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A01342	The historie of the holy vvarre; by Thomas Fuller, B.D. prebendarie of Sarum, late of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 11464; ESTC S121250	271,232	328

Kings of Naples 9 The Princes of Antioch 10 The Counts of Brienne 11 The Kings of Armenia 12 The Kings of Hungarie 13 The Kings of Aragon 14 The Dukes of Anjou 15 The Dukes of Loraine 16 Lewis the eleventh King of France 17 The Dukes of Bourbon 18 The Dukes of Savoy 19 Iames de Lusigna base sonne to the King of Cyprus 20 Charles de Lusigna sonne to the Prince of Galilee 21 The State of Genoa 22 The Marquesse of Montferrat 23 The Count of la-Vall 24 The Arch-duke of Nize 25 The Sultan of Egypt 26 The Emperour of the Turks It seemeth by the naming of Lewis the eleventh and James the bastard of Cyprus that this list was taken about the yeare 1466. And now how would a Herald sweat with scouring over these time-rustie titles to shew whence these Princes derived their severall claims and in whom the right resteth at this day when his work is done who should pay him his wages My clew of thread is not strong enough on the guidance thereof for me to venture into this labyrinth of Pedegrees we will content our selves with these generall observations 1. It seemeth this catalogue containeth as well those who had jus in Regno as those who had jus ad Regnum as namely the Prince of Thorone and Patriarchs of Jerusalem and State of Genoa whose ambition surely soared not so high as to claim the Kingdome of Jerusalem but rather perched it self upon some lands and Signories challenged therein 2. A small matter will serve to intitle a Prince to a titular Kingdome In this case Kings can better digest corrivals where they be many and all challenge what is worth nothing In this catalogue it seemeth some onely intitle themselves out of good fellowship and love of good companie These like squirrels recover themselves and climbe up to a claim on the least bough twig yea leaf of a Right Thus the Counts of Brienne in France if any still remain of that house gave away their cake and kept it still in that John Bren parted with his right to this Kingdome in match with Iole his daughter to Frederick the second Emperour and yet the Earls of his familie pretend still to Jerusalem 3. We may beleeve that by matches and under-matches some of these titles may reside in private Gentlemen especially in France And what wonder seeing within fourteen generations the royall bloud of the Kings of Judah ran in the veins of plain Joseph a painfull carpenter 4. At this day some of those titles are finally extinct as that of the Emperours of the East conquered by the Ottoman familie Their Imperiall Eagle was so farre from beholding the sunne that the half-moon dazzled yea quite put out his eyes Rank in the same form the Kings of Armenia and Sultans of Egypt 5. Some of these titles are translated That of the Lusignans Kings of Cyprus probably passed with that Island to the State of Venice The claim of the Hungarian Kings seemeth at this day to remain in the Germane Emperour 6. Some united The claim of the Arch-dukes of Nize a style I meet not with elsewhere twisted with that of the Duke of Savoy The Kings of Naples and Aragon now joyned in the King of Spain 7. Of those which are extant at this day Englands appeareth first our Richard receiving it in exchange of King Guy for the Island of Cyprus Guy's resignation was voluntarie and publick the world was witnesse to it He truly received a valuable consideration which his heirs long peaceably enjoyed and our English Kings styled themselves Kings of Jerusalem till afterwards they disused it for reasons best known to themselves Our Poet Harding in a paper he presented to King Henry the sixth cleareth another double title of our Kings thereunto And because some palates love the mouldie best and place the goodnesse of old verses in the badnesse of them take them as they fell from his penne To Ierusalem I say ye have great right From Erle Geffray that hight Plantogenet Of Aunge●y Erle a Prince of passyng might The eldest sonne of Fouke and first beget King of Ierusalem by his wife dewly set Whose sonne Geffray foresaid gat on his wife Henry the second that was known full rife Yet have ye more from Bawldwyne Paralytious King afterward to the same King Henry The Crown sent and his Banner pretious As very heire of whole Auncestrie Descent of bloud by title lineally From Godfray Boleyn and Robert Curthose That Kings were thereof and chose 8. Then cometh forth the Popes title who claimeth it