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A09568	A briefe chronicle of the foure principall empyres To witte, of Babilon, Persia, Grecia, and Rome. Wherein, very compendiously, the whole course of histories are conteined. Made by the famous and godly learned man Iohn Sleidan, and englished by Stephan Wythers.; De quatuor summis imperiis. English	Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.; Wythers, Stephen.	1563 (1563)	STC 19849; ESTC S114630	119,109	230

It is saide that at that tyme the ciuill law which we haue sayde to haue bene gathered together by the commaundement of Iustinian and which since had bene put in obliuion through the tumults of warre was called again into lyght The ciuill law restored Henry surnamed the proud was then duke of Bauiers duke of Saxonie by contract of mariage because that he was the emperour Lothariꝰ son in law He coueting the Empyre hauing conspired sundry thyngs agaynst the Emperour was bannished hys possessions parted geuen vnto others But Henry recouered the coūtrey of Saxonie and as he drewe towards Bauiers he died leauyng a lytle sonne for whose sake the Saxons rebelled agaynst the Emperour And moreouer Welpho the brother of Henry diseassed conquered with sword the countrey of Bauiers draue out Lupoldus whome the Emperour had made lord of the countrey We haue a lytle before sayd Roger king of Sicilia that themperour did thrust out Roger king of Sicilia But he taking oportunitie of this that Germany was so troubled set vpon Sicilia defeited the Emperours lieutenant Afterwards he incited Welpho by meanes of great promises to offer alwayes occasions of war vnto the said Emperour so to kepe him occupied The kyng of Hungary who also feared him did the lyke And as the Emperour thought to go into Italy hauing all things in readines he died at Bamberg And Conrad duke of Swane succeded him Conrad Emperour who went a warfare against the Saracenes but hauyng lost his army retourned home where he ended his life Fridericus redbeard the first of that name Fridericus redbeard his nephew and duke of Swane was Emperour after him a man of noble industrie He in the beginning of his raigne appeased the princes of Germany and tooke away the variaunce that was touching Saxonie Bauiers Afterwards went into Italy with a great armie where he chastised them of Verone for that they had contemned him and for example he caused certen of the chief to be hāged About Placentia he cōmaūded al the princes vassals of the Empyre to make him watche He besieged Millan brake downe Ast destroyed Dertone Beyng arriued at Rome he was crowned of Adriane the fourth He suppressed the citizens that did rebel ouerthrew Spolet and made great slaughter He subdued the Lumbards and hauyng surmounted the ambushmentes which they of Verone had layed for hym retourned into Germany He punisshed ignominiously the Prince Palatine who in his absence had styrred vp troubles and debates He made the duke of Bohemia kyng The meane whyle the Millanes dyd diuers wronges vnto theyr neyghbours and reestablished Dartone that the Emperour had destroyed Therefore he returned with a great army and vanquished the Millanes by the ayde of them of Cremone The Millans rebell against the Emperour Pauia and of Noaire The towne being taken pardon was graunted vnto the common sort at the request of the Princes of Germany who had bene required of them All Lumbardie beyng brought agayn in to obedience the town of Millan ordered by his pollicie he went vnto other people thereaboutes But after his departure the Millanes rebelled contemning the lawes that he had made destroyed the fortes bulworkes by him buylt Againe he returned spoyled the whole coūtrey putting all to sack that apperteyned vnto them In the meane time great cōspiraties were kindled against him in Italy the pope Adrianus of whome we haue spoken was a doer herein who died beyng fully minded to excommunicate him The Emperour came into Italy the thyrde tyme The towne of Millan ouerthrowo● and raised vp the foundation of Millan made the authour of the rebellion to be beheaded and sent in exile the rest of the people Afterwards hauing layed siege before Rome he lost the most part of his armye by contagious sickenes Wherefore he raised the siege and left garrison of men in Toscane at Spolet Ancone Rauenna apoynting men at his pleasure who shuld gouerne the publyke weale This done he tooke his way into Germany After the dissease of pope Adrianus two dyd stryue for the popedome These two were Victor Alexander the thyrde The Emperour was more affectioned to Victors but Alexander excommunicateth his aduersarie Strife for the popedome after as the quarell dyd enflame he dyd the lyke vnto the Emperour The Millanes seyng the oportunitie did rebell and draue the Emperours lieutenants frō diuers places of Italy of whome they hanged certain The Emperour beyng retourned into Italy fought against them vnknowing who had the better The Pope companion of armes did flye to Venice At length there was trewes betwene them the Emperour tooke in hand the viage of Asia agaynst the enemyes of the christian religion where he was drowned by the rudnes of a