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A04988	A Catholicke apologie against the libels, declarations, aduices, and consultations made, written, and published by those of the League, perturbers of the quiet estate of the realme of France Who are risen since the decease of the late Monsier, the Kings onely brother. By E.D.L.I.C.; Apologie catholique. English	Belloy, Pierre de, ca. 1540-1613.; Aggas, Edward, attributed name.	1585 (1585)	STC 15137; ESTC S108196	138,975	314

retourne to the line of Francis the Elder who maried Lady Mary of Luxembourg daughter to Sir Lewes Constable of France who brought great goods to that Famely in Picardy Artoys Flanders and other places Of these two issued diuers children namely Charles Frances Lewes Antoinet Loyse of Bourbon Charles the Eldest succeded in the Countie of Vendosme and procured it to be erected into a Dutchy and Pairry Francis had the Countie of Saint Paule and maried Lady Adriane of Touteuille daughter and heire of a great famely They had issue a daughter Lewes was a Cardinall Anthoinet was maried to the Lord of Guyze of whō is discended the house of Guise now liuing Loise was abbesse of Fronteuault Now the said Charl●s the eldest maried Lady Francis of Alencon sister to the deceased sir Charles Duke of Alencon last deceased without children in the yere 1524. of this mariage issued Antonie Francis Charles Lewes Iohn Antony the Eldest and Heire of this family maried Iane of Albret Queene of Nauarre of whom came Henry of Bourbon now king of Nauarre who hath married Margaret of France Sister to the most Christian King Francis was named Lord of Anguien who gat the victory at the iorney of Serizoles died without issue Charles the third is Cardinal of Baurbon and Archbishop of Rouen Lewes was Lord Prince Conde who when he died left fower sonnes Henry Prince of Conde Francis Prince of Contie Charles Cardinall of Vendosme and Charles Countie of Soissons Iohn who after the decease of Francis was entituled Lord of Anguyen died also without Issue There were also some daughters of whom here we haue nothing to say as hauing in this argument to treate onely of the Succession of the house of Frāce which can not discend but to y ● Males of this famely The onely controuersie therefore and different that might through the Counsaile of the mischiuous be mooued resteth betweene Henry of Bourbon King of Nauarre sonne of Anthony the eldest of that famely and Charles Cardinall of Bourbon and Archbishop of Rouen his vncle by the father The end of the first part ❧ THE CONTENTS OF THE SEcond part of this Booke 1. Obiections moued against the King of Nauarre 2. The mariage betweene Lady Iane of Albret Princesse of Nauarre with the Duke of Cleue dissolued by the Ecclesiastical sentence the Popes dispensation auctorized in Parliament Also the marriage of the sayd Lady with Anthony Duke of Vendosme the eldest of the house of Bourbon from whom is discended the King of Nauarre 3. Marriage is by the Ciuill lawe voyde being contracted before age 4. The holy decrees haue inhibited the blessing of mariage of maidens before twelue yeeres of age of men before foretene the East Church haue proroged the Matrimonie of the man to fifteene and of the woman to thirteene 5. The honestie of Ciuill pollice forbiddeth mariage before age 6. Examples of mariages disanulled by reason of the noneage of the contracted 7 The explication of humaine pollicie wherefore hereticks are vncapable of successions 8. The right of Realmes is houlden immediatly of God by the continuation of the successiue lawes of the same Neither can the Estates depose a King vncapable or otherwise disabled Or the people transferre the right of their Lord vnto the person of any other to whom it ought not to be giuen 9. The office and duetie of the Clergie towarde Kings and Princes King Henry the second protested against the Counsell of Trent 10. Why those of the League would not take the Catholicke Princes of the blood therinto Those of the league haue sought to suborne those of the pretended reformed Religion 11. Kings are Stewardes of the Church goods The Church is in the Commonwealth not repugnant thereto Pollicie Iurisdiction and collation of Ecclesiasticall functions apperteineth to soueraigne Princes The Kings of Fraunce haue euermore preserued the state of the persons and goodes of the Clergie in their Crowne The Clergie were in olde tyme not capable to distribute Church goodes 12. The King neuer dyeth in France because of the successiue law thereof To what ende the Coronation of Kings was instituted The auncient maner of the Coronations of heathen Kings How long it is since anoynting was instituted and wherfore It is not necessary to annoynt or crowne Kings in one only place 13. Antiquitie is no necessary argument to auctorize common custome 14. The Church neuer disturbed the succession of Kings no not for