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A33319	The life & death of Alexander the Great, the first founder of the Grecian empire ... as also, The life and death of Charles the Great, commonly called Charlemagne, the first founder of the French empire / by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4527; Wing C4526; ESTC R19861	78,693	118

French but in case of necessity was easily perswaded by Didier who came to Rome conferred with the Pope and made great Protestations of his Obedience to him But these his faire shewes continued not long There was at this time at Rome a Governour for the Easterne Emperor called Paul Ephialte him Didier corrupted and the administration of Justice being in his hands he made use of him so cunningly as that in the presence of Pope Steven he caused him to seize upon two of his cheif Secretaries Christopher Sergius whom Didier accused of some pretended crimes and presently to hang them in an infamous manner Their greatest offence was because they favored the French Neither did he rest here but caused all the principal Citizens to be banished whom he observed to be of the French faction that so having removed all hinderances he might be Master of Rome in despite of the Pope Steven was not so dull but he discovered the Lombards practice exceedingly to tend to his prejudice whereupon he sent to Charlemagne beseeching him to prepare an Army against Didiers force This Charlemagne easily assented to and fully resolved upon But Didier had provided a divertisment in France by the meanes of Caroloman to stop Charles his passage into Italy making work for him in Guienne where there arose a perilous Warre upon this occasion Though the Country of Guienne depended upon the Crown of France yet were there many Tumults raised by the practices of some Noblemen of the Countrey who frequently stirred up the people mutinous enough of themselves to Rebellion The cause of these Troubles was the abuse of the former Kings Clemency and Bounty who suffered such people as he Conquered to enjoy their priviledges and liberties Eudon a Nobleman of Guienne began first under Martel Jeffery and Hunult his Children and heirs of his discontent had continued it under Pepin and Jeffery being now dead Hunalt succeeded him with the like hatred which Caroloman fomented that he might imploy him against his Brother Charles Guienne was a part of Charles his portion But Hunalts design was to withdraw that Country wholly from the Crown of France and for that end he pretended a Title to the Dukedom thereof labouring to procure the people to Elect him having the promise and assistance of Caroloman to further him therein Indeed the countenance of Caroloman could do much but the wisdome and courage of Charlemagne prevailed more For being advertised of Hunalts practice and of his Brothers secret designes he armed with such speed as that he surprised the Townes of Poictiers Xante and Angoulesm and all the Country adjoyning Hunalt who had reckoned without Charles finding himself thus prevented fled to a Noble man of that Country called Loup whom he held not only to be firme to his faction but also his trusty and affectionate friend Charlemagne being informed hereof sent presently to Loup requiring him to deliver Hunalt into his hands who was guilty of high Treason and in the mean time he built a Fort in the middest of the Country where the Rivers of Dordonne and Lisle do joyn which he called Fronsac the better to secure his Country against such Invaders Loup not daring to refuse delivered up Hunalt and all his Family into the hands of Charles who pardoned Loup and all that obeyed him thus ending a dangerous Warre without blowes And to Hunalt he granted life and liberty and the enjoyment of his goods leaving a memorable example to all Princes how to carry themselves in a Civil War preventing a mischief by prudence and diligence and not to thrust their vanquished Subjects into despair by rigour Caroloman seeing his practices against his Brother to succeed so ill undertook a journy to Rome with an intent to cause some alterations there which yet he covered with a pretence of devotion He also took his Mother Berthe along with him and in their passage they were honourably entertained by Didier King of the Lombards where Berthe treated and concluded a marriage between her Son Charlemagne and Theodora Sister or Daughter to this Didier who was one of the greatest enemies to her Sons good Fortune Yet Charlemagne to please his Mother received his Wife but soon after put her away as neither suiting with his affects or affaires and so that which was intended as a cause of love bred a greater hatred betwixt these two Princes Caroloman having effected nothing at Rome answerable to his desire but only discovered his foolish and malitious jealousie too apparent under his feigned devotion returned into France and there soon after died Anno Christi 770. Leaving the intire Kingdom to his Brother who had now no Corival Charlemagne having put away his Wife Theodora upon suspition of incontinency he married Hildegard or Ildegrade Daughter to the Duke of Sueve his Vassall by whom he had Charles Pepin and Lewis and three