much that he died at Perpignan the 6th day of October He was in the beginning of the Five and fortieth year of his Life and the Sixteenth of his Reign His Flesh and Bowels were interred in the Cathedral of Narbonne and his Bones brought to St. Denis If we consider his Qualities he was Valiant Good Liberal Just and very Pious but too simple and too easie to be deceived If his Conduct it was not over-happy in those undertakings he made abroad but for his Enterprizes at home they could not succeed better for his Kingdom since it grew rich and flourishing by a Peace of Fifteen years continuance without any vexation of Imposts and the maintenance of a most exact and speedy Justice By Isabella Daughter of James I. King of Arragon he left two Sons those were Philip and Charles The first Reigned the second was Earl of Valois and Father of a Philip who came to the Crown By his second Wife Mary de Brabant he had one Son and two Daughters the Son was Lewis Earl of Euvreux From him sprang the Branch of Euvreux into which the Crown of Navarre was brought by Marriage The Daughters were Margaret and Blanch Margaret was Married in the year 1298. to Edwardâ— King of England Blanch having been twice Contracted once with John de Namur eldest Son of Guy Earl of Flanders the other time with John d'Avesnes Earl of Ostrevant eldest Son of John d'Avesnes Earl of Haynault Married at last in the year 1298. to Rodolph Duke of Austria eldest Son of Albertus the Emperor by whom she had a Son but both the Mother and the Child were Poysoned in the City of Vienna Anno 1305. Philip IV. King XLV POPES HONORIUS IV. Eighteen Months Vacancy Nine Months and an half NICHOLAS IV. Elected the 22th of February 1288. S. Four years one Month and an half Vacancy Two years three Months CELESTINE V. Institutor of the Celestines Elected the 5th of July 1294. S. Five Months and an half BONIFACE VIII Elected the 24th of Decemb. 1294. S. Eight years nine Months and an half BENNET XI Elected the 20th of October 1303. S. Eight Months seventeen days Vacancy Eleven Months CLEMENT V. Elected the 5th of June 1305. transfers the See into France S. Nine years wanting five weeks PHILIP IV. Surnamed the Fair King of France XLV and of Navarre also by his Wife Aged Seventeen years and some Months Year of our Lord 1286 After Philip had brought back into France the remainder of the Army and conveyed his Fathers Bones to St. Denis he went to be Crowned at Rheims by the hands of the Archbishop Peter Barbet the Sixth day of January with the Queen his Wife Year of our Lord 1286 Guy de Dampierre had succeeded in the Earldom of Flanders after the death of his Mother and had done Homage for it to Philip the Hardy but neither his Mother nor himself for want either of will or power had not as yet caused the Articles to be Sworn to and Ratified which were made in the year 1225. between Philip Augustus and Ferrand because in truth they were very destructive and ruinous to the Flemmings This year the King having threatned Guy if he did not perform it without delay to own him no longer for his Vassal but to declare a War the Cities and Commonalty of the Countrey were so alarmed and scared that they obey'd his Will and Pleasure Ever since the death of Philip III. Edward King of England had omitted no endeavour to confirm the Treaties with his Successor In the year 1286. being landed in France about Pontieu he was received at Amiens by several Lords whom the King sent to meet him from thence he came to Paris where he was Treated magnificently was present at the Parliament which was held after Easter and going from thence about Whitsontide went by Land to Burdeaux The apparent cause of his Voyage was the desire he had to Compose the business of the King of Arragon because Alphonso the eldest Son and Successor of Peter had Married his Daughter Alienor He forgot not likewise to press earnestly he might have some reparation for Normandy and those other Countries which both his Father and himself had renounced but could obtain nothing in either of these two points Being returned to Burdeaux he solemnly received the Ambassadors from the Kings of Castille of Arragon and of Sicilia all Enemies to France which gave no little jealousie to Philip. John de Launoy Vice-Roy for Philip in Navarre continued the War against the Arragonians But a Lord of the Country named John Corbaran whom he had entrusted with the Command of the Armies having been worsted by their Forces a Truce was agreed upon between the two Crowns The King of England laboured very seriously to Compose the Difference between the Kingdom of France and that of Arragon and Sicilia To this purpose he Conferr'd with Alphonso and Olâ—ron de Bearn and afterwards took the pains to make a Voyage into Sicily that he might Treat with James the Brother of Alphonso who as we have related had seized upon that Island The Negotiations of the King of England were somewhat retarded by the Progress some French Lords had made in that Island But the rest who were going thither to compleat that Conquest being beaten and taken at Sea by Lauria the Admiral they gave a more willing Ear to what was propounded Year of our Lord 1288 The Treaty was carried on so well that Charles the Lame was set at Liberty promising he would bring it so about with the Earl of Valois that he should renounce the Kingdom of Arragon and with the Pope that he should invest James of Arragon in that of Sicily which his Brother Alphonso should yield to him For security whereof Charles gave his Three Sons and Fifty Gentlemen of Quality as Hostages When he was deliver'd from his Imprisonment he did not hold himself obliged to make that good which he had been forced to promise on the contrary being in France he exhorted the Earl of Valois not to desist from his Right to the Kingdom of Arragon and going afterwards into Italy he got himself to be Crowned by the Pope who was then at Geronsa King of Sicilia both on this side and beyond the Fare So that James of Arragon perceiving the Treaty was broke fell upon Calabria where the City of Catensana had revolted in his favour Robert d'Artois laid Siege to it James and his Admiral Lauria hastned to its relief and being beaten went and blocked up Gaieta thinking to make a Diversion but Charles and Robert followed at the same time and besieged the Besiegers so straightly that they reduced them to Famine Then the Sicilian caused I know not how the Popes Legat to intervene who demanded a Truce for two years and Charles not well informed of the extremity wherein his Enemies were consented to it a little too easily at which Robert was so incensed that he retired into France and carried
453 Her Memory justified 466 Jane Queen of Naples her death 448. 454 Jane Queen of France takes upon her the sacred Vail in a Convent 534 Jane of Castille loses her Wits 642 Jane Queen of Spain her Death 642 Indies West by whom discovered 516 517 John I. King of France 371 Defeated and vanquish'd in Battle and taken Prisoner by the English near Poitiers 374 Makes Peace with the English and is set at Liberty 380 Repasses into England 382 His Death his Wives and his Children 383 John XXII Pope degraded and another substituted in his place 359 His Death 361 John King of Arragon in War with the Castillian 482 John d'Albret King of Navarre deprived of his Kingdom by the Arragonians 551 Innocent VI. Pope 372 Innocent VII Pope of Rome 420 his Death 422 Innocent VIII Pope favours Reneé Duke of Lorrain against Ferdinand King of Naples 514 Inquisition cause of great Troubles in the Kingdom of Naples 625. Interim granted to the Protestants of Germany 610 Investiture granted to King Lewis XII of the Milanois by the Emperour 541 Investiture of the Kingdom of Naples given by the Pope to Ferdinand of Arragon 547 Isabella de Valois Dutchess Widdow of Bourbon made Prisoner by the English 389 Isabella of Bavaria Queen of France claims the Regency 435 c. Her death 456 Isabella of Bavaria Wife of King Charles VI. the too strict Union of this Princess with the Duke of Orleans gives a Scandal 421 Held Prisoner and afterwards gotten away by the Duke of Burgundy 435 Isabella Queen of Arragon her Death 542 Iscalin Paulin afterwards called the Baron de la Garde goes on behalf of the King to Solyman at Constantinople 612 Italy divided into two Factions for the Pope and for the Duke of Milan 629 Jubilé Centenary celebrated 536 Julius Pope 541 Recovers Bolognia upon John Bentivoglio 543 Enemy of France 547 He Leagues and Arms against the Venetians 545 Reconciled with them 546 Quarrels with the Duke of Ferrara about some Salt-Pits 547 Sollicites the Swiss and the King of England against France ib. Besieges the City of Miranda in Person 548 His Death 552 Julius III. Pope 628 Leagues with the Emperour against the Duke of Parma and the Count de la Miranda 629 Breaks with the King of France 630 c. Juliers the Duke kill'd in a Battle 389 Juvenal John Chancellor 430 K KNoles an English Captain 379 L LAdislas seizes upon Rome and the Lands of the Church 425 Ladislas the Young King of Hungary 460 Landgrave of Hesse Prisoner 624 Languedoc the Government of it given to the Lord de Chevreuse 416 Lanoy 583 Vice-Roy of Naples 584 Laon the Cardinal de Laon his Death 411 Lautrec bravely defends Bayonne 575 General of the Armies of the League in Italy his Exploits 587 c. Governor of the Milanois his Death 590 Lancaster Duke Lands at Calais with an English Army traverses and runs thorow all France without doing any considerable Exploit 387 Lands at Calais and over-runs the Country of Caux 388 Enters France in Arms. 427 Passes into Spain and Conquers a part of Castille 408 League of the King with the Venetians the Florentines and Sforsa for the deliverance of the Pope and the Children of France that were Prisoners 420 League of the Princes against the House of Burgundy 426 League the first the Kings had with the Swisse 501 League and rising of the Spaniards called the Santa Junta 565 League Holy League in England to prevent a Schism League offensive and defensive between the Pope the King of France and the Holy See 605 Leon King of Armenia flying from the cruelty of the Turks takes refuge in France 408 Leo X. Pope 552 His Death 552 D Leve Anthony General for the Emperour in Piedmont 602 Liege in great Troubles about the Election and Establishment of a Bishop 424 Taken by Storm sacked and burnt by the Duke of Burgundy 490 Implacable hatred of the Liegois against the House of Burgundy 424 Limoges taken by Storm by the English 392 Loire the River Loire frozen in the Month of June 484 Lorain Charles Cardinal raises himself and his House very much 629 c. Longueville Duke Prisoner in England 554 Lewis or Lovis of Bavaria Emperour Excommunicated by the Pope degraded from the Empire his Death 367 Lowis the Great King of Hungary Revenges the Death of the King of Sicilia his Brother 368 Lovis Duke of Anjou seizes on the Regency after the Death of Charles V. c. 400 His Death 408 Louis Duke of Orleance Brother of King Charles VI. 412 Is assassinated by order of the Duke of Burgundy 423 The Dutchess his Wife comes from Blois to Paris to complain to the King 424 c. Louis II. Duke of Anjou invested with the Kingdom of Naples 426 Louis of Anjou King of Sicily 430 Louis of Anjou King of Naples 454 His Death ib. Louis XI King of France his return from Flanders and his Coronation at Reims 481 Ill Conduct in the beginning of his Reign 482 His Death his Elogy his Wives and his Children 505 506. Louis King of Hungary vanquished by the Turks 584 Louis or Lewis XII King of France heretofore Lewis Duke of Orleance 532 His Marriage with Jane Daughter of Lewis XI declared null 534 Makes Peace and Alliance by Marriage with the King of England His Death 554 Louysa of Savoy Mother of King Francis I. Regent of the Kingdom during the Voyage of her Son into Italy 580 c. Her Death 594 Luther and of his Defection and going out of the Church the Birth of Lutheranisme 562 Lutheranisme introduced in Sweden in Denmark and Norway 606 Lutherans sought after in France 575 Punished ib. Called Protestants 562 Louret President of Provence 449 Luxury breeds from Desolation 374 M Perrin MAcé 377 Island of Madera's discover'd 439 Mahomet takes the City of Constantinople by force 465 His Death 503 Majority of the Eldest Sons of France Memorable Ordonance 393 c. Mantoua from a Marquisate erected to a Dutchy 592 Marcellus II. Pope 642 Mareschals of France 623 Margaret of Burgundy marries the Daufin of France 504 Margaret of Scotland Queen of France Her Death 506 Margaret of Austria Wife of Charles VIII is sent back into Germany to Maximilian her Father 516 Margaret Sister of King Francis I. passes into Spain 581 Marriage of Charles VI. with Isabella of Bavaria and of John of Burgundy with Margaret of Bavaria 408 Marriage of the Daufin of France with the Daughter of the Duke of Burgundy and the eldest Son of the Burgundian with Michel of France 421 Marriage of Catherine of France with the King of England 439 Marriage of Margarite of Anjou with the King of England 459 Marriage of King Lewis XII with Mary Sister of the King of England 544 Marriage of Philip of Spain with Isabella of France 654 Of the Duke of Savoy with Margaret Sister of King Henry II. 653 Mary Queen of England her Death 651 Mary Queen