many wayes Either because he was the first and chiefest mover and advancer of this warre Lord Paramont of this action and all the Pilgrimes no better then his servants and then according to the rule in Civil law Quod●unque per servum acquiritur id Domino acquirit●r suo Or else he challengeth it from John Bren who subjected that Kingdome to the See of Rome and yet the said John used the style of Jerusalem all the dayes of his life and also gave it away in match with his daughter Or else he deriveth it as forfeited to him by the Emperour Frederick the second and his sonnes for taking arms against the Church But what need these farre-abouts They go the shortest cut who accounting the Pope Gods Lieutenant on earth though by a Commission of his own penning give him a temporall power especially in ordine ad spiritualia over all the Kingdomes of the world The originall right of Jerusalem he still keepeth in himself yet hath successively gratified many Princes with a title derived from him Nor shineth his candle the dimmer by lighting of others First he bestowed his title on Charles of Anjou King of Sicilie from which root spring the many-branched French competitours and since hath conferred the same on the house of Aragon or King of Spain Which King alone weareth it in his style at this day and maketh continuall warre with the Turk who detaineth Jerusalem from him Yea all West-Christendome oweth her quiet sleep to his constant waking who with his galleys muzzleth the mouth of Tunis and Algier Yea God in his providence hath so ordered it that the Dominions of Catholick Princes as they term them are the case and cover on the East and South to keep and fense the Protestant countreys The quit-rent which the King of Spain payeth yearly to the Pope for the Kingdomes of Jerusalem Naples and Sicilie is foure thousand crowns sent to his Holinesse upon a hackney Who grudgeth his tenant so great a penie-worth yet cannot help himself except he would follow the Friars advice To send home the Spanish Hackney with a great Horse after him What credit there is to be given to that through-old if not doting prophecie That a Spaniard shall one day recover Jerusalem we leave to the censure of others and mean time we will conclude more serious matters with this pleasant passage When the

craft had finished that which these bunglers had so long in vain been fumbling about Wherefore they wanting true merit to raise themselves to the pitch of Fredericks honour sought by false detraction to depresse him to the depth of their own basenesse defaming him as if he conspired with the Sultan to the ruine of all Christianity In the mean time the Christians every where built and repaired the cities of Palestine being now resigned into their hands Joppa and Nazareth they strongly fortified the walls of Jerusalem were repaired the Churches therein adorned and all publick edifices either wholly cast their skin with the snake or at leastwise renewed their bill with the eagle having their fronts either built or beautified But new tackling to an old rotten keel will never make serviceable ship Short were the smiles of this citie which groning under Gods old curse little joyed her self in this her new bravery The end of the third Book The Historie of the HOLY WARRE Book IIII. Chap. 1. Frederick battered with the Popes force and undermined with his fraud leaveth Palestine and returneth into Italy THus the Christian affairs in Palestine were in good case and possibility of improvement But the Pope knew he should catch no fish if the waters were thus clear Wherefore he stirred up John Bren Fredericks father in law ghesse whether his plots ran not low when he used such dregs to raise a rebellion in Italy against him His Holinesse spread a false report of purpose that Frederick was dead Who would think there were so much substance in a shadow This vain rumour wrought reall effects strengthening Fredericks foes with hopes and staggering his friends with fear and uncertainties Bren striking the iron whilest it was hot wonne many places from the Emperour And though Time soon after was delivered of her daughter Truth yet the confutation came too late to shut the doore when the steed was stoln the Pope having attained his ends and served his turn already A jubile of liberty was proclaimed to all the Emperours subjects and they dispensed with from the Pope for their allegeance to him Milain and many other cities in Italy formerly Imperiall danced at this musick made a foot-cloth of their Masters livery and from this time dated themselves Free-States Here was brave