heresie 15. Whether it be likely the K. of Na. wil force the conscience of his subiect 16. The estate of Bearne and Nauarre 17. The cause of the protestatiō that the King of Nauarre made the last yere at Montauban 18. The King cannot infringe the successiue law of the Realme The successor commeth not to the Crowne in the qualitie of heire to the deceased 19. The Popes reasons whereby he pretendeth aucthoritie to transferre Kingdomes The Popes haue euer exempted France out of their wonderfull power Gods lawe without polliticke confirmation is no sanction vpon earth Priestes haue no imperiall Iurisdiction Bishops and Popes haue acknowledged Kings and Emperors for their Lords The punishment of heretickes is executed by the seculer Magistrate 20. The opening of sundry places of Scripture concerning Ecclesiastical iurisdictiō Wicked Emperors were neuer deposed The Pope cannot excommunicate any body politick or Towne subiect to the King of France Appeales in cause of abuse from the Pope and other Clergie men obserued in France 21. The Church cannot excommunicate a Prince that is an euill liuer Subiects after the excommunication of their Lorde are not discharged of their dueties toward him 22. The sentence of the excommunication of a Prince cannot conteine any clause of depriuation from his Lordly rights 23. A Prince may lawfully arme himselfe against the Popes wrongful excommunication and appeale therefore as in abuse 24. The K. of Nauarres reason to proue him no Hereticke 25. The vsurpations of the Counsell of Trent ouer the Crowne of France 26. Most daūgerous drifts of y ● Leagued in the reformation of the Realme 27. The wicked entent of the Leagued Also what enuy they beare to the Duke of Espernon and others 28. The remembrances of Aduocate Dauid now put in execution by the Leagued The Kings duetie in matter of Religion 29. Forraine rule and gouernement is wretched FINIS THE SECOND PART OF the Cath. Apologie 1 SVch as mislike the king of Nauarres cause doe obiect against hym in this libell fonre principall points wherof three doe perticularly touche the qualitie of his owne person● the fourth concerneth the auncient controuersie betweene the Vncle and the sonne of the elder brother But we will ende●our to shewe that in all and throughout all they haue but a weake foundation Concerning the first they aleadge that the said Lorde King of Nauarre is not borne in lawfull matrimony of Anthony of Bourbon eldest sonne of the house of Bourbon because Ladie Iane of Albret mother to

auncient or mightie soeuer as beeing aboue 1200. yeeres since vnder one forme and with one kind of lawes it was gouerned vnder the maiestie and authoritie of Kings of whom this last race hath continewed 600. yeres But among the chiefest and most perfect ordinances of this Crowne that is most commendable whereby the realme doth by succession belong by vertue of the Salick law to the next Male of the deceased King discending of the Masculine ligne For in trueth our Kings knowing that those of their owne blood are to succeede them haue the greater cause to keepe housband and preserue the estate and demains of their Realme as their owne and certaine Patrimonie besides that the successors of the Crowne that are nourished and brought vp in this greatnesse doe neuer become tyrants because euen from their mothers wombes they are vsed to command and ordinarily doe become the better more iust valeant hardy and couragious by representing to their owne view the greatnesse commendation and maiestie of their predecessors On the otherside the subiects of the Realme that haue s●●e the birth nourishing and bringing vp of their Princes do the better know their humors and willes and doe more freely obey such as are borne to rule their estate thē others that are newly elected whom they remember to haue knowen in the like calling as them selues without either preeminence authoritie or gouernment so as there is nothing so perfect as that which neerest doth imitate nature and which seemeth to be altogether immortall aud infinite by Succession from the Father to the Sonne Besides that thereby the Kings subiects howe wealthy or mightie so euer doe conteine themselues in duetie humilitie and obedience to their soueraigne Prince when they remember that so long as any of the royall blood doe suruiue the same be capaple to attaine to that marke and that purposing to attempt any bad matter against the Estate and person of the King there remaine as many reuengers of the iniurie offered to his Maiestie as there be Princes of his bloud Herevpon doe I presume y t in our France wherein this royall succession hath time out of minde bene strictly obserued it was neuer found neither doe we reade that the French men did at any time enterprize or practize aught against the person of their King whether in respect of that naturall affection that alwaies they haue borne