riuer into the which he cast hymselfe for to swimme Fridericus redbeard drowned His sonne Henry the .vi. of that name succeded him He came the second time into Italy after the dissease of William king of Sicilia sonne of Roger where he conquered Puel Calabria toke also Naples subdued Sicilia leauing there great garrison because of the vnstablenes of the men of that coūtrey Then he ordened gouernors at Rauenna Ancone in Puel Toscane Afterwards at the cōsent of the princes of Germany hauing declared Fridericus his son then a childe successor of th empyre he went into Sicilia where he ended his life And because that Fridericus was to yong diuers were of opinion to haue Philip his vncle take the place But pope Innocent the thirde stifly wythstood it This diuision of the Princes styrred vp also great tumults for that some of thē did elect Philip other some Otho duke of Saxonie The great tempest was chiefly nere the Rhene But Philip so behaued the matter partly by armes partly by singuler humanitie Philip Emperour slain in his chamber Otho emp. that he brought hys aduersaries to reason then made peace with the Pope whō he had tryed to be his enemie euen to the vttermost Afterwards he was slayn in his chamber the abouesayd Otho duke of Saxonie succeaded hym who entred in the Popes displeasure albeit that before he had bene his frend as much as could be possible Briefly he was excommunicated by him the princes electours solicited of the sayd Pope for to elect another held their assemblie called from Sicilia Fridericus son of Henry the .vi. vnto whom they had sworne whē he was yet a childe as we haue sayd herebefore The Emperour Otho came wyth his army to encounter hym nere the Rhene for to stop him of his way But he was driuen back in such sort that beyng retourned into Saxony he died of displeasure as it is thought By this meanes Fridericus the .ii. of that name was Emperour vnto whom Fridericus The Emperour louer of peace sought the same by Ambassadours which at length with great difficultie he obteyned afterwards he retourned into

pope on thother side his own innocencie He was mynded to go to Lyons to hazard hymself but that again there arose a commotion in Italy whereagainst he employed all hys force But because that his affayres prospered yll being returned into Puel he fell sick finally dyed Some saye that he was poysoned other saye that he was strangled by Manfredus his bastard son who afterwards possessed Italy Azo Iurisconsul was then in great fame Azo Iuris consul after whom came this infinite band of wryters who hauyng transgressed the act of the emperour Iustinian no lesse graue then seuere haue fylled the world with innumerable bokes Wherfrom now we must draw that which the auncient Doctours had moste abundantly and moste learnedly intreated For they robbe one anothers wrytyngs and there is no end nor measure of their wrytyng and all is full of contrary opinions infinite bookes of Legistes in such sort that the saying of the olde man who had consulted with thre aduocates may be here very properly applyed you haue done well sayed he but I am in far greater doubt then I was before I omit the cauilations that are forged daily more more Truly here is that accomplished which the Commodie saith by subteltie one euyll doth engender another Terrence in the cōmodie of Phorninon Cicero complayneth that diuers singuler ordinaunces of lawes are corrupted depraued by the dispositions of Iurisconsuls What woulde he now do yf he lyued and saw these high pyles of bokes with our practise If he sawe this holy temple of lawes to be so vilelye poluted and so miserablye prophaned Howbeit as God hath in our age brought again to light all arts so he hath styrred vp diuers who indued with good letters haue prosperously trauayled herein do yet trauayle Learned iurisconsuls for to reestablishe in her beauty equitie this most excellent science altogether necessary vnto the societie of men which deserueth rather to be called an heauenly gyft drawen from the middest of the fountaines of Philosophie For the which enterprise they are not only worthy of publyke prayse but also of reward After the death of Fridericus the Empyre remained vacant almoste xxii yeres albeit that now one then another were elected who coulde not haue the gouernement in that so troublesome a tyme. In the meane whyle the kingdome of Naples was plucked from the familie of Fridericus and put into the Frenche mens hands and afterward Sicilia also For then the popes dyd strengthen them selues wyth the succour power of Fraunce although that through occasion of these kyngdomes great warre were raised betwene the house of Arragon the house of Anion in Fraunce But question is not thereof at this present The publike weale hauing a long tyme wauered in such sort as hath bene sayd Rudolphus Emperour Rudolphus of Habspurg was elected Emperour who in the beginning of his raygne appeased the motions that were through Germanye Afterwards hauing holden certain counselles or assemblies he enuaded Ottacharus kyng of Bohemia who dyd rebell constrayned hym to make peace vnder conditions which he straight ways brake at the persuation of