gleaning where all ranne away with whole sheaves where robbery was priviledged for lawfull purchase And the Pope wise enough not so to give away the pie but to keep the best corner for himself carved all Apulia for his own part Whilest hostility in Italy treason beset Frederick in Syria the Templars intimated to the Sultan his private project to wash himself in Jordan that so he might be surprized But the Sultan no doubt out of pity to see a Lion catched in a Fox-trap there being a consanguinity of all Princes and the royall bloud which runneth in their veins causing a sympathie of Majesty betwixt them scorned to advantage himself by treachery and sent their letters to Frederick Who afterwards used the Templars and generally all the Clergie in Palestine counting them complies with the Pope coursely not to say cruelly At last having confirmed his ten yeares truce and having appointed Reinoldus Duke of Bavaria his Lieutenant in Syria without noise he cometh into Europe For to return triumphantly in state had been but an alarm to awaken envy and a warning-piece for his enemies to prepare against him He outsailed fame it self landing in Italy in person before he arrived there in report Then the love of his loyall subjects hitherto rather covered then quenched appeared and though formerly forced to a contrary motion returned now quickly to their own Prince their proper centre Within fifteen dayes assisted with the Duke of Spoletum Frederick recovered all which was wonne from him and unravelled the fair web of John Brens victory even to the very hemme thereof Then was all Italy resembled by Geographers for the fashion thereof to a mans legge troubled with the incurable gout of schisme and faction Not a city of note in it which was not dichotomized into the sect of the Guelfes which favoured the Pope and Gibellines which adhered to the Emperour Guelfes for the Pope Gibellines for the Emperour Vrsini in Rome Columnienses in Rome Sabellii in Rome Frangepanes in Rome Caesarini in Rome Adimarii in Florence Pazii in Florence Bondelmontii in Florence Uberti in Florence Amidei in Florence Donati in Florence Cerchii in Florence Albic●i in Florence Riccii in Florence Strozi in Florence Medicei in Florence Salviati in Florence Pactii in Florence Interminelli in Lucca Obicii in Lucca Carrarii in Padua Flosci in Genoa Spinola in Genoa Grimaldi in Genoa Adurnii in Genoa Fregosii in Genoa Dorii in Genoa Caneduli in Bono●ia Bentivoli in Bono●ia Pepuli in Bono●ia Malvecii in Bono●ia M●rescotti in Bono●ia Estenses in Ferrara Saliguerri in Ferrara Vicecomites in Milain Turregiani in Milain Gonzagae in Mantua Bonacursii in Mantua I will not quarrel with the tradition That Elves and Goblins in our English tongue had their first originall from the depravation of the names of Guelfes and Gibellines If so sure I am what now we make terriculamenta infantum scarecrows to affright children were then true Harpyes to devoure men I would farther prosecute these discords and also shew how Frederick was forced to ask pardon of him who had most wronged him and dearly to purchase his absolution from the Pope For though this Emperours heart was as hard as stone yet was it furrowed dinted and hollowed at last with the Popes constant dropping and incessant raining of curses upon him But I dare wander no farther in this subject lest any should question my Passe but return back to the Holy land Chap. 2. The Tartars first appearing in the world affright both Christians and Turks Of their name and nature Whether Turks or Tartars be easier convertible to the true religion REinoldus Duke of Bavaria being lest Fredericks Lieutenant in Syria wisely discharged his office and preserved the peace entire which was concluded with the Sultan of Babylon But the Templars sought by all means to bring this ten yeares truce to an untimely end which was as bad as a Lent to them wherein they must fast from fighting the meat and drink of turbulent spirits These counting all luke-warm which were not scalding hot condemned Reinoldus for want of zeal in the Holy warre and gave him many a lift to heave him from his place but still he sat sure poised with his own gravity Nor did the enmity of Henry King of Cyprus much trouble him who challenged the Principality of Antioch as next of kinne to the Prince deceased For Reinold met and defeated him in battel and bestowed Antioch on Frederick base sonne to Frederick the Emperour But that which kept both Christians and Turks in aw and made them willing mutually to observe the truce was the fear of the Tartars a fierce nation which now