of France Wife of Lewis XII 554 Takes the Duke of Suffolk for her second Husband 568 Mary Queen Widdow of Hungary Governess of the Low-Countries 601 Mary Princess of Scotland 613 Mary Queen of Scots great Troubles in Scotland for her concern 618 Brought into France 624 Mary Queen of England declares War against France 646 William de la Mark called the Wildboard of Ardenne Beheaded 504 Marseilles Besieged by the Imperialists without Success 577 Martin V. Pope transfers the Council of Siena to Basil 448 Prince Maurice 631 Maximilian Emperour Besieges Terouene 502 Maximilian is Elected and Crowned King of the Romans 510 His Death 563 Maximilian King of Bohemia in contest with Charles V. his Uncle 638 Meaux Besieged and taken by the English 440 Medicis Peter chaced and banished from Florence 520 Medicis Laurence invested in the Dutchy of Vrbin 561 The Medicis restablished in Florence 591 Laurence de Medicis Assassinates and kills the Duke of Florence his unhappy end 606 Cosmo de Medicis Duke of Florence ib. Declares himself against the French and against Siena 640 Melfe the Prince of Melfe or Malsy 616 Mercier Sieur de Novain Favorite of King Charles VI. 411 Milan conquer'd by King Lewis XII and by the Venetians 534 The investiture granted to Lewis XII by the Emperour 542 Abandoned by the French 550 c. Regained by the French and as soon lost for them 552 Falls under the Dominion of the Emperour 578 Mines the way to fill them with Powder to blow up a Wall 539 Pic Mirandulus his Death 520 Moncado Vice-roy of Sicilia slain in Fight 589 Moncins Governor of Guyenne Massacred by the Bourdelois 627 John de Montaigu Favorite of Charles VI. 411 Montargis surprized by the English 453 Montecuculi drawn by four Horses for Poisoning the Daufin 603 John de Montfort remains sole Duke of Bretagne by the death of Charles de Blois 385 Defeats in Battle Charles de Blois abandons Bretagne and retires to England 367 Returns into Bretagne 393 Montmorency a Town not inconsiderable burnt 379 Montpelliers Mutinies of the People because of the Imposts 397 John de Montaigue Surintendant punished with Death 425 Montpensier the Duke made a Prisoner of War 647 Moscovy 502 Muley-Assan King of Tunis dispoiled of his Kingdom by his Son who puts out his Eyes 456 Mutinies and Popular Commotions because of the Imposts and excessive Subsidies 402 403 c. N NAples Kingdom conquer'd by the French and soon after retaken from them 521 Strange Revolution against the French who are driven out of that Kingdom 538 C. of Nassau Prisoner of War 512 The C. of Nassau Ambassador in France 557 Enters into Champagne and Besieges Mouson 567 Makes an irruption upon Picardy Louis of Navarre 603 Navarre Usurped by Ferdinand of Arragon 551 Reconquer'd by the French but soon lost again 565 The D. of Nemours General of the Army for the King in the Kingdom of Naples 537 Slain in the Battle of Cerignoles 538 I. Earl of Nevers goes to the Assistance of the King of Hungary against the Turks 417 Nice Besieged in vain by Barbarossa 615 Nicholas I. Antipope 359 Nicholas the Pope is owned in France 461 The Duke of Normandy Commands a very Potent Army with small Success 365 Normandy over-run and ravaged by the English 374 United inseparably to the Crown 381 Falls under the Power of the English 437 Is wholly regained from the English 463 Is put under the Power of a new Duke 487 Brought to the Obedience of the King 488 O OBservance strickt of the Order of Saint Francis 443 Officers maintain'd in their Offices 489 The mutation of Officers a Cause of great trouble ib. Oliver de Blois attempts upon the Person of the Duke of Bretagne 436 He and his Brothers Condemned to Death 437 Oliver Francis Chancellour of France 623 Orange Prince 510 Orange Prince Prisoner of War 513 Is made Lieutenant for the King in Bretagne ib. General of an Army without Power 586 Order of the Star Instituted or rather renewed abandoned to the Chevalier du Guet 372 Order of the Garter Instituted 371 Order of the Collar its Institution 408 Order of Saint Maurice Instituted 526 Orleans Besieged by the English succour'd and deliver'd by the Pucelle Joane 450 Orleans Charles Duke set at Liberty 458 Orleans John Bastard Earl of Dunois and great Chamberlain his Death 492 Orleans Charles Duke his death 483 Orleans Louis Duke Espouses the Princess Jane of France 503 Orleans Louis Duke Chief of the Council 508 Makes a League and a new Party against the State with the Duke of Bourbon and others 510 Absents far from Court retires into Bretagne forms a new Party against the Government and raises Forces ib. Is made Prisoner of War 513 Commands the French Ships in Italy 519 c. Duke of Orleans second Son of France Commands an Army in Luxemburg his Exploits 612 c. His Death 619 Regal Ornaments 441 Ottranto taken by Assault by the Turks 503 Retaken by the Christians ib. P PAlavicini Manf. 569 De la Palisse Mareschal of France 567 His Death 579 Ambrose Paré Chyrurgeon 619 Paris enlarged and fortified 375 Is oppressed and suffers strangely during the Contest and War between the Houses of Orleans and of Burgundy 426 c. Reduced to obedience of King Charles VII 464 Blocked up by the Princes 486 In great Astonishment 604 Parisians Enterprize upon the City of Meaux to their Confusion 378 Stick to the King of Navarre ib. Divided into Factions Insolence insupportable 377 c. Mutiny because of Imposts take up Arms Arm themselves with Iron Mallets for that reason named Mallotins 403. c. Chastized severely 406 Arm and range themselves under Colonels and Captains 488 Parliaments of Bourdeaux and Burgundy their Institution 506 Parliament of Paris made Semestre 640 Parliament of Bretagne Established ib. Parma Subject of a War between the Pope and the King of France 629 630 c. Pavia Besieged by the King of France 577 c. Taken by Assault and Sacked by the French 585 Paul III. Pope 597 Mediator of a Peace between the Emperour and the King and confers with them 607 608 His Death 628 Paul IV. Pope 642 Makes a League offensive and defensive with the King against the Spaniard 644 Strips the Caraffes his Nephews of all their Offices and chaces them out of Rome 653 Paulin a brave Captain 618 Pembrook E. Lands in Bretagne over-runs Anjou and Poitou 388 Vanquish'd in a Naval Fight by the Spaniards and taken Prisoner 391 The C. de Perigord Archambauld Talegrand Condemned to Death 418 Perpignan surprized by the Spaniard or King of Arragon Philip de Valois King of France 357 Sends to the Navarrins their lawful King and Queen 358 The English declare War against him 361 His advantage over his Enemy 362 Makes a Truce with Edward ib. Becomes hated of the Nobility 365 Is Defeated 366 His Death 370 Philip King of Navarre his Death 365 Philip of Navarre calls the
Service From the beginning he made it appear that the French could beat the English who had always beaten them in the preceding Reigns The Navarrois and Montfort not having been comprehended in the Treaty of Bretigny their people continued the War and the English Forces and the French took part with them John de Grailly Captal de Buchs who was come to the aid of the Navarrois took the Command of all their Forces The French Officers being met to Fight him found him near the place called Cocherel and de la Croix St. Leufroy between Evreux and Vernon Bertrand de Gueselin on whom he had conferr'd the Command upon refusal of the young Count d'Auxerre behaved himself so well with his companions that Captals Men were beaten out of their advantageous Post and he taken prisoner The King thinking to get him on his side released him a while after but he was rather desirous to retaliate his defeat then that obligation Year of our Lord 1364 During these Occurrences Philip of Navarre hapning to dye Lewis his young Brother got the Forces of that Party together and fell upon Bourbonnois and the lower Auvergne where he rifled several Castles Nay some of his Men surprized la Charite upon the Loire a place very important for the passage it gave from thence he made a cruel War upon the Countries on this side whilst on the other hand the Count Montbeliard was fallen upon Burgundy to serve the House of Navarre who pretended that Dutchy appertained to them But Philip of France to whom King Charles had confirmed the Grant was order'd to go and defend his Country and to quit la Beausse from whence he had resolved to expel the Robbers and had already cleared four or five small Castles by turning them out of their Kennels He carried the War therefore into Montbeliard and compell'd the Earl to go out of Burgundy Then laid his Siege before la Charite Lewis d'Evreux not finding himself strong enough to make him raise it retreated with his Forces to Cherbourgh in Normandy The Besieged surrendred upon Composition which the Duke agreed to by the Kings order that he might be able to send help to Charles de Blois his Cousin who was engaged with John de Montfort for the Dutchy of Bretagne Year of our Lord 1394 The Battle d'Auvray decided the Controversy between these Contenders John de Montfort had besieged that place with the assistance of the English led by John Chandois that Kings Lieutenant in Guyenne Charles de Blois undertakes to relieve it back'd by the French Forces commanded by the Count d'Auxerre and Bertrand du Gueselin The Armies came to an engagement the Nine and twentieth of September the Feast-day of St. Michael The Fight was obstinate and bloody to extremity in the conclusion Charles lost the day the Dutchy and his Life For the Lords of Bretagne had agreed amongst themselves that to put a period to that tedious Quarrel they would certainly kill that Chief of the two that was vanquished Year of our Lord 1364 The Children of Charles de Blois were still Prisonners in England and his Widow had more of Pride then Wisdom and good Conduct The Duke of Anjou her Son-in-Law would willingly have assisted her with all his power but the Council of France did not think it fit to drive that business too far least Montfort should turn Homager to the English They therefore made a Peace with him by the Treaty at Guerrande The Dutchy was left to him upon condition of paying his Devoirs to the King of France The Title of Dutchess to the Widow of Charles during her life and for all her Posterity the right of being restored upon want of Heirs descended from Montfort Moreover she had the County of Pontieure and divers other Lands with Forty thousand Livers of Rent for her self alone to be raised upon the whole Dutchy Year of our Lord 1365 Although the Holy War had been interrupted by the death of King John nevertheless Peter King of Cyprus having collected some assistance of Moneys from the Christian Princes and gathered up here and there some numbers of Adventurers together with the Knights of St. John went and landed in Egypt where he valiantly forced a part of the great City of Alexandria and might have brought it all under his power if those that went with him having more regard to their Plunder then their Honour had not returned on board their Vessels with the Spoil Year of our Lord 1365 and 66. With the like Valour and more Perseverance Ame VI. Earl of Savoy carried his Forces against Amurat Sultan of the Turks and the King of Bulgaria who would needs dispossess John Paleologus his near Kinsman of the Grecian Empire the Bulgarian holding him already a Prisoner Ame having taken the City of Calipolis in the Thracian Chersonese by Storm from the Turks entred Bulgaria and upon the taking of divers places forced that King to release the Emperor into whose hands he also put the City of Calipolis but the Greeks lost it again immediately afterwards so much was their Valour declined as well as their Empire The Emperor Charles IV. had much more fancy to design vast Undertakings then Understanding or Means to put them in execution He pleased himself with the empty pride and vain-glory of pompous Ceremonies because he could not attain to those things that were truly real and solid And as his small Revenues and his great Expences still kept him in a necessitous Condition when he began any Year of our Lord 1365 considerable Enterprize it was but only with intent to have Money given him This year 1365. he visited the Pope in Avignon to make a League with the Holy Father and the other Princes of Italy against Barnaby Viscount of Milan He was at Mass Celebrated by the Pope himself on the day of Pentecost in his Imperial Habit and then went and was Crowned King of Arles in the City of the same name Then returned again to Avignon where he obtained permission of the Pope to levy the Tenths upon all the Clergy of Germany and Bohemia for the Expences of that War which he never made Year of our Lord 1365 Gueselin who had been taken at the Battle of Auvray was set free upon Ransom and Oliver de Clisson who was of Montforts Party allured to the Kings service In the Month of December Montfort came to Paris and did Homage first for his Dutchy but only by word of Mouth and without any Oath then for the County of Montfort ungirt and on his Knees and both his hands joyned together between the hands of the King his Soveraign Lord. This year we met again with some Troops of those revolted Peasants of the Jaquerie Year of our Lord 1365 who being re-inforc'd and joyned with some Companies of Plunderers went even into Alsatia from whence they were hunted out and most of them destroy'd by the Emperor Charles IV. and the other Princes of Germany The
should happily get out of them at last Holding one day a grand Council in a House near the Walls of the City the Floor sunk down under his Feet James de Bourbon Lord de Preaux was crushed beneath the Ruines divers others mightily bruised and hurt they had much ado to pluck him out but he had no other hurt then only some parts of his Skin rubb'd off In like manner at his first coming to the Crown all was in a tottering condition threatning to overwhelm him The Duke of Bretagne enraged for that amongst the Papers belonging to the Lords de Pontieure they had found Orders which authorized and warranted them to make him Prisoner went his way to Amiens about mid March with his Brother Arthur Earl of Richmond where he made a League against him with the Duke of Bedford and the Burgundian These four Princes confirmed their Alliance by a double Marriage of the Duke of Bedford and the Bretons Brother Arthur with two of the Burgundians Sisters he had seven in all whereof six Married Arthur took the eldest named Marguerite Widow of the Dauphin Lewis and Bedford the fifth who was called Anne Year of our Lord 1423 There appeared not the least glimpse of good fortune for King Charles he received melancholy news from all Quarters the taking of Meulaue Crotoy Compeigne and Basas in Gascongne But the worst of all was that of the deâ—eat of his Men before the City of Crevant near Auxâ—rre The Earl of Salisbury had laid Siege to it the Constable de Bouchain and the Mareschal de Severac who went thither to relieve it were beaten a thousand of their valiantest Soldiers lay dead upon the place and almost as many led away Priseners amongst whom were the Constable and the Count de Ventadour Year of our Lord 1423 The Birth of his first Child which came into the World in the City of Bourges the fourth of July did for a time afford him some consolation This was a Son whom they named Lewis Year of our Lord 1423 The Council of Constance had by their Forty four Session appointed a Council at Pavia for the year 1423. so few Prelats met there that they were sain to transfer it to Sienna When they had held some Sessions Alphonso King of Arragon endeavoured by his Ambassadors to bring the business again on foot concerning the Anti-Pope Peter de Luna which he did in revenge for that Martin V. had denied him the Investiture of the Kingdom of Naples which he could not possibly grant him because the Council of Constance had bestowed it on Lewis III. Duke of Anjou Now Martin to prevent a Schism could find no readier Expedient then to dissolve the Council upon pretence of a Plague in the Neighbourhood though there appeared no sign of it But that it might not be suspected he in the least apprehended the Judgment of so Holy an Assembly he assigned another in the City of Basle or Basil for the year 1430. Some jealousie and mistrust arising which afterwards grew up to hatred betwixt Jean Queen of Naples and Alphonso King of Arragon