Daughters Rotrude B●rthe and Gille who were the Nursery of his Noble Family But Carolomans jealousie died not with him but survived in his Wife Berthe who being impatient of her present condition and thrust headlong with a spirit of revenge against her Brother in Law Charles retired with her two Sons to Didier King of Lombardy as to the most bitter and irreconcilable enemy of her Brother Charles Didier intertained her and her Children very curteously hoping by them to promote his design But it proved the leaven of his own destruction His practice together with the Widdows was to procure the present Pope who Steven being dead was one Adrian a Roman Gentleman to Crown and confirm the Sons of Caroloman for Kings of France wherein the Lombard had two designs First by this meanes to bring the Pope in disgrace with Charlemagne that he might the easilier suppresse him being destitute of the French aides whereon he chiefly relyed and Secondly to set France in a flame by setting up new Kings in it Didier therefore earnestly besought the Pope to grant this favour to the Sons of Caroloman for his sake But Adrian well acquainted with the Lombards humour was so resolute in denying his request as that they fell into open hatred And Didier being much displeased with this repulse took Armes and with his Forces entred into the Exarchy being a Signory under the Popes jurisdiction and besieged Ravenna the chief City of the Exarchie Whereupon the Pope sent his Nuncio to him to expostulate the cause of this so sudden War against his Subjects desiring him to restore what he had taken and not to proceed in this Hostile manner without any reasonable cause and that upon the pain of Excommunication At the same time there fell out a great occasion to encrease the hatred between Charlemagne and Didier For that Hunalt who had bin before vanquished in Guienne and to whom Charles had shew'd so much favor very ingratefully retir'd himself to Didier who did not only receive him courteously but honored him by

the World amongst themselves his dead Body lay many days in that hot Countrey unburied stinking above ground A notable Embleme of the Vanity of all earthly things Besides this his vast Empire was divided amongst his great Captains To Ptolomaeus Lagi was allotted Egypt and Affrica To Laomedon Syria and Phoenicia To Python Media To Eumenes Paphlagonia and Cappadocia To Antigonus Pamphilia Lycia and Phrygia the Greater To Cassander Caria To Menander Lydia To Leonatus Phrygia the Less To Lysimachus Thracia with the neighbouring Countries To Antipater Macedonia and the neighbouring Nations But these men not contented with their shares fell out amongst themselves making War one upon another to their own destruction For Perdiccas warring upon Egypt was slain by his own Souldiers Antipater died Eumenes was betrayed by his own Souldiers and slain by Antigonus Olympias the Mother of Alexander was slain by Cassander Cleopatra sister to Alexander was slain by the treachery of Antigonus Antigonus himself was slain in Battel by Cassander Lysimachus Roxane the beloved Wife of Alexander together with her Son Alexander and Barsine another of his Wives which was Daughter to Darius were all slain by Cassander And presently after the whole Family of Cassander was rooted out Ptolomy died in Egypt Lysimachus was slain by Seleucus and Seleucus himself presently after by Ptolomy So that all the Family of Alexander within a few years after his Death was wholly extirpated And all his Friends and great Captains by their Ambition and mutuall contentions came most of them to untimely ends When the dead Body of Alexander had layen seven days upon his Throne at last the Chaldaeans and Egyptians were commanded from thenceforth to take the care of it But when they came about it they durst not at first approach to touch it But anon after saying their Prayers that it might be no sin unto them being but mortals to lay their hands upon so Divine a Body they fell to work and dissected it the Golden Throne whereon he lay being all stuffed with Spices and hung about with Pennants and Banners and other Emblems of his high State and Honour The care of his Funerall and of providing a Chariot wherein to carry his Body to the Temple of Jupiter Hammon was committed to Aridaeus who spent two whole years in making provision for it which made Olympias his Mother seeing him lye so long unburied in great grief of heart to cry out and say O my Son Thou that wouldst needs be accounted amongst the Gods and keptest such ado about it canst not now have that which every poor man hath a little Earth and Buriall Long after when Julius Caesar had Conquered Pompey and was idle in Egypt Lucan tells us that he visited the Temples and the Cave wherein the Body of Alexander the Great lay In these verses Vultu semper celante timorem Intrepidus Superum sedes Templa vetusti Numinis c. Then with a look still hiding fear goes he The Stately Temple of th' old God to see Which speaks the Ancient Macedonian greatness But there delighted with no Objects sweetness Nor with their Gold nor Gods Majestick dress Nor lofty City Walls with greediness Into the Burying Vault goes Caesar down Where Macedonian