devoured the mother and wealth impaired religion Chap. 12. The qualitie and condition of those people who undertook the warre IT is not to be expected that all should be fish which is caught in a drag-net neither that all should be good and religious people who were adventurers in an action of so large a capacitie as this warre was We must in charitie allow that many of them were truly zealous and went with pious intents These were like to those of whom Bellarmine speaketh who had no fault praeter nimiam sanctitatem too much sanctitie which a learned man interpreteth too much superstition But besides these well-meaning people there went also a rabble-rout rather for companie then conscience Debters took this voyage on them as an acquittance from their debts to the defrauding of their creditours Servants counted the conditions of their service cancelled by it going away against their masters will Theeves and murderers took upon them the crosse to escape the gallows Adulterers did penance in their armour A lamentable case that the devils black guard should be Gods souldiers And no wonder if the successe was as bad as some of the adventurers especially seeing they retained their old conditions under a new climate And as if this voyage had been like to repentance never too soon nor too late for any to begin not onely green striplings unripe for warre but also decayed men to whom age had given a writ of ease became souldiers and those who at home should have waited on their own graves went farre to visit Christs sepulchre And which was more women as if they would make the tale of the Amazons truth went with weapons in mens clothes a behaviour at the best immodest and modesty being the case of chastitie it is to be feared that where the case is broken the jewel is lost This enterprise was also the mother of much non-residence many Prelates and Friars fitter to handle a pen-knife then a sword left their covents and pastorall charges to follow this businesse The totall summe of those pilgrime-souldiers amounted to three hundred thousand and some writers do double that number No doubt the Christians army had been greater if it had been lesse for the belly was too big for the head and a medley of nations did rather burden then strengthen it Besides the armie was like a cloth of many colours and more seams which seams though they were curiously drawn up for the present yet after long wearing began to be seen and at last brake out into open rents Chap. 13. The adventurers sorted according to their severall nations THe French Dutch Italian and English were the foure elementall nations whereof this army was compounded of these the French were predominant they were the cape-merchants in this adventure That nimble nation first apprehended the project and eagerly prosecuted it As their language wanteth one proper word to expresse Stand so their natures mislike a settled fixed posture and delight in motion and agitation of businesse Yea France as being then best at leisure contributed more souldiers to this warre then all Christendome besides The signall men were Hugh surnamed le Grand brother to the King of France Godfrey Duke of Bouillon Baldwine and Eustace his younger brethren Stephen Earl of Bloys father to Stephen afterwards King of England Reimund Earl of Tholouse Robert Earl of Flanders Hugh Earl of Saint-Paul Baldwine de Burge with many more besides of the Clergie Aimar Bishop of Puy and Legate to the Pope and William Bishop of Orange Germanie is slandered to have sent none to this warre at this first voyage and that other pilgrimes passing through that countrey were mocked by the Dutch and called fools for their pains It is true the Germane adventurers in number answered not the largenesse and populousnesse of their countrey for Henry the Emperour a Prince whom the Pope long hacked at and hewed him off at last being desirous to go this voyage was tied up at home with civill discords Yet we find a competencie of souldiers of that nation besides those under Godescalcus a Priest Emmicho the Rhene-grave and Count Herman their leaders But though Germanie was backward at the first yet afterwards it proved the main Atlas of the warre that nation like a heavie bell was long a raising but being got up made a loud sound Italy sent few out of her heart and middle provinces nigh Rome The Pope was loth to adventure his darlings into danger those white-boyes were to stay at home with his Holinesse their tender father Wherefore he dispensed with them for going as knowing how to use their help nearer and to greater profit Peters patrimonie must as well be looked to as Christs sepulchre But though the Pope would spend none of his own fewel he burnt the best stakes of the Emperours hedge and furthered the Imperiall partie to consume it self in this tedious warre Out of the furthermost parts of Italie Boemund Prince of Tarentum and Tancred his nephew both of the Normane seed though growing on the Apulian soyl led an army of twelve thousand men And Lombardy was also very liberall of her souldiers towards this expedition England the Popes pack-horse in that age which seldome rested in the stable when there was any work to be done sent many brave men under Robert Duke of Normandy brother to William Rufus as Beauchamp and others whose names are lost Neither surely did the Irish-mens feet stick in their bogs though we find no particular mention of their atchievements Spain had other use for her swords against the Saracens at home and therefore sent none of her men abroad As one saith The Spaniards did follow their own Holy warre a work more necessary and no lesse honourable Thus they acted the same part though not on the same stage with our Pilgrimes as being also imployed in fight against the infidels Poland had the same excuse for not much appearing clean through this warre because she lieth bordering on the Tartars in her appendant countrey of Lituania and therefore was busied in making good her frontiers Besides no wonder if Prussia Lituania and Livonia were not up in this service for it was scarce break of day with them and the sunne of the Gospel was newly if at all risen in those parts Yea Poland was so farre from sending men hither that she fetcht them from hence and afterwards implored the aid of the Teutonick order who came out of Palestine to assist her against her enemies Hungary might bring filling-stones to this building but few foundation or corner-stones and at this time had no commander of note in this action Scotland also presenteth us not with any remarkable piece of service which her men performed in all this warre It was not want of devotion which was hot enough in that cold countrey rather we may impute it to want of shipping that countrey being little powerfull at sea or which is most
lavish physick on him in whom he seeth faciem cadaverosam so that death hath taken possession in the sick mans countenance finding this warre to be desperate and dedecus fortitudinis they even fairly left the Holy land and came into Europe meaning to lay out their valour on some thing that would quit cost But hereof hereafter Chap. 6. Richard of England and Philip of France set forward to the Holy land The danger of the interveiws of Princes THe miseries of the Christians in Syria being reported in Europe made Richard the first King of England and Philip the second surnamed Augustus King of France to make up all private dissensions betwixt them and to unite their forces against the Turks Richard was well stored with men the bones and quickly got money the sinews of warre by a thousand Princely skills gathering so much coin as if he meant not to return because looking back would unbowe his resolution To Hugh Bishop of Duresme for his life he sold the County of Northumberland jesting he had made a new Earl of an old Bishop He sold Barwick and Roxburgh to the Scottish king for ten thousand pounds Yea he protested he would sell his citie of London if any were able to buy it rather then he would be burdensome to his subjects for money But take this as he spake it for a flourish for pretending he had lost his old he made a new seal wherewith he squeezed his subjects and left a deep impression in their purses forcing them to have all their instruments new-sealed which any wayes concerned the Crown Having now provided for himself he forgot not his younger brother John Earl of Morton who was to stay behind him an active man who if he misliked the maintenance was cut for him would make bold to carve for himself Lest therefore straitned for means he should swell into discontent King Richard gave him many Earldomes and honours to the yearly value of foure thousand marks Thus he received the golden saddle but none of the bridle of the Common-wealth honour riches were heaped upon him but no place of trust and command For the King deputed William Bishop of Ely his Viceroy choosing him for that place rather then any lay-Earl because a Coronet perchance may swell into a Crown but never a Mitre For a Clergie-mans calling made him uncapable of usurpation in his own person Thus having settled matters at home he set forth with many of our nation which either ushered or followed him Of these the prime were Baldwine Archbishop of Canterbury Hubert Bishop of Salisburie Robert Earl of Leicester Ralph de Glanvile late chief Justice of England Richard de Clare Walter de Kime c. The Bishops of Duresme and Norwich though they had vowed this voyage were dispensed with by the court of Rome quae nulli deest pecuniam largienti to stay at home His navie he sent about by Spain and with a competent number took his own journey through France At Tours he took his Pilgrimes scrip and staff from the Archbishop His staff at the same time casually brake in pieces which some whose dexteritie lay in sinister interpreting all accidents construed a token of ill successe Likewise when he and the French king with their trains passed over the bridge of Lyons on the fall of the bridge this conceit was built That there would be a falling out betwixt these two Kings which accordingly came to passe their intercourse and familiaritie breeding hatred and discontent betwixt them Yea the interviews of equall Princes have ever been observed dangerous Now Princes measure their equalitie not by the extent of their dominions but by the absolutenesse of their power so that he that is supreme and independent in his own countrey counteth himself equall to any other Prince how great soever Perchance some youthfull Kings may disport and solace themselves one in anothers companie whilest as yet pleasure is all the elevation of their souls But when once they grow sensible of their own greatnesse a lesson they will quickly learn and shall never want teachers then emulation will be betwixt them because at their meeting they cannot so go in equipage but one will still be the foremost Either his person will be more proper or carriage more court-like or attendance more accomplished or attire more fashionable or some thing will either be or conceived to be more majesticall in one then the other And corrivalls in honour count themselves eclipsed by every beam of state which shineth from their competitour Wherefore the best way to keep great Princes together is to keep them asunder accommodating their businesse by Embassadours lest the meeting of their own persons part their affections Chap. 7. King Richard conquereth Sicilie and Cyprus in his passage to the Holy land AT Lyons these two Kings parted their trains and went severall wayes into Sicilie King Richard in his passage though within fifteen miles of Rome wanting forsooth either devotion or manners vouchsafed not to give his Holinesse a visit yea plainly told Octavian Bishop of Ostia the Popes Confessour that having better objects to bestow his eyes on he would not stirre a step to see the Pope Because lately without mercie he had simoniacally extorted a masse of money from the Prelates of England At Messana in Sicilie these two Kings meet again where to complete King Richards joy behold his Navie there safely arriving which with much difficultie and danger had fetched a compasse about Spain And now King Richard by his own experience grew sensible of the miseries which merchants and mariners at sea underwent being alwayes within few inches often within an hairs breadth of death Wherefore now touched with remorse of their pitifull case he resolved to revoke the law of Wracks as a law so just that it was even unjust For formerly both in England and Normandie the Crown was intituled to shipwrackt goods and the King jure gentium made heir unto them which otherwise jure naturali were conceived to be in bonis nullius pertaining to no owner But now our Richard refused to make advantage of such pitifull accidents and to strip poore mariners out of those rags of their estates which the mercie and modestie of the waves and winds had left them And therefore on the moneth of October at Messana in the presence of many Archbishops and Bishops he for ever quitted the claim to Wracks So that if any man out of the ship cometh alive to the shore the propertie of the shipwrackt goods is still preserved to the owner Yea this grant was so enlarged by our succeeding Kings that if a dogge or a cat escaped alive to land the goods still remained the owners if he claimed them within a yeare and a day Tankred at this time was King of Sicilie a bastard born and no wonder if climbing up to the throne the wrong way he shaked when he sat down Besides he was
