at this day besides some lesser states the Marquisates of Meissen Brandenburg Lausnitz the Dukedomes of Mecklenburg Lawenburg and Pomeren whose beginnings and fortunes vnto our times follow THE MARQVISATE OF MEISSEN THe estate hereof was first occasioned about the yeare 930 by the Emperour Henry the first vpon his conquest of the Sorabi building the cittie Meissen and after the policy then of the Dutch Empire appointing there a Limenarck or Marques to guard that frontire against the Poles and other neighbouring Sclaves becomming afterwards hereditarie and giving the title and name to the whole limit or border The first Marques was one Bruno descended from Witichind king of the Saxons appointed by the Emperour Henry the first Vnto him succeeded Ridacus Earle of Mersburg vnto whom Echard succeeded son to Gunter Earle of Ostland the first prince or vsu-fructuary and proprietarie Marques by the gift of the Emperour Otho the third the former being only such deputies of the Emperours commaunding in nature of Lord Marchers with vs. The order of the Marqueses continuing the house from more certaine and cleare times follow Conrade Marques of Landsberg and Lusatz created Marques of Meissen by the Emperour Henry the fift He deceased in the yeare 1156. Otho the first surnamed the rich son to Conrade the first Theodoric son to Otho the first He marryed vnto Iudith daughter to Herman Lantgraue of Duringen Henry son to Theodoric and Iudith daughter to Herman Lantgraue of Duringen Henry the last Lantgraue deceasing without issue he succeeded by right from his mother in the Lantgraue-ship of Duringen and the Palatinate of Saxony continued ever since in his house Albert Marques of Meissen and Lantgraue of Duringen son to Henry Frederick the first son to Albert. Fredericke the second son to Fredericke the first Fredericke the third son to Fredericke the second Fredericke the fourth Marques of Meissen and Lantgraue of Duringen son to Fredericke the third He was created Electour and Duke of Saxony by the Emperour Sigismond The succeeding Marqueses of Meissen and Lantgraues of Duringen wee haue continued in the order of the Duke-Electours of Saxony THE MARQVISATE OF BRANDENBVRG IT hath beene so called from the towne of Brandenburg situated vpon the river Havel sometimes the chiefe towne of the country and the seat of the Marqueses The Emperour Henry the first before mentioned having wonne that citty from the bordering Heneti or Sclaves first ordained the Marquisate to affront and keepe in that enemie It encreased
afterwardes to its present extent and greatnesse by the dayly winnings and encroachings of the Marqueses vpon the Sclaves The Marqueses like vnto the other Princes of Germany were at the first but such officers of the Emperours By the free grace hereof they became hereditary Princes and Electours of the Empire which honour they still retaine Their order and succession follow Sigifrid Earle of Ringelheim the first Marques set over this border about the yeare 927 by the Emperour Henry the first Gero appointed by the Emperour Otho the first Bruno Earle of Within appointed by the same Emperour Hugh son to Bruno appointed by the Emperour Otho the third Sigard brother to Hugh appointed by the same Emperour About this time the Marqueses began to be Electours Theodoric son to Sigard driven out by Mistivoius prince of the Sclaves Obotriti The Sclaves beaten out Vdo the first Earle of Soltwedel by the gift of the Emperour Conrade the second Vdo the second son to Eudo the first He was proscribed by the Emperour Henry the fourth conspiring against him with Rodulph Duke of Schwaben His country was given and seazed vpon by Primislaus king of the Obotriti Albert surnamed Vrsus prince of Anhalt after the decease of Primislaus king of the Obotriti created Marques and Electour of Brandenburg by the Emperour Fredericke Barbarossa He much augmented and encreased the Marquisate by his great conquests vpon the Sclaves and his plantation of Dutch colonies in their forsaken and vninhabited countries Otho the first son to Albert surnamed Vrsus His brother Bernard was created Electour and Duke of Saxony by the Emperour Fredericke Barbarossa succeeding vnto Duke Henry surnamed the Lion Otho the second Electour and Marques of Brandenburg son to Otho the first He deceafed without issue Albert the second Electour and Marques of Brandenburg brother to Otho the second Iohn the first son to Albert the second Iohn the second son to Iohn the first He deceased without surviving issue Conrade the first Electour and Marques of Brandenburg brother to Iohn the second Iohn the third son to Conrade the first He dyed without issue Waldemar the first brother to Iohn the third He dyed without issue male Waldemar the second son to Henry surnamed with land brother to Waldemar the first and