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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54743	The minority of St. Lewis With the politick conduct of affairs by his mother Queen Blanch of Spain, during her regency. Being a relation of what happen'd most memorable under his reign during the year, 1226, 1227, 1228, and 1229.	Philipps, Edward, 1630-1696?.	1685 (1685)	Wing P2065; ESTC R220520	46,829	160

this matter She undertook her self the Office of Nurse to this dear Son of hers not thinking it safe for where most Love is there is most jealousie and suspicion he should suck of any other Milk than her own upon this there hapned a Rencountre which being not elsewhere to be found though perhaps purposely omitted as beneath the Gravity of History cannot handsomly be here pass'd by One day when she had a violent hot fit of an Ague upon her which also lasted longer than Ordinary a Lady of Quality who either to please her Majesty or in imitation of her had taken upon her to nurse her own Son being then present and seeing the little Infant cry for the Teat took upon her the boldness to give him the Breast the Queen when the fit was over call'd for her Child and offer'd him her own Breast but the Infant put it by either because having suckt so lately he was fully satisfied or because the fresh Milk he had lately tasted made him the more sensible of the burning heat of that which his Mother now offer'd him The Reason was easie to be guess'd and the Queen her self suspected what had hapned She pretended an impatient desire of returning her thanks to the person who had oblig'd her by being so kind to her Child during her Indisposition The Lady hereupon expecting no doubt to be a Favourite own'd what she had done and told the Queen that the crying of the Infant so sensibly touch'd her that she could not forbear to give it what Relief was in her power But the Queen instead of returning her the thanks she expected cast a most disdainful look upon her and thrusting her singer into his mouth forc'd him to give up all he hadreceiv'd from her Breast This violent Carriage of the Queen gave surprise to all that beheld it whereupon not to hold them long in suspence the Queen told them they ought not to think strange of what they had seen for that she could not possibly endure that any Woman alive should have a Right to dispute with her the Quality of a Mother so stedfast her perswasion was that the nursing of Children is a great part of their Education Other Particularities of the Education of St. Lewis are not known only in general it is not unknown how great Care was taken to place such persons about him as were most capable to instruct him but however these persons were it may without any injustice to them be strongly presum'd their Abilities were not sufficient for the high Province they were set in it being in an Age when men of greatest Fame for Literature were but very indifferently learned and in a Kingdom whose Nobility at time lay under the scandal of that gross Ignorance besides that St. Lewis came too soon to the Crown to have that leisure and opportunity which were necessary for a serious Application to study He was not above twelve years and about ten dayes over of Age when his Father King Lewis the 8th who had not reign'd in France above three years resign'd him his place by an accident whose Circumstances have not been to this day sufficiently made known The most potent Feudatary of the French Monarchy next to the King of England was at that time Tibault the third who Matthew Paris calls Henry Earl of Champaign Brie Chartres and Blois the Sovereignty of which Estates had been in his Family above 400 Years and it was no less then 300 Years since one of his Ancestors got himself immortal Fame by compelling the last King of Burgundy for the putting a stop to the persecution then on foot to resign his Crown to the Emperor Conrade This Prince of all the Princes of Christendom of that time had the greatest Alliances his Mother being the Daughter and Heiress of the King of Navarre his Grandmother Sister of Philip the August King of France his great Grandmother Princess of England and her Mother of the Imperial House of Suevia He was of a large Stature handsome well made valiant and active Especially at the Exercise of the Lance which was then an Exercise and Divertisement much in use and Esteem but withal he was extreamly subject to passions which of all others are most incident to persons of his Quality and Grandure and that in so high a degree that it was hard to distinguish which was most predominant He was born a younger Brother but waited not long before he became the Eldest his Brother dying without Male Issue the Orphan Princesses he left behind found their Uncle instead of a Protector the greatest Enemy and Persecutor they had Nor had he accepted of the Tuition of them but only to gain an opportunity thereby of invading their Estates which he delay'd no longer to do then till he had made himself Master of all their strong holds The pretence he made use of to palliate his Injustice was too weak to have ever been made use of before in the like Case Namely that the Earldoms of Champaign Brie Chartres and Blois were Fiefs purely Masculine that is to say so firmly entail'd upon the Martial or Arm-bearing Sex as not to admit of any Woman whatsoever though Married to the General of an Army No less Criminal was this Earl in his amorous Inclination nor did this passion of his tend less to evil Consequences the respect he ow'd to Lewis the 8th his Sovereign and the honour he had of being so nearly related to him not restraining him from loving Queen Blanch beyond the Limits of honour and decency and whether it were that he gave way to Presumption equally with Love or that his Passion was moreover degenerated into folly or that he had entertain'd an Opinion that Secrecy would more avail to the heighthning than suppressing of his Malady or lastly that the Queens Virtue had driven him to despair he not only took no care to hide the fury of his amorous Flame but on the contrary sought all extravagant ways imaginable to proclaim it to the World he spent a great part of his time in making Love-songs savouring more of a flashy wit than of a true Elegance or Spirit of Poetry these he made it his business to get presented to the Queen he caus'd them to be compos'd to Musick and sung to all sorts of Instruments and either to keep them from growing out of date as it generally happens when the Novelty of a thing is over or that their Memory of them might survive both the Author and the Princess for whom they were made he had them grav'd in Copper and expos'd to the sight of the whole world in the Galleries of his Palaces at Troye and Provence as if he were afraid least future Ages should be unacquainted with his folly or the time he liv'd in should want a fit Subject for Satyre Such was the excessive heighth of his Imprudence which the King was not then in a Condition to chastise he thought it better to pretend Ignorance