with them joyntly to resist the Corasines seeking saith Frederick the Emperour to find fidem in perfidia trust in treachery Many suspected these auxiliary forces thinking though the forrest-wolves fell out with the mountain ones they would both agree against the sheep Robert Patriarch of Jerusalem was a most active commander over all S. Lukes day was the time agreed upon for the fatall battel neare Tiberias was the place As the Christians were ordering themselves in aray it was questioned in what part of their armie their new Turkish assistants should be disposed and concluded that they should be placed in the front where if they did no other good they would dull the appetite of their enemies sword This is thought to have been a notorious errour and cause of their overthrow For though those souldiers who mean to be false will never be made faithfull in what place soever they be bestowed yet may they be made lesse dangerous if cast into the body or main battel of the army whence they have no such scope to fling out and to take advantage of place to do mischief as they have either in the front or wings thereof Thus in Cesars time Crassus an experienced Generall under him being to bid the Gauls battel auxiliares copias quibus ad pugnam non multum confidebat in mediam aciem colloâ—â—vit that so being hemmed in before and behind they might be ingaged to fight manfully without starting away And to instance in later times our Richard the third who though he usurped the Crown had as none will deny a true title both to prowesse and martiall policie marching to Bosworth placed suspected persons whose bodies were with him and hearts with Earl Henry in the midst and those whom he most trusted before behind and on every side The battel being joyned the Turks ranne over to the other side though some braved them onely with cowardlinesse not treachery and that they fled from the battel but not fell to the enemies The Christians manfully stood to it and though over-powerd in number made a great slaughter of their enemies till at last they were quite overthrown Of the Teutonick Order escaped but three of three hundred Templars but eighteen of two hundred Hospitallers but nineteen The Patriarch to use his own words whom God reputed unworthy of martyrdome saved himself by flight with a few others And this great overthrow to omit lesse partner-causes is chiefly imputed to the Templars former so often breaking the truce with the Sultan of Babylon Thus were the Christians conquered by the Corasines and beaten by a beaten nation Palestine being wonne by those who could not keep their own countrey Improving this victorie they left nothing to the Christians but Tyre Ptolemais and Antioch with some few forts Soon after these Corasines elated herewith fell out with the Sultan himself who in anger rooted out their nation so that none of their name remained Yea all writers are silent of them both before this time and ever after as if God at this very instant had created this people to punish Christians which service performed they were annihilated again Chap. 11. Lewis the ninth setteth forward against the Turks The occasion of his journey and his attendants SOme two yeares after Lewis the ninth of that name King of France came to assist the Christians The occasion of his voyage this He had been visited with a desperate sicknesse insomuch that all art cried craven as unable to help him and the Physicians resigned him to Divines to begin with him where they ended They also gave him over and for a while he lay in a trance not the least breath brought news of any life left in him Then Blanch the Queen-mother and Queen of mothers for her care of her sonne and his Kingdome applied a piece of the Crosse unto him Thereat whether thereby let others dispute he revived and recovered and thereupon was Croised and in thankfulnesse bound himself with a vow to sail to the Holy land But his Nobility disswaded him from that designe The dangers were certain the successe would be doubtfull of so long a journey his own Kingdome would be left desolate and many mischiefs unseen as yet would appear in his absence Besides his vow was made in his sicknesse whilest reason was scarce as yet in the peaceable possession of his mind because of the remnant-dregs of his disease It might also be dispensed with by the Pope yea his deserts did challenge so much from his Holinesse King Lewis as perswaded hereat laid down the Crosse to the great comfort and contentment of all the beholders But then altering his countenance he required the Crosse should be restored to him again and vowed to eat no bread untill he was recognized with the Pilgrimes badge And because his vow should suffer no diminution or abatement from his disease now no longer Lewis the sick but Lewis the sound undertook the Holy warre His Nobles seeing him too stiff to be unbent and counting it a kind of sacrilegious counsel to disswade him from so pious a work left him to his own resolutions There went along with him his two brothers Charles Earl of Anjou Robert Earl of Artois his own Queen and their Ladies O do the Popes Legate Hugh Duke of Burgundie William Earl of Flanders Hugh Earl of St. Paul and William Longspath Earl of Sarisbury with a band of valiant English men who went without licence from Henry King of England For in those dayes this doctrine went currant That their Princes leave was rather of complement then essentiall to their voyage as if the band of this Holy warre was an acquittance from all others Our Henry displeased at this Earls departure for his disobedience deprived him of his Earldome and castle of Sarisbury not suffering that sheep to grase in his pasture which would not own him for his shepherd William also sonne to this Earl smarting for his fathers fault never enjoyed that honour And though King Henry himself being a Prince of more devotion then policie did most affectionately tender this Holy cause yet he used this necessary severity towards this Earl at this time first because it would weaken his land thus to be dispeopled of martiall men secondly his subjects forwardnesse might be interpreted a secret check of his own backwardnesse in that warre thirdly the sucking in of forrein aire did wean people from their naturall Prince and did insensibly usher into their hearts an alienation from their own Sovereigne and a dependence on the King of France lastly he had some thoughts on that voyage himself and reserved such prime Peers to attend on his own person thither The Pope gave to this King Lewis his charges the tenth of the Clergies revenues through France for three yeares and the King imployed the Popes collectours to gather it knowing those leaches were the best suckers Hereupon the states of the Clergie were
CONRADE Marquesse of Montferrat defendeth Tyre and is chosen King Guy taken prisoner Jerusalem won by Saladine 2 26 46 7 is slain in a battel neare Ptolemais He is taken prisoner 8 11 8 CLEMENT the third 1 4 37 34 9 2 Guy having got libertie besiegeth Ptolemais 3 27 8 IX GARNERIUS de Neapoli Syriae TERICUS Master of the Templars during Gerards durance Gerard is set at libertie and slain in the siege of Ptolemais 9 12 9 2 5 38 M. 7. RICHARD the first 1 10 3 4. VOYAGE under Frederick surnamed Barbarossa 4 28  9   10 13 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Turkish K. of Egypt 1190 3 6 HENRY the sixth S. 1 2 11 4 5. VOYAGE under Rich. of Engl. Philip of Fran 5 Antioch wonne again froÌ„ the Turks by Frederick D. of Suevia  10   HENRY a-Wal-pot 1 11 14 1 M. 2 D. 10 7 2 3 12 5 Conrade murdered in the market-place of Tyre Ptolemais taken 6   11   2 12 15 2 CELESTINE the third 2 8 3 4 13 Guy exchangeth his Kingdome of Jerusalem for Cyprus 7 The time of Boemunds death is as uncertain as who was his Successour onely we find from this time forward the same Princes but without name or certain date â—â—yled both of Antioch Tripoli  He lived viciously and died obscurely  3 13 16 3 3 M. 7. 9 4 5 14 HENRY Earl of Champaigne 1  X. ERMEGAROUS DAPS.  4 14 SAPHADIME Br. to Saladine 1 4 4 ALEXIUS COMNENê° ANGELUS 1 5 6 15 2      5 15 2 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Turkish K. of Egypt 1195 5 2 6 7 16 3     6 16 Betwixt him and Saladines soâ—nes whom at last he conquered and subdued was long warre to the great comfort and profit of the Christians 3 6 6 3 7 8 17 ALMERICK the second King also of Cyprus 1     7 17 4 7 M. 9 D. 11 4 8 9 18 6. VOYAGE under Henry Duke of Saxonie Henry the Palatine Herman Landtgrave c. winne Berytâ—â— 2     8 18 5 8 INNOCENTIUS the third 1 5 9 10 19 The Dutch men miserably killed on St Martines day 3  XII ALBERTUS succeedeth Heraclius Spond   9 19 6 9 2 6 OTHO the fourth 1 11 20 Simon Earl of Montfort cometh into Palestine and maketh a profitable peace 4     10 20 7 1200 3 7 2 JOHN his Br. 1 21 5     II. OTTO Kerpin 1 21 8 1 4 8 3 2 22 6     2 22 9 2 5 ISAACIUS again with ALEXIUS his S. 9 4 3 23 7. VOYAGE under Baldwine Earl of Flandres but by the Pope diverted against the Grecian usurping Emperour 7   XI GOTâ—RIDUS de Dnyjon  3 23 10 3 6 BALDWINE Earl of Flandres 1 5 4 24 8     4 24 11 4 7 2 6 5 25 1 INTERREGNUM of 5 years Almerick dieth of a surfet according to Marinus Sanutus 9  He perfecteth and writeth a Rule to the Carmelites Idem   5 25 12 5 8 HENRY his Br. 1 7 6 26 2 10    Leo King of Armenia restoreth to the Templars what he had violently taken from them 6 26 13 6 9 2 8 7 27 3 The Holy warre turned against the Albingenses in France 11     III. HERMANNUS Bart. 1 27 14 7 10 3 9 8 28 4 12     2 28 1 MELADINE as most compute succeedeth his father Saphadiâ—e in Egypt 15 8 11 4 10 9 29 5 Almerick for his lazinesse deposed by the Pope dieth soon after 13     3 29 2 16 9 12 5 11 10 30 JOHN BREN made King of Jerusalem by the Pope 1     4 30 3 17 1210 13 6 12 11 31 2  XIII THOMAS Aâ—â—â— Â Â IV. HERMANNUS a Salâ—za 1 31 4 18 1 14 7 13 12 32 3     2 32 5 19 2 15 8 FREDERICK the second 1 13 33 4   XII ALPHONâ—US de Portugallia  3 33 6 20 3 16 9 2 14 34 An army of children going to the Holy warre wofully perish by the way 5     4 34 7 21 4 17 10 3 15 35 6     5 35 8 22 1215 18 11 4 16 36 The great Laterane Councel to advance the Holy warre 7  He is present in the Laterane Councel to solicite the Holy warre XIII GOTHERIDUS de-la-Rat P. de Monte acuto 6 36 9 Saphadine according to M. Paris p. 404. dieth for grief that the fort nigh to Damiata was taken ☉ 23 6 M. 6 D. 9 PETER Earl of Auxerre 1 5 17 37 8. VOYAGE under Andrew King of Hungarie 8     7 37 10 24 7 HONORIUS the third 2 2 6 HENRY the third S. 1 38 9     8 38 11 25 8 3 3 7 2 39 Damiata beseiged 10    He fighteth stoutly with the rest of his Order at the taking of Damiata Mat. Paris pag. 409 419. 9 39 12 MALADINE 1 9 4 4 8 3 40 Damiata taken 11     10 40 13 2 1220 5 5 9 4 41 The Christians intrapped in water restore Damiata for their libertie and conclude an eight-yeares truce 12     11 41 14 Is wonderfully kind to the Christians half drowned in Egypt 3 1 6 ROBERT 1 10 5 42 13     12 42 15 4 2 7 2 11 6 43 14     13 43 16 5 3 8 3 12 7 He dieth 44 John Bren cometh into France and there receiveth rich legacies from Philip Augustus 15   60000 crownâ— bequeathed by the K. of Fr. to the Hospit Templars  14 44 17 6 4 9 4 13 8 LEWIS the eighth 1 16  XIIII GERALDUS  OLIVER 15 45 18 7 5 10 5 14 9 2 17   XIIII GUARINUS de Monâ—e acuto  16 TAHER S. 1 19 8 6 M. 8. 6 15 10 3 He is honourably entertained at Rome and resigneth his kingdome 18  A bitter enemy he was to Frederick the Emperour and sâ—ded with the Pope Templars against him   17 2 20 9 7 GREGORY the ninth 1 7 16 11 St LEWIS 1 FREDERICK by marriage of Iole Brens daughter 1     The Dutch
Ch. ABaga maketh cowards valiant 4 32 Abbeys how and why suppressed in England 5 6 7 8 Adamites against their will 3 20 Albingenses three opinions concerning them  18 their originall persecution nick-names  19 defended from crimes objected  20 commended by their adversaries  ibid. Alexius Emp. his treachery 1 15 causeth the Christians overthrow 2 9 his death and epitaph  14 Alexius Angelus the younger a princely begger 3 17 Almerick K. of Ierusalem his character 2 33 he helpeth the Sultan of Egypt  36 invadeth Egypt against promise  37 his death  ibid. Almerick the second 3 16 deposed for lazinesse  23 Almerick Patriarch of Antioch 2 26 Almerick Patriarch of Ierusalem  34 Andronicus a bad practiser of S. Paul 3 3 Antioch wonne by the Christians 1 17 betrayed by the Patr. to Saladine 3 1 recovered by the Duke of Suevia  4 finally lost to the Sultan of Egypt 4 26 Apostasie of many Christians in Europe upon K. Lewis captivity  17 Arms of Gentlemen deserved in this warre 5 23 Arnulphus the firebrand-Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 2 8 15 Assasines their strange commonweal  34 B BAldwine K. of Ierus his nature 2 7 be wins Antipatris Cesarea  10 his two voyages into Egypt his death  13 Baldwine the second chosen King  14 he is taken prisoner ransomed  17 he renounceth the world dieth  18 Baldwine the third his character 2 24 discord betwixt him his mother  31 he winneth Ascalon  32 his death and commendation  ibid. Baldwine the fourth  38 he conquereth Saladine  40 42 he is arrested with leprosie his death and praise  ibid. Baldwine the fifth poisoned by his mother  43 Baldwine Earl of Flanders Emperour of Constantinople 3 17 Theodore Balsamon how cousened 2 44 Battels at or neare Dogargan 1 16 Battels at or neare Antioch  17 Battels at or neare Askelon 2 3 Battels at or neare Rhamula  10 Battels at or neare Meander  28 Battels at or neare Tiberias  45 Battels at or neare Ptolemais 3 5 Battels at or neare Bethlehem  11 Battels at or neare Moret in France  22 Battels at or neare Gaza 4 7 Battels at or neare Tiberias  10 Battels at or neare Manzor in Egypt  15 Battels at or neare Manzor again  16 Bendocdar Sultan of Egypt 4 26 32 Bernard Patriarch of Antioch 2 2 An apologie for S. Bernard 2 30 Biblianders wild fansie 1 10 Bishops numerous in Palestine 2 2 Boemund prince of Antioch 1 17 he is taken prisoner 2 3 he wasteth Grecia  11 Boemund the second  18 Boemund the third  36 C  B. Ch. CAliphs their voluptuousnesse 2 22 36 Calo-Iohannes Grecian Emper.  