Iohn the third Of this prince likewise wee finde no heires Iohn the fourth brother to Waldemar the second He died without issue the last Marques and Electour of Brandenburg of the family of Anhalt Lewis son to the Emperour Lewis of Bauaria created by his father Marques and Elector of Brandenburg the house of Anhalt being extinguished in Iohn the fourth Desirous of ease troubled with the impostures of a false Waldemar he resigned over his right to his brother Lewis surnamed the RomaÌ„ Lewis surnamed the RomaÌ„ son to the Emperour Lewis of Bauaria He draue out the CouÌ„terfeit Waldemar deceased without heires of his Body Otho the third Electour Marques of Brandenburg son to the Emperour Lewis of Bauaria and brother to the two former Leweses He sould the Marquisate and country of Brandenburg for 200000 duckats of Hungary vnto the Emperour Charles the fourth Wenceslaus Marques and Elector of Brandenburg and afterwards Emperour of the Romans and king of Bohemia by the gift of his father the Emperour Charles the fourth Sigismond sonne to the Emperour Charles the fourth and brother to Wenceslaus Emperour of the Romans king of Bohemia and Hungary and Marques and Electour of Brandenburg The better to furnish himselfe for his warres against the rebellious Hungarians and Charles king of Naples chalenging and vsurping the kingdome of Hungary he sould the Marquisate of Brandenburg vnto Iodocus Marques of Morauia redeemed afterwards by him from William Marques of Meissen to whom the Marques of Morauia had pawned it and in the councell of Constance in the yeare 1417 giuen to Fredericke Burgraue of Nurenberg for reward of his faithfull service in the warres of Bohemia and Huâ—gary paying vnto him onely 408000 Florens in lieu of the charges he had beene at Frederick Burgraue of Nurenburg Marques and Elector of Brandenburg by the gift of the Emperour Sigismond Frederick the second Marques and Elector of Brandenburg younger sonne to Frederick the first the elder brother Iohn surnamed the Alchymist neglected and passed ouer as lazye and vnfit to gouerne He had giuen vnto him the Dukedome of Stetin by the Emperour Frederick the third vpon composition relinquished shortly after to Bugslaus the tenth by his brother Albert reseruing onely the title and armes of the Dukes of Pomeren maintained yet by the house of Brandenburg He also obtained of the king of Poland the vpper Lausnitz surrendred afterwards Cotbus and some few other townes excepted to George king of Bohemia He deceased without suruiuing heires Albert the first brother to Frederick the second Marques and Electour of Brandenburg Iohn-Magnus son to Albert the first Ioachim the first sonne to Iohn-Magnus Ioachim the second Electour and Marques of Brandenburg sonne to Ioachim the first Iohn-George sonne to Ioachim the second Ioachim-Frederick sonne to Iohn-George Iohn-Sigismund sonne to Ioachim-Frederick He married vnto Anne daughter to Albert-Frederick Marques of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussen and to Mary-Leonor daughter to William the first Duke of Cleue and Iuliers George-William sonne to Iohn Sigismond and to Anne before mentioned now Marques Electour of Brandenburg Duke of Pomeren Stetin the Cassubians and Vandals Prussen Cleve Iuliers and Bergen Earle of Marck and Ravenspurg and Lord of Ravenstein The Marqueses of this house not Electours in regard of their number and to avoide confusion we let passe THE DVKEDOME OF POMEREN THe country was thus named from the Pamortzi or Pomerani the inhabitants thereof and these from their situation bordering vpon the sea for thus the words doe signifie in the Sclavonian tongue Helmolduâ— who lived in the raigne of the Emperour Fredericke Barbarossa confineth the name of the Pomerani within the Odera contained betwixt that river and the Wixel At this day their accompt and name is farther extended enlarged beyond the Odera Westward vnto the river Bartzee and the borders of the Dukedome of Mecklenburg Cromerus relateth this people with the whole nation of the Sclaves Winithi to haue sometimes beene subject to the Princes of Poland severed from their immediate commaunde and jurisdiction by meanes of the division of the dominions hereof amongst the numerous issue of Lescus the third Duke of Poland in the raigne of the Emperour Charles the Great More certainely after Helmoldus they were subdued and made tributary to the Poles by king Boleslaus in the raigne of the Emperour Otho the third vnder whose right and souerainety they remained vntill the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa when leauing the side of the Polanders they were hereby annexed to the Germanes their princes Bugslaus and Casimir created then Dukes and made princes of the Empire the occasion and beginning of the present Dukedome The order of the Princes