whom she had Adopted This ungrateful Man endeavour'd to dispossess her and carry her away by force into Catalonia They fell to open War he held his Benefactress a long time besieged in one Year of our Lord 1423 of the Castles at Naples and without doubt had forced her to surrender if Sforza had not come to deliver her This offence in respect of the publick and according to strict Rules of Law was cause enough to annul the Adoption Jean or Joan therefore sets it aside and by the advice of her Barons gave the same right to Lewis III. Duke of Anjou whom she immediately called into Italy caused him to be owned by her Subjects and gave him the Dutchy of Calabria Year of our Lord 1424 The year 1424. proved not more happy to King Charles then the foregoing one had been True it is that the Earl Douglas a Scot brought him four thousand Men and the Duke of Milan sent him six hundred Lances and twice as many Cross-bow-men on foot but they were almost as soon defeated as arrived The Duke of Bedford after the taking of some places had besieged Yvry which had capitulated after the manner used in those times to surrender upon the Twentieth day of August if no Army appeared before that time expired able to give battle Upon this the Constable the Duke of Alencon and seventeen or eighteen Lords more got all their Forces together and marched near the Town of Yvry but not daring hazard a battle they went all to Verneuil and made him that kept it for the English believe they had gained the Victory and by this Stratagem wrought upon them to open the Gates to them The day astigned for the Battle being past Yvry surrendred Bedford the same moment went and sought them out under the very Walls of Verneuil fought them and carried the day having slain four thousand of their Men and taken Prisoners the Duke of Alencon the Mareschal de la Fayette Lewis de Gaucour and above three hundred Gentlemen Amongst the dead were found Earl Douglas and the Vicount de Narbonne The Body of this last was quarter'd and set upon Stakes in several places he being an Accomplice in the Murther of John Duke of Burgundy Year of our Lord 1424 On the other hand the King drew over Arthur Earl of Richmond to his Party with hopes by his means to regain the Duke of Bretagne This Earl had ever a Soul devoted to France and hated the English the more for that he had offended them in making his escape from thence after the death of Henry V. pretending the faith he had given obliged him only to that King but not to his Successor He had afterwards patch'd up an agreement with the Duke of Bedford at their enterview at Amiens but that tye was too weak to hold him he forsook them upon some little picquant words which passed between him and the Duke of Bedford and Treated with King Charles perhaps not without the instigation or at least the consent of the Duke of Burgundy There were a great many precautions before he could adventure to come to Court they were fain to give him Lords and Towns in Hostage Having his securities he saw the King at Tours but he obliged himself to nothing till he had taken advice of the Duke his Brother the Dukes of Burgundy and Savoy After all these Formalities he came to wait upon the King at Chinon and from his hands received the Constables Sword in the Field of Chinon in presence of all the Lords the Seventeenth of March 1425. as the Bretons tell us though there is a Chronicle Year of our Lord 1425 that says it was in the Month of November 1424. He was positively promised the King would dismiss all those that were of Counsel for the Murther committed at Montereau and in that for seizing the Duke of Bretagne The most fixed
from them At that time the said Duke having vanquished the Liegois had sent to entreat him to leave his Friends in Peace otherwise he should be obliged to Succour them And indeed he advanced by long Marches for that end but mean while they being affrighted though nothing appeared which could oblige them to precipitate themselves so soon concluded their agreement and complied with the resolution of the Estates The King failed not to give speedy notice of it to the Burgundian but he would believe nothing even the Herald from the Breton who carry'd him the News ran the hazard of being hanged as a Party Suborn'd because he had seen the King in his journey At length he met with so many demonstrations that he must give Faith He encamped in great order along the Somme He was the first that renewed the Roman Method to enclose his Forces in a Camp entrenched Notwithstanding those precautions the Kings Army was so strong and his Soldiers so Animated that he might easily have forced him had he undertaken it but he would rather try a less hazardous way and gave him six Score Thousand Crowns of Gold to ☞ procure a Truce He never let any thing slip which could be purchased by money which cost him nothing for that he drained out of his Subjects pockets but the chance of a Battel concerned him most Year of our Lord 1468 The Catalonians notwithstanding the Kings Sentence and the accommodation of the Castillian had chosen the foregoing year John Duke of Calabria for their Soveraign as well for his valour as the pretensions the House of Anjou had to the Kingdom of Arragon He made a War in that Country with the Kings assistance three years together having sometimes good success and sometimes bad but in the year 1470. When he had routed the Army of John King of Arragon who besieged the City of Peralta he Died of a Burning Feaver in Barcelona Lewis had a Genius that was marvellously Subtil Insinuating and Intriguing He knew it perfectly well and had conceived that if he could but confer with the Burgundian he could difunite him from the other two or at least cast the Seeds of jealousies amongst them He therefore negociated for an enterview and by the advice of Cardinal la Balue went to find him at Peronne where he was without taking any Guards but only the Cardinal the Duke of Bourbon the Count de Saint Pol and two or three other Lords thereby to shew an entire confidence The Duke had lodged him in the City Soon after there arrives three Princes of the House of Savoy Philip Lord of Bresse the Count de Romont and the Bishop of Geneva then the Mareschal of Burgundy the Lords du Lau and d'Vrfe and some others all Enemies to the King Du Lau had been otherwhile his Favourite but afterwards had been clapt in Prison whence he made his escape The sight of these People put him in such fear that he desired the Duke to lodge him in the Castle This was to go into the Trap and give himself up a Prisoner Before his going to Peronne he had sent Ambassadors to Liege to stir those bustling People to take up Arms and he had taken no care to countermand it Now the Mine was sprung earlier then he would have had it for at the first word those impetuous People went forth out of hand took the City of Tongres immediately where they Seized their Bishop tore in pieces five or six of his Canons and slew some Burgundians Year of our Lord 1468 At this news the Duke grows in a Rage causes the Gates of the Castle of Peronne to be shut up and hardly could retain his wrath from a revenge upon the King himself Three days together the King was in mortal Trances he saw himself in the hands of his Enemies justly provoked and enraged and who might have gained all by loosing him amidst People that hated him to the very Death and in a House at the foot of that Tower where Hebert Count de Vermandois had heretofore put Charles the Simple to Death In effect he had been lost had he not found out the means to gain some of the Dukes Domestick Servants amongst others Philip de comines who softned the Spirit of the Duke their Master He would not withdraw himself from his Precipice but by making a new Treaty with the Duke by which he agreed Monsieur should have the Counties of Champagne and Brie and promised to follow the Burgundian to the destruction of the unhappy Liegois with what numbers of men he should desire He carry'd only some Guards and 300 Soldiers Although the City of Liege were dismantled and without Guns they nevertheless Year of our Lord 1468 defended themselves desperately eight days together made great Salley's amongst others one in the Night wherein they had like to have killed the King and the Count in their Quarters But on a Sunday the 30 th of October which they believed to be a day of rest amongst Christians as if there were any Religion in a War they were Attack'd about Dinner time and made but little defence One great part of the People fled over the Bridge that crossed the Meuse into the Forrest of Ardennes where more then half of them perished by hunger and cold the rest got into Churches or hid themselves in their Houses Fearconstrained the King to rejoyce at the unhappiness of his miserable Allies to applaud the great actions of the Duke of Burgundy before his own People and in his presence and make Courtship to his own Vassal Four days after he managed it so by means of those whom he gained to be for him that he was permitted to go to cause the Treaty of Peronne to be verify'd in the Court of Parliament for without that as Philip de Comines says the Treaties were at no value The Duke having made him some ill-favour'd excuses for having brought him thither conducted ☞ him only half a League After the Kings departure he caused about a Thousand or twelve Hundred of those miserable wretches to be drowned that had been taken in their Houses at Liege and set fire to the whole City excepting the Churches and three hundred Houses about them which were preserved to lodge the Clergy The Parisians could not refrain from Scoffing at the craft of the King which brought him into this Trap at Peronne he contrived to turn their discourse upon another Subject by sending to their Houses to take away all their Deers Goats Cranes Swans Cormorants and other Creatures which they kept for their pleasure as likewise all such Birds as were taught to whistle and speak Perhaps they had instructed some Parrot to say Peronne At his parting with the Duke he had asked him what he understood he was to do in case his Brother would not be contented with Champagne for his Apennage the Duke answered that if he would not take it and that the King could otherwise satisfy or content him he
would leave it to them two He failed not to take his advantage of these inconsiderate words He would not have his Brother be so near a Neighbour to the Burgundian his Interest was to place him at the other end of the Kingdom to break off their Communication That young Prince Weak Year of our Lord 1468. and 69. and Inconstant of mind was Governed by Oder-Daydie Lord of Lescun a Gascon and vain who would needs be a Prophet in his own Country by his means he was persuaded to renounce Champagne and accept of Guienne with the City of Rochel This change was the loss of that young Prince The Cardinal de la Ballue in whose hands the Treaty of Peronne had been Sworn with much regret suffered it to be altered whether out of love to Monsieur or that he would have had the King still in some perplexity This good Prelat and William de Hoeraucoux holding Intelligence with the Burgundian wrote to Monsieur to dissuade him and represented many things to him for his advantage but contrary to the Kings intentions Their Letters having been intercepted and they Seized they ingenuously confessed their practices The King sent the information to his Brother who suffering to be overcome by his Carasses accepted of Guyenne and came to meet him at Tours The Bishop was shut up in an Iron Cage a punishment he well deserved since he was the first inventor of it The Cardinal was convey'd to the Bastille where he remained twelve years the Pope demanding him as liable only to his Justice and the King pressing the Pope to let him have Judges assigned him within the Kingdom to hear his cause Year of our Lord 1469 The good correspondence between the two Brothers seemed to be perfected and the King to gain or wean Monsieurs Heart from the Countries on this side allured him with a great Match in Spain Henry King of Castille had a Daughter named Jeane but whom the Castillians held for a Bastard because he was esteemed impotent in so much as they had constrained him to declare the Infanta Isabella who was his Sister his Heiress The King sent the Cardinal of Arras to demand this Isabella for Monsieur But the Lords of the Country having stollen her away and married her to Ferdinand Infant of Arragon he seeks to have Jane which Henry agreed to A Matter for a long War if Charles had lived The first day of August the King being at his Castle of Amboise instituted an Order of Knighthood in honour of St. Michael and limited the number of Knights to 36 yet was it never filled up in all his Reign The French particularly Honoured St. Michael as the Tutelary Angel of that Monarchy And a better could not be pitched upon to tread down the Pride of the English who carr'd Dragons in their Ensigns then that Prince of they Celestial Militia who is painted with a Dragon under his feet And indeed it had been reported that he was seen at the head of our Army 's sighting against them for the French He imagined by means or vertue of this Collar that he should have drawn all the Grandees of the Kingdom within his clutclies when he held this Chapter And therefore the Duke of Bretagne refused it and the Duke of Burgundy doing yet worse received the Order of the Garter and wore it to his Death The Breton had in his service one Peter Landays his Treasurer a man of Low Birth but very knowing and able to countermine all the Artisices of Lewis XI It was he that led him to all these evasions and emboldned his Master to withstand all his devices and his threats Thus what ever endeavours he could use though he were on his Frontiers with an Army he could never disunite him from the Burgundian but only obliged him by a Treaty made at Saumur to renounce all offensive Leagues against the Kingdom Year of our Lord 1470 In the year 1470. John the Natural Son of Lewis Duke of Orleance left this world aged 70 years having divers years before left the Court because of his almost continual pain of the Gout which the hardships in the Wars had brought upon him This Prince valued in all things says Comines having made himself as able a Counsellor as he was a Captain was one of the principal instruments God made use of to drive the English out of France Therefore the Princes of his Family gave him the County of Dunois King Charles that of Longue-ville the Office of Great Chamberlain and the Lieutenancy General of his Army's and strong Forts A power of so great extent that it hath been communicated to none but himself in the third Race Year of our Lord 1470 The renunciation which the King caused the Breton to make had most respect to Edward of York King of England and Brother in Law to the Burgundian of whom it was hourly reported that he was coming to Land at Calais He was wholly prevented by the Earl of Warwick who in revenge of some injuries received from him set himself to carry on the interests of the House of Lancaster and had even Debauched the Duke of Clarence his Brother He had the foregoing year defeated his Army and afterwards took him Prisoner Then Edward having escaped beat him in his turn So that he was forced to save himself in France about the end of the Month of May this year From thence returning into England with the Succours the King leâ—t him he changed the Scene a second time For all slocked to him according to the Genius of that Country which loves change and Year of our Lord 1471 Edward wholly forfaken fled into Flanders to the Duke of Burgundy his Brother in Law Then King Henry who was in the Tower of London was set at Liberty and Warwick and Clarence took upon them the Government of the Kingdom Though the King still resented in his Heart the affront received at Peronne nevertheless being of a fearful Spirit and the length of any enterprize putting him out of patience if the success were not as swift as his desires he would have lived in peace if the Constable and those that were about him had not excited his resentment to draw him to a rupture They feared and the Constable most of all that a Peace making them appear useless the King might think of retrenching their great allowances and his stirring mind if it were not employ'd abroad might put him upon great alterations at home in his Court. Besides these motives there was also an Intrigue of the Bretons and the Constables in favour of Monsieur As they desired to strengthen him against the King they had inspired him with a desire of marrying the only Daughter of the Burgundian And because they knew the Father would not easily consent to it they believed they should sooner bring it about by force then by friendship and therefore they resolved to engage the King to make a War upon him The Bias they took