21 Carmelites their originall luxury and banishment  26 Carthage described 4 27 Chalices in England why of latten 3 13 Charatux one of the wisest men in the world  4 Charles Earl of Anjou K. of Ierusal 4 25 he dieth for grief  31 Charles the second surnamed the Delayer  ibid. Children marching to Ierusalem wofully perish 3 24 Choermines their obscure originall 4 9 and finall suppression  10 Clerks no fit Captains 2 9 5 14 Clermont Councel 1 8 Climate how it altereth health 5 15 Conferences betwixt opposite parties in religion never succeed 3 21 Conrade Emperour of Germanie his unfortunate voyage 2 27 he conquereth the Turks  28 Conrade of Montferrat K. of Ierus 3 1 he is miserably slain  10 Conversions of Pagans hindred by Christians badnesse 2 34 4 12 how it must orderly and solemnly be done  22 Edmund Crouchback not crooked  26 D  B. Ch. DAbertus Patriarch of Ierusal 2 2 he scuffleth with the Kings for that city dies in banishment  5 7 8 Damascus described  29 in vain besieged by the Christians  ibid. Damiata twice taken by the Christians and twice surrendred 3 25 27 4 13 18 Danish service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Drunkennesse wofully punished 3 16 A Duell declined 2 1 Duells forbidden by S t Lewis 4 27 E EBremarus Patriarch of Ierusal 2 8 Prince Edward his voyage 4 26 he is desperately wounded and recovereth  29 Elianor Qu. of France playeth false with her husband 2 28 Elianor wife to Prince Edward her unexampled love to her husband 4 26 Elhadach Caliph of Egypt 2 36 Emmanuel Emperour of Greece  27 Engines before guns 1 24 English service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Equality of undertakers ruineth this Holy warre  13 Eustace refuseth the kingdome 2 14 F  B. Ch. FAith-breaking the cause of the Christians overthrow 2 37 5 11 Fames incredible swiftnesse 1 8 The strength of imaginarie Fear 3 5 Forts make some countreys weaker 3 4 Franks how ancient in the East 5 21 Fred. Barbarossa his unhappy voyage 3 3 his wofull drowning  4 Frederick the second K. of Ierusalem his disposition 3 29 4 20 his grapplings with the Pope 3 30 4 1 his death and posteritie  20 French service in this warre 1 13 5 21 Fulcher Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 25 Fulk King of Ierusalem  19 23 G GAlilee described 1 19 Genoans atchievements in this warre 2 10 Germane service in this warre 1 13 5 21 Germane Nobility numerous  ibid. S t George 1 17 Gibellines and Guelfes 4 1 Godfrey King of Ierusalem 2 1 his vertuous vice  ibid. his death  6 a Goose carried by the Pilgrimes to Ierusalem 1 10 Greek Church rent from the Latine 4 4 on what occasion  ibid. wherein it dissenteth  5 what charitably is to be thought of them  ibid. what hope of reconcilement  6 Guarimand Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 15 Guy King of Ierusalem  43 he is taken prisoner  45 he exchangeth his Kingdome for Cyprus 3 10 H  B. Ch. HAalon Cham of Tartarie 4 22 26 Helen no Ostleresse 1 4 Henry E. of Champaigne K. of Ierus 3 11 his wofull death  15 Henry Earl of Mechlenburgh his long captivity late deliverance 4 30 Henry the fourth K. of England his intended voyage to Ierusalem 5 24 Heraclius the vitious Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 39 Holy fraud 1 17 Holy warre arguments for it 1 9 arguments against it  10 unlikely again to be set on foot 5 27 Hugh King of Ierusalem and Cyprus 4 25 I JAmes IV K. of Scotland hath some intentions for Ierusalem 5 24 Ianizaries their present insolencie 5 29 Ierusalem destroyed by Titus 1 1 rebuilt by Adrian  2 largely described  23 wonne by the Christians under Godfrey  24 lost to Saladine 2 46 recovered by Frederick the Emp. 3 31 finally wonne by the Choermines 4 9 her present estate at this day 5 26 Iews their wofull present condition 1 3 the hindrance of their conversion  ibid. Interviews of Princes dangerous 3 6 Iohn Bren K. of
second Alice married to young Boemund Prince of Antioch the third Hodiern wife to Reimund Prince of Tripoli and Mete the youngest Abbesse of Bethanie Chap. 19. Of Fulco the fourth King of Ierusalem FUlco Earl of Tours Mam and Anjou coming some three yeares before on pilgrimage to Jerusalem there took in marriage Millesent the Kings daughter He had assigned to him the city of Tyre and some other princely accommodations for his present maintenance and the Kingdome after the death of his father in law which he received accordingly He was welnigh 60 yeares old And by his first wife he had a sonne Geffrey Plantagenet Earl of Anjou to whom he left his lands in France and from whom our Kings of England are descended This Fulco was a very valiant man able both of body and mind His greatest defect was a weak memory though not so bad as that of Messala Corvinus who forgot his own name insomuch that he knew not his own servants and those whom he even now preferred were presently after strangers unto him Yet though he had a bad memory whilest he lived he hath a good one now he is dead and his vertues are famous to posteritie Chap. 20. The Church-story during this Kings reigne The remarkable ruine of Rodolphus Patriarch of Antioch THe Church of Jerusalem yeelded no alterations in the reigne of Fulco But in Antioch there was much stirre who should succeed Bernard that peaceable long-lived man who sat 36 yeares and survived eight Patriarchs of Jerusalem Now whilest the Clergie were tedious in their choice the Laity was too nimble for them and they thinking it equall to have an hand in making who must have their arms in defending a Patriarch clapped one Rodolphus of noble parentage into the chair He presently took his pall off from the altar of S. Peter thereby sparing both his purse and pains to go to Rome and acknowledging no other superiour then that Apostle for his patrone This man was the darling of the Gentry and no wonder if they loved him who was of their cloth and making but hated of the Clergie Wherefore knowing himself to need strong arms who was to swim against the stream he wrought himself into the favour of the Princesse of Antioch the widow of young Boemund so that he commanded all her command and beat down his enemies with her strength He promised to make a marriage betwixt her and Reimund Earl of Poictou a Frenchman of great fame who was coming into these parts but he deceived her and caused the Earl to marry Constantia the daughter of this Lady by whom he had the principality of Antioch Indeed this Constantia was but a child for age but they never want yeares to marry who have a Kingdome for their portion The Patriarch to make firre work bound Prince Reimund by an oath to be true to him But friends unjustly gotten are seldome comfortably enjoyed Of his sworn friend he proved his sworn enemy and forced him to go up to Rome there to answer many accusations laid to his charge wherein the ground-work perchance was true though malice might set the varnish on it The main matter was that he made odious comparisons betwixt Antioch and Rome and counted himself equall to his Holinesse Rodolphus coming to Rome found the Popes doores shut against him but he opened them with a golden key Money he sowed plentifully and reaped it when he came to be tried for he found their hands very soft towards him whom formerly he had greased in the fist He also resigned his old pall and took a new one from the Pope As for his other crimes it was concluded that Albericus Bishop of Ostia should be sent into Syria the Popes Legate to examine matters and to proceed accordingly with the Patriarch as things there should be found alledged and proved Whereat his adversaries much stormed who expected that he should instantly have been deposed Yet afterwards they prevailed mightily with Albericus the Legate and bowed him on their side He coming to Antioch cited the Patriarch to appear who being thrice called came not On his absence all were present with their conjectures what should cause it Some imputing it to his guiltinesse others to his contempt others to his fear of his enemies potencie or judges partiality for indeed the Legate came not with a virgin-judgement but ravished with prejudice being prepossessed with this intent to dispossesse him of his place Some thought he relied on his peace formerly made at Rome where the illegality of his election was rectified by his laying down his first pall and assuming a new one from the Pope Here was it worth the beholding in what severall streams mens affections ran All wished that the tree might be felled who had hopes to gather chips by his fall and especially one Arnulphus and Dean Lambert the promoters against the Patriarch Others pitied him and though perchance content that his roof might be taken down were loth he should be razed to the ground Some reserved their affections till they were counselled by the event which side to favour and would not be engaged by any manifest declaration but so that they might fairly retreat if need required Amongst other Prelates which were present Serlo Archbishop of Apamea was one who formerly had been a great enemy to the Patriarch but had lately taken himself off from that course The Legate demanded of him why he proceeded not to accuse the Patriarch as he was wont To whom he answered What formerly I did was done out of unadvised heat against the health of my soul discovering the nakednesse of my father like to cursed Cham and now God hath recalled me from mine errour so that I will neither accuse nor presumptuously judge him but am ready to die for his safety Hereupon the Legate immediately such was the martiall law in a Church-man deposed him from his Archbishoprick Little hope then had the Patriarch who saw himself condemned in his friend and he himself followed not long after being thrust out by violence cast into prison and there long kept in chains till at last he made an escape to Rome intending there to traverâ—e his cause again had not death occasioned by poison as is thought prevented him Chap. 21. Calo-Iohannes the Grecian Emperour demandeth Antiochia Reimund the Prince thereof doeth homage to him for it CAlo-Johannes the Grecian Emperour came up with a vast army of horse and foot and demanded of Reimund Prince of Antioch to resigne unto him that whole Signorie according to the composition which the Christian Princes made with Alexius his father Hereat Reimund and all the Latines stormed out of measure Had they purchased the inheritance of the land with their own bloud now to turn tenants at will to other Some pleaded That the ill usage of Alexius extorted from Godfrey and the rest of the Pilgrimes that agreement and an oath made by force is
handsomenesse preferred to be Patriarch William Archbishop of Tyre was violent against his election because of a prophesie That as Heraclius King of Persia wonne so an Heraclius should lose the Crosse. But others excepted that this exception was nothing worth For let God give the man and let the devil set the name As for those blind prophesies they misse the truth ofter then hit it so that no wise man will lean his belief on so slender a prop. But Heraclius had a worse name then his name the bad report of his vitious life keeping a Vintners wife whom he maintained in all state like an Empresse and owned the children he had by her Her name Pascha de Rivera and she was generally saluted The Patriarchesse His example infected the inferiour clergie whose corruption was a sad presage of the ruine of the realm For when Prelates the Seers when once those eye-strings begin to break the heart-strings hold not out long after In his time the Maronites were reconciled to the Romane Church Their main errour was the heresie of the Monothelites touching one onely will and action in Christ. For after that the heresie of Nestorius about two persons in our Saviour was detested in the Eastern Churches some thought not themselves safe enough from the heresie of two persons till they were fallen with the opposite extremity of one nature in Christ violence making men reel from one extreme to another The errour once broched found many embracers As no opinion so monstrous but if it hath had a mother it will get a nurse But now these Maronites renouncing their tenents received the Catholick faith though soon after when Saladine had conquered their countrey they relapsed to their old errours wherein they continued till the late times of Pope Gregory the thirteenth and Clement the eighth when they again renewed their communion with the Romane Church They live at this day on mount Libanus not exceeding twelve thousand households and pay to the great Turk for every one above twelve yeares old seventeen sultanines by the yeare and for every space of ground sixteen spanne square one sultanine yearly to keep themselves free from the mixture of Mahometanes A sultanine is about seven shillings six pence of our money To return to Heraclius Soon after he was sent Embassadour to Henry the second King of England to crave his personall assistance in the Holy warre delivering unto him the Royall standard with the keyes of our Saviours sepulchre the towre of David and the city of Jerusalem sent him by King Baldwine King Henry was singled out for this service before other Princes because the world justly reported him valiant wise rich powerfull and fortunate And which was the main hereby he might expiate his murder and gather up again the innocent bloud which he had shed of Thomas Becket Besides Heraclius entituled our Henry to the kingdome of Jerusalem because Geoffrey Plantagenet his father was sonne some say brother to Fulk the fourth King of Jerusalem But King Henry was too wise to bite at such a bait wherein was onely the husk of title without the kernel of profit Yet he pretended he would go into Palestine and got hereby a masse of money towards his voyage making every one as well Clerk as Lay saving such as went to pay that yeare the tenth of all their revenues moveables and chattells as well in gold as in silver Of every citie in England he chose the richest men as in London two hundred in York an hundred and so in proportion and took the tenth of all their moveables by the estimation of credible men who knew their estates imprisoning those which refused to pay sub eleemosynae titulo vitium rapacitatis includans saith Walsingham But now when he had filled his purse all expected he should fulfill his promise when all his voyage into Palestine turned into a journey into France Heraclius whilest he stayed in England consecrated the Temple-church in the suburbs of London and the house adjoyning belonging to the Templars since turned to a better use for the students of our municipall Law these new Templars defending one Christian from another as the old ones Christians from Pagans Chap. 40. Saladine fitteth himself with forrein forces The originall and great power of the Mammalukes with their first service IN the minority of King Baldwine who was but thirteen yeares old Milo de Plancia Noble-man was Protectour of the Realm Whose pride and insolence could not be brooked and therefore he was stabbed at Ptolemais and Reimund Count of Tripoli chosen to succeed him Now Saladine seriously intendeth to set on the Kingdome of Jerusalem and seeketh to furnish himself with souldiers for that service But he perceived that the ancient nation of the Egyptians had lasted so long that now it ranne dregs their spirits being as low as the countrey they lived in and they fitter to make merchants and mechanicks then military men For they were bred in such soft imployments that they were presently foundred with any hard labour Wherefore he sent to the Circassians by the lake of Meotis neare Taurica Chersonesus and thence bought many slaves of able and active bodies For it was a people born in a hard countrey no fewel for pleasure grew there nor was brought thither and bred harder so that warre was almost their nature with custome of continuall skirmishing with the neighbouring Tartars These slaves he trained up in military discipline most of them being Christians once baptized but afterwards untaught Christ they learned Mahomet and so became the worse foes to religion for once being her friends These proved excellent souldiers and speciall horsemen and are called Mammalukes And surely the greatnesse of Saladine and his successours stood not so much on the legs of their native Egyptians as it leaned on the staff of these strangers Saladine and especially the Turkish Kings after him gave great power and placed much trust in these Mammalukes Who lived a long time in ignorance of their own strength till at last they took notice of it and scorning any longer to be factours for another they would set up for themselves and got the sovereignty from the Turkish Kings Thus Princes who make their subjects over-great whet a knife for their own throats And posterity may chance to see the insolent Janizaries give the grand Seignor such a trip on the heel as may tumble him on his back But more largely of these Mammalukes usurping the kingdome of Egypt God willing in its proper place Thus Saladine having furnished himself with new souldiers went to handsel their valour upon the Christians invaded the Holy land burning all the countrey before him and raging in the bloud of poore Christians till he came and encamped about Askelon Mean time whilest Reimund Count of Tripoli Protectour of the Kingdome with Philip Earl of Flanders the chief strength of the Kingdome were absent in Celosyria wasting the countrey about