him and whereof they beare the bell among all other Nations in Europe or els because God neuer permitted the royall bloud of Fraunce to rest onely in one whereby the presumpteous conspirators might after the trespasse committed escape without punishment This royall succession therefore resting without doubt or cōtradiction in this Realme the subiects thereof doe well knowe euen naturally and presumptiuely who is most likely to become their King so as now to call in question this succession is the only direct way to cause the King y t holdeth the Scepter ouer vs to think and with himselfe to imagine that in his Realme there are some who for the satisfying of their ambitiō could willingly wish to haue his place and for the same purpose do harken after his ende But sith the bolde impudencie of men is so great that they blush not neither are ashamed to disclose themselues to giue all men to vnderstande of their bad entents besides that necessarily the Commune must bee satisfied who otherwise might sooner beleeue the false then the true before wee proceede any further in aunswering the chiefe poynts of the Lybelles that they scatter abroade to the end to say that after the decease of the most Christian King without issue male it is not the nowe King of Nauarre but his Vnckle the Lord Cardinall of Bourbon that lawfully should be King or the better to expresse their entents that it is neither the one ne the other but that they must proceede to a newe election and nomination of a Prince I will here protest that I neuer desire to see the aduenture of that substitution which they pretende but hartely doe wish to the King my soueraigne Lorde a most long and happie life with as great number of issue capable of this Crowne as there be Starres in the Firmament 9 After which protestation to come to the purpose and succession of the house of Frāce I will first speake to those y t are not brought vp in the state of this Realme but onely haue learned of their Fathers that the Famely of Bourvon hath the honor to be issued from our Kinges therefore that the Princes thereof may succeede when God shall permit to the Crowne by the Lawe of succession of the realme Turning my selfe then to these commons I say that it is well knowen that King Lawes the ninth canonized and called saint Lewes had two sonnes the elder Phillip the bould of whome are come our Kings yet raigning who also had two sonnes the eldest Phillip the fayer who succeeded him and after him his three sonnes Lewes Phil. the long Charles the fayer the yōger Charles County of Valois who begat Phillip of Valois who succeeded in the Realme after his Cousen Charles the fayer After Phillip succeeded his soune Iohn after him Charles the fifth called the wise sonne to Iohn This Charles had two sonnes the eldest Charles the sixth King of Fraunce vnto whome succeeded Charles the seuenth Lewes the eleuenth and Charles the eight his sonne petie sonne and petie Neuew The yonger Lewes Duke of Orleance who by Lady Valentine of Millan had two sonnes Charles the elder father to Lewes the twelfth King of France after his Cousen Charles the eight was deceased without issue and Iohn Earle of Angoulesme who was Father of Charles also Earle of the same lande and Grandfather to king Francis the first who succeeded his cossen Lewes the twelfth of which King Francis came Henrie his second sonne and father to Henry now raigning Hetherto therefore the branch of Phillip the bould eldest Sonne to Saint Lewes neuer failed so must that fable needes be false which the enimies of the house of Bourbō haue sought to root in mens mindes namely that the discontentation of the late King Frācis the first against Charles of Bourbon that dyed at Rome was for his pretence to the Crowne of France which since haue continued in al the Princes of this house and from whence should be deriued the troubles and Ciuill Warres of this realme during the minoritie of the Kings Francis the second and Charles the ninth brothers to the King nowe raigning A matter vtterly false and falsely inuēted to the ende more and more to bring into the hatred of the people the Princes of Bourbon who neuer accompted more deerely of any thing or had greater delight in ought then to acknowledge obey and faithfully serue the Maiesties of our Kings as their true and souereigne Lordes hauing the honor so neerely to be to them allyed that they are of the same House and Armes without