that means cut off the greatest head of the Faction The Queen would not have it so the Duke of Guise himself thought the enterprize too difficult and favouring the Parisians in what they most desired was of opinion they should lay Siege to Rouen The Army Arrived there about the Twentieth of September and just in a nick of time to hinder that Progress the Huguenots might have made with the help of the English For on the same day a Treaty of Confederation was signed between Queen Elizabeth and them at Hampton-Court specifying that she should furnish them with Six Thousand Men one half to be put into Havre de Grace which should be delivered to her and which she should keep for the King and was to serve for a place of retreat and refuge to the Huguenots which in a few days afterwards was Executed The Fort Saint Catherine was taken by Storm The City maintained their Attaques with all possible Resolution They proffer'd them such composition as was reasonable enough and for three several times the Queen Mother hindred the Duke of Guise from giving the Assault being perswaded by the prudent Coun sel of the Chancellor that nothing can be more prejudicial to a Soveraign then to make Conquests upon himself and pillage his own Cities But when they found the Besieged did continue to reject with Stubbornness those favours and that mercy they were importuned to accept the Kings Council gave the Duke lieve to let loose the Reynes to Victory He therefore gave a general Assault the Five and Twentieth of October Their resistance was not equal to their obstinacy they abandoning all at the first Shock The Soldiers pillaged them above eight dayes together which proved the more cruel because they were extreamly rich Montgomery who had a Galley lying there ready upon all occasions it was one of the Kings which hapned to put into Rouen when the Huguenots master'd the Town soon got aboard of it with his Friends together with the English The Slaves to whom he had promised their Liberty rowed with such force that it slid quite over the Chain they had laid cross the River at Caudebec They hanged up John du Bose d'Esmandreville President of the Court of Aydâ—s two Councellors belonging to the City Marlorat the Minister and Eight or Ten Captains amongst others du Cros who had been Governor of Havre de Grace and deliver'd the place up to the English By way of Reprizal or Retaliation the Prince caused the Heads of some Catholicks to be cut off that were in his Hands amongst others John Baptist Sapin Councellor of the Parliament of Paris and John de Troyes Abbot of Gastine who were taken in Vendosmois as they were on their way to Spain from the King Giles leu Maistre first President of the Parliament revenged the Death of Sapin who was his Nephew upon some unfortunate Huguenots that were Prisoners in Paris whom he sent to the common Place of Execution These retaliations had gone on to infinity if the Captains of the Catholick Party who apprehended the like Reprisals should they have fallen into the Enemies power had not engaged their Chiefs to desist from such kind of Process and to make good the usual Rules of War and Martial Customes and Laws The Five and Twentieth of October the King of Navarre had been wounded in the Trenches while he was making water by a Musquet shot in his left Shoulder The City being taken he would needs be carried in his Bed by his Year of our Lord 1562 Swiss Soldiers to make a Triumphant entrance thorough the breach His wound was not Mortal but his too assiduous entertainment of the Damoiselle du Rouet one of those Sirenes the Regent employ'd to enchant that poor Prince withal heated his blood too much after which his impatience to be Cured making him venture by Boat to Paris he was seized with a Trembling and afterwards fell into a cold Sweat the Symptomes of approaching death as indeed it proved for the Boat stopping at Andelis he there resigned his last breath the Seventeenth day of November shewing himself in this last Act as he had done in all the other Four wavering and irresolv'd between the Catholick Religion and the Confession of Ausbourg but discovering enough the bad opinion he had of the Government by an express order he gave to fore-warn his Wife from coming to the Court to stand well upon her Guard and Fortifie her places The trouble the Prince was in for the bloody Conquest of Rouen was yet augmented by the unwelcome News brought him from Guyenne Duras had raised Five Thousand Men for him in that Country this Army of Fellows pickt up at random and most Robbers living without order were charged by Montluc and cut in pieces near the Burrough de Vere between Perigueux and Sarlat Which brought the Prince two great dis-advantages the one that he lost this considerable Supply the other that Montluc's Forces having nothing else in those Parts to fear joyned with the Kings Army some dayes before the Battel of Dreux There have been many Volumes Printed of all the Minute passages in every Province particularly in Guyenne Languedoc and in Daufiné the surprising taking and retaking of Towns a World of little Fights and Skirmishes the Barbarities and Massacres committed on both sides the Insolencies and furious rage of the People which to say the truth they were but too much and too highly provoked unto by the Huguenots in divers places I shall therefore only observe in gross that Sommerine for the Catholick Party made a rude War in Provence against his Father the Count de Tendes who held with the Huguenots That in Daufiné the Baron des Adrets having taken up Armes for these and the Count de Suse for the other pursued each other by turnes very close and smartly and that the Baron made himself Terrible by his enormous Cruelties Precipitating Massacring and Drowning without Faith or Compassion such as resisted him in any place That Tavanes a zealous Catholiâ—k having retaken Chaalon and Mascon preserved for a time all Burgundy from being any further involved in the Civil War That Normandy was all laid waste and desolate the higher by reason of the Sieges of Rouen and Havre and the lower by the Count de Montgommery and the Breton Troops which the Duke d'Estampes had brought in thither to make head against him That Joyeuse preserved one part of Languedoc in the Ancient Religion That Montluc as we may find in his Commentaries rendred the King great Service in Guyenne but that he exceeded the bounds even of severity it self against the Huguenots I shall add that their Party had the disadvantage almost every where unless in Languedoc where they held all the best Cities excepting Toulouze which intending to seize upon in the Month of May they were drove thence after an obstinate Fight of many dayes and the loss of Three Thousand of their Men not reckoning about Two Hundred more who were
Princes had passed the Loire and advanced towards Paris between Montargis Bleneau and Chastillon sur Loing The King 's was come to the Valley of Aillan as it were to stand betwixt them and home and barricade the way to Paris when after a Truce of some days the Negociation for a Peace often broken and as often renewed again finally succeeded to a Treaty of Peace which was concluded the fifteenth of August notwithstanding the Remonstrances month August and great Offers made by the King of Spain to obstruct it for he apprehended least after a Peace the two Armies should be United to fall upon the Low-Countries The King the Queen his Mother the Princes of the Blood those of the Council and all the Grandees about him swore to it solemnly at Saint Germain en Laye On the Huguenots part Beauvais la Nocle was dispatch'd to carry the News to Rochel and Guyenne and Teligny to the Army where it was Proclaimed the one and twentieth of the Month and sworn to by all the Protestant Nobility expresly assembled Five days after it was so likewise in the Catholick Army which Marched towards Lorrain to Convoy the Germans home again and dismiss them That of the Princes went as far as Langres when they caused theirs to be conducted to Pot a Mouson by the Marquiss de Renel they then returned towards la Charité and from thence crossing Linosin and Angounois they proceeded to Rochel having Count Ludovic with them That which was most particular in this Edict besides the Articles in the former was That they allowed them to Preach in the Suburbs of two such Cities as should be Assigned them in each Province That they should be admitted indifferently in the Universities Schools Hospitals and Spittles as also in all publick Offices Royal Seigneurial and belonging to Cities and Corporations Moreover that they should have the Liberty to except against an Appeal from a certain number of Judges in all Parliaments in some more in others fewer and generally from the whole Parliament of Thoulouze to the Requests of the Hostel who should be Soveraign Judges in those Cases That to take away all possible suspition doubt or jealousie they should keep as Pawns for security in their own hands the Cities of Rochel Montauban Cognac and la Charité upon condition the two Princes and twenty Gentlemen with them would oblige themselves joyntly and swear to surrender them up in the same condition at the expiration of two years It was likewise stipulated that they should restore to the Prince of Orange and Ludovic his Brother the Principality of Orange and all other the Lands belonging to them in France together with all their Titles and Writings that had been taken from them The reasons that enclined the Huguenots to this Peace were manifest the long and tedious absence from their Families the eminent and perpetual dangers they were in the utter ruine of their Estates and Goods as well by the Invasions of Year of our Lord 1570 the Catholicks as the expences themselves were at to maintain the War their Dwellings exposed to Plunder and Firings their Wives and Children to Affronts and Massacres with this their ill fortune which had ever disappointed them in their great enterprizes And in fine the cutting reproaches to all that were honest amongst them for flying out so often to Rebellion against their Soveraign and being looked upon and accounted the glowing Fire-brands of their Native Country The Motives which led the Court to this agreement were variously guessed at and talked of The Queen-Mother would have it believed that she had consider'd the prayers of the Princes of Germany and the Emperor's Advice Some fancied she made this Peace that she might have leisure to think upon the Marriage of her Son others that she condescended to it out of the jealousie she had to find the Spaniard concerned himself so much in the Affairs of France not as a friend only but as one interessed and apprehensive that having subdued the Low-Countries he might endeavour to bind the French in the same Fetters Many believed with good probability that this Princess a great lover of Divertisements and Pleasures was quite wearied with such continual troubles and melancholy consultations and the eternal danger she was in And indeed never any one that was more fond of or did more delight in the soft Past-times of the Galanteries Dancing Hunting Feasting and all sorts of Sports than she Wherever she went she always carried a compleat Equipage of the most voluptuous Divertisements in her Train and particularly two or ✚ three hundred of the most beautiful Women of her Court who drew a Pack of twice as many Courtiers after them In the mid'st of the greatest Embrass of War and Affairs the Balls and Musick must be sure to go on says Montluc The sound of the Violins must not be stifled by the Martial Trumpet the same Teams dragg'd along the Machines for their Plays and their Engins for War and in the same Lists were to be seen the Sons of Mars cutting each others Throats and the fair Off-Spring of Venus at their Carousels where the Ladies freely tasted every pleasure Others more penetrating believed that her designs tended to disarm the Huguenots tyred with the miseries of War and by degrees calm and lay all their jealousies asleep that they might the more easily be led into their snares which time and opportunity might direct her to contrive hereafter for them if perhaps she had not long before resolved which way to bring it about The event seems to confirm this suspicion though it is very probable that the many Accidents different Interests and various Humours and Minds of those that contributed to such a terrible Council made them often shift and change their Methods and Resolutions She had two excellent Lures to deceive and decoy the Queen of Navarre and the Admiral and consequently the whole Party I mean a War against the Spaniards in the Low-Countries which all the Huguenot Chiefs blindly gave credit to because they desired it with passion and the Marriage of Margaret the Kings Sister with Henry Prince of Navarre This last had been already propounded but the great Love the Duke of Guise had for that Princess was some obstacle The King who was extream Cholerick and Violent having observed it commanded Henry d'Angoulesme his bastard Brother to kill him when he went out to Hunt the Duke having a hint of it was advised to avoid the anger of the King by Marrying at soonest as he did with Catherine de Cleves Widdow of Anthony de Croüy Prince of Portian Some Months before Lewis de Vourbon Duke of Montpensier had for his Second Wife Married in the City of Anger 's Catherine Sister to that Duke The Cardinal de Lorrain negotiated this Alliance to gain the said Prince who before was much an Enemy to their House though at the same time he had a mortal Aversion to the Huguenots It was high time