and famine had pleased to spare Hence the Templars conducted them to Gaza where they fell on forraging the countrey of the Sultan assaulting no places which were of strength or honour to subdue but onely spoiled poore villages which counted themselves walled with the truce as yet in force Abundance of wealth they got and were now late returning home when after their plentifull supper a deare sharp reckoning was called for Behold the Turks in great numbers fell upon them neare unto Gaza and the Christians down with their bundles of spoil and out with their swords bravely defending themselves till such time as the night parted the fray Here they committed a great errour and as one may say a neglect in over-diligence for in stead of reposing themselves to rest and appointing a set watch they all lay in a manner Perdues no one slumbering all night but attending their enemies contrary to the rules of an armie which with Argus should never have all its eyes wake or sleep together Next morning when the Turks whose numbers were much increased set upon them alas they being but few to many faint to fresh were not able to make any forcible resistance Yet what they could not pay in present they pawned their lives for and their arms being too weak for their hearts they were rather killed then conquered Earl Henry was slain Almerick taken prisoner the King of Navarre escaped by the swiftnesse of his Spanish gennet which race for their winged speed the Poets feigned to be begot of the wind Mean time the other Christians looked on and saw their brethren slaughtered before their eyes and yet though they were able to help them were not able to help them their hands being tied with the truce and Reinoldus charging them no way to infringe the peace concluded with the Sultan Hereupon many cursed him as the Christians cut-throat he as fast condemned the King of Navarre and his army for breaking the truce And though the Papall faction pleaded that the former peace concluded not these late adventurers and that it was onely made with Frederick the Emperour yet he representing the whole body of Christianity all the bundle of their shifts could not piece out a satisfactory answer but that they were guilty of faith-breaking Home hastened the King of Navarre with a small retinue clouding himself in privatenesse as they actour who cometh off with the dislike of the spectatours stealeth as invisibly as he may into the tiring-house Expectation that friendly foe did him much wrong and his performance fell the lower because men heightened their looking for great matters from him Chap. 8. Richard Earl of Cornwall saileth to the Holy land His performance there and the censure thereof FIfteen dayes after the departure of Theobald Richard Earl of Cornwall brother to Henry the third then King of England landed at Ptolemais This Prince was our English Crassus or Croesus Cornwall was his Indies where he turned tinne into gold and silver So well-moneyed he was that for ten yeares together he might for every day expend an hundred marks So that England never since had together a poorer King and a richer Subject Before he began his voyage he craved a subsidie of prayers from the Monks of S. Albanes Yea scarce was there any Covent appearing for piety to whose devotions he recommended not himself counting that ship to sail the surest which is driven with the breath of godly mens prayers Theodoricus Lord Prior of the English Hospitallers with many other Barons and brave souldiers attending him passed through France and was there honourably entertained by King Lewis Being come to the Mediterranean sea the Popes Legate brought him a flat countermand that he must go no further but instantly return Richard at first was astonished hereat but quickly his anger got the mastery of his amazement and he fell on fuming Was this Christs Vicar Unlike was he to him who was thus unlike to himself who would say and unsay solemnly summon then suddenly cashier his Holy souldiers This was deluding of peoples devotions with false alarms to make them put their armour on to put it off again As for his own self he had vowed this voyage his honour and treasure was ingaged therein and the Pope should not blast his settled resolutions with a breath his ships were manned victualled and sailing forward and in such great actions the setting forth is more then half the journey All know his Holinesse to be too wary an archer to shoot away his arrows at nothing He had a mark herein a plot in this restraint but that too deep for others to fathom It could not be this To make this rich Earl a fish worth angling for to commute his voyage into money and to buy a dispensation of his Holinesse to stay at home as formerly he had served many meaner Pilgrimes Surely though the Popes covetousnesse might have prompted his wisdome would have disswaded him from a project spunne with so course a threed On saileth Earl Richard and safely arriveth at Ptolemais where he is well welcomed especially by the Clergie solemnly singing Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. He proclaimed No Christian should depart for want of pay for he would entertain any and give them good wages that would do work in this warre But he found the Christians there shivered into severall factions and the two great Orders Hospitallers and Templars two great confusions of the Holy cause Of these the Hospitallers were the seniors in standing their originall being dated eighteen yeares before the Templars and therefore challenged superiority But that which made the younger brother so brisk was that he was his fathers darling The Templars in all their broils had support from the Pope because the others were suspected to have a smack of the Imperiall faction This made them active daring offering of affronts And what countrey-men soever the Templars were they were alwayes Italians that is true to the Triple Crown These being madded with ambition were the more outragious for their â—igh fare their great revenues and deserved to be dieted with a poorer pittance except they would have used their strength better Our Earl knew to please one side would certainly displease the other and to please both would probably please neither Wherefore he managed his matters entirely to himself without relating to either of the parties taking no ground of their giving but bowling at the publick good by the aim of his own eye The Sultans in Syria for the Turkish power there was divided into severall Sultanies as those of Damascus Cracci Seisser but Babylon the chiefest hearing of Richards preparations profered peace unto him But whilest as yet the conditions were in suspense Richard fortified Askelon in all the bunch there was not a better key or harbour of more importance not onely to strength but state with marble pillars and statues though the silent ruines thereof at
the speedy withering of their religion argueth it wanted root And as tame foxes if they break loose and return wild do ten times more mischief then those which were wild from the beginning so these renegadoes raged more furiously then any Pagans against religion Guirboca sacrificed many Christians to the ghost of his nephew destroyed Cesarea and burnt it using all cruelty against the inhabitants Nor lesse were the Christians plagued at the same time with Bendocdar the Mammaluke Prince in Egypt who succeeded Melechem and every where raging against them either killed or forced them to forswear their religion The city of Joppa he took and burned and then wonne Antioch slaying therein twenty thousand and carrying away captive an hundred thousand Christians But it may justly be suspected that these numbers were written first in figures and therefore at too much length when the adding of nothing may increase many thousands These wofull tidings brought into Europe so wrought on the good disposition of Lewis King of France that he resolved to make a second voyage into Palestine to succour the Christians He so fixed his mind on the journeys end that he saw not the dangers in the way His Counsel could not disswade though they did disswade him First they urged That he was old let younger men take their turns They recounted to him his former ill successe How lately had that hot countrey scorched the lilies of France not onely to the blasting of the leaves but almost withering of the root Besides the sinews of the Christians in Syria were so shrunk that though lifted up they could not stand That Nature decayed but not thus wholly destroyed was the subject of physick That the Turks had got a habit of conquering and riveted themselves into the possession of the countrey so that this voyage would but fleet the cream of the Kingdome to cast it into the fire But as a vehement flame maketh feuel of whatsoever it meeteth so this Kings earnest resolution turned bridles into spurres and hindrances into motives to his journey Was he old let him make the more speed lest envious death should prevent him of this occasion of honour Had he sped ill formerly he would seek his credit where he lost it Surely Fortunes lottery had not all blanks but that after long drawing he should light on a prize at last Were the Christians in so low a case the greater need they had of speedy help Thus was this good Kings judgement over-zealed And surely though Devotion be the naturall heat Discretion which wanted in him is the radicall moisture of an action keeping it healthfull prosperous and long-lived Well King Lewis will go and to this end provideth his navie and is accompanied with Philip and Tristram his sonnes Theobald King of Navarre his sonne in law Alphonse his brother and Guido Earl of Flandres There went also Edward eldest sonne to Henry King of England It was a wonder he would now adventure his head when he was to receive a Crown his father being full-ripe to drop down without gathering having reigned longer then most men live fifty and five yeares But thirsty was this Edward of honour Longshanks was he called and as his strides were large so vast and wide was the extent of his desire As for his good father he was content to let go the staff of his age for to be a prop to the Church And though King Lewis was undiscreet in going this journey he was wise in choosing this his companion to have this active Prince along with him it being good to eye a suspicious person and not to leave him behind With Edward went his brother Edmund Earl of Lancaster surnamed Crouch-back not that he was crook-shouldered or camel-backed From which our English Poet most zealously doth vindicate him Edmund like him the comeliest Prince alive Not crook-back'd ne in no wise disfigured As some men write the right line to deprive Though great falshood made it to be scriptured but from the Crosse anciently called a Crouch whence Crouched Friars which now he wore in his voyage to Jerusalem And yet it maketh it somewhat suspicious that in Latine records he is never read with any other epithet then Gibbosus But be he crooked or not let us on straight with our story Chap. 27. King Lewis besiegeth the city of Tunis His death and commendation LEwis now having hoised up sail it was concluded by the generall consent of his Counsel That to secure and clear the Christians passage to Palestine from pirates they should first take the city of Carthage in Africa by the way This Carthage long wrestled with Rome for the sovereignty and gave as many foils as she took till Scipio at last crushed out her bowels with one deadly fall Yet long after the citie stood before wholly demolished to be a spurre to put metall into the Romanes and to be a forrein mark for their arrows lest otherwise they should shoot against themselves At last by the counsel of Cato it was quite destroyed who alledged That it was not safe to have a knife so neare their throat and though good use might be made of an enemy at arms end yet it was dangerous to have him too close to ones side as Carthage was within a dayes sail from Rome Out of the ruines of this famous citie Tunis arose as often a stinking elder groweth out of the place where an oak hath been felled Theeving was their trading but then as yet they were Apprentises to piracie whereof at this day they are grown Masters Yea not considerable was Tunis then in bignesse great onely in mischief But as a small scratch just upon the turning of a joynt is more troublesome then a bigger sore in another place so this paltry town the refuge of rogues and wanderers home seated in the passage betwixt Europe Asia and Africa was a worse annoyance to Christian traffick then a whole countrey of Saracens elsewhere Wherefore both to revenge the bloud of many Christians who passing this way to Palestine were either killed or taken captive as also to secure the way for the time to come Lewis with his whole fleet augmented with the navy of Charles King of Sicilie and Jerusalem his brother bent his course to besiege it It was concluded both unnecessary and unfitting first in a fair way to summon the city because like pernicious vermine they were to be rooted out of the world by any means nor was it meet to lavish the solemn ceremonies of warre on a company of theeves and murderers The siege was no sooner begun but the plague seised on the Christian armie whereof thousands died amongst others Tristram King Lewis his sonne And he himself of a flux followed after This Lewis was the French Josiah both for the piety of his life and wofulnesse of his death ingaging himself in a needlesse warre Many good laws he made for his Kingdome that not the worst He first retrenched