Philips mad-brain'd Son The prosperous Thief lies buried Whom just Fate Slew in the Worlds Revenge Alexander was very Learned and a great Lover of Learning and Learned men insomuch as he rewarded his Master Aristotle with eighty Talents for his History of Living Creatures He so prized Homers Iliads that in all his Wars he carried it in his pocket and laid it under his Pillow anights He loved his Master Aristotle as if he had been his Father and used to say We have our being from our Parents but our well-being from our School-Masters His Mother Olympias was very severe and morose in her carriage and once Antipater his Vice-Roy in Europe wrote large Letters of complaint to him against her to whom he returned this answer Knowest thou not that one little tear of my Mothers will blot out a thousand of thy Letters of complaint When he heard the Philosophers conclusion concerning the unity of the world he wept because there were no more worlds for him to Conquer but one An evident note of his great ambition which also manifested it self hereby That when he came to the Tomb of Achilles he fell a weeping considering that Achilles had a Homer to sing his praises and to perpetuate his memory whereas he had no such Poet to set forth his Commendations Also he commanded that no man should draw his Picture but Apelles the most exquisite Painter in the world and that none should make his Statue in Brass but Lycippus the most excellent Workman in that kind Alexander used to carry his Head on one side inclining to the left wherein his Court-Parasites to ingratiate themselves with him imitated him One desiring to see his Treasures and his Jewels he bad his Servants shew him not his Talents of Gold and Silver and such other precious things but his Friends When he had overcome Darius and gotten possession of all his Dominions and Treasures he began to degenerate into the Asian Luxury His Chastity and moderation were turned into Pride and Lust. He judged his Country manners and the Discipline of the former Macedonian Kings too sordid and mean for him He imitated the pride of the Persian Kings he made him a Crown and Robs like unto Darius He grew so proud and insolent that he suffered his Souldiers to fall down and worship him like a God Yea he comanded his servants and slaves to do so He clothed his Captains and Horse-men like unto the Persians which though they disliked they durst not refuse He gat him three hundred sixty five Concubines of the beautifullest virgins that could be found in Asia after the manner of the Persian Kings one of which lay with him every night He had his Troops of Eunuches with Musicians Jesters Singing women c. He spent whole dayes and nights in profuse Feasting and Revelling All which was very offensive to his old Captains and Souldiers When he was a Boy he took both his hands full of perfumes and cast them into the fire as he was Sacrificing whereupon Leonidas one of his Schoolmasters said to him O Alexander wben thou hast Conquered those Countries wherein these odors grow then thou maist be so liberall but in the mean time be more sparing Afterwards when he had Conquered Arabia Foelix he sent to Leonidas a hundred Tallents of Myrrhe and five hundred of Frankincense bidding him to be hereafter more Liberall in his service of the Gods He was of so bountifull a disposition that it was a greater trouble to him not to be asked than not to give He wrote to Phocian that he would make use of his friendship no more if he refused his Gifts Serapion a young Boy that used to play at Ball

and he left his Nephew Rowland only with twenty thousand men to see the conditions performed And to make his passage into France the more easy he commanded him to lodge in a place of advantage in the Pyrenean Mountaines called Roncevaux and so the French Army marched backwards to France under the conduct of Charlemagne who little dreamed of such an affront as he shortly after met with Whilst the French Army were upon their retreat Marsile and Bellingand slept not but gathering together all the Forces they could they lodged them secretly in the hollow Caves of those Mountaines being places inaccessible and wholly unknown but only to the Inhabitants of those Countries They had intelligence given them by Ganes what number of men Charlemagne had left in Spaine under the command of Rowland to whom the reputation of his Uncle and the good will of the People of Spaine in the Chiefest Townes was of more use then his twenty thousand men although they were the choise of all the Army Rowland had no fear of an Enemy when as returning to his Garrison he was suddenly set upon by the Sarazins who were far more in number then the French who seing themselves thus treacherously assaulted and compassed in defended themselves valiantly against those miscreants But still fresh Troops of Sarazins issued forth of these Caves on every side in so great numbers as that in the end the French tired and spent in so long and painfull a conflict were oppressed by the multitudes rather then overcome by the Valour of their enemies Rowland in so great and extreame a danger gathering together the pieces of his shipwrack performed both the Duty of a good