difference except that our Kings are extract from the elder sonne of Saint Lewes and the Princes of Bourbon frō the yonger 10 The second sonne of said saint Lewes was Saint Robert of France to whom his father gaue for his maintenance y e Coūtie of Clermont in Beauuoys This Robert married Beatrix daughter and Heire of Archembault of Bourbon and they two had issue a sonne named Lewes who succeeded his said father in the Countie of Clermount and so was also Earle of March besides that in the right of his Mother hee enioyed the goods of the sayd Archembault of Bourbon namely the Lordship of Bourbō which in respect of the appertenaunces thereto was of such accompt that King Phillip of Valois in the beginning of his raigne which was about the yeere 1327. erected the said Landes into a Dutchie wherby the said Lewes tooke vpon him the name and state of Duke of Bourbon which since hath continued in his posteritie This Lewes had two sonnes by whom this stock was first deuided into two brāches the one was named Peter the other Iames Peter is now quite worne out as concerning the Masculine ligne neuerthelesse wee will briefly rehearse his issue and then retourne to the posteritie of Iames who was the yonger of whom is discended the house of Vandosme from whom the Princes of Bourbon now liuing doe fetch their originall Peter of Bourbou being the elder of this house as is aforesaid was of great credit and authoritie in the time of King Iohn and had many daughters among whom was one very fayre whome Charles the fifth couered to marry rather then Margaret of Flanders who had three goodly Counties to her marriage Flanders Artois and Henault whom he caused his brother Phillip the bould Duke of Bourgondy to marry An other named Blanch was maried to the King of Castile a third to the Duke of Sauoy a fourth named Catherin to the Earle of Harcourt He had also a Sonne called Lewes who was of great fame as well toward y e end of Charles the fifth as in the beginning of Charles the sixth to whom he was appointed tuter as also to his brother Lewes Duke of Orleance togither with the Duke of Burgondy their vnckle by their father The saide Lewes of Bourbon was Capteine and Leader of the armie against the Turke in Affrike in the time of Charles the sixth and had to wife Lady Anne Daulphine who brought into that house the Countie Dauphine of Auuergne and the lands of Cōbrailles with the Lordship of Mercure in the said land of Auuergne and by her he had a Sonne called Iohn who maried Mary daughter to y e Duke of Berry To this man was giuen the Dutchy of Auuergne with the Dutchy of Bourbo and Countie of Clermount 11 At Iohn the sayde principall braunch bearing away the eldership the Famelie began to bee deuided for he had two Sonnes Charles and Lewes Charles succeeded his father in Bourbon Clermont and Aunergne and Lewes had Montpensier which in y e end returned to his posteritie Charles marryed Agnes of Burgondy sister to Duke Phillip of Burg. and they had issue principall two sonnes Iohn and Peter It is sayd they also had two more of one name viz. Lewes of whom the one dyed yong the other was Bishop of Liedge and Abbot of Sainct Vaast Others doe saye that they had two Sonnes Charles who was Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyōs Iohn who was Bishop of Liedge They had also sundry Daughters as Iane married to the Prince of Orange Isabell to the Duke of Burgondie and Margeret to the Duke of Sauoy of whom are discended Philibert Duke of Sauoy deceased without issue and Lady Loise of Sauoy married to the Duke of Angolesme of whom came the late King Frances the first But to returne to the said Iohn and Peter sonnes of the said Charles of Bourbon and Agnes of Burgondie Iohn the eldest had his fathers goodes and married Iane of Fraunce Daughter to King Charles the seuenth sister to Lewes the eleuenth who neuerthelesse in the warre for the Commonwealth reposed no cōfidence in the sayd Iohn of Bourbon aswell because he was come of a Daughter of Bourgondie as for that he had not bene payd his mariage money The sayd Iohn had no children by either Lady Iane of Fraunce or Lady Iane of Bourgondie his Cousen whom he tooke for his seconde wife and so his whole succession fel to his brother Peter who was called Lord of Beauuiew This Peter maried Anne of France daughter to Lewes the eleuenth He was in great credite during Lewes raigne but in greater during Charles the eight so as in the voyage to Naples the sayde King left the sayd Peter Regent of Fraunce The sayde Peter also left no issue Male but one Daughter called Susan who might haue great controuersies for the goodes of that famelie for the preuēting wherof it was wisely aduised to marrie her to a male of this house which was brought to passe as hereafter shall be shewed 12 To Lewes of Bourbon of whom wee spake before fell the Countie of Montpensier and so continued the name and title so long as the ligne of the sayd Charles his elder brother lasted He married Gabriel of the Tower of whom came Gilbert of Montpensier Viceroy of Naples after that Charles the eight had gotten it He married Clare of Bousaigne of whom issued fiue children thrée sonnes and two daughters Charles Lewes and Frances of whom the two last died without issue Charles succeeded his father and with the consent of King Lewes the eleuenth maried the