this mark ☉ which reduceth it to the yeare it endeth in Br. standeth for Brother S. Sonne M. Moneths D. Dayes Note whilest there were Caliphs of Egypt then the Sultans were but Deputies and Lieutenants but afterwards the Mamaluke Sultans were absolute Princes acknowledging no Superiour A Chronologicall Table Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Caliphs of Syria Caliphs of Egypt 1095 URBANE the second 8 ALEXIUS COMâ—ENê° 15 HENRY the fourth 40 WILLIAM RUFUS 8 PHILIP the first 36 The Councel of Clermont foundeth the Holy Warre     MUSTETAHER 1 MUSTRAL 1 6 9 16 41 9 37 1. VOYAGE under GODFREY Duke of Bouillon     2 2 7 10 17 42 10 38 Nice wonne by the Christians     3 3 8 11 18 43 11 39 Antioch wonne by the Christians BOEMUND 1    4 4 9 M. 4 D. 18 19 44 12 40 Jerusalem wonne by the Christians 2    5 5 1100 PASCHAL the second 2 20 45 13 41 GODFREY King of Jerusalem 1 He is taken captive â—ancred manageth the State in his absence 3 BERNARD 1 1. ARNULPHUS M. 5 â— GERARD 1 6 6 1 3 21 46 HENRY the first 1 42 BALDWINE his brother 2. VOYAGE under severall Princes Prelates 1 Cesaria wonne by the Christians 4 2 II. DABERTUS He stickleth for Jerusalem to get it from the King 1 2 7 ELAMIR S. 1 2 4 22 47 2 43 Apamia Laodicea wonne by the Christians 2 5 3 2 3 8 2 3 5 23 48 3 44 3 Boemund ransomed 6 4 3 II. REIMUND le Podio 1 9 3 4 6 24 49 4 45 Ptolemais wonne by the Christians 4 He unfortunately besiegeth Charâ—as 7 5 Flieth to Antioch 4 2 10 4 5 7 25 M. 10 5 46 5 Travelleth into France 8 6 III. EBREMARUS put in by the King displaced by the Pope 1 Thence to Rome 5 3 11 5 6 8 26 HENRY the fifth 1 6 47 6 9 7 2 6 4 12 6 7 9 27 2 7 48 7 Returneth and wasteth Grecia with his navie 10 8 3 Dieth in Sicily 7 5 13 7 8 10 28 3 8 49 8 11 9 IV. GIâ—ELLINUS Archbishop of Arles 1 6 14 8 9 11 29 4 9 LEWIS the Grosse 2 Tripolis wonne by the Christians 9 BOEMUND the second S. â—et a child and living in Apulia in whose minoritie first Tancred then Roger his kinsman were Princes in trust 1 10 2 7 15 9 1110 12 30 5 10 3 Berytus Sidon wonne by the Christians 10 2 11 3 8 16 10 1 13 31 6 11 4 11 3 12 4 9 17 11 2 14 32 7 12 5 12 4 13 V. ARNULPHUS Archdeacon of Jerusalem 1 10 18 12 3 15 33 8 13 6 13 5 14 2 11 19 13 4 16 34 9 14 7 14 6 15 3 12 20 14 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Caliphs of Syria Caliphs of Egypt 1115 17 35 10 15 8 15 7 16 4 13  21 15 6 18 36 11 16 9 16 8 17 5 14  22 16 7 M. 5 D. 9 37 12 17 10 Baldwines voyages into Egypt 1. when he took Pharamia 17 9 18 He is accused for his wicked life posteth to Rome and there buyeth to be innocent 6 15  23 17 8 GELASIUS 1 D. 5. CALO JOHANNES S. 1 13 18 11 Baldwines voyages into Egypt 2. when he got his death 18 10 19 7 16  MUSTERASâ—MAD 1 18 9  2 14 19 12 BALDVVINE the second his kinsman 1 Roger fighting unadvisedly with the Turks is slain ☉ 11 20 VI. GUARIMUNDê° of Amiens 1 17 HUOâ— de Pagahis GODFRID of S. Omars 1 2 19 1120 CALIXTUS the second 2 3 15 20 13 2 12 21 2 18 2 3 20 1 3 4 16 21 14 3 13 22 3 19 3 4 21 2 4 5 17 22 15 He fighteth on disadvantage with the Turks and is taken captive 4 14 23 4 20 These first nine yeares there were but nine Templars 4 5 22 3 5 6 18 23 16 5 15 24 5 21 5 6 23 4 M. 10 D. 13 7 M. 9 24 17 He is dearly ransomed Tyre taken by the Christians 6 16 25 6 22 6 7 24 5 HONORIUS the second 2 8 LOTHARIUS the Saxon 1 25 18 Baldwine getteth so much spoil from the conquered Turks as serveth to pay his ransome 7 Boemund now of age cometh to Antioch marrieth King Baldwines daughter 17 26 7 23 7 RAâ—CHID S. afterwards deposed by the WISEMAN of the Ismaâ—lites 1 25 6 3 9 2 26 19 8 18 27 8 24 8 2 26 7 4 10 3 27 20 9 19 28 9 25 The Order of the Templars confirmed by the Pope and a Councel 9 3 27 8 5 11 4 28 21 10 20 29 VII STEPHANUS suspected to have been poysoned by the King 1 26 10  28 9 M. 2 D. 3 12 5 29 22 11 21 30 2 27 EVERARDê° master of the Templars to whom Peâ—er Cleniacensis writ a book in praise of this Order 1  29 1130 INNOCENTIUS the second 1 13 6 30 23 12 He is surprised and slain in Cilicia 22 31 VIII WILLIAM Prior of the Sepulchre 1 28 2  30 1 2 14 7 31 24 13 Alice the Relict of Boemund Princesse Regent in the minoritie of Constantia her daughter 1 32 2 29 3  31 2 3 15 8 32 25 FULK Earl of Anjou in right of Millecent his wife eldest daughter to K. Baldvvine 1 2 33 3 30 4  32 3 4 16 9 33 26 2 3 34 4 31   33 4 5 17 10 34 27 3 4 35 5 32   34 1135 6 18 11 35 28 4 5 36 6 33  MUCTAPHIL S. to Mustetaher 1 35 6 7 19 12 STEâ—HEN the Usurper 1 29 5 REIMUND Earl of Poictou in right of Constantia his wife He acknowledgeth himself vassall to the Grecian Emperour and resigneth Cilicia to him 1 RODULPHUS chosen Patriarch by the Laitie 1 7 34  2 ELHAPHIT S. In the 20 yeare of his reigne he was killed by one Nosradine Vide Tyr. lib. 18. cap. 49. Calvis in Anno 1156. 1 7 8 20 13 2 30 6 2 2 8 35  3 2 8 9 21 CONRADUS the third 1 3 LEWIS the seventh or the Younger 1 7 3 3 9 36 ROBERT of Burgundie Tyr. lib. 15 c 6 4 3 9 10 22 2 4 2 8 4 4 10 37  5 4 1140 11 23 3 5 3 9 5 5 11 38  6 5 1 12 24 4 6 4 10 6 6 12 39  7 6 2 13 M. 7 5 7 5 BALDWINE the third S. Edessa wonne by Sanguine from the Christians 1 7 ALMERICUS 1 13 40  8 7 3 M. 7
D. 8 EMANUEL Comnenus S. 1 6 8 6 2 8 2 14 41  9 8 4 CELESTINE the second M. 5 2 7 9 7 3 9 3 15 42  10 9 5 LUOIUS the second M. 11 3 8 10 8 4 10 4 9. FULCHER Archbishop of Tyre 1 43  11 10 6 EUGENIUS the third 1 4 9 11 9 5 11 5 2 44  12 11 7 2 5 10 12 10 3. VOYAGE under Coâ—â—ade the Emperour Lewis King of France 6 He honourably entertaineth the K. of Fran. Is slain in battel by Noradine Tyr. lib. 17. c. 9 12 6 3 45  13 12 8 3 6 11 13 11 Damascus besieged in vain 7 13 7 4 46  14 13 9 4 7 12 14 12 Discords betvvixt Baldvvine and his mother Millecent 8 CONSTANTIA his wâ—â— Princesse 1 8 5 47 Gaza given to the Templars to defend BERNARD de Tâ—eellape 15 14 1150 5 8 13 15 13 9 2 9 6 48  16 15 1 6 9 14 16 14 10 3 10 7 49  17 16 2 7 10 FREDERICUS Barbarossa 1 17 15 11 4 11 8 50 The Templars with BERNARD their Master through their own covetousnesse slain at Askelon ☉ 18 17 3 M. 4 D. 12 ANASTASIUS the fourth 11 2 18 16 12 5 12 The Hospitallers rebel against the Patriarch deny to pay tithes 9 51  19 18 4 M. 4 D. 24 12 3 19 17 Baldwine taketh the citie of Askelon 13 RAINOLD of Castile marrieth Constantia and is Prince in her right ☉ 1 13 10 52  20 19 1155 ADRIAN the fourth 2 13 4 HENRY the second 1 18 14 He to despite the Grecian Emperour wasteth the island Cyprus 2 Almerick cruelly tormented for speaking against Fr. Reinolds marriage 14 In vain he crawleth to Rome to complain of them 11 53 BERYLAND de Blanchfort 1 21 20 6 3 14 5 2 19 15 3 15 12 54 2 22 EIHADACH 1 7 4 15 6 3 20 16 4 16 13 III. AUGERIUS de Balben He is taken prisoner Tyr. l. 18. c. 15 3 23 These Caliphs of Egypt are very difficult to regulate by Chronologie and are ever Heteroclites either deficient or redundant in the proportion of time consenting with other Princes Hitherto we have followed Helvicus now â—dhere to Tyrius lib. 19. cap. 19. lib. 20. cap. 12. 2 8 M. 8 D. 28 16 7 4 21 17 5 17 14  PHILIP of Naples 1 24 3 9 ALEXANDER the third 1 17 8 5 22 18 6 18 X. AMALRICUS Prior of the Sepulchre 1  Afterward he renounceth his place Tyr. lib. 20. c. 24. 2 25 4 1160 2 18 9 6 23 Order of the Carmelites first begun in Syria 19 7 19 2 IIII. ARNOLDUS de Campis 26 5 1 3 19 10 7 24 20 Reinold carried captive to Aleppo 8 20 3   MUSTENIGED 1 6 2 4 20 11 8 25 21 BOEMUND the third S. to Reimund 1 He prescribeth rules to the Carmelites 21 4   2 7 3 5 21 12 9 26 ALMERICK his Br. 1 2 22 5   3 8 4 6 22 13 10 27 2 3 23 6   4 9 5 7 23 14 11 28 3 4 24 7 V. GILBERTUS Assalit Who to get Pelusium for his own Order instigated K. Almerick contrary to his oath to invade Egypt 12 Templars hanged for traytours 5 Sanar Dirgon fight for the Sultany of Egypt 10 6 8 24 15 12 29 At the instance of Sultan Saner he goeth into Egypt and driveth out Syracon 4 He is conquered and taken prisoner ransometh himself 5 25 8  OTTO de Sancto Amando one that feared neither God nor man Tyr. lib. 21. c. 29. 6 11 7 9 25 16 13 30 Cesarea-Philippi lost 5 6 26 9   7 12 8 10 26 17 14 31 Almerick contrary to his promise invadeth Egypt 6 7 27 10   8 13 9 11 27 18 15 32 7 8 28 11   9 14 1170 12 28 19 16 33 He taketh a voyage into Grecia to visit the Emperour his kinsman 8 9 29 12   MUSTEZ 1 S. 1 15 1 13 29 20 17 34 9 10 30 13 VI. CASTUS  2 16 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Caliphs of Syria Turkish K. of Egypt 1172 14 30 21 18 35 10 11 31 14   3 SALADINE with his horsenace knocketh out the brains of Elhadach the last Turkish Caliph in Egypt Tyr. lib. 20. cap. 12. 3 15 31 22 19 36 11 12 32 15 VII JOBERTUS The Templars Safely kill the Embassadour of the Assasineâ— 4  4 16 32 23 20 37 BALDWINE the fourth 1 13 33 16  5  1175 17 33 24 21 38 2 14 34 17   6  6 18 34 25 22 39 William Marquesse of Montferrat marrieth Sibyll the Kings sister 3 15 35 18 VIII ROGER de Moris  7  7 19 35 26 23 40 Saladine shamefully conquered at Askelon 4 Reinold of Castile once Prince of Antioch ransomed from captivity 16 36 19   8 He getteth Damascus the whole Turkish kingdome in Syâ—ia Tyr. lib. 21. c. 6. in despite of Noradines sonne These great figures reckoÌ„ Saladines reigne of 16 yeares for so many Authours give him froÌ„ his seising of the kingdome of Damasc. But if we count his reigne from the killing of the Egyptian Caliph he began far sooner 1 8 20 36 27 24 41 5 17 37 20  ARNOLDUS de Troge Tyr. lib. 22. c. 7 9 2 9 21 37 28 25 42 Fatall jealousies betwixt the King and Reimund Prince of Tripoli for many yeares 6 18 38 21   10 3 1180 M. 11 D. 29 M. 5 ALEXIUS COMNENê° 1 29 26 PHILIP Augustus S. 1 7 Boemund by putting away Theodora his lawfull wife causeth much trouble in this State 19 39 22   NARZAI S. 1 4 1 LUCIUS the third 1 2 30 27 2 8 20 40 XI HERACLIUS Archbish. of Cesarea 1   2 5 2 2 ANDRONICUS S. 1 31 28 3 9 21 41 2   3 6 3 3 2 32 29 4 Baldwine disabled with leprosie retireth himself from managing the State 10 22 42 3   4 7 4 4 M. 11. 33 30 5 11 23 43 4  He dieth in an Embassie to the Princes in Europe 5 8 5 M. 3 D. 28 URBANE the third ISAACâ—US ANGELUS 1 34 31 6 BALDWINE the fifth after eight moneths poysoned 24 44 He travelleth into the West cometh into England consecrateth the Temple-church in LondoÌ„ returneth without any aid 5 He went with Heraclius into the West returneth GERARDUS RIDFORD 6 9 6 M. 10 D. 25 2 35 32 7 GUY de Lusignan in right of Sibyll his wife 1 25 Antioch by the Patriarch betrayed to Saladine ☉ 45 6   7 10 7 GREGORY the eighth M. 1. D. 27. 3 36 33 8 1
Knights under Hermannus their Master come unto Prusâ—ra yet so as many of them still remained in Syria 18 3 21 10 8 2 BALDWINE the second 1 17 12 2 2   XV. CERVIUS  19 4 22 11 9 3 2 18 13 3 9. VOYAGE under Frederick who crowned himself King of Jerusalem and concluding a ten-yeares truce returneth into Europe leaving Reinold Duke of Bavaria his Vice-Roy in Palestine 3    An inveterate enemie to Frederick whom be most spitefully and treacherously used 20  23 12 1230 4 3 19 14 4 4 The Pr. of Antioch dieth without lawfull issue    21  24 13 1 5 4 20 15 5 5   XVI BERTRANDUS de Campis  22  25 14 2 6 5 21 16 6 6 FREDERICK base S. to Fred. the Emp. is by Reinoldus Vice-roy of JerusaleÌ„ made Pr. of Antioch in spite of Henr. K. of Cyprus who claimed that place 1    23  26 15 3 7 6 22 17 7 7 2    24  27 16 4 8 7 23 18 8 8 3    25 MUâ—TENATZEâ— 28 17 1235 9 8 24 19 9 9 4    26  29 18 6 10 9 25 20 10 10 5    27  30 19 7 11 10 26 21 11 11 6    28  31 20 8 12 11 27 22 12 The former ten-yeares Truce expired Reinold concludeth another of the same term 12 7    29  32 21 9 13 12 28 23 13 10. VOYAGE under Theobald King of Navarre 13 8    30  33 22 1240 14 13 29 24 14 He is unfortunately overthrown in battel at Gaza 14 9    31  34 23 1 M. 5. CELESTINE the fourth D. 17. 14 30 25 15 11. VOYAGE under Richard Earl of Cornwall 15 10 XV. ROBERTUS  HERMANNUS Petragorinus M. Paris pag 726. V. CONRADE Landtgrave of Hassia 1  35 24 2 The See void 15 31 26 16 16 11  XVII PETRUS de Villebride  2  36 25 3 INNOCENTIUS the fourth 1 16 32 27 17 17 12    3  37 26 4 2 17 33 28 18 The Coraâ—ines conquer the Christians and sack Jerusalem 18 13 He was in the battel against the Corasines as appeareth in M. Paris where he writeth a bemoning letter taken captive by the Corasines M. Paris pag. 833. All the Templars slain to eighteen the Hospitallers to nineteen the Dutch Knights to three 4  38 27 5 3 18 34 29 19 19 14  XVIII GUILIELMUS de Castello novo M. Paris pag. 836.  5  39 28 6 4 19 35 30 20 20 15    6  40 29 7 5 20 36 31 21 12. VOYAGE under S. Lewis King of France 21 The Antiochians fighting unadvisedly with the Turks are overthrown 16    7  He dieth at Damiata's taking 30 8 6 21 37 32 22 He arriveth in Cyprus there wintereth 22     8  MELECHSALA S. 1 9 7 22 38 33 23 taketh Damiata beateth the Saracens 23     9  2 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Great ChaÌ„s of Tartary Mammaluke Sultans of Egypt 1250 8 23 INTERREGNUM of 23 yeares wherein there were many Competitours for the Empire 1 34 24 Robert Earl of Artois slain Lewis taken prisoner INTERREGNUM of 14 yeares 1  The Patriarch of Jerusalem was taken prisoner with the King of France Magdeburg Cent. 13. col 697. All the Hospitallers with their Master slain to one All the Templars with their Master slain to two 10   TARQUEMINUS 1 1 9 24 2 35 25 The Pastorells overthrown in France 2   XIX HUGO REVEL He â—ade a statute whereby women were admitted into this Order  11   2 2 10 25 3 36 26 King Lewis being ransomed cometh into Palestine recovereth and fortifieth Sidone 3 CONRADE S. to Frederick Prince of Antioch    12   3 3 11 26 4 37 27 returneth into France 4     VI. POPPO 1  MANGO perswaded by Haito K. of Armenia to tâ—rn Christian. 1 4 4 M. 5 D. 14 27 5 38 28 5     2  2  Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Great ChaÌ„s of Tartary Mammaluke Sultans of Egypt 1255 ALEXANDER the fourth 2 28 6 39 29 6  XVI PANTALEON a Frenchman  3  3  6 3 29 7 40 30 7    4 MUSTEAZEM the last Caliph of Syria a covetous miser coÌ„quered by the Tartarians 1 4 MELECH otherwise called CLOTHES 7 4 30 8 41 31 8    5 2 Haalach Br. to Mango taketh the citie of Babylon 5  8 5 31 9 42 32 These 10 yeares following the Genoans fighting against the Venetians and Pisans hasten the ruine of the Christians in Palestine 9    6  6  9 6 32 10 43 33 10    7  7  1260 M. 5. D. 5 MICHAEL Palaeologus 1 11 44 34 11 Haalach the Tartarian cometh to Antioch is there kindly entertained by Prince Conrade   8  8 BENDOCDAR 1 1 URBANE the fourth 1 2 12 45 35 12  He is made Pope by the name of Urbane the fourth Platina  9  HAALACH succeedeth his Br. Mango 1 2 2 2 3 13 46 36 13    10  2 3 3 3 4 14 47 37 14    11  3 4 4 M. 1 D. 4 5 15 48 38 CHARLES Earl of Anjou by the Pope made King of Jerusalem and Siâ—ilia 1 Conrade cometh into Europe to succour Conradine his kinsman   12  ABAGA Cham his S. 1 He winneth the kingdome of Damascus from the Tartarian taketh Siphet killeth all that would not turn Mahometanes winneth Joppa 5 5 CLEMENT the fourth 1 6 16 49 39 2    VII HANNO de Sanger Hausen 1  2 6 6 2 7 17 50 40 3   XX. NICOLAUS Longar 2  3 7 7 3 8 18 51 41 4    3  4 8 8 M. 9 D. 25 9 19 52 42 5 Antioch in the absence of Conrade wonne by Bendocdar   4  5 9 9 The See void 10 20 53 43 1 HUGH King of Cyprus 13. VOYAGE under St Lewis King of France Charles of Sicilie and our Prince Edward 6    5  6 10 1270  11 21 54 44 2 Tunis taken Lewis dieth 7 BOEMUND the fourth   6