hys wyfe and commyng the second tyme to the conflict in Austrich remayned slain in the field Ladislaus kyng of Hungary ayded the Emperour Finally peace was concluded wyth the Bohemians by marriage makyng and the Emperour gaue Austrich to Albertus his son whych the kyng of Bohemia had possessed many yeres The Emperour beyng letted with sundrye affaires in Germany dyd neuer take vsage into Italy neyther had he any great mynde therevnto For it is sayd that on a certayne tyme in sportyng he recited the fable of the Fore The fable of the fore who visited not the Lyon that fained hym selfe sicke in a caue because that the trace of other beasts dyd astonish hym who were gone in thyther and retourned not Notwythstandyng he appoynted in Italy a Lieutenaunt and as it were a vice Emperour Moreouer it is sayd that he confirmed Flaminia and the Exarchshyp whereof we haue often tymes spoken to the romain Church because that no great profit dyd redounde vnto hym frō those places For the Emperours were at length so weryed wyth the continuall hatredes and inimities of Popes that by lytle and lytle they became nice and of faynte courage Neyther was it possible for them to haue peace wyth the Popes vntyll such tyme as they had cleane forgone all Italy The popes at lēgth are maisters ouer Emperours And for asmuch as the popes dyd leane vp on the French men and did many sedicions by the the bishops of Germany whom thei allured they came at length to th end of that which they had a long tyme forethought forecasted It is here nedefull to put in memorie the merueylous chaūge of things come to passe when they who had bene preserued by the clemencie of the Emperours and by them had found the meanes to maintayne thē selues in theyr place dignitie beyng magnified by their liberalitie fre gifts haue taken dominion ouer thē also defrauded thē of their patrimony For not being content to haue vsurped the moste part of Italy they haue straight bound vnto them the Kings of Sicilia and of Naples in such sort that these Kyngs pay them yerely tribute and dare not accept the Imperiall dignitie without their licence do auowe this by othe amongest other thyngs when by the popes they are put in possession of the sayd kingdomes The notable ouerthrow and sackyng of the Frenchmē in Sicilia befel in Rudolphus time For then thei held this Ile but because that accordyng to the disordered maner of souldiours thei did many insolences and whoredoms thei were al suppressed by a secret conspiratie which was assigned when thei roung vnto euenyng seruice The Euenings of Sicilia This slaughter is commonly called the Euenings of Sicilia And it fell in the yere M.CC.lxxxi on Easter day The Emperour Rudolphus set dyuers townes at libertie for money the which before dyd appertayne vnto the Empyre to witte Boloigne the fat Florence Guenes Luques and others Afterwards hauing assembled the Princes at Franckford he could not haue his request ratified which was to elect Albertus hys sonne to be his successor He beyng dead Adolphus of the house Nansau succeded him Adolphus Emperour who shortly after had great quarell with Albertus duke of Austrich And for as much as by his doings he fore displeased the princes of Germany yea euē him of Mense by whose meanes he was made Emperour he was displaced Albertus Albertus duke of Austriche sonne of Rudolphus put in his place Who hauing made a leuye of men and beyng ayded of the princes went to encounter Adolphus The conflicte betwene them was aboute Spyre where Adolphus was greuouslye hurt by Albertus and afterwardes slaine by the residue of the multitude After thys victorie Albertus minding to assure himself and fearing least any should say that

was elected Emperour A litle before this time occasiō of great warre did arise betwen the Frenchmen the Englishemen Charles y● fourth For as Charles the faire king of Fraūce was disceased without men children the which befell the yere a M. CCC XXVII Edward the third of that name king of England contended that the kingdome appartained vnto him Warre betwene the Frenchmē and the Englishemen because that he was sonne of Isabel the sister of Charles The chiefe of the kingdome who are named Petes elected king Philip of Vallois cosin of king Charles disceased excluding not only Edward sōne of the sister but also the kinges daughter who was borne after the dyscease of her father For they sayd that the heritage of that kyngdome dyd nothyng appartayne vnto daughters Herevpon sprong a terrible warre the which yet at this day is not wel appeased The affaires of the Emperour Charles were very troublesome at the beginning Edward king of England was also chosen Emperour but he wold not accept it as it is reported because of the war where in he was occupied against the Frenchmen The Emperour Charles hauing appeased diuers innimities thorow Germany drew into Italy at the consent of Pope Innocent the .vi. who was in Fraunce was crowned at Rome by certain Cardinalls vnder conditiō that he shuld not soiourne neither at Rome nor in Italy Institution of the viccaires of the Empyre Wherfore he returned to Millan where he graunted to the family of Vicontes who then were