engage them to that unhappy necessity of fortifying themselves against an Authority that was to be employ'd to ruine them Year of our Lord 1587. January c. Notwithstanding the embarras of Factions and an open War the Court of France forbore not to pass the Winter-time merrily in Feasts and Ballets Their greatest grief was they could not compleat one Ballet of a great invention which the Queen Mother brought from Guyenne because they wanted Money The little Court of Year of our Lord 1587 the King of Navarre which was then at Rochel did likewise make a great effort and swell'd if we may so express it like the Frog in Esops Fable that they might not fall short of the Kings in those sumptuous Divertisements During these jollities came news of the Tragical Death of Mary Steward Queen of Scotland whom Queen Elizabeth her Cousin German caused to be beheaded by the common Executioner the Eighteenth of February after she had kept her Prisoner eighteen years The indiscretion of her Friends were no less the cause of her misfortune then the horrible wickedness of her Enemies for as the first sought with violent passion after some plausible pretence to ruine her the other furnished them with divers by contriving every hour some odd design and even conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth so that they made her perish by their over much care and endeavours to save her Sentence had been pronounced against her three Months before Execution During which time the King omitted neither to persuade nor to intreat Queen Elizabeth to forbear that fatal stroke no less prejudicial to all Crowned Heads then shameful to France whereof Mary was Queen Dowager The Leagued however forgot not to caluminate the King for this very business and to accuse him of connivance with Elizabeth and at the same time made use of the horror of that Act to animate their People the more against all the Religionaries month May c. At the return of Spring Joyeuse who was now become one of the hottest Heads of the League went and made War in Poitou He there surprised two Regiments of the Prince of Conde's in the Burrough de la Mothe Saint Herais and after they had surrendred at discretion cut them all off He then took St. Maixan and Tonnay-Charente and that done returned to Court that he might not wholly lose the remainder of his favour But ill-fortune followed him close at Heels Being in the Kings Closet relating his brave feats of War one of his Men came and told him the King of Navarre had defeated one part of his Army and pursued the other as far as la Haye in Touraine Some few days after Catharine the Wife of Henry Earl of Bouchage his Brother who was Sister to the Duke of Espernon sinking into the Grave under the burthen of her pious Austerities the Husband renounced the World and thrust himself into a Convent of Capucins The Duke was very sensibly affected with it but that which vexed him most was that the King redoubled the marks of his affection towards his Rival by Marrying him to Margaret de Foix who having some Alliance with all the Princes of Christendom had been sought for by many She was Daughter of that Lewis de Foix Count of Candale slain at the Siege of Sous-Mieres and Mary Daughter of the Constable de Montmorenâ—y Year of our Lord 1587 Now the Protestants having held a great Assembly at Luneburgh upon the offensive Answer the King returned to their Ambassadors were agreed to send a powerful supply to the Huguenots whose general Rendezvous was in Alsatia Never had they taken Arms with so much heat Mothers carried their own Sons to the Officers to be enroll'd the Sisters sold their very Rings to fit them out and the Country Peasants fill'd them with good cheer wherever they met them month July Upon the general review made nigh Strasburgh the Army was found to be twenty nine Cornets of Reisters making six thousand Horse five thousand Lanskneckts all Pikemen and sixteen thousand Swiss Four thousand were already gone into Daufine to reinforce Lesdiguieres who were all cut in pieces near Vizilles by la Valeta d'Ornane and Mesplez There were besides this two thousand Foot and four thousand French Horse raised by the Duke of Bouillon without counting two thousand Men more of the same Nation who joyned them soon after and eighteen hundred brought by Chastillon To this huge Body there wanted only a Head sufficiently authorised to conduct it Casimir retained the general Command that he might appoint as he found fit but not able to go in Person placed in his stead Fabian Baron de Dona a Gentleman born in Prussia and trusted the Conduct of the Lasquenets with one Doctor Scrogel The Duke of Bouillon was Lieutenant General amongst them for the King of Navarre Anthony de Vienne Clervaut Colonel of the Swiss Chastillon of the French Infantry and John de Chaumont Guitry Mareschal de Camp Dona had a great many good qualities but little credit with the Soldiery Scrogel had yet less the Duke of Bouillon not much more as being yet so very young the other Captains had eternal quarrels with each other nor did the Court omit to foment those seeds of Division and to cast in new ones which caused the destruction of that Body made up of such different pieces month August and September One can hardly express those troubles the King suffer'd in his mind upon the approach of this inundation of strangers After he had strove in vain to satisfy the Duke of Guise who came to him at Meaux he was forced in despite of his unwillingness to resolve upon the War It was named The War of the three Henries because he the King of Navarre and the Duke of Guise were all of that Name To this end he sent for all his Commpanies d'Ordonnance who were to the number of near an hundred and threescore Bands made Levies within his own Kingdom and without and divided his Forces into Three Bodies One he gave to the Duke of Montpensier another Year of our Lord 1987 to the Duke of Guise to guard the Frontiers of Champagne and reserved the other to go in Person and defend the passage over the Loire against the Germans The King of Navarre after the first defeat of Joyeuses's Forces was come to Montsoreau in Touraine to receive the Count de Soissons whom he had drawn to his side upon the hopes of Marrying his only Sister He had designed to have gone from thence to meet the Germans but his Council thought it much better he should go back into Guyenne to give order for the security of his Places and then return by the favour of those Provinces who were friends and so march as far as Burgundy to receive those succors The Confederate Army so were the Germans called having cleared their passage thorough the straits of the Mountains Vosge which the Duke of Lorrain had encumbred eesily entred into the
290 Charles Martel his birth 78 Maire or Prince of Austrasia 79 Held Prisoner happily escapes 78 Beaten by the Frisons 79 Beats and untrusses part of Rainfroys Forces 79 Routs the said Rainfroy another time 79 Makes himself Master of all the Kingdom of Neustria and that of Burgundy 81 c. Reduces Bavaria 82 c. Sacketh Aquitain 82 c. Utterly defeats the Saracens 83 Persecutes the Prelats and seizeth on the Treasures and Revenue of the Church to pay his Soldiers Reduces Burgundy 82 Vanquishes the Frisons and subdues Ostergow and Westergow 82 Carries the War a third time into Aquitain ibid. Again marches against the Duke of Aquitain ibid. Goes into Languedoc against the Saracens who were got into that Country defeats them in Battle near Sigeac and regains divers places which they had taken ibid. Is sollicited by Pope Gregory the II. to declare against Luitprand King of the Lombards in favour of the Church 84 He shares the Kingdom between his three Sons Carloman Pepin the Brief and Griffon ibid. His memory blasted after his death ibid. Charlemain his Birth 85 Shares the Kingdom of France with his Brother Carloman and has Neustria for his part 95 Subjects Aquitain entirely to his obedience 96 After the death of his Brother he remains sole King of France 97 His Manners and Conditions ibid. Defeats the Saxons in Battles and brings them to reason 98 Passes beyond the Alps with a potent Army makes himself Master of all Lombardy and utterly extinguisheth that Kingdom 59 Goes to Rome confirms those Donations to the Pope which had been made to him by Pepin his Father and adds more to them ibid. Makes a second Voyage to Rome and is declared Patrician and Crowned King of Lombardy ibid. Orders he establishes in that Kingdom before his departure ibid. Makes divers Expeditions into Saxony 100 c. Passes into Spain against the Moors reduces the M. of Spain under his Dominion 105 Makes a third Voyage causes Pepin his eldest Son to be Baptized and Crowned King of Italy and Lewis his second Son King of Aquitain 101 Subdues the Breton Army 106 Reduces the Dutchy of Bavaria under his obedience 102 Makes an Alliance with the Scots 104 Makes an Expedition against the Huns which succeeds very fortunately 104 A noble design for Communication between the Rhine and the Danube 104 At length subdues and quells the Saxons 108 Passes into Italy punishes those that had abused Pope Leo and is Crowned Emperor of the West 106 Highly regarded by all Princes 107 Shares his Dominions amongst his three Sons 108 Makes a Peace with the Danes the Sarazins of Spain and the Greeks 110 His Death his Elogy his Wives and his Children 111 Charles eldest Son of Charlemain his feats of Arms. His death 110 Charles King of Rhetia 126 Has for his share the West part of France and then Aquitain 127 Charles Brother to Pepin of Aquitain shorn and shut into a Monastery 137 Charles the Son of Lotaire King of Burgundy 139 Charles King of Provence and of Burgundy 139 He unites with Charles his Uncle against Lewis the Germanick 141 Charles the Bald Emperor and King of France 145 A difference happens between him and Lothaire his Brother after the death of their Father 205 c. He Marries Hermentrude carries his War into Aquitain and Bretagne and makes a Peace with the Bretons 132 133 134 Makes himself Soveraign of Aquitain ibid. Is reconciled with Lotharius his Brother Is turned out of his Kingdom by the conspiracies of his Subjects 138 139 He seizes upon the Kingdom of Lorraine after the death of Lotharius 142 And shares it with Lewis the Germanick his Brother Seizes likewise on the Kingdom of Burgundy 143 Is Crowned Emperor of Italy by the Pope 145 Vain Enterprize upon the Succession of Lewis the Germanick 146 Passes to Italy in assistance of Pope John 146 Is hated of his Subjects and Poysoned 147 His Elogy ibid. Charles III. called the Gross Crowned King of Italy and then Emperor 154 Is received to the Crown of France by preference to Charles the Simple 154 Comes to the relief of Paris against the Normands 155 Repudiates his Wife His unfortunate end 156 Charles the Simple Son of Lewis the Stammerer his Birth 149 Crowned King of France 158 Makes himself of all Lorraine 164 Abandoned of all his Subjects because of the insolence of his favourite 165 Too great simplicity 167 Is made Prisoner by his Subjects ibid. His death 168 Charles a French Prince Duke of Lorraine 188 Gets the ill-will of the French by making himself Vassal to the King of Germany 189 The Crown of France denied him he hath recourse to his Sword to recover his pretended right 202 Taken Prisoner with his Wife 203 His death 204 Charles the good Earl of Flanders 237 Assassinated and Massacred 238 Charles of Anjou chief of the Branch of that name 297 Accompanies St. Lewis the King in his Expedition to the Holy Land 304 c. Charles the Lame Son of Charles of Anjou 320 Charles Earl of Anjou His election for the Kingdom of Sicilia confirmed by Pope Clement IV. 310 Passes into Italy is Crowned King of Sicilia by the same Pope his happy progress 310 c. Defeats Conradin in Battle takes him Prisoner and causes his Head to be cut off 311 Constituted by the Pope Vicar of the Empire in Italy ibid. Passes into Africk and joyns the French Army before Tunis 314 Great contest for the County of Provence 319 His too great ambition blinds his Judgment and makes him lose Sicilia 318 His death 321 Charles Earl of Valois 321 Of his right to the Kingdom of Arragon 323 Charles of Valois gets possession of the Authority after the death of Philip his Brother 344 Conquers Guyenne 351 Strangely sick ibid. Charles the Lame set at Liberty 323 Is Crowned King of Sicilia ibid. Renounces the Kingdom of Arragon 324 Marries his Daughter to the Earl of Valois ib. Charles the Fair Marries Blanch of Burgundy ibid. Charles de Valois Marries Clemence of Sicily ib. Makes Peace with the Arragonian 325 Charles Earl of Valois makes War in Guyenne against the English 326 Leaves France and goes into Italy 328 Passes into Sicilia with a potent Army in favour of Charles the Lame his Nephew and makes a Peace between the Parties 330 Is sent by the Pope to Florence to calm the Factions in that Republick ib. Charles the Fair his Wife accused of Adultery 336 Charles IV. called the Long King of France 350 Causes a general Inquisition concerning the Financiers Farmers and Tax-gatherers ib. Repudiates his Wife accused of Adultery to Marry the Daughter of the Emperor ib. His death his Wives and Children 353 Charles VI. regulates the Benefices Charles VII makes some orders about the Benefices 282 Chartreux and the establishment of their Order in France 232 Childebert I. of the name King of France 20 Seizes upon Clairmont in Auvergne 22 Makes War upon Amalaric King of the