 7 11 1 GREGORY the tenth 1 12 22 55 PHILIP the Bold 1 3 Prince Edward cometh to Ptolemais 8    7  8 12 2 2 13 23 56 2 4 is desperately wounded yet recovereth 9    8  9 13 3 3 14 RODULPHê° ab Haspurg 1 EDWARD the first 1 3 5 10    9  10 14 4 4 15 2 2 4 6 11    10  11 15 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Great ChaÌ„s of Tartary Mammaluke Sultans of Egypt 1275 M. 4 D. 10 16 3 3 5 12 The last VOYAGE under Henry Duke of Mechlenburg 7 Dieth May 11. BOEMUND the fifth S. under the tuition of the Bishop of Tortosa 1    11 12 16 6 INNOCENT the fifth M. 5. 17 4 4 6 13 8 2  XXI JOHN de Villiers  12 13 Dieth by cold gotten with swimming in Euphrates 17 7 ADRIAN the fifth M. 1 D. 7 18 5 5 7 14 MARIA DOMICELLA Princesse of Antioch resigneth her right of the Kingdome of Jerusalem to Charles 9 3    HERMANNUS the third 1 14 MELECHSAIT or MELECHSARES 1 8 JOHN the 20. M. 8 D. 8 19 6 6 8 15 10 4    2 15 2 9 NICOLAS the third M. 8. D. 29 20 7 7 9 16 11 5    3 16 3 1280 The See void 21 8 8 10 17 12 6    4 He is poysoned by the Sultan of Babylon ☉ 17 4 1 MARTINE the second 1 22 9 9 11 18 13 7    5 18 5 2 2 23 10 10 12 19 The Sicilian Vespers 14 Boemund now of age sideth against the Templars to the destruction of the Christian cause 8 About this time we find a namelesse Patiarch of Jerusalem   6 TANâ—O OR his Br. styled himself Mahomet Cham and was a great persecutour of the Christians 1 6 3 3 ANDRONICê° PALEOLOGUS 1 11 11 13 20 15 9  XXII ODO de Pinibus  7 2 7 4 4 2 12 12 14 1 CHARLES the second surnamed the Lame or the Delayer JOHN his S. 1 10    8 3 8 5 M. 1 D. 7 3 13 13 15 2 HENRY his Br. 1 11   Pâ—TER Belius a valiant souldier BURCHARDê° Schuadens 1 ARGON Cham killed his Br. Mahonet he favoureth the Christians 1 He expelleth the Carmelites out of Syria for changing their coats 9 6 HONORIUS the fourth 2 4 14 14 PHILIP the Fair. 1 3 2 12    2 2 10 7 D. 2. 5 15 15 2 4 3 LUCIE his sister married in Europe 1    3 3 11 8 NICOLAS the fourth 1 6 16 16 3 5 Tripoli Sidon lost 4 Vide Calvis in hoc anno 2  The Hospitallers winne the castle of Mergath  4 4 12 9 2 7 17 17 4 6 Berytus Tyre lost ☉ 5 3 who fled out of Ptolemais when it was besieged and was drowned in his flight It seemeth his name was drowned with him   5 RAGAITHUS his â—r a lazie voluptuous glutton ☉ 1 ELPIS or ALPHIX 1 1290 3 8 M. 9. 18 5 7 Ptolemais besieged 6 How-ever one HUGH challengeth both the title of Antioch and principalitie of Tripoli Knolls pag. 123 4  XXIII VIGILBELMUS de Villaret He is chosen governour of Ptolemais therein slain 6 CASANUS S. to Argon He was very favourable to the Christians 1 2 1 4 9 ADOLPHUS of Nassau 1 19 6 8 taken And the Latine Christians finally expelled out of Syria 7 5    Deposed 7 2 SERAPH or ARRAPHUS 1 2 M. 1 D. 14 10 2 20 7 9 8 6   JAMES Molaibergamon last master of the Templars in Syria Contiâ—â—ator belli sacri lib. 5. cap 13 17 1 CONRADê° de Fertuangen 1 3 2 3 The See void 11 3 21 8 10 9 7   2 2 4  4 CELESTINE he V. M. 5. D. 7. BONEâ—ACE the eighth 12 4 22 9 11 10 8   3 3 5  If the Reader do observe any difference betwixt our former computation in the Book and our Chronologie here let him rather rely on this latter which I take to be better perfected A Catalogue of Authours cited in this book A ADricomius De terrâ Sanctâ Paul AEMYLIUS Basileae per Sebastianum Henric-petri in fol. Albertus Aquensis Chron. Hierosol Alfonso Villeg Alphonsus de Castr. S. Ambrose Ammian Marcellin Antoninus Jo. Antonius Summontius Tho. Aquinas Arnoldus Lubecens S. Athanasius Athenaeus Aventinus S. Augustine B Sr Fr. Bacon Balaeus Barklay BARONIUS Annal. Eccl. Colon. Agrippinae 1624. Bellarmine Bernard Chr. BESOLDUS Argentinae 1536 in 12o. Bibliander Blondus Hect. Boethius Bolsecus Bonaventure Bracton Bridenbach Brietwood Brochardus Buchanan Burton Bydulph Bzorius C Cesars Comment CALVISIUS Francofurti edit 3â— 1629 in 4o. Camden Jo. Cammanus Canon Law Carew Cassanaeus Cedrenus Chemnitius Civil Law Cochlaeus Sr Edw. Coke Continuator Guil. Tyrii Continuator Matth. Paris Continuator Urspergensis Sr Rob. Cotton D Daniel P. Diaconus Mart. Dominic Dressaeus E Egnatius Erasmus Estius Jo. Euchaitensis Eulogium Chron. Eusebius F Fazellius Field FOX Acts and monuments 4. edition 1583. Otho Frisingensis Froissard Fuller G Gaguinus Gerson Godwine Goffridus Grafton Gwillam H Harding Sr Jo. Harrington Chr. HELVICUS Chron. Marpurgi 1629 in fol. Dr Heylin S. Hierome Hieronimo Roman Hospinian Rog. HOVEDEN Francofurti 1601 in fol. Hen. HUNTINGTON Francofurti 1601 in fol. I. B p Jewel Illyricus Josephus K Rich. KNOLLS Turkish Hist. 2. edition 1610 in fol. Krantzius L Lambert LAMPADIUS Mellificium Hist. Marpurgi 1617 in 4o. Livie Lindwood Lipsius Lombard Luther M Machiaviell MAGDEBURGENSES Centuriae Basileae 1624 in fol. Jo. Magnus Guil. MALMESBURIENSIS Francofurti 1601 in fol. Mantuan Marinus Sanutus Martini Chron. Mr Mead. P. Mela. Mercator Monstrell Morison Seb. Munster N Nauclerus NICETAS Choniates Apud haeredes Eustathii Vignon 1593 in 4o. Neubrigensis Theod. à Nyem Greg. Nyssen O Ovid. P Pantaleon Matth. PARIS London 1671 in fol. Jo. PAUL Perin Luthers forerunners translated by S. Leonard Lond. 1624. Pero Mexya Peter de Bloys Peter de Valle Sarnensi Peter de Vineis Pierce Plowman Pitzaeus Platina Polybius Possevine R Sr Walter Ralegh Reinerius Reineccius Dr Ridley Rivetus Claud. Rubis S An. Coc. SABELLICUS Lugduni in aedibus Nic. Petit. 1535. Sr Edw. Sandys G. Sandys Travels Scaliger Scotus Mr Selden Du Serres Socrates Sozomen Jo. Speed Statutes of Engl. Scotl. Stephanus Cypriot T Theodoret. Theophylact. Theophanes Thuanus Tremellius Hist. conc Trident. Tullie Guil. TYRIUS Basileae 1549 in fol. V Vincent Polyd. Virgil. Vitruvius Volaterran URSPERGENSIS Basileae apud Petrum Pernam 1569. W Weaver Fund mon. Dr Whitaker Dr White Z Zuerius Boxhorn A table shewing the principall things contained in this Historie A  B.
Ierusalem  24 his discords with the Legate  ibid. he resigneth his kingdome  28 Irish service in this warre 5 23 Isaacius Angelus Emp. of Constant. 3 1 Italian service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Iudea described 1 21 K  B. Ch. KIng for Deputie in Eastern tongues 2 2 Three faults in the Kingdome of Ierusalem which hindred the strength of it 5 18 Knights-Hospitallers their originall 2 4 they degenerate through wealth into luxury  ibid. they rebell against the Patriarch about tithes  25 brawl with the Templars 4 8 flit from Cypr ' by Rhodes to Malta 5 5 the manner of their suppression in England  6 7 in vain restored by Qu. Mary  8 Knights-Templars instituted 2 16 many slain through their own covetousnesse  32 they become rich and proud 4 8 their treachery hindereth the Holy warre 5 17 they are finally exstirpated out of Christendome  1 arguments for and against their innocency with a moderate way betwixt them  2 3 Knights Teutonicks their institution 2 16 they are honoured with a grand Master 3 5 they come into Prussia their service there 5 4 Knights of the Sepulchre 5 27 L LAterane Councel 3 24 Length of the journey hindrance of this warre 5 13 Leopoldus Duke of Austr his valour 3 8 Leprosie 5 15 Lewis the Young K. of France his wofull journey 2 27 28 S t Lewis his voyage to Palestine 4 11 he wintereth in Cyprus  12 lands in Egypt winnes Damiata  13 is conquered and taken captive  16 dearly ransomed  18 S t Lewis his second voyage 4 26 he besiegeth Tunis  27 his death and praise  ibid. M  B. Ch. MAhometanisme the cause why it is so spreading 1 6 Mammalukes their originall 2 40 their miraculous Empire 4 19 Maronites their tenents and reconcilement to Rome 2 39 Meladine King of Egypt his bounty to the Christians 3 27 why not loved of his subjects 4 14 his death  ibid. Melechsala his son King of Egypt  ibid. Melechsaites Sultan of Egypt  32 Mercenary souldiers dangerous 2 35 yet how well qualified they may be usefull  ibid. Miracles of this warre examined and ranked into foure sorts viz. 1 not done 2 falsely done 3 done by Nature 4 done by Satan 5 10 N NIce besieged and taken by the Christians 1 16 Nilus his wonders and nature 2 13 Northern armies may prosper in the South 5 15 Norvegian service 1 13 5 22 Numbers numberlesse slain in these warres  20 What Numbers competent in an army  19 Numbers of Asian armies what we may conceive of them  ibid. O OBservation of Rog. Hoveden confuted 2 46 Offers at Palestine since the end of the warre 5 24 Office of the Virgin why instituted 1 8 Owls why honoured by the Tartarians 4 2 P  B. Ch. PAlestine in generall described 1 18 Pastorells in France slain 4 21 Pelagius the Legate 3 24 Peter the Hermite his character 1 8 he proves himself but an hypocrite  ibid. Peter K. of Aragon a favourer of the Albingenses slain in battel 3 22 Philip Augustus K. of France his voyage to Palestine and unseasonable return  6 Pilgrimages proved unlawfull 5 9 The Popes private profits by the Holy warre 1 11 he the principall cause of the ill successe 5 12 Polands service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Ptolemais wonne by the Christians 2 11 regained by Saladine  45 after three yeares siege recovered by the Christians 3 8 finally taken by Sultan Scrapha 4 33 Q QValitie of the adventurers in this warre 1 12 R REd sea why so called 2 13 Reformation why Rome is averse from it 4 4 Reimund Earl of Tripoli his discords with Baldwine 2 41 his apostasie to Saladine  45 his suspicious death  ibid. Relicks how to be valued 3 12 why so many before death Renounced the world 2 18 Richard K. of England his voyage to Palestine 3 6 he taketh Sicily and Cyprus in his passage  7 vanquisheth Salad in a set battel  11 in his return he is taken prisoner in Austria and ransomed  13 Richard Earl of Cornwall his voyage to Palestine 4 8 Robert D. of Normandie his valour 1 16 he refuseth the Kingdome of Ierusalem and thriveth not after 2 1 Rodulphus chosen unexpectedly Emperour of Germanie 4 30 sendeth supplies to Syria  ibid. Rodulphus the unhappie Patriarch of Antioch 2 20 S  B. Ch. SAcriledge 5 17 Saladine killeth the Caliph of Egypt 2 37 succeeds in Egypt and Damascus  ibid. conquereth Guy  45 taketh Ierusalem and all Syria  46 his commendations and death 3 14 Scholars without experience no good Generalls 3 24 Scottish service in this warre 1 13 5 23 Sea and land-service compared 4 24 Simon Earl of Montfort concludeth a truce in Syria 3 16 chosen captain against the Albingenses  22 is killed by a woman  ibid. Sidon described wonne by the Christians 2 12 lost to the Sultan of Egypt 4 32 Spanish service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Stephen Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 15 Superstition tainting this whole war 5 9 Suspected souldiers in armies where to be placed 4 10 Sultans their large commissions 2 22 Sweden appeareth not in the Holy warre 1 13 T TArtaria described 1 7 4 2 Tartars their name and nature  ibid. when first known to the world  converted to Christianitie  22 their relapse to Paganisme  26 the occasion  ibid.  B. Ch. Theobald King of Navarre his unhappie voyage 4 7 Titular Bishops their use and abuse 3 2 Pretenders of Titles to the Kingdome of Ierusalem 5 29 Tunis described besieged 4 27 taken by the Christians  28 Turks whence descended 1 7 their large strides into Asia  ibid. harder to be converted then Tartars 4 2 Turkish Empire its greatnesse strength and welfare the weaknesse and defects of it what hopes of its approching ruine 5 30 Tyle Colupp a notable cheater 4 20 Tyre described 2 12 taken by the Christians  17 valiantly defended by Conrade 3 1 wonne by Sultan Alphir 4 32 V  B. Ch. VEnetians performance in this warre 2 17 their bloudie sea-battel with the Genoans 4 24 Vitiousnesse of the Pilgrimes which went to Palestine 1 12 5 16 W WAfer-cake why wrought in the borders of all Egyptian tapestrie 4 18 Welsh service in this warre 5 23 William Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 25 William Landt-grave of Hesse his fictitious voyage to Ierusalem confuted 5 26 Women warriours 1 12 2 27 Wracks first quitted by the Kings of England to their subjects 3 7 FINIS Mart. 13. 1638. Imprimatur Cantabrigiae per Thomam Buck. RA. BROWNRIGG Procan SAM WARD THO. BAINBRIGG THO. BACHCROFTS Anno Dom. 34. 72. * Iosephus lib. 7. belli Iud. Gr. c. 45. Lat. c. 17. * Exod. 12.13 * Adricom is Actis Apost fol. 282. credo ex Hegesipp◠* Suetonius in Tit◠Euseb. Eccl.