Commander and of a valiant and resolute souldier fighting gallantly and having beaten ●●wn a great number where the enemies were thickest he at length came where King Marsile was whom he slew with his own hands But Belingand holding the Victory absolutely his own pursued the French with great violence in so much as Rowland not able to hold out any longer retired himself apart and finding his Death approaching he endeavoured to break his good Sword Durandall but his strength failing him he dyed of Thirst through so long and difficult a combate in that hot Country and with him dyed Oliver Oger the Dane Renald of Montaubon Arnald of Belland and other Nobles Personages who are the subject of many fabulous stories Yet the Fame of their singular virtues and prowess is engraven in the Originals of true Histories where it shall never be blotted out Charlemagne having intelligence brought him of this great and unexpected losse returned suddenly to take his revenge upon the Sarazins of whom he killed an infinite number in severall places and being informed of the Treason of Gaines he caused him to be drawn in pieces by four Horses as the only author of this miserable defeat And being transported with a just disdain and indignation for this so base an affront he had purposed to have passed on in Spain to take further revenge But the great and weighty affaires of his other Estates called him back into France to attend upon them And so ended his Spanish Wars with small successe having troubled Charlemagne at divers times for the space of fourteen years For God had appointed the limits of his designes as reserving to himself a Soveraign power over all mens enterprizes even of the greatest Charlemagne made a Tomb for his Nephew Rowland and honoured the memory of those other worthy warriers who died in the Bed of Honor with Monuments after which he was necessitated to undertake divers other Wars both in Italy and Germany in all which it pleased God to give him better successe Italy during Charles his Troubles in Spain had rebelled being provoked thereto by Adalgise Duke of ●●eventum who endeavoured to repossesse the Race of Didier but that attempt was soon suppressed by Charlemagne to the cost of the Lombard Rebells yet shortly after ensued another War in Germany The like occasion also bred a War in Bavaria For the King Tassillon who was Son in Law to Didier King of Lombardy being eagerly pressed by his Wife and wonderfully discontented with Charlemagne shaked off the yoke of subjection and betook himself to Armes But Charlemagne surprised him with such celerity that Tassillon was forced to sue for Peace which Charlemagne granted upon condition of his subjection and loyalty But again Tassillon not able to contain himself raised a new War in another place as when we stop one breach it finds ●ent by another He stirred up the Huns and Avars a neighbouring People to Austria which was one of the Estates of the French Monarchy against Charlemagne who yet suppressed them with happy successe and Tassillon himself being again vanquished by Charlemagne and found guilty of Rebellion and Treason was condemned to lose his Estate according to the Salique Law and with him the Kingdom of Bavaria ended being now wholly incorporated into the Crown of France The Huns and Avars of whose names joyned together the word Hungary hath been made were also punished by Charlemagne and brought under the yoke of the French Monarchy They had formerly attempted by War to disquiet the Country of Austria whom Charlemagne had at divers times opposed by his Forces so that the War at times had continued for the space of eight years and the final issue was that all the Country obeyed him The Danes also the Sorabes and Abrodites and the Westphalians who had all joyned in this War of Hungary were also brought under the obedience of Charlemagne The limits of the Northen Kingdom called Austrasia were so enlarged that it was divided into two Kingdoms and the Realm of Austria which joynes upon France was called Westriech that is to say the Realme of the We●● and that which is towards Danubius was called Ostrie●● 〈◊〉 that is the Kingdom of the East Austria being then of a greater command then it is at this day For it contained all Hungary Valachia Bohemia Transilvania Denmark and Poland Then was the French Monachy of a vast extent But all these Nations have since either returned to their first beginning or new Lords have seized upon them Thus the French Monarchy was greatly enlarged by the prowess and Valour of Charlemagne and his Children were grown up as in age so in knowledge experience through the carefull education which their prudent Father gave them who framed them to the management of affairs intending them to provide that they might first succeed him in his virtues and afterwards in his Kingdoms But man purposeth and God disposeth France Italy Germany Spain and Hungary made the Roman Empire in the West and Charlemagne being Master of these goodly Provinces was in effect an Emperor but only wanted the Title and the soleme Declaration of this dignity And shortly after the Providence of God that gave him the former ministred opportunity to him for the