aforenamed Susan of Bourbon his Cousen whereby all the auncient goodes of this house were left to them and confirmed in their persons whereby also was exting uished a quarrell already framed for the sayde goods which neuerthelesse soone after brake out againe more fiercely then before because y ● sayd Susan of Bourbō wife to her Cousen Charles and heire of the elder house of Bourbon dyed before her sayde Husband Charles without leauing any issue of her bodie and therefore Lady Lewes of Sauoy mother to King Frances the first and Regēt of France entituled and bare her self for heire to her said Cousen Susan and in deede was in degree neerer to succeede her then the sayd Charles her Husband wherevpon the processe controuersie began whereat it was sayd that the syd Charles tooke such displeasure that he withdrew himself out of the Kings obediēce therfore his Maiestie had a decrée of iudgement of his goodes and rightes by confiscation Also since that tyme was a composition made betwene the King and his sayd mother vpon condition that if hee deceased without heires male then the sayd goodes should returne into Lorraine But his Maiestie not willing so rigorously to vse his rightes and coueting to deale fauourably with the sisters of the said Charles he left to them part oft he sayd goodes as to the Lady Dutches of Lorraine the Baronage of Mercure

Vnckle after the decease of Earle Robert because he was sonne to the elder who dyed afore his father True it is that for entering vpon the sayd Countie and taking vpon him the title of Earle before he had taken his oath done homadge to his Maiestie he was arrested at Paris and imprisoned in the Castle of Louure from whence he was soone after deliuered againe An other solemne arrest passed in the tyme of Phil. of Valois about the yeere 1328. for the Dutchie of Brittain by reason of the decease of Duke Iohn who dyed without issue leauing behind him his third brother Ih. Earle of Montfort and the daughter of his second brother Guy Vicountie of Limoges then wife to Charles Earle of Blois vnto whom by sentence of the Court the sayd Dutchie in the yerre 1341. was adiudged because Charles of Blois shewed y ● by the custumes of Brittaine the succession belonged to the eldest thē to the second and lastly to the third thereupon inferring that his wife daughter to the second did represent the same person But where the house of Montfort did afterward enioye the same Dutchie that came by vertue of a certaine agreement afterwarde made at the entrie of Charles the fifth in the yeere 1364. An other sentence passed in the tyme of Frances the 1. in the yeere 1517. for the Countie of Foix and other the landes belonging to the same famely betweene Odet of Foix Lord of Lautrect and Villemur and Henry of Albret King of Nauarre Grandfather to the King of Nauarre now raigning for Gaston of Foix and Eleanor of Nauarre had two sonnes Gaston the eldest and Iohn Vicountie of Narbonne the yonger Gaston dyed before both father and mother leauing suruiuours by his wife Lady Magdalem of Fraunce daughter to Charles the seauenth two children Philip Phebus and Ratherine whereupon their Vnckle Iohn Vicountie of Narbonne hauing maried the sister of King Lewes the 12. made suite against the sayde Phebus his neuewe pretending eldership by the decease of his brother Gaston The cause pleaded in the Court of Parliament was by the Counsaile compounded in the yere 1488 but soone after began againe by Gaston of Foix Duke of Nemours sonne to the sayde Iohn being in great fauour with his Vnkle King Lewes the 12. but because hee dyed at the battaile of Rauenna without issue it seemed this processe might haue ended but it fell out otherwise for Odet of Foix his Cossen and pretended heire tooke the same cause in hand against Katherin sister to the sayd Phebus deceased and proceeded so farre that by arrest of the Court in the yeere 1517. he was put by the sayd Coūtie together with other the Lordships of the same famelic adiudged vnto Henry of Albret sonne to the sayde Katherine and his posteritie of whom as is aforesayd is discended the now Lorde King of Nauarre In England after the decease of Edward the third in the yeere 1378. Richard sonne to Edw. Prince of Wales was without contradiction crowned and preferred before his Vnckles the Dukes of Lancaster of Clarence of Glocester and Yorke but aboue twentie yeeres after for his euill behauiour and misgouernment he was deposed and his Cossen Henry sonne to Iohn Duke of Lancaster set vp in his place In Portugall King Alphons the fifth had two children Fernand and Henry who beeing the elder deceased before his father leauing a sonne named Iohn after the decease of the said Alphons the said Iohn commonly called Iohn the second whō the common Histories doe falsly terme sonne to the sayd Alphons did peaceable enioye the Crowne from the yeere 1482. vnto the yeere 