title and not onely to corroborate but to create a right Yea God himself may seem herein to allow their title by suffering them so long peaceably to enjoy it 3. To visit those places in Jerusalem the theatre of so many mysteries and miracles was a uselesse as difficult and might be superstitious if any went as it is to be feared too many did with placing transcendent holinesse in the place and with a wooden devotion to the materiall Crosse. The Angel sent the women away from looking into the sepulchre with He is risen he is not here and thereby did dehort them and us from burying our affections in Christs grave but rather to seek him where he was to be found At this day a gracious heart maketh every place a Jerusalem where God may as well and as acceptably be worshipped S. Hilarion though he lived in Palestine saw Jerusalem but once and then onely because he might not seem to neglect the holy places for their nearnesse and vicinitie And S. Hierome though himself lived at Bethlehem disswaded Paulinus from coming thither for the pains would be above the profit 4. Lastly this warre was a quicksand to swallow treasure and of a hot digestion to devoure valiant men no good much evil came thereby and the Christians that went out to seek an enemie in Asia brought one thence to the danger of all Europe and the losse of a fair part thereof For though Careat successibus opto Quisquis ab eventu facta notanda putet may he never speed Who from the issue censures of the deed and though an argument fetcht from the successe is but a cyphre in it self yet it increaseth a number when joyned with others These reasons have moved the most moderate and refined Papists and all Protestants generally in their judgements to fight against this Holy warre But as for the opinion of Bibliander who therein stands without company if Bellarmine hath truly reported it it is as farre from reason as charity namely that these Christians that went to fight against the Saracens were the very army of Gog and Magog spoken of by the prophet Ezekiel Yet must we not here forget that such as at this time went to Jerusalem whether ridiculously or blasphemously or both let others judge did carry a goose before them pretending it to be the holy Ghost Chap. 11. The private ends and profits of the Pope which he is charged by authours to have had in this Holy warre IT is enough with some to make it suspicious that there were some sinister ends in this warre because Gregory the seventh otherwise called Hildebrand and by Luther Larva diaboli the worst of all that sat in that chair first began it but death preventing him Urbane the second whom Cardinall Benno called Turbane for troubling the whole world effected it And though the pretenses were pious and plausible yet no doubt the thoughts of his Holinesse began where other mens ended and he had a privie project beyond the publick designe First to reduce the Grecians into subjection to himself with their three Patriarchs of Jerusalem Antioch and Constantinople and to make the Eastern Church a Chapell of ease to the Mother-Church of Rome Secondly this warre was the Popes house of Correction whither he sent his sturdie and stubborn enemies to be tamed Such high-spirited men whom he either feared or suspected he condemned to this employment as to an honourable banishment and as Saul being afraid of David sent him to fight against the Philistines that so he might fall by their sword so the Pope had this cleanly and unsuspected conveyance to rid away those he hated by sending them against infidels This appeared most plainly in the matter of the Emperour himself whom he sent from home that so he might rob his house in his absence At the beginning of this warre the Popes temporall power in Italy was very slender because the Emperours dominions did gird him close and hard on all sides but soon after he grew within short time without all measure and did lurch a castle here gain a citie there from the Emperour whiles he was imployed in Palestine So that by the time that the Christians had lost all in Syria the Emperour had lost all in Italy his dominions there being either swallowed up by Peters patrimony or by private Princes and upstart free-states which as so many splinters flew out of the broken Empire Thirdly hereby the Pope determined on his side the gainfullest controversie that ever was in Christendome This was about the investiture of Bishops whether the right lay in the Pope or in secular Princes Now his Holinesse diverted this question out of Princes heads by opening an issue an other way and gave vent to the activitie of their spirits in this martiall imployment and in the mean time quietly went away without any corrivall concluding the controversie for his own profit Lastly he got a masse of money by it He had the office to bear the bag and what was put into it as contributed to this action from pious people and expended but some few drops of the showres he received Guesse the rest of his griping tricks from this one which Matth. Paris reporteth First he prompted many people in England unfit for arms to take upon them a vow to go to the Holy warre and this was done by the exhortation and preaching of the Friars This done he compelled and forced those Votaries whose purses were more usefull for this service then their persons to commute their journey into money the payment whereof should be as meritorious as their pilgrimage And thus scraped he a masse of coin from such silly people as thought themselves cleansed of their sinnes when they were wiped of their money and who having made themselves slaves to the Pope by their rash vow were glad to buy their libertie at his price As the Pope so most of the Clergie improved their estates by this warre for the secular Princes who went this voyage sold or morgaged most of their means selling for gold to purchase with steel and iron and the Clergy were generally their chapmen For they advised these undertakers seeing this action was for Christ and his Church rather to make over their estates to spirituall men of whom they might again redeem the same and from whom they should be sure to find the fairest dealing then to lay-men Godfrey Duke of Bouillon sold that Dukedome to the Bishop of Liege and the castle of Sartensy and Monsa to the Bishop of Verdune Baldwine his brother sold him the citie of Verdune Yea by these sales the third part of the best feoffs in France came to be possessed by the Clergie who made good bargains for themselves and had the conscience to buy earth cheap and to sell heaven deare Yea this voyage laid the foundation of their temporall greatnesse till at last the daughter
Eustace The Turks retired to Solomons temple so called because built in the same place there to take the farewell of their lives In a desperate conflict there the foremost of the Christians were miserably slain thrust upon the weapons of their enemies by their fellows that followed them The pavement so swam that none could go but either through a rivulet of bloud or over a bridge of dead bodies Valour was not wanting in the Turks but superlatively abundant in the Christians till night made them leave off Next morning mercie was proclaimed to all those that would lay down their weapons For though bloud be the best sauce for victorie yet must it not be more then the meat Thus was Jerusalem wonne by the Christians and twentie thousand Turks therein slain on the fifteenth of July being Friday about three of the clock in the afternoon Tyrius findeth a great mysterie in the time because Adam was created on a Friday and on the same day and houre our Saviour suffered But these Synchronismes as when they are naturall they are pretty and pleasing so when violently wrested nothing more poore and ridiculous Then many Christians who all this while had lived in Jerusalem in most lamentable slaverie being glad to lurk in secret as truth oftentimes seeketh corners as fearing her judge though never as suspecting her cause came forth joyfully wellcomed and embraced these the procurers of their liberty Three dayes after it was concluded as a necessarie piece of severitie for their defense to put all the Turks in Jerusalem to death which was accordingly performed without favour to age or sex The pretense was for fear of treason in them if the Emperour of Persia should besiege the citie And some slew them with the same zeal wherewith Saul slew the Gibeonites and thought it unfit that these goats should live in the sheeps pasture But noble Tancred was highly displeased hereat because done in cold bloud it being no slip of an extemporany passion but a studied and premeditated act and that against pardon proclaimed many of them having compounded and paid for their lives and libertie Besides the execution was mercilesse upon sucking children whose not-speaking spake for them and on women whose weaknesse is a shield to defend them against a valiant man To conclude Severitie hot in the fourth degree is little better then poyson and becometh crueltie it self and this act seemeth to be of the same nature The end of the first Book The Historie of the HOLY WARRE Book II. Chap. 1. Robert the Normane refuseth the kingdome of Ierusalem Godfrey of Bouillon chosen king his parentage education and vertues FIght dayes after Jerusalem was wonne they proceeded to the election of a King but they had so much choice that they had no choice at all so many Princes there were and so equally eminent that Justice her self must suspend her verdict not knowing which of them best deserved the Crown Yet it was their pleasure to pitch on Robert the Normane as on the man of highest descent being sonne to a King for great Hugh of France was already returned home pretending the colick though some impute it to cowardlinesse and make the disease not in his bowels but his heart Robert refused this honourable profer whether because he had an eye to the kingdome of England now void by the death of William Rufus or because he accounted Jerusalem would be incumbred with continuall warre But he who would not take the Crown with the Crosse was fain to take the Crosse without the Crown and never thrived afterwards in any thing he undertook Thus they who refuse what God fairly carveth for them do never after cut well for themselves He lived to see much misery and felt more having his eyes put out by king Henry his brother and at last found rest when buried in the now Cathedrall church of Glocester under a woodden monument bearing better proportion to his low fortunes then high birth And since in the same quire he hath got the company of another Prince as unfortunate as himself King Edward the second They go on to a second choice and that they may know the natures of the Princes the better their servants were examined on oath to confesse their masters faults The servants of Godfrey of Bouillon protested their masters onely fault was this That when Mattens were done he would stay so long in the church to know of the Priest the meaning of every image and picture that dinner at home was spoiled by his long tarrying All admired hereat that this mans worst vice should be so great a vertue and unanimously chose him their King He accepted the place but refused the solemnity thereof and would not wear a crown of gold there where the Saviour of mankind had worn a crown of thorns He was sonne to Bustace Duke of Bouillon and Ida his wife daughter and heir to Godfrey Duke of Lorein born saith Tyrius at Bologne a town in Champaigne on the English sea which he mistaketh for Bouillon up higher in the continent neare the county of Lutzenburg Such slips are incident to the pennes of the best authours yea we may see Canterbury mistaken for Cambridge not onely in Munster but even in all our own printed Statute-books in the 12. of Richard the second He was brought up in that school of valour the court of Henry the 4. the Emperour Whilest he lived there there happened an intricate suit betwixt him and another Prince about title of land and because Judges could not untie the knot it was concluded the two Princes should cut it asunder with their sword in a combat Godfrey was very unwilling to fight not that he was the worse souldier but the better Christian he made the demurre not in his courage but in his conscience as conceiving any private title for land not ground enough for a duell Yea we may observe generally that they who long most to fight duells are the first that surfet of them Notwithstanding he yeelded to the tyranny of custome and after the fashion of the countrey entred the lists when at the first encounter his sword brake but he struck his adversary down with the hilt yet so that he saved his life and gained his own inheritance Another parallel act of his valour was when being standard-bearer to the Emperour he with the imperiall ensigne killed Rodulphus the Duke of Saxony in single fight and fed the Eagle on the bowels of that arch-rebell His soul was enriched with many vertues but the most orient of all was his humility which took all mens affections without resistance And though one saith Take away ambition and you take away the spurres of a souldier yet Godfrey without those spurres rode on most triumphantly Chap. 2. The establishing of Ecclesiasticall affairs and Patriarchs in Antioch and Ierusalem the numerosity of Palestine-Bishops BUt now let us leave the Helmets and look