228 c. Saint Amour William great quarrel with the Orders of the Friers Mendicants 307 Saintonge the subject of a great War 208 Saladin King of Egypt tears the holy City of Jerusalem out of the hands of the Christians 254 Saliens ancient People of the French 7 Salomon seizes on the Kingdom of Bretagne 140 His unhappy end 144 Sanc first of the Hereditary Dukes of Gascongne 137 Sanche Duke of Castille makes a Peace with the King of France 323 Saracens become Mahometans 59 Saracens of Africa become the Masters of Spain 77 Saracens pass from Spain into France and make some Conquests there 80 They enter into Languedoc and destroy all that Country 83 Wherefore called Moors 83 They over-run all Provence and lay it waste ib. Torment Italy 146 Savari de Mauleon General for the English in Guyenne 296 The Saxons revolt 52 Throw off the Yoak of the French Dominion 79 Divided into several People ib. Made Tributary to the French 91 Entirely subdued become Christians 108 Schism in the Church caused by the dispute concerning the Worshipping of Images 84 Sclavonians have a quarrel with the French Austrasians 55 Make inroads upon Turingia 56 Sergius II. elected Pope without permission of the Emperor 136 He was not the first who changed his name but Sergius IV. ib. St. Ademar Institutor of the Order of the Templers 290 Sicilia a Kingdom its beginning and extent 242 243 By what means Sicilia fell under the Dominion of the Kings of Arragon 310 Dismembred in two 326 Siege and taking of Angens 144 Sigebert King of Austrasia chastises the Avari out of Turingia 29 Marries Brunehaud 30 Unfortunate taking upon the City of Arles 31 War with Chilperic his Brother 31 Assassinated and slain 32 Sigebert Bishop 62 Sigeric King of the Visigoths 4 Sigismund King of Burgundy abjures Arianism and receives the Orthodox Faith 20 Causes his Son Sigeric to be Strangled his retreat into a Monastery 21 His unhappy end ib. Silingi a barbarous People 4 Silvester II. Pope Example of extream severity 209 Simon de Montfort does Cross himself to go into the Holy Land 260 Simon Count de Nesles Regent of the Kingdom in the absence of St. Lewis the King 312 Of Simony 18 Bishops of Bretagne accused and convicted of that Crime 136 Prelats in France who voluntarily renounced their Benefices for this cause 229 Simplicity too great in a Prince 167 Sobrarve a little Territory in the Kingdom of Arragon 125 Sorabes reduced to reason 121 Spencers Hugh Father and Son Favourites of the King of England 351 c. Their unhappy end 352 Stilicon Massacred 4 Succession of Males to the Crown by preference to the Females 346 Suedes embrace the Christian Religion 110 Suevi over-run and ravage Gaul and then pass into Spain 270 Swiss Their generous Conspiracy against the oppressions of the Lieutenants of the House of Austria 334 T. Tanchelin his errors Church of the Twelfth Age. Tancred Son of Rebert Guischard 224 Tancred causes great discord between the Kings of France and England 256 Tartars make their irruptions their Original 302 Tassilon Duke of Bavaria and his Son Theudon shaved and confined to a Monastery 103 Te Deum Sung by the Benedictins in time of Lent 231 Templers their Institution and Confirmation Church of the Twelfth Age. Are utterly exterminated and their Order abolished throughout all Christendom 333 Thassilon Duke of Bavaria gives an Oath of Fidelity to King Pepin 93 Theodad King of the Ostrogoths his death 23 Theodald Maire of the Neustrians Theodald Son of Grimoald his death 78 Theodebald King of Mets. 25 His death 26 Theodebert Son of Thierry makes War in Languedoc then named Septimania 24 Theodebert Son of Thierry succeeds to the Crown of his Father and makes War against Clotair his Uncle 24 25 Carries his Arms into Italy his death his Children 24 Theodebert Son of Chilperic his death 32 Theodebert King of Austrasia vanquished in Battle and exterminated with his whole Race 43 Theoderic King of the Visigoths joyns with the Romans against Attila his death 10 11 Theoderic King of the Ostrogoths establishes the Kingdom of Italy 14 Theoderic King of Italy passes into Gall and comes to relieve the Visigoths against the French and the Burgundians and becomes King of the Visigoths 16 His death 21 Theudis King of the Visigoths in Spain his death 25 Thibauld Earl of Chartres and Tours 216 Thibauld Earl of Chartres declares War against the King 235 Thibauld Earl of Champagne falls into the Kings disgrace and is severely handled 243 Thibauld Earl of Blois and Chartres 245 Thibauld Earl of Champagne his death 246 Thibauld Earl of Champagne 260 Thibauld Earl of Champagne difference about Alix Queen of Cyprus his Cousin 299 Thibauld Earl of Champagne becomes King of Navarre 301 Thibauld Earl of Champagne becomes Chief of a new Croisade His death ib. Thibaud King of Navarre 312 His death 315 Thierry King of Austrasia otherwise of Mets treacherously abandons Clodomir his Brother 20 c. Makes himself Master of Turingia 21 Chastises the Auvergnats who had revolted against him ib. His death ib. Thierry King of Neustria and of Burgundy 64 He is shaved and confined to the Monastery of St. Denis ib. Recalled and resetled in his Royal Throne 6 Fights unfortunately against Ebroin Maire of the Palace and falls into his hands His death his Wife and his Children 70 Thierry called de Chelles King of France 81 His death 83 Thierry Earl of Alsatia disputes the Earldom of Flanders and remains sole Master and Possessor 168 Thierry of Alsatia Earl of Flanders he passes into the Holy Land 243 Thierry first Earl of Holland 146 Thierry Earl of Alsatia and Flanders his death 249 Thibauld III. Earl of Blois 259 Thibauld Earl of Champagne 296 A Conspiracy against him 299 Tietgaud Archbishop of Triers deposed and Excommunicated 140 St. Thomas Aquinas his death 316 Thomas Prior of St. Victor assassinated in the Arms of a Bishop Church of the Twelfth Age. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury undertakes the defence of the Church is assassinated in his Cathedral ib. Thuringia falls under the Dominion of the French 22 Title of King of Jerusalem annexed to that of Sicilia 319 Treason divinely punished 178 Translation of a Bishop from one See to another condemned 160 Trebisond Kingdom its beginning 263 Truce between the French and the Saracens of Spain broken 123 Truce or Peace of God established in France to prevent Factions Murthers and Robberies 253 Truce with the English and the Fleming 327 Truce with the English 299 Truce granted to the Flemings 330 Trincavel Son of the Earl of Beziers comes hostily upon the Kings Territories 301 Toloze County subject of a War 138 Subject of a great quarrel between the Kings of France and the Kings of England 248 Totila King of the Ostrogoths his death 26 Touars Guy Duke of Bretagne 263 Tournay erected to a Bishoprick Church of the Twelfth Age. Troubles and Factions in Normandy
caused by the Minority of Duke William the Bastard and by the defect of his Birth 216 Tumult in the Dutchy of Benevent 104 Tumult in Rome 121 Turks and of the time wherein they began to make War upon the Christians 95 Of their irruptions upon Christendom 223 c. Turingians revolt against the French 58 c. V. Vaire-Vache Hemon 224 Valda Heretick Chief of the Vaudois 245 Valdrade Espouses King Lothaire King of Lorraine 140 Excommunicated by the Pope 142 Valentinian Emperor his death 11 Vallia King of the Visigoths 4 Vamba King of the Visigoths 65 Vamba King of Spain Vowed and Consecrated to Penitence in an extream Sickness which took away his understanding is obliged to renounce his Royalty Church of the Twelfth Age. Vandals over-run and ravage Gall thence passing into Spain and from thence into Africa 3 c. Vandals absoutely vanquished and their Kingdom extinguished in Africk 23 Varaton Maire of the Palace of Austrasia 69 Varnaquiâ—r Maire of the Palace of Buâ—gundy 44 Varnes Garnes or Guerins a People of Germany exterminated 40 Venedi and Sclavonians 46 Venice and its first establishment 11 Venice its situation and construction 108 110 111 Venetians joyn with the French in the Expedition to the Holy Land 261 262 Venetians in trouble and disorder amongst themselves 108 Verdun puts it self under the protection of the King 348 Vermandois the Subject of a War between King Philip II. and the Earl of Flanders 253 Vespers Sicilian 319 Vexin French given to the Duke of Normandy 214 Given for a Dowry with Margaret Daughter of the aforesaid Prince 242 Vezelay Revolt of the Inhabitants against the Abbot their Lord. 249 Victor elected Pope to the prejudice of Alexander III. 247 His death 248 Victor IV. Antipope 272 St. Victor its foundation 290 Otherwhile the dwelling of a Recluse ib. Divinity taught there Praise of that House ib. Peter de Ville-Beon Chamberlain his death 312 Visigoths pass from Italy into Gall under the Conduct of their King Ataulfus 3 4 Visigoths Civil War amongst them 26 Visigoths elect their Kings ib. Vitiges elected King of the Ostrogoths ib. Vitri in Champagne forced sacked and burnt 2â—3 Vltrogolthe Queen of France leads a Holy Life 27 University of Paris those of Orleance of Toloze and Montpellier and of their institution 341 c. University of Paris its first Institution or Establishment 104 Voyage to the Levant 224 c. Voyage to the Holy Land 261 c. Vrgel Felix Heresiarque 104 Usury 260 Vrban II. Pope dethroned by the Emperor comes into France holds a Council at Clairmont in Auvergne and there Excommunicates the King and his Bertrade 223 Exhorts the Prelats Zealously to the defence of the Christians in the East against the Turks ib. Vrban IV. Pope orders a Croisade to be Preached against Mainfroy the Bastard 309 His death 310 Waroc or Gueret a Breton Earl seizes upon Vannes 33 Wenillon or Guenillon Archbishop of Reims ingrateful and a Traytor to his Prince 139 Not the Fabulous Ganelon ib. Y. Yolante Queen of Castille 317 Ypres William 238 Yves Chanon of St. Victor Cardinal The Twelfth Age. Yvetot in Normandy a Kingdom 25 The end of the Table of the First Volume A TABLE OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE Contained in this SECOND PART PHILIP VI. called de Valois surnamed the Fortunate King XLIX Page 357 1328. In February JOHN I. by some called the good King King L. 371 1350. In August CHARLES V. called the Wise and Eloquent King LI. 384 1364. In April CHARLES VI. called by some the Well-beloved King LII 400 1380. In September CHARLES VII called the Victorious King LIII 447 1422. In October LEWIS XI King LIV. 481 1461. In July CHARLES VIII called the Affable and Courteous King LV. 507 1483. In September LEWIS XII surnamed the Just and the Father of the People King LVI 532 1498. In April FRANCIS I. called the Great and the Father or Patron of the Learned King LVII 556 1525. In January HENRY II. King LVIII 622 1547. In March till 1559 in July A TABLE Of the Principal Matters contained in this SECOND VOLUME A ADornes voluntarily quit the Government of Genoa Pag. 553 Ant. Adornes Duke of Genoa 546 Adrian Pope 570 Makes a League with the Venetians the Emperor and the English against France 573 His death 575 Aiguillon Besieged and well Defended 365 c. Alva Duke Governor of Milanois enters upon the Territories of the Church 647 Albert Marquiss of Brandenburg 632 d'Albret Connestable his death 433 d'Albret General of an Army 540 d'Albret John King of Navarre his death 560 d'Albret Henry King of Navarre ibid. d'Albret Henry of Navarre made Prisoner of War 579 d'Alegre 540 d'Alencon b. 426 d'Alencon Duke his death 433 d'Alencon Duke Prisoner of War 448 Chief of the Praguerie debauches the Daufin from the Service of the King 457 Is taken Prisoner 466 Is Condemned ibid. Is set at Liberty 482 Falls in with the Party for Charles of France and the Duke of Bretagne 488 Is made Prisoner his death Duke of Alencon his shameful flight his death 495 Alexander V. Pope by Election in the Council of Pisa 426 Gives priviledge to four Orders Mendicants to administer the Sacraments in the Parishes and to receive the Tithes if any be given them ib. Alexander VI. Pope 517 Makes a League against the French with the Venetians Pag. 518 His death 540 Alfonso King of Arragon adopted by Queen Jane of Nâ—ples and his adoption â—acated and nulled 448 Alfonso King of Arragon and Sicilia his death 467 Alfonso King of Arragon Enemy of Ludowick Sforza 519 Alfonso King of Naples hated of his Subjects shuts himself in a Monastery his death 521 Alfonso Duke of Ferrara in War with the Pope 546 Alliance by Marriage between the King of France and the Emperor 537 Alliance renewed with the Swiss 628 Ambassadors 587 Ambassadors of France Assassinated and Slain by the Spaniards 612 d'Amboise Chaumont Commands the Kings Army in Burgundy 501 d'Amboise Cardinal in Milan 535 Legate in France 536 Goes to the Emperor Maximilian on behalf of the King of France 537 Aspires to the Papacy 540 His death 546 Amé VI. Earl of Savoy carries his Arms gloriously against Amurath Sultan of the Turks and the King of Bulgaria 385 Accompanies the Duke of Anjou in his Voyage to Italy 405 His death 408 Amé VII Earl of Savoy ib. Amé VIII Duke of Savoy quits his Estates and retires himself to Ripailles 454 Ameri of Pavia a Lombard Traytor rewarded for his Treason as he deserved 368 c. Amurat Sultan 412 Anabaptists and their horrible Tragedies in the City of Munster 598 d'Andelot held Prisoner 651 Andrew King of Sicilia hanged and strangled at his Chamber Window 396 Anjou Duke Lewis foolish enterprise for the Conquest of the Kingdom of Naples 439 Anjou Charles Connestable 467 Anne of France Wife of Peter de Bourbon Beaujeu 506 Governess of the young King Charles VIII 508 She usurps all the Authority ib. Anne
