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A91489 A treatise concerning the broken succession of the crown of England: inculcated, about the later end of the reign of Queen Elisabeth. Not impertinent for the better compleating of the general information intended. Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. 1655 (1655) Wing P574; Thomason E481_2; ESTC R203153 79,791 168

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the great succeeded in the Empire and was the man that all men know and the first Emperor that publickly professed himself a Christian and planted our Faith over all the world CONSTANTINE SIXTH And IRENE Constantine the Sixth was for his evil Government first deposed * and his eyes put out by his own Mother Irene who usurped the Empire but being not able to Rule it in such Order as it was needful for so great a Monarchie she was deprived thereof by the Sentence of Leo the third and by consent of all the People and Senate of Rome and Charles the Great King of France and of Germanie was crowned Emperor of the West and so hath that Succession remained unto this day and many worthy men have succeeded therein and infinite acts of Jurisdiction have been exercised by this authoritie which were all unjust and Tyrannical if this change of the Empire and deposition of Irene and her Son for their evil Government had not been lawful Examples out of France CHILDERICK 3d. Childerick 3d. King of France for his evil Government and Faineantise was deposed by Zacharie the Pope at the request of the whole Nobilitie and Clergie of France Who alleaged That their Oath to Childrick was to honor serve obey maintain and defend him against all men as long as he was just religious valiant clement and would resist the enemies of the Crown punish the wicked and conserve the good and defend the Christian Faith Which being not observed on his part they ought not be bound to him any longer nor would not be any longer his Subjects and so chose and Crowned Pepin in his place whose Posteritie reigned for many years after him and were such noble Kings as all the world can testifie CHARLES of Lorrayne Charles of Lorrayne last of the race of Pepin for the evil satisfaction that the French Nation had of him was by the Authoritie of the Common-wealth put by the Crown and Hugo Capetus preferred to it whose Line hath remained and possessed it unto this day Examples out of Spain FLAVEO SUINTILA Flavius Suintila King of Spain was both he and his Posteritie put down and deprived in the fourth Council National of Toledo and one Lissinando confirmed in his place ALONSO 11th Don Alonso 11th King of Castile and Leon Son to Ferdinand the Saint for his evil Government and especially for Tyrannie used towards two Nephews of his was deposed of his Kingdom by a publick Act of Parliament in the town of Valliodolid after he had reigned 30 years and his own Son Don Sancho 4th was Crowned in his place who for his valiant acts was sirnamed Elbravo and it turned to great commoditie to the Common-wealth PEDRO Don Pedro the Cruel Son to Alonso 12th having reigned 18. years was for his injurious Government dispossessed of his Crown by King Henry his bastard Brother whom the States of the Country had called out of France and Crowned and though Pedro was restored again by the black Prince of Wales yet God shewed to favor more Henry because he returned and deprived Pedro the second time and slew him in fight hand to hand and being set up in his place which his Progenie hath enjoyed to this day he proved so excellent a King as he was called el Cavallero and el delas mercees the knightlie and bountiful King Don SANCHO 2d Don Sancho Gapelo lawful King of Portugal having reigned 34. years was deprived for his defects in Government by the universal Consent of all Portugal and approbation of a General Council at Lyons Pope Innocentius the Fourth being there present who did authorise the said State of Portugal at their Petition to put in Supreme Government Don Alonso Brother to the said Sancho who was Earl of Boulongne in Picardie by the right of his Wife which among other great exploits was the first that set Portugal free from all Subjection and Homage to the Kingdom of Castile which unto his time it had acknowledged Greece MICHAEL CALAPHATES and NICEPHORUS BOTONIATES Michael Calaphates Emperor of Greece for having troden the Cross of Christ under his feet and being otherwise also a wicked man was deprived As was also the Emperor Nicephorus Botoniates for his dissolute life and preferring wicked men to authoritie