1495. when he dyed without issue and then his Cossen Emanuell sonne to Ferdinand succeeded him The sayd Emanuell hauing raigned 22. yeres among other children left his sonne Iohn the third who was crowned after him and Henry the Cardinal Iohn the 3. during his raigne had a sonne of the same name who dyed before his father leauing his wife with childe of Sebastien who after his Grandfather Iohn the 3. was preferred before his great Vnckle Henry brother to the sayd Iohn the 3. notwithstanding the sayde Sebastiens father was neuer King and that the said Henry might haue obiected the same but he raigned not vntill the sayd Sebastien dyed and left no issue which question sayth Tiraquell doth so resemble ours as one Bee may an other In Castile King Alphons the 10. had two sonnes the elder Ferdinand who maried Blanch daughter to S. Lewes and of her begat Ferdinand and Alphons The younger called Sanxi who seeing his elder brother dead and waying his neuewes right to the Realme could not tary the decease of his father the sayde Alphons but during his life time raised warres to the ende to procure himselfe to bee declared heire whereat this good olde man was so wrath that he accursed him Besides that the French King Phillip the third Vnckle by the mother to the sayde yong Princes after he had therevpon asked aduise of the wise men of his Realme led an armie vnto the frontiers of Spayne and had gone forward had not the Popes Legat lingered him with wordes together with the assurance which the sayde Alphons made him viz. that he would vpholde the right and cause of his sayd neuewes which neuerthelesse he soone after he forgat and sent out his Letter sealed with gold and his owne Image therein grauen to his subiects repugnant to the former and by meanes of the same by forc●establish●d Sanxi his seconde sonne so as the orphelins were not ouercome but with the swor● without any shewe of reason as the historie doe import In Sicill the like quarell being moued betweene the sonne and the neuewe of Agathocles in the extremitie of his sicknesse the neuewe by the will and iudgement of God ouerthrew his sayd Vnkle and remayning victor was King ouer the whole Land In Germany vpon the like controuersie vnder Henry the 3. after vnder Ottho the Great the histories doe report that the States of the Empire met and agreed that this debate should as the custome of that time required be ended by a cōbat wherein the defendants of the cause of y ● neuew sonne to his brother y t would haue had his fathers roume were conquerors and thereupon the sayd Estates did so conclude and adiudge it More solemne also is the sentence which Licurgus the true Oracle of humaine wisedome gaue in his owne cause about the 17. Olimpiade in the time of Numa King of the Romaines for wee reade that his father Enomus King of the Lacedemonians had two sonnes Polidectes and Licurgus the first dyed before his father leauing his wife with childe Enomus dead Licurgus tooke the royall Diadem and kept it a fewe moneths vntill at a banquet among his friendes his neuewe the after borne was offered vnto him whome hee named Charilaus withall set the Crowne vpon his head To

to the Lady Loise married into the house of Roch-sur-you the Countie of Montpensier and landes of Combrailles which in so doing he rected into a Dutchy meete for the heires of the sayde Lady who at this day do beare the same name of Bourbon and are extract out of the second principall braunch of this house which we left of aboue vntill we had ended the first braunch of the elder And now to returne to the sayde Sir Charles in him dyed the ligne male of the principall stock of the house of Bourbon As for his two Sisters the one called Claude was wife to good Duke Antony of Lorrain whose stocke yet remaineth The other Loise was maried into the other principall braunch of Bourbon who hath left issue of the name of this house 13 Now let vs take the seconde braunch the first chiefe partition of this race which is the stocke of the latter yonger borne and yet remaineth to this day in the roume of the eldest and beareth the Name and full armes thereof as remayning alone after the default and ending of the elder Concerning y ● males this ligne beginneth againe in Iames of Bourbon the yonger Sonne of Lewes first Duke of Bourbon of whom we haue spoken before This Iames was Constable of Frāce after Charles of Spaine who flew Charles King of Nauarre in the time of King Iohn He had to wife Iehane of Saint Paule and was and so named himself Earle of Marche Of him came one onely sonne named Iohn who succeeded hym and married Catherin Countesse of Vendosme and Castres who brought into this house those two Counties togither with the landes of Carcuecy Lupe Conde Espernon Mōdoubleau and others Of these two issued three children Male Iames Lewes and Iohn also three daughters Anne wife to y e Duke of Bauiere Charlot