His Wives his Mistresses and his Children 943 944 His praise ibid. Henry Duke of Bar Successor of Charles Duke of Lorraine 940 Marries in his Fathers Life-time with Catherine Sister of Henry IV. 868 Henrietta Charlotta Daughter of the Connestable de Montmorency inspires Henry the IV. with the Love of her who marries her to the Prince of Condé and he carries her into Flanders 936 A Design is formed to steal her away and bring her back into France 937 Hercules II. Duke of Ferrara 862 Holland Leagues against Spain 756 Hospital of Saint Lewis to entertain such as are infected with the Plague 911 L' Hoste Nicholas discovers the Secrets of France 908 The Spaniards make him betray his King and his Master de Villeroy whose Servant he was ibid. Drowned in the Marne upon his Flight 909 L'Hostel de Ville or Town-Hall of Paris gives Fifty thousand Crowns to him that should kill the Admiral de Coligny 690 Huguenots Original of that Name 667 General Massacre of them at the Saint Bartholomew's 718 Acknowledg Henry IV. for King and maintain him in his Right 979 Their suspitions of him after his Conversion 855 860 Forsake him at the Siege of Amiens 860 Apprehend a Saint Bartholomews in the Camp ibid. Were formerly called Sacramentaries Church 16 th Age. Paul Huraud de l'Hospital Archbishop of Aix Excommunicates the Councellors of Parliament Church 16 th Age. I. THe Count de Jacob renders the City of Bourg 882 James King of Scotland is proclaimed King of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth 903 Holds his first Parliament at London 911 They conspire against his person and intend to blow up the House of Parliament at Westminster 919 Consequence of that Fougade 920 Jannizaries mutiny against Amurat III. retard his Enterprizes 887 888 Jarnac the place where was fought the Famous Battle of that Name 714 Jane Queen of Navarre is cited by the Pope to appear at Rome if not her Lands and Estates are proscribed Church 16 th Age. Brings her Son Henry of Navarre and Henry Prince of Condé to the Huguenots after the loss of the Battle of Jarnac and re-assures their Spirits by her Exhortations 705 Comes to Court by the perswasions of the Admiral and under the Pretence of the Marriage of her Son to the King's Sister 716 Telligny is sent to her for that purpose 715 Dies by over-heating her self or rather of poyson 716 Jesuites turned out of France with Infamy 843 Are restored maugre the oppositions of the Parliament and their Remonstrances by the first President 907 Are accused of the Conspiracy of the Powder-Plott against James King of England 920 Purge themselves of it ibid. Impost that hath ever increased since its first beginning 676 Impost upon Wines compared to the Crocodile for its growth ibid. Joyeuse loses the Battle of Coutras with his Life 778 Joyeuse Cardinal sent to Rome by the Duke of Mayenne to Treat concerning the Conversion of King Henry IV. 833 Serves the Republique of Venice most Wonderfully in their accommodation with the Pope Isabella of France marries the King of Spain 659 Isabella de la Paix espouses Philip II. King of Spain 692 Enterview between Catherine de Medicis her Mother and the said Princess 693 Is poysoned by her Husband though great with Child 700 Isabella Infanta of Spain marries the Arch-Duke Albertus her Father gives her the Low-Countries in favour of this Marriage 869 Conditions of the said Donation ib. Issoire given to the Huguenots for a place of Security 743 Judges ordained to inform about the Assassinate committed on the person of the Admiral de Coligny 718 K. JOhn Kepler a Learned Mathematician 911. Kermartin kills the Marquiss de Belle-Isle 852 The Widdow attempts upon his Life 870 Kervan-Saray Turkish Hospitals Koburg a Family issued of John Frederic Duke of Saxony 938 Korneburgh a Gate of Antwerp seized by the Duke of Anjou's Men. 762 L. LAffin Favorite of the Duke of Anjou 744 Debauches the Mareschal de Biron 878 Betrayes Biron 894 Reveals all to the King ibid. Landriane sent into France to support the League 845 His ill conduct ibid. Lansac Ambassadour of France at the Council of Trent yields somewhat to the Spaniard upon the Sollicitation of the Cardinal de Lorraine 685 Lerma Duke Minister of Spain hinders the War between France and Spain 889 Lieutenant General of the Kingdom a Title given by Francis II. to the Duke of Guise 665 The Parisians give it to the Duke of Mayenne under Henry III. 790 Is granted by Catherine de Medicis to the King of Navarre 671 Limoges holds their Obedience to Henry III. 791 Livron besieged 738 Defends it self bravely 739 Loire a design to joyn the River of Loire to the Saone 911 Longueville Duke undertakes to go and beseech Henry IV. to make himself Christian and then desists 798 His Death 845 Cardinal Lorraine Crowns Charles IX 674 Goes to Rome after the death of Pius V. 716 Is called the Pope on the other side the Alpes 684 His death 739 Louchali retires from the Battle of Lepanto with Two and thirty Galleys 714 Louis King of Sicilia first Founder of the Order of the Holy Ghost 753 Louis XI Institutor of the Order of Saint Michael 754 Louis XIV obliges Philip IV. to renounce the precedency under his hand-writing 685 Louis XII causes the Council of Pisa to assemble Church 16 th Age. Louisa Daughter of Nicholas de Vaudemont marries Henry III. 739 Louviers taken at Noon-day by Biron 815 Ludovic of Nassaw sent to the King by the Admiral 715 They render him the Castle of Orange ibid. Enters the Low-Countries and surprizes Mons. 716 Lusignan Castle reputed impregnable and famous by the Fables of Melusine taken by Teligny 706 Luther Martin an Augustine Monk Church 16th Age. His defects ibid. Casts away his Frock and marries ib. Dies at Islebe ibid. Luxemburgh Sebastian defends the Port of Leith against the English 662 Lyons taken by the Huguenots 680 Deliver'd from Eminent dangers of Ice are ungrateful 930 M. JOhn Mason first Huguenot Minister at Paris Church 16th Age. Maderes taken by the French 701 Maestricht taken by the Duke of Parma Mailly Brezé Philip Captain of the Guard du Corps Seizes the Prince of Condé at the Estates of Orleans 670 Malta besieged by the Turks 693 Mancicidor Secretary of King Philip for the affairs of War deputed for to make the Peace with the United Provinces 931 Margaret of Lorraine Mother of Mary Stuart Governeth Scotland 662 Margaret Dutchess of Savoy her Councels to Henry III. whose Aunt she was 733 Margaret Dutchess of Parma Governess of the Low-Countries her conduct 695 Margaret Daughter of France assists at the Assembly of Saint Germains under Charles IX 676 They propound to marry her to the King of Navarre 712 Her Marriage dissolved 876 Permitted to come to Paris an Accident that hapned to her at the Hostel de Sens her life 915 Margaret Queen of Navarre adheres to Calvinisme Church 16th Age.
LVII * Pairies * His name was after changed to Henry and he was King Perugia * The Huguenots followed the Doctrines of Zuinglius and Calvin Beginning of the War for Religion Their own Authors blame them for it and say that by this furious zeal they drew upon them the Peoples hate and Massacres * By this word is meant the Duke of Guise the Constable and the Mareschal de Saint André and by Confederates they and the King of Navarre * They were Sons of Brother and Sister Half a League from Orleans * Or Jurisdiction Emperor Solyman and Maximilian II. R. 22 years and 3 Months * He was 13. years old * She was called Peace because she was Married to King Phil. 1559. as a pawn for the Peace Emperor Maximilian II and Selim. II Son of Solyman Reigned 8 years 2 Months * Or distinct Courts of Judicature * Artic. 48. * Artic. 54. * Artic. 57. * Or Beggars a nick name given the reformed * Boucicaut Montclar Paulin Serignan Caumont Rapin and Montaigue * Or Field Marshal * The Lame Peace * Angels of Gold * Duke of Zwee-Brughen or Two-Bridges * He was afterwards Duke * Not mistake him for the Count de Montrevel whose sirname is la Baume * Vide beforâ— in March 1568. * Or Light Galleys * â—lluzzali * Acquittances for Money due but never paid c. 1574. December Emp. Amurat II. Son of Selim. II. Dead the 13 th of Decemb R. Twenty years and One Month. And Maximilian II. * Vulgarly Senetaire * Because he razed or shaved them to the quick by his exactions * German Horse * Or Courtâ— Half Protestants half Catholiques like our party Juries * In despite of their Teeth Emp. Rodolph II. Son of Maximilian who died in October R. Thirty five years Three Months And Selsin II. * Why did he meddle with them * This was called the Pacification of Ghent * Revenue or Treasury * For his Purse * Chap 5. of the year 1142. * L'Ordre du Sainct Fsprit * The Country word for the Mouth of the River Vide The Memoirs of Sully Vol. 1. Fol. 79. * Quarente-cinq 'T is the proper term * His name was Robert * The Barrâ—cado's * This Castle is distinct from the Citadel * Forty-five * Forty-five * Viâ—â— in March preceding * Or Suburbs St. James It is now the Hostel de Conde * A Measure about Twelve Bushels * In the Marca of Ancona * Tiers Party * Or Ordinary Judge * It was said of the Parisians they knew better how to fast then fight * Anroux Emonot Ameline Louchard * It was called Pillebadand * The death of the Duke of Guise was that of Henry III. * Or advised too late * Or Gluttons c. Emperor Rodolph II. and Mahomet III. Son of Amurath after he had caused twenty of his Brothers to be drowned he Reigned ten years * Or Wand * Cateâ—â—◠〈◊〉 Capelle D 〈◊〉 lens 〈◊〉 Calais and Ardres * Or Bills * Vulgarly called Aâ—aâ—tel * Or True good Frenchmen * Or a Camp Massacre * The Duke of Savoy called him so * It is now called Bellagarde End of the League and the War * Or Priaepisme * Mattins in Lent in the 〈◊〉 C. Churches * A Nose-gay given from one to another which appoints who shall Treat next * Afternoon Sittings c. * These are the Pieces of 27 Sols now * A Priviledgâ— elsewhere Related * They called him Pater Ney * Son of la Blanche first President in the Court des aiides Massacred at the St. Bartholâ— mews * Or Telescopes * East and West-Indies * Or Luee-Brughen * Or Wolfgang * He was not very old but very much broken * Imagination contributes much towards the shaping of these Figures Church * Monsieur de Marca Archbishop of Toulouze and afterwards of Paris Church * E'in-rauch in High-Dutch and Capnos in Greek signifie Smoak Church Causes of the Progress of Lutheranism Other Causes which obstructed it * Therefore He treated them as Hereticks all his life time Church * La Vaupute Fraissiniere Pragela Argentiere c. Church * Pigge Market Beginning of the new Opinions in France and the cause of their Progress Church Church * Vide in the Year 1534. How the Novators were treated in France Church Causes of the Progress of Calvinisme in Fr. Church Council of Trent Church Church Church Church Church * Forty five Church Church Councils of the Gallican Church * Town-Hall Disorders in the Church * They were called Custodines Church Religious Orders * Some had worn them before Church * or John of God 〈◊〉 Regulars Church Religious Orders of Women * Or Penitent Whores * At present the Hostel de Soissions Church Military Orders Illustrious Prelates Church * He was Nephew to the Dutchess d'Estampes Bishops Church * Or Robertus Cenalis * Or Saint Faiths Church Bishops who fell into heresit Church
stickled for her but the Grandees of the Kingdom and the Pairs assembled in Parliament towards the Feast of the Purification confirmed the Right of the Males and gave Judgment in favour of Philip. Who well attended went to be Crowned at Reims the Ninth day of January the Gates of the City being shut fearing some might have come to make opposition The Bishop of Beauvais though only a Count-Pair carried the Precedency from him of Langres who hath the Title of Duke The Estates being Assembled at Paris where were present most part of the Lords the Deputies of Corporations and Cities and above all the Burghers and the University of Paris gave their Oaths to the Chancellor Peter d'Arablay afterwards Cardinal not to acknowledge any other King but Philip and his Heirs Male to the Exclusion of Females Robert II. Earl of Artois had had a Sister named Mahaut and a Son named Philip. Mahaut was Married with Othelin Earl of Burgundy and from that Marriage were issued two Daughters whom the Fair gave unto two of his Sons Now Philip died in the War of Flanders before his Father but he left a Son who was named Robert as his Grandfathers name The Earldom of Artois ought to have belonged to this same however the Fair had adjudged it to Mahaut upon this pretence that it was not a Fief Masculine and that according to the Custom of those Countries Representation did not take place Robert Armed himself during the Regency of the Long and got himself into the possession by force but the business being examined the Lands were sequestred into the hands of the King and at last adjudged to Mahaut whose Daughter Philip the Long had Married This partial or interested Judgment caused a world of mischief Year of our Lord 1318 c. For three several times in less then Eighteen Months they began a War against the Flemmings and three several times it ended in a Truce Eudes Duke of Burgundy could not forbear mentioning the wrong they did to young Jane by detaining the Kingdom of Navarre and the Earldoms of Brie and Champagne from her The Long desiring to appease him gave him his Daughter also named Jane in Marriage with the Earldom of Burgundy Year of our Lord 1318 Notwithstanding this tie Eudes insisted so highly for his Neece that the King was obliged to Marry her to Philip the Son of Lewis Earl d'Euvreux this Lewis was Paternal Uncle to the King with the Rights she could have to the Kingdom of Navarre and the Earldoms of Brie and Champagne The great Peril France was in after the death of Hutin about the doubt of Succession and the cruel War that had afflicted Scotland for a business almost of the same nature after the decease of Alexander IV. was cause that upon the renewing the Alliance which was made between the two Crowns they added this Condition That if ever there hapned any difference for the Succession of one of those two Kingdoms he of those two Kings that should survive should not suffer any other to step into the Throne but him that should have the Judgment of the Estates for him that he should come in Person to defent it and should oppose whomsoever would contend for the Crown against him Year of our Lord 1319 The Countess Mahaut was so obstinately bent to change the Customs of the Country of Artois that the Lords and Commonalties revolted against her and nevertheless they got nothing by it being subdued by the Assistance the King and the French Princes lent her Year of our Lord 1319 The Citizens of Verdun molested by Thomas de Blamont their Bishop put themselves under protection of the King A fourth time Robert de Bethune Earl of Flanders broke the Truce but Ghent and the other Cities in his Country who in all these Wars had gotten a Power that counterbalanced his being risen up in Arms against him he was fain to consent that the Popes Legat who was a Cardinal and had been chosen Arbitrator should come to Paris the following Spring Year of our Lord 1320 The Peace was then concluded the Twentieth of May. The Cities of Douay L'Isle and Orchies remained to the King The Flemmings obliged themselves to pay Thirty thousand Florins of Gold and gave Oath not to assist their Earl in case he contraven'd to this Agreement The King promised his Daughter Margares to Lewis Earl of Nevers and Retel Son of another Lewis eldest Son of Earl Robert upon condition he should succeed his Grandfather in the Earldom of Flanders though his Father should die before his Grandfather Year of our Lord 1319 20. The Gibbelins growing powerful in Italy Pope John XXII solicited the King so earnestly that he sent thither his Son Philip Earl of Valois who was afterwards King to relieve Vercel whom the Sons of Matthew Viscount Lord of Milan held besieged He had but Fifteen hundred Horse but the Pope Robert King of Sicilia the Florentines and other Guelphs were to send him Forces to make up a great Army while he was at Mortara Matthews eldest Son had so wrought upon his Lieutenant by Money and upon himself by submission and fair words that he persuaded him to return into France without once drawing his Sword after he had made I know not what kind of Treaty which plaistered up a reconciliation between the two Factions in Lombardy Year of our Lord 1320 A like Frenzy to that we have already seen in the time of St. Lewis seized the Peasants and Pastorels for the recovery of the Holy Land upon the instigation of a renounced Monk and a Priest put out from his Cure They made their Muster in the Pre an Clerks at Paris marched into Aquitain from thence to Languedoc Massacring the Jews every where and Plundering their Magazines The Earl de Foix gave them Chase so smartly that he dispersed them all Robert de Cassel second Son of the Earl of Flanders having accused Lewis his elder Brother that he would have poysoned his Father Lewis was made Prisoner his Servants and Confesser put to Torture but not being able to make out any proof he was set at liberty but upon condition however that he should never enter into the Country of Flanders By this means Robert would chalk out his way to the Succession to the prejudice of his elder Brother History has not thought it unworthy its Remarks that in this year 1320. the Prevost of Paris named Henry Capperel for having caused an innocent but poor Fellow to be Hanged in the stead of a Rich Man condemned for great Crimes was by a Sentence of Parliament tied up to the same Gibbet We every day see his parallels save the rich Man that is guilty and punish his innocent Purse The Lepers did not give only a horror to all the World but envy likewise because they enjoy'd great Wealth and that loathsom Distemper did not render them uncapable of enjoying their pleasures add that they paid no Subsidies wherewith