of great power in that towne that they shuld be perpetual Viccaires of the Emperour through Lomberdie For the which benefite he receiued a great summe of monny of them not of them only but also of other people vnto whom he had gyuen certaine priueledge The which dyd greatly weaken the powers of the Empire in that country After he was returned from Italy he assembled the Princes made the decree of the Empire which is cōmonly called the bul of gold Last of all he declared Wenceslaus his sonne successour of the Empire The goldē bull the which he obtained as the bruit goeth by great summes of money Shortly after he disceased In the time of his Empire Iohn king of Fraunce son of Philip of Vallois g●ue battaile against the Englishe men who then held the most parte of Aquitania and the towne of Bourdeaux He was taken in the battaile very nere Poitiers with Philip the least of his sonnes Iohn kyng of Fraunce taken of the Englyshe men who was afterwards duke of Bourgony surnamed the Hardy Diuers of the chiefe nobilitie were slain in that battaile They that haue writen the Annales witnes that the Englishemē were no more then vii thousand and on the cōtrary that that Frenchmē were come thether in an infinite nūber euen about sixtie M. This came to passe the yere a M. CCC L. VI. the xx of September The king was led captiue into England where he died .vii. yeres after Wenceslaus as writtings do mentiō was very vitious aswel of his nature and bringing vp Wenceslaus as of his maner of liuing toke no care of the publike weale He hauing receiued pēce of Iohn Galeatius who was of the house of Vicontes Galeatius the first duke of Millan he made him duke of Millan of Lomberdy notwithstanding that he was a couetous and cruell man In his raigne Iagello duke of Lituanie was elected by the will and consent of the Princes king of Polonia after the death of king Ludouicus He was then fyrst baptised and named Vladislaus He is the double great grandfather of Sigismondus the .ii. who now raigneth The king of Hungarie defeicted by the Turcke Sigismundus King of Hungarie was vainquished nere vnto Nicopole by Baiazeth Emperour of the Turcks the last of Septēber The king of Fraunce Charles the .vi. of that name had sent a braue cheuallry vnto the succour of the Hungarians wherof Iohn sonne of Philip the Hardie duke of Burgony had the conduction who was taken in the battaile presented vnto the greate Turke being in extreme danger of his person not withstanding he escaped after a straunge maner Iohn of Bourgonie deliuered by a strang meanes which reciteth the Annales of Fraunce Baiazeth had one of his familiares who was of them that make profession bost themselues to know the dispositions natures of mē in beholding the body the eyes the visage the forhead He hauing cast his eye sight vpon the prisoner perswaded that Emperour to let him go safe seing that at his returne into his country it would so come to passe that he shuld kindell a fier wherewith the most part of Europa or of Christendome shuld be enflamed Baiazeth beleued him let go the prisoner with the other gentill men after he had receiued their ransome which did amount vnto CC. M. crownes Iohn being returned into Fraunce begāne to set himself against Ludouicus duke of Orleans who was the kings brother For he seyng the king his brother to be holden wyth an incurable disease would handle the affaires haue gouernment be cause that he was his nerest kinsman Iohn of Bourgony on the contrary perceauing himself to be the kings cosin and greater in age Philip his father being dead would goe before Their quarel increased dayly in such sort that the duke of Orleans was at length slaine at Paris as he returned to his lodging after supper The murderers were hired by the Duke of Bourgonie the whiche he denyed not and likewyse approued that whych was done this befell in the yeare a M. CCCC VII the ninth of December Twelue yeares after when the said duke of Bourgonie came to the place appointed for the parising of the matter The death of Iohn of Burgonye not withstāding the assurance made vnto him he was dispatched bi certain familiars of the aforesaid duke of Orleans who had conspired against him The murder was done in the presence of the Dolphine who preseded in the leading of the matter This is the original beginning of the war which from that time hath not ceased euen vnto this day to be renued from time to time betwene these two famalies Because that the Emperour Wenceslaus was dispised for his vnmanlines the princes dyd put him from besides his estate elected in his place Robert Palatin Robert Palatin Emperour This mā forthwith applied his mind to correct that which Wenceslaus had done amise would not ratifie the graunt that his predecessor had made vnto Iohn Galeatius so that he was minded to bring Lōbardy again in the obedience of the Empire But as he forcasted to go into Italy aswel for this cause as for others he was letted yea repulsed by the aboue said Galeatius The estate of Italy was then very troublesome through the faute chieflye of Charles Wenceslaus who had ouermuch licenced graunted vnto those people For besides Galeatiꝰ who of late was