Bretaign became an arrier-fief to the Crown of France In this State it continued till the death of Covan Earl of Bretaign who left Issue only one daughter nam'd Constance This rich Heiress was courted by many but Henry the second King of England pretended as Duke of Normandy the Right of Marriage and partly by his Authority partly by his Addresses of Courtship obtain'd her and had four Sons by her Henry Richard Geoffry and John He design'd to leave to Henry the Crown of England to Richard the Provinces of Normandy Main Anjou and Tourain which fell to him by Succession from his Father and Mother and the Provinces of Guien and Poictou which he had in Marriage by his former Wife Eleanor Between these two young Princes and the two daughters of the most Christian King Lewis the 7th there was a solemn Treaty of Marriage and the King of England had Interest enough to bring both to effect John his 4th Son was design'd for Ecclesiastical Preferment so that a Match having been propos'd between the Heiress of Bretaign and the house of England she must now of necessity be married if to any to Geoffry King Henry's third Son In fine the was married to him upon considerations meerly Political for his person was no way taking with the young Lady but his death soon deliver'd her and left her to a second Marriage more to her content for she her self then made choice of Guy de Thouars a Knight the handsomest and bravest person of his Age by whom she had but one daughter her first Husband had left her big with Child of a Son nam'd Arthur whose death was the more unhappy for that he was depriv'd thereby of such an accumulation of Successions that of England and the French Provinces thereunto appendant fell to him by the death without Issue of his Fathers two Eldest Brothers and Bretaign being his at the same time in Right of his Mother he had doubtless in prospect had he liv'd the vastest Monarchy that had been known since the partage of the Imperial Dominion of Charles the Great but John sirnamed Lackland the only Uncle who surviv'd procur'd his death to get his Estate and by this means the daughter of Guy de Thouars became sole Heiress of the Earldom of Bretaign Philip the August who taking advantage of the villany of John Lackland had reunited the Dutchy of Normandy to the Crown of France pretended that since Henry these cond King of England had power as being Duke of Normandy to dispose of the Mother he both as Duke of Normandy and King of France together had so much the better Title to dispose of the daughter The branch of Dreux was at that time the most proper branch of the Royal Family his appennage was small he had neither Office nor Government his Alliances had not enrich'd him and it was to be fear'd he might lose his Rank for want of Estate as it hapned some time since to the branch of Cortenai supposing his publih'd Genealogy be altogether exact This made Philip the August the more willing to give the Heiress of Bretaign to Peter de Dreux with this Condition that Bretaign should henceforth be immediately held of the Crown of France that is to say that it should no more do homage to whoever should be Masters of Normandy in case that Province should ever be again dismembred from the Crown The Condition was advantagious to both the new married Parties since their Estates were now no longer held in arrier fiefs nor would depend for the time to come upon a single Duke of Normandy but only upon the first of Christian Kings Nor did any one receive prejudice by it in regard Normandy was reunited to the Crown No wonder then if Peter de Dreux and his Wife accepted gladly the Condition and observ'd it in all particulars But that soon befel the new Duke of Bretaign which is but too frequent with men of slender virtue that is to say he suffer'd himself to be drawn away and transported by this flowing Tide of good fortune The large Extent of this Country of Bretaign and its advantageous Situation gave it a very sufficient Title and Merit in this Princes opinion to an absolute and independent Sovereignty besides he was pleas'd to flatter himself with this conceit that his carrying on so high a design as the shaking of the French yoke would immortalize his Name to all Posterity which great undertaking the better to accomplish he was really perswaded that his siding with the Earl of Boulogne and his Party was as fair an opportunity as he could have wisht for taking it for granted that if the Earl succeeded he could do no less than remit his homage of Bretaign in recompense of his declaring for him In case he did not succeed the Regent in revenge that she might oblige those Princes of the blood who had taken part with him to desert him would be glad to condescend to what ever they should demand of her Thus the Duke of Bretaign turn'd Rebel upon false surmises with which he fed his fancy but the most cross and untoward occurrence in his Revolt was his drawing in upon a quite contrary principle his Brother Robert de Dreux This Person had a Soul so sensible of all benefits and so prone to grateful returns that he thought he could not better testifie the high obligation he had to the Duke of Bretaign for having left entire to him the Apennage of their branch than by serving him for or against whom soever he desir'd except the King Thus he put himself under the Banner of the Malecontents by a Motive the most excusable that ever was if any excuse can be admitted in matters of Treason The last Prince of the blood that the Earl of Boulogne drew in to his Party was Robert of Courtenay whom he found the more pliable to his Temptations by discontent because the branch of the Dreux had been preferr'd before his by the Match of Bretaign and to engage him the more deeply he had opportunity given him to make himself Master of certain summs of the Kings mony Raimond the 7th of that Name Earl of Tholouse sirnamed the young was before hand with the Malecontents to whom without staying for any Invitation from them he went and joyned of his own accord upon the first prospect he had of a civil war His main inducement to this proceeding for he had none of those pretences which the rest made use of was only to save himself by fishing in other mens troubled waters The Court of Rome whose Thunders ruin'd without Exception all those petty Princes upon whom they lighted was altogether inexorable toward this Prince and would not quit him of those Ecclesiastical Censures which had been pronounc'd against him though the refusal thereof was the greatest obstacle to the recovery of Languedoc This Interdiction had so powerful an ascendant upon his Subjects minds that they thought they might be very well