Polonia HENRY 3d. In our dayes Henry 3d. King of France was deprived of the Crown of Polonia wherof he had also been Crowned King before by publick Act of Parliament for his departing thence without license and not returning at the day denounced by publick Letters of peremptory commandment Suetia HENRY Henry late King of Suëtia was put down and deprived by that Common-wealth and his Brother made King in his place whose Son reigneth at this day and is also King of Polonia And this Fact was allowed by the Emperor the King of Denmark and all the Princes of Germanie neer about that Realm Denmark CISTERNE Cisterne King of Denmark for his intollerable crueltie was deprived and driven into banishment together with his Wife and three Children and his Uncle Frederick Prince of Holsatia was chosen King whose Progenie yet remaineth in the Crown England King JOHN King John of England for his evil Government and for having lost Normandie Gasconie Guyenne and all the rest which the Crown of England had in France made himself so odious and contemptible as first he was both Excommunicated and Deposed by the Pope at the sute of his own People and to make his Peace was enforced to resign his Crown in the hands of Pandulfe the Pope's Legat and afterwards falling back again to his old defects though by making his Kingdom tributarie in perpetuum to the See of Rome he had made the Pope of his side for a time the People notwithstanding did effectuate his Deprivation the 18th year of his reign first at Canterbury and after at London And called Lewis Prince of France Son to Phillip 2d and Father to Saint Lewis and chose him for their King and did swear him Fealtie with General Consent in London Anno 1216. But King John's death following presentlie after made them turn their purposes and accept of his Son Henry before matters were fully established for Lewis And this Henry which was 3d. of that Name proved a very worthie King and reigned 53. years which is more than ever King in England did leaving Edward 1. his Son Heir not inferior to himself in manhood and virtue EDWARD 2d But this Edward 1. had a Son Edward 2d who falling into the same or worse defects than King John had done was after 19. years reign deposed also by Act of Parliament holden at London the year 1326. appointed to be called Edward of Carnarvam from that hour forward and his bodie adjudged to perpetual prison where at length his life was taken away from him in the Castle of Barkley and his Son Edward 3d. was chosen in his place who
Book of Knox of the Monstrous Government of Women 6. And John Leisley Bishop of Ross in Scotland confuteth the first point 1 That the Statute that beareth the inheritance of Aliens made 25 Edw. 3. is only to be understood of particular men's inheritance 2 There is express exception of the King's Children and Off-spring in the Statute 3 The Practice both before and since the Conquest to the contrary 7. The second If Henry 8. made such a Testament it could not hold in Law But that he made it not besides many probabilities the testimonies of the Lord Paget Sir Edw. Montague Lord Chief Justice and William Clark who set the King's stamp to the Writing avowed before the Council and Parlament in Queen Maries time That the testament was signed after the King was past sens and memory 8. Robert Heghington Secretary to the Earle of North writeth in favor of the King of Spain as next Heir to the House of Lancaster Another writeth in the behalf of the Dukes of Parma as next Heir of Portugal another for the Infanta of Spain as the Heir of Brittanie CAP. II. Of the Succession of the Crown from the Conquest unto Edward the Third's time The issue of VVilliam the Conquerer WILLIAM the Conqueror had four Sons and five Daughters Sons 1. Robert Duke of Normandie 2. Richard died in his youth 3. William Rufus 4. Henry the first Daughters 1. Sicilie a Nun 2. Constantia wife of Alain Fergant Duke of Britanie 3 Adela or Alice wife of Stephen Earle of Bloys c. The other two died yong Robert Duke of Normandie Robert of Normandie and his Son William were ruined by Henry 1. Robert pined away in the Castle of Cardiff William slain before Alost in Flanders whereof he was Earl by an arrow Henry 1. Of all the Children of Henry 1. Mande first married to Henry 5. Emperor had issue Henry 2. by Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke of Anjou c. her second Husband he Reigned after King Stephen The beginning of the House of Britanie Constantia the Conquerors second Daughter had issue Conan 2. le Gros who had issue Hoel and Bettha wife of Eudo