French had the advantage but fortune turned her back upon them on a suddain the King neglecting to make the necessary provision relying upon the Arch-Dukes faith and the Spaniards recruiting his Forces during this mock-Peace Besides all this the rashness of the French Generals who imprudently engaged the Enemy and fought with more of fury then conduct lost all d'Aubigny who ought to have drawn things out in length and waited the French Supplies made hast to fight the body of their Army Commanded by Hugh de Cardonna Emanuel de Benavide and Antonio de Leva This was on the one and twentieth Year of our Lord 1503 of April near Seminara in Calabria and in the same place where a few years before he gained a memorable Victory he now met a contrary fate His defeat did in some manner oblige the Duke of Nemours to try his fortune and endeavour to vanquish Gonsalvo before this General should be joyned with the victorious Army He fought him near Cerignoles in Puglia the eight and twentieth of the same Month and had yet more misfortune then d'Aubigny for he was slain upon the place and d'Aubigny had made his escape to Angitola 'T is true he was immediately besieged there and in few days forc'd to capitulate and agree that all his Men should quit that Kingdom himself remaining a hostage till that were fully performed After this Gonsales had nothing that could hinder him from going whither he would Naples open'd her Gates to him the thirteenth of May and received him with acclamations of Joy the French Soldiers that were there retiring into the Castles The Cities of Capoua and Aversa followed the example of Naples Amidst this grand revolution the constant fidelity of Peter Caracciole Duke of Malfy deserved singular commendation he refused all the advantageous conditions which Gonsales proffer'd him and chose rather to lose all his Lands and go out of that Kingdom with his Wife and Children then to be wanting in his Faith to the French The Chasteau Neuf or New-Castle did not hold out long Peter de Navarre having made a breach by springing of a Mine the Garison was so astonished at this unknown new-thunder which burst out of the Earth that they surrendred Year of our Lord 1503 upon composition a Day before the Arrival of the Kings Navy which brought two Thousand men and a great quantity of all sorts of provisions The Castle del'Ovo held three Weeks longer and was likewise taken by the same invention You may therefore observe that in this War Peter de Navarre a Soldier of Fortune bearing the name of his own Country taught them the way of filling a Mine with Gun-Powder to blow up their Walls whether of his own invention or rather he bringing it to greater perfection For it was said that he had seen it practised by the Genoese at Serazenella when they besieged it upon the Florentins in the year 1487. where the Mine having only crackt the Wall because it was not deep enough nor enough charged they had laid aside this invention as of little use or effect But that he having observed their mistakes and the cause why it miscarried corrected them and had found the way to make them very useful There yet remained several places in possession of the French as Aquilea and the Rock of Evander some others in Abruzzo and Venouza in Puglia where the brave Lewis d'Ars and the Duke of Malfy had put themselves in after the Battel of Cerignoles Also Rossana Matelona Sanseverina and two or three other Cities belonging to the Lords of the Angevin Faction still held for the Party And as the Battel of Cerignoles was rather a rout then a defeat Yves d'Alegre had carried off four thousand Foot and four hundred Men at Arms whom he had quartered about Cajeta to refresh themselves This place being strong and withal a Sea-Port to receive Succours from France Gonsales went and laid Siege before it to shut up that back door d'Alegre immediately put in all the men he had left him and defended himself well enough till the Arrival of the French Army The Arch-Duke at his parting from Lyons was gone to visit the Duke of Savoy his Brother in Law He was not afraid upon the receipt of all this news to return to the King at Blois This was a great Testimony of his good conscience and integrity or a very bold and confident dissimulation He omitted nothing that might seem to justify him sent away immediately to Gonsales and wrote earnestly to his Father in Law In fine he demeaned himself so fairly that the King believed he acted with sincerity and prayed him not to apprehend that he would tax him with it For if his Father in Law had committed a piece of Treachery he would in no wise act like him but would rather a Kingdom should be lost which he was able to regain then to lose his honour which can never be retrieved Year of our Lord 1503 In the mean time Ferdinand would not yet clearly discover his intentions to his Son in Law he designed to hold him in suspence that he might hold the King so too lest he should make hast to relieve the Castles of Naples and Cajeta which still held out But when Philip had made known to him by a Courier that he should not leave the Court of France till he had fully satisfied the King in this matter he sent ambassadors thither who diowned his proceedings as having exceeded his Commission which however was not true And after this thinking to gain time by new Forberies they made a new proposition which was to surrender the Kingdom to Frederic but the King would hear nothing from a Prince in whom there was no Faith and commanded them to depart the Kingdom As for the Arch-Duke he treated him still civilly and suffered him to return into Flanders Year of our Lord 1503 That this affront might not rest upon France the King had resolved to shock Ferdinand with all his might and power And to this purpose he set four Armies on Foot three at Land and one for the Sea The greatest of the Land Armies commanded by la Trimoville and composed of eighteen thousand Foot and near two thousand Men at Arms were to recover the Kingdom of Naples and the other three to attack Spain The first commanded by the Lord d'Abret and the Mareschal de Gie were to make an irruption towards Fontarabia this consisted of five thousand Foot Swiss and French and about one thousand Men at Arms. The second conducted by the Mareschal de Rieux almost twice that number had order to enter by Roussillon The third was a Naval Army who at the same time were to scower the Coasts of Catalongne and of the Kingdom of Valentia and take care that nothing should be convey'd from Spain to the Kingdom of Naples Year of our Lord 1503 La Trimoville who was upon the march with his Forces moved slowly for most part of the Italian Lords
make a Peace with the King Ferdinand and the Venetians having brought him a little to heart again he fell to practise his wonted Artifice which was to amuse the King with Propositions of an Accommodation and to engage the Queen to act who by Motives of Conscience Caresses Intrigues and Importunities often disarm'd him and made him relent With this his trouble in Mind occasioned by the death of his Nephew the misunderstanding which arose between the Cardinal Sanseverin who was Legate and la Palice who had the Title of General the little obedience the other French Captains yielded to this last and the ill-timed good Husbandry or sparingness of the Treasurer Pay-Master to the Army did not only render that Victory fruitless but occasioned the loss of the Dutchy of Milan For the Treasurer disbanded a considerable part of the Forces and la Palice left Sanseverin but six thousand Foot and a thousand Horse and led the rest into Milan There being encamped at Pontevica a Place proper to relieve Milan Cremona Bress and Bergamo four thousand Lansquenets which made up two thirds of his Infantry and had been raised in the Territories of the House of Austria were recalled by the Emperor Maximilian at that instant when the Swiss were entring into that Country In few Words the French reduced to two or three thousand Men did wholly abandon all Milanois Maximilian Sforza was restored to that Dutchy by the Year of our Lord 1512 Swiss who declared themselves Protectors of it The City of Genoa revolted and created a Duke which was Janus Fregosa Almost at the same time the King of England sent a Herauld to declare a War against the King and the Emperor who had so often protested never to seperate from him forsook him and knit a new Alliance with Julius Amidst this rout amongst the French the Council of Pisa who were retired to Milan made their escape to Lyons During the time they had been at Milan they held four or five Sessions in which the Fathers had Summond Julius to name some free Place for the Council and to meet there in Person to justifie himself had declared him suspended of the Papal Administration and forbid to pay him Obedience The Council of Latran much more numerous and better authorized thundred with more force especially after the Emperor had owned them In their third Session which was upon a Friday the sixteenth of November a Bull was read which condemned the Council of Pisa their Abettors and Adherents and confirmed the Excommunications and Degradations which Julius had fulminated against the Cardinals and Bishops who composed it As also their Letters Monitorie of the fourteenth of August whereby he put the Kingdom of France under interdiction excepting the Dutchy of Burgundy and tranferr'd the Faires from Lyons to Geneva In the Fourth which was the eleventh of December there was read a Decree which adjourned the King and the Prelates Chapters and Parliaments to appear before him within sixty Days and to shew their Reasons why Year of our Lord 1512 they would not have the Pragmatick Sanction abrogated The Lure which King Ferdinand had made use of to engage the Young King of England his Son-in-Law in a War against France was the Promise he had made him to assist him with all his Forces to conquer Guyenne Upon this assurance the English by the end of May landed a great Army near Fontarabia but Ferdinand had of a long time formed the design of conquering Navarre so that in stead of joyning with him he falls upon that unhappy Kingdom nothing concerned in the Quarrel and took occasion upon the apprehensions of their Army to invade it the more securely and easily Year of our Lord 1512 King John d'Albret had not dar'd to arm himself for fear of giving him that Pretence he desired to oppress him So that as soon as he appeared on the Frontiers he coward-like retired into Bearn and abandon'd the whole Kingdom to him excepting only some Fortresses When Ferdinand had usurped Navarre he sought out some Title to it that he might still hold it He could find no other but the right of War and a Bull of the Popes which left it as a Prey to the first Occupier because John said he Year of our Lord 1512 was an Abettor of the Council of Pisa and an Ally of the King of France Enemy to the Holy See But as to the right of War unless they mean the Force ✚ or Power of the Sword which gives no right but amongst the Barbarians Ferdinand had none at all since John had no way wronged him and was so far from taking Arms against him that on the contrary he proffer'd him free Passage thorow his Kingdom And as to the other Point that Bull so much alledged is no where to be found but could it be produced it could give no right to a Crown which is held only from God and if it could give any it was published say the Spaniards in the Month of July and the Invasion was made in June Which is to chop off a Man's Head and then pronounce his Sentence The Succors which the King sent to John his Ally being ill conducted did him no Service The Duke of Longueville Governor of Guyenne and Charles Duke of Bourbon who commanded them could not agree The King sent Francis Duke of Valois thither His Authority stifled their Discord he entred into Navarre in dispite of the Duke of Alva who was encamped at Saint John's de Pied de Port and laid Siege to Pampelonna but the want of Provisions and Inconveniences of the Season constrained him to De-Camp at the end of six Weeks Ferdinand having reaped what Fruit he could hope for by this War did willingly make a Truce with the King About these Times began the Reign of the Cherifs in Affrica by one Mahomet Benhemet who saying he was descended of the Blood of his Great Prophet and having Sanctified himself in the Opinion of the People by a tedious and long Solitude animated them with a furious Zeal to Make War upon the Christians and those Moors that had made Alliance with them and by the help and means of his two Sons conquer'd the Kingdoms of Fez of Morocco and of â—remissen Year of our Lord 1513 The wrath of Julius had no bounds he had framed a Decree in the Name of the Council to transfer the Kingdom of France and the Title of Most Christian to the King of England When he was just on the Point of publishing it the Heavens taking pitty of him and of all Christendom called him cut of the World the three and twentieth of February He died of a lingring slow Feaver contracted as they said thorow Grief for that he could not persuade or incline the Venetians to make an Agreement with the Emperor So violent were his Passions much fitter for a Turkish Sultan then the common Father of all Christians Year of our Lord 1513 The Cabal of Young Cardinals having observed