maried to the King of Ciprus and Mary to Robert of the Crosses who tooke his saide wife by force and therfore fled and it was said he was drowned In his tyme hee gouerned King Charles the seuenth Now to retourne to the issue male Iames had to his protion the Counties of March and Castres Lewes the Coūtie of Vendosme As for Iohn he had the Lordship of Carcuecy and maried a gossip of his called Margaret a Vandosmois by whom hee had some Children and got a dispensation to haue her to Wife notwithstanding the said children were not aduowed into this famely neither succeded in his goods but by sentence were declared illegitimate and which is more the said Iohn of Bourbon the Father in his Testament willed great giftes and substitutions to the behoofe of his other two sonnes Iames Lewes in whose persons he planted him selfe and raised the first after bough and vnder twigge of this second principall branch 14 This Iames of Bourbon eldest sonne to Iohn liued in the time of Charles the sixt and had two wiues the first Beatrix of Nauarre the yōger daughter of the house of Nauarre which was the first alliāce of those two houses They two had issue a daughter named Leonor After the decease of the saide Beatrix the said Iames of Bourbon allyed him selfe by marriage as it is pretended with Iane Queene of Naples who had before as the speech went promised marriage to the King of Arragon and deceiued them both So as the sayde Iames of Bourbon beeing gone into the Realme of Naples was in the ende forced to leaue the sayd Iane and to retire into Fraunce where after his returne he still bare the title and name of King of Naples notwithstanding the sayd Iane had afterward giuen it to others and finally deceased leauing for his onely heire the sayd Leonor his Daughter who succeeded him in the sayd Counties of Marche and Castres She maried Bernard of Armanack Earle of Pardiar a yonger sonne of the house of Armanack These two had issue two sonnes Iohn Bishop of Castres and Iames who succ●eded in the sayd Counties of his father mother and besides in the right of his sayd mother Beatrix of Nauarre layd claime to the land of Nemours which he procured to be erected into a Dutchy tooke possession thereof and enioyed it He married the Daughter of Charles of Anieow Earle of Mayn and of Isabell of Luxembourg his wife This Iames of Armanack at the beginning was in fauour but afterward fall into suspition with Lewes the eleuenth and was executed at the Halles in Paris the 24. of August 1147. he left fower Children two Sonnes and two Daughters Iames Duke of Nemours and Lewes Earle of Guyze the two Daughters Margaret Charlot married into the house of Rohan who deceased without issue of their bodies so as in them failed this vnder twigg both male and female 15 Now remaineth to bee spoken of the ligne of Lewes brother to Iames. He for his part had the Countie of Vendosme and was taken at the battell of Agincourt in the tyme of Charles y e sixt He maried first Lady Iane of Roussy secondly Lady Iane of Lauall of whom discended one only sonne called Iohn of Bourbon who maried Lady Isabell of Beaumount of these two were borne two sonnes the one called Francis the other Lewes They had also sixe Daughters Iane wife to the Lord of Ioy●use the scond Iane first maried to Iohn Duke of Bourbon who was of the line of the elder of this house and secōdly to Iohn of the Tower Earle of Bologne of whome is issued Lady Katherine of Medecis Queene mother to the king Kitherin wife to Sir Gilbert of Chabaues in Limosin Charlot maried to Gilbert of Cleue of whō came the last Lord Duke of Neuers Rene Abbesse of Fronteuout Isabell Abesse of Caen as for the two Sonnes Francis the Eldest succeeded in the Countie of Vendosme Mondoublean Espernon and other Lands houlden of that famely wherto was added the Lordshippe of Saint Calais Lewes the yonger was made Lord of Rochsur-yan and of the landes of Lupe and Conde in Henault 16 Now because concerning the question now to be delt in wee are to argue of the succession of the elder we will seeke out the farthest and will first speake of the Branche of Lewes the yonger sonne Prince of Roch suryen He maried Loise of bourbon who was of the elder liue and sister to Sir Charles of B●urboun the last Of this mariage proceeded two Sonnes and a Daughter the elder sonne was Lewes who died but lately bearing the title of Duke of Montpēsier by the cōposition made in the time of the late Francis the first after the decease of Sir Charles of Bourbon Hee left one heire Male named Francis of Bourbon nowe Duke of Montpensier and sundrie daughters This Francis hath of his mariage with the daughter of the Marquize of Mezieres one onely sonne called Henry Prince of Dombes The other sonne of Lewes Prince of Roch-sur-you and of Lady Loyse of Bourbon was Prince of Roch sur-you who died within these fewe yeres without issue Wee must now then