Earle of Porrhet in Normandie her Father made her his Heir on his death bed disadvowing Howel she had issue Conan 3. He Constantia wife to Geoffrey third Son to Henry 2. by whom she had Arthur whom King John his Uncle put from the Crown of England and murthered After which Constantia married Guy Vicount of Touars a Britan and their issue have continued till this in the infanta of Spain and the Dutchess of Savoy her sister whose Mother was sister unto the last King of France Anna the Heir of Britanie had by Lewis the 12. of France one Daughter Claudia of whom and Francis the first came Henry 2. whose Daughter was Mother to the Infanta c. King Stephen Adela or Alice the Conquerors third Daughter had issue Stephen Earle of Bouloyne chosen King after Henry 1. before Mande his Daughter because a Woman and before her Son Henry 2. because he was but a Child and a degree further off from the Conqueros but especially by force and friends whereby he prevented also the Duke of Britain Son to his Mothers eldest sister He had two sons who left no issue and Mary wife to the Earle of Flanders whose right if any is discended to the Spaniard Henry 2. his Sons Henry 2. had issue by Eleonora the Heir of Aquitaine William who died yong Henry Crowned in his Fathers time and died without issue 3. Richard Coeur de Lyon who died without issue 4. Geoffrey who married Constance the Heir of Britain as aforesaid 5. John the King who had issue Henry the third Henry 2. his Daughters His Daughters were 1. Eleonora married to Alphonso 9. of Castile 2. to Alexis the Emperor 3. to the Duke of Saxonie 4. to the Earle of Tholouse Eleonora had Henry of Castile who died without issue and Blanche married to Lewis of France of the Race of Valois whose issue continueth and Berenguela married to the Prince of Leon whose Son Ferdinando by the death of his Uncle Henry without issue was chosen King of Castile before Saint Lewis the son of Blanche aforesaid because a stranger 16. The right which France had to Aquitain Poictiers and Normandie came to them by the aforesaid Blanche who was married thither on condition to have for her dower all that John had lost in France which was almost all hee had Henry 3. his Issue Henry 3. had Edward 1 hee Edw. 2. hee Edw. 3. and Edmund Crook-back Earl or Duke of Lancaster whose heir Lady Blanch married John of Gant the third son of Edw. 3. from whom came the hous of Lancaster Also Beatrix married to John 2. Duke of Britain from whom descended the Infantas Mother That Edward Crook-back was not elder then Edward 1. Edward Crook-back was not Edw. 1. elder brother and put by onely for his deformitie 2. hee was born 18 Junii 1245 and Edward 16 Junii 1239. Matth. West who lived at the same time 2. hee was a wise Prince and much imploied by his father and brother in their wars 3. his father advanced him in England and would have made him King of Naples and Sicilie 4. having the charge of the Realm at his father's death and his brother absent hee attempted no innovation nor hee nor any of his children made any claim to the Crown after that 5. If hee had been elder the title of Lancaster in John of Gant his Issue whose mother was heir unto Edmund had been without contradiction nor could the house of York have had any pretence of right The Issue of Edward Crook-back Henry the second Earl of Lancaster and grand-childe to the aforesaid Edmund was created Duke of Lancaster by Edward 3. Hee had but one childe the Ladie Blanch wife of John of Gant by whom hee became also Duke of Lancaster His three sisters were matched one to the Lord Maubery of whom the Howards of Norfolk Joane 2. Mary married to the Earl of Northumberland from whom the now-Earl 3. Eleonor married to the Earl of Arundel of whom the late Earle descended CAP. III. The Succession from Edward 3. The houses of Lancaster and York Edward 3. his Issue EDward the third had five sons 1. the Black Prince hee Richard second in whom his line ceased 2 Lionel Duke of Clarence 3. John of Gant Duke of Lancaster by his wife Blanche 4 Edward of Langley Duke of York 5. Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester The Title of the Hous of York Lionel of Clarence had one onely daughter and heir Philippe married to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March they Roger hee Anne Mortimer married to Richard Earl of Cambridg second son of Edmund L. of York His son Richard by the death of his Uncle slain at Agincourt came to bee Duke of York his father of Cambridg beeing executed for a Conspiracie against Henry 5. And was the first of the