professed that she saw in a vision Christ and his Angels rejoycing For the losse of the earthly Canaan was gain to the heavenly peopling it with many inhabitants who were conquerours in their overthrow whilest they requited Christs passion and died for him who suffered for them But for the truth both of the doctrine and historie hereof none need burden their beleef farther then they please We will conclude all with Roger Hovedens witty descant on the time When Jerusalem was wonne by the Christians and afterwards when it was lost an Urbane was Pope of Rome a Frederick Emperour of Germany an Heraclius Patriarch of Jerusalem But by his leave though the first of his observations be true the second is a flat falsitie the third a foul mistake and may thus be mended It is charity to lend a crutch to a lame conceit When the Crosse was taken from the Persians Heraclius was Emperour and when it was taken from the Turks Heraclius was Patriarch Thus these curious observations like over-small watches not one of a hundred goeth true Though it cannot be denied but the same name as Henry of England one the winne-all another the lose-all in France hath often been happy and unhappy in founding and confounding of kingdomes But such nominall toyes are rags not worth a wise mans stooping to take them up The end of the second Book The Historie of the HOLY WARRE Book III. Chap. 1. Conrade of Montferrat valiantly defendeth Tyre and is chosen King IN this wofull estate stood the Christian affairs in the Holy land when Conrade Marquesse of Montferrat arrived there His worth commandeth my penne to wait on him from his own countrey till he came hither Sonne he was to Boniface Marquesse of Montferrat and had spent his youth in the service of Isaacius Angelus the Grecian Emperour This Isaacius fitter for a Priest then a Prince was alwayes bred in a private way and the confining of his body feemeth to have brought him to a pent and narrow soul. For he suffered rebells to affront him to his face never fending any army against them but commending all his cause to a company of bare-footed Friars whom he kept in his Court desiring them to pray for him and by their pious tears to quench the combustions in the Empire But our Conrade plainly told him he must use as well the weapons of the left hand as of the right meaning the sword as well as prayers And by the advice of this his Generall he quickly subdued all his enemies Which his great service found small reward onely he was graced to wear his shoes of the Imperiall fashion a low matter but there forsooth accounted an high honour But soon after Isaac was sick of this Physician who had cured his Empire If private debters care not for the company of their creditours much lesse do Princes love to see them to whom they ow themselves and their kingdome so unwelcome are courtesies to them when above their requitall Now it is an ancient policie to rid away high spirits by sending them on some plausible errand into remote parts there to seek for themselves an honourable grave To this end Isaacius by the perswasions of some spurred on Conrade free enough of himself to any noble action to go into Palestine there to support the ruinous affairs of the Christians Conrade was sensible of their plot but suffered himself to be wrought on being weary of the Grecians basenesse and came into the Holy land with a brave company of Gentlemen furnished on their own cost For a while we set him aside and return to Saladine Who by this time had taken Askelon on condition that King Guy and Gerard master of the Templars should be set at liberty Nor long after was the castle of Antioch betrayed unto him by the Patriarch and the citie scarce got with eleven moneths siege was lost in an instant with five and twenty strong towns more which attended the fortune of Antioch and many provinces thereto belonging came into the possession of the Turks Must not the Christians needs be bankrupts if they continue this trade buying deare and selling cheap gaining by inches and losing by ells With better successe those in Tripoli which citie the wife of Earl Reimund after his death delivered to the Christians defended themselves against Saladine For shame they would not forgo their shirts though they had parted with their clothes Stark-naked from shelter had the Christians been left if stripped out of Tripoli and Tyre Manfully therefore they defended themselves and Saladine having tasted of their valour in Tripoli had no mind to mend his draught but marched away to Tyre But Conrade of Montferrat who was in Tyre with his army so used the matter that Saladine was fain to flie and leave his tents behind him which were lined with much treasure And the Christians had that happinesse to squeeze that sponge which formerly was filled with their spoil They in Tyre in token of gratitude chose this Conrade King of Jerusalem swearing themselves his subjects who had kept them from being the Turks slaves To strengthen his title he married Elisa or Isabella Authours christen her with either name formerly espoused to Humfred of Thoron sister to Baldwine the fourth daughter to Almerick King of Jerusalem By this time King Guy was delivered out of prison having sworn never more to bear arms against Saladine which oath by the Clergie was adjudged void because forced from him when he was detained in prison unjustly against promise The worst was now he had gained his liberty he could not get his Kingdome Coming to Tyre they shut the gates against him owning no King but Conrade Thus to have two kings together is the way to have neither king nor kingdome But Guy following the affront as well as he might and piecing up a cloth of remnants with his broken army besieged Ptolemais The Pisanes Venetians and Florentines with their sea-succours came to assist him But this siege was Church-work and therefore went on slowly we may easier perceive it to have moved then to move especially if we return hither a twelve-moneth hence Chap. 2. The Church-story in the Holy land to the end of the warre The use and abuse of titular Bishops WE must now no longer look for a full face of a Church in the Holy land it is well if we find one cheek and an eye Though Jerusalem and Antioch were wonne by the Turks the Pope ceased not to make Patriarchs of both We will content our selves with the names of those of Jerusalem finding little else of them remarkable After Heraclius Thomas Agni was Patriarch present in the Laterane Councel under Innocent the third Geraldus succeeded him who sided with the Pope against Frederick the Emperour Albertus Patriarch in Jerusalem when the Christians lost their land in Syria He prescribed some rules to the Carmelites After him Antonie Beak
they must first kill and slay him themselves At last Simon of Montfort nigh Paris accepted of it swearing to vex the Lords enemies And for a breakfast to begin with he was seised of the Vicecounty of Besiers proceeding from hence to take many castles and cities One grand inconvenience attended on this armie of Pilgrimes For when their quarantine or fourty dayes service was expired the term the Pope set them to merit Paradise in they would not stay one whit longer Like post-horses they would runne to their set stage but could not be spurred one foot further contenting themselves they had already purchased heaven and fearing they should be put in possession thereof too soon by losing their lives in that service And though the Bishops perswaded some few to stay that so the surplusage of their merits might make up the arrerages of their friends which wanted them yet could they not prevail to any purpose Nor could they so cast and contrive their matters the tide of peoples devotion being uncertain but that betwixt the going out of the old and coming in of the new store of Pilgrimes there would be a low ebbe wherein their armie was almost wasted to nothing whereof the Albingenses made no small advantage However the Earls of Tholose Foyx and Comminge and Prince of Berne the patrones of the Albingenses finding they were too weak for this Holy armie sheltered themselves under Peter King of Aragon whose homagers they were receiving investiture from him though their dominions lay on this side of the Pyrenean hills This King had the greatnesse of the Earl of Montfort in suspicion fearing lest these severall Principalities which now were single arrows should be bound in one sheaf conquered and united under Earl Simon Wherefore he fomented a faction in them against the Holy armie publickly protesting against the proceedings of Earl Simon charging him to have turned the bark of Gods Church into a pirates ship robbing others and enriching themselves under the pretense of Religion seising on the lands of good Catholicks for supposed hereticks using Gods cause as hunters do a stand in it the more covertly to shoot at what game they please Otherwise why was the Vicecount of Beziers who lived and died firm in the Romish faith lately trained into the Legates hand and against oathes and promises of his safe return kept close prisoner till his death and his lands seised on by Earl Simon At last the King of Aragon taking the Earl of Montfort on the advantage shooting him as it were betwixt wind and water the ending of the old and beginning of new Pilgrimes forced him to a battel The King had thirty thousand foot and seven thousand horse but the Earl of both foot and horse not above two thousand two hundred They closed together neare the castle of Moret And the King whether out of zeal of conquest and thirst of honour or distrust of under-officers or desire to animate others or a mixture of all ranne his curvets so openly and made his turns and returns in the head of the army that so fair a mark invited his enemies arrows to hit him by whom he was wounded to death and fell from his horse to lesson all Generals to keep themselves like the heart in the body of the army whence they may have a virtuall omnipresence in every part thereof and not to expose their persons which like crystall viols contain the extracted spirits of their souldiers spilled with their breaking to places of imminent danger With his bodie fell the hearts of his men And though the Earls of Tholose Foyx and Comminge perswaded entreated threatned them to stay they used their oratorie so long till their audience ranne all away and they were fain to follow them reserving themselves by flight to redeem their honour some other time Simon improving this victorie pursued them to the gates of Tholose and killed many thousands The Friars imputed this victory to the Bishops benediction and adoring a piece of the Crosse together with the fervency of the Clergies prayers which remaining behind in the castle of Moret battered heaven with their importunity On the other side the Albingenses acknowledged Gods justice in punishing the proud King of Aragon who as if his arm had been strong and long enough to pluck down the victory out of heaven without Gods reaching it to him conceived that Earl Simon came rather to cast himself down at his feet then to fight But such reckonings without the host are ever subject to a rere-account Yet within few yeares the face of this warre began to alter With writers of short-hand we must set a prick for a letter a letter for a word marking onely the most remarkables For young Reimund Earl of Tholose exceeding his father in valour and successe so bestirred himself that in few moneths he regained what Earl Simon was many yeares in getting And at last Earl Simon besieging Tholose with a stone which a woman let flie out of an engine had his head parted from his body Men use not to be niggards of their censures on strange accidents Some paralleled his life with Abimelech that tyrant-Judge who with the bramble fitter to make a fire then a King of accepted of the woodden Monarchie when the vine olive figge-tree declined it They paired them also in their ends death disdaining to send his summons by a masculine hand but arresting them both by a woman Some perswaded themselves they saw Gods finger in the womans hand that because the greater part of his cruelty lighted on the weaker sex for he had buried the Lady of laVaur alive respecting neither her sex nor nobility a woman was chosen out to be his executioner though of himself he was not so prone to cruelty but had those at his elbow which prompted him to it The time of his death was a large field for the conceits of others to walk in because even then when the Pope and three Councels of Vaur Montpelier and Laterane had pronounced him sonne servant favourite of the faith the invincible defender thereof And must he not needs break being swoln with so many windie titles Amongst other of his styles he was Earl of Leicester in England and father to Simon Montfort the Catiline of this Kingdome who under pretense of curing this land of some grievances had killed it with his physick had he not been killed himself in the battel of Evesholm in the reigne of Henry the third And here ended the storm of open warre against the Albingenses though some great drops fell afterwards Yea now the Pope grew sensible of many mischiefs in prosecuting this people with the Holy warre First the incongruity betwixt the Word and the Sword to confute hereticks with armies in the field opened clamourous mouthes Secondly three hundred thousand of these Croised Pilgrimes lost their lives in this expedition within the space of fifteen yeares so that there was neither citie nor
this day confesse not to the beholders that any such cost was ever bestowed there He also caused the corpses of the Christians killed at the late battel at Gaza and hitherto unburied decently to be interred and appointed an annuall salarie to a Priest to pray for their souls Hereby he had the happinesse with little cost to purchase much credit and the living being much taken with kindnesse to the dead this burying of those Christians with pious persons wonne him as much repute as if he killed so many Turks At last the truce for ten yeares was concluded with the Sultan all Christian captives were discharged and set free many forts of them restored and matters for the main reduced to the same estate they were at the first peace with Frederick the Emperour and Richard returning through Sicily and by Rome where he visited his Holinesse safely came home to England Where he was welcomed with bad news that a discontented Cornish man banished for his misdemeanours had found out tinne-mines in Bohemia which afterwards more asswaged the swelling of this Earls bags then all his voyage to Palestine For till that time that metall was onely fetched from England which afforded meat to some forrein countreys and dishes to all His voyage was variously censured The Templars which consented not to the peace flouted thereat as if all this while he had laboured about a difficult nothing and as good never a whit as never the better for the agreement would never hold long Others thought he had abundantly satisfied any rationall expectation For he compelled saith one the Saracens to truce a strange compulsion without violence except the shewing of a scabbard he restored many to the life of their life their liberty which alone was worth all his pains the peace he concluded was honourable and a cheap Olive-branch is better then deare Bayes Two of our English Richards were at Palestine one famous for drawing his sword the other his purse He was also remarkable herein that he brought all his men and ships safe home next of kin to a miracle and none will deny but that in such dangerous adventures a saver is a gainer One good he got hereby This journey brought him into play amongst forrein Princes henceforward the beyond-sea-world took notice of him and he of it Never would he have had the face to have courted the Crown Imperiall if these his travels had not put boldnesse and audacity into him which made him afterwards a stiff rivall to bid for the Empire of Germany Chap. 9. The Corasines cruelly sack the city of Ierusalem and kill the Christians therein ABout this time though we find not the punctuall date thereof happened the death of Reinoldus Fredericks Lieutenant in Syria who by his moderation had been a good benefactour to the Holy warre But the Templars counted him to want metall because he would not be mad and causelesly break the truce with the Sultan In his grave was buried the happinesse of the Christians in Palestine for now the lawlesse Templars observe no other rule but their own will And now the inundation of the Tartarians in spite of all dammes and banks overranne the North of Asia and many nations fled from their own countreys for fear of them Amongst other the Corasines called by some Choermines and Groissoms a fierce and warlike people were notwithstanding by the Tartarians forced to forsake their land Being thus unkennelled they had their recourse to the Sultan of Babylon and petitioned him to bestow some habitation upon them Their suit he could neither safely grant nor deny A deniall would egge their discontents into desperatenesse and such sturdy dangerous vagabonds might do much harm to admit them to be joynt-tenants in the same countrey with the Turks was a present inconvenience and would be a future mischief In stead therefore of giving them a house he sent them to a work-house yet so that they apprehended it a great courtesie done unto them For he bestowed on them all the lands which the Christians held in Palestine liberall to give away what was none of his and what the others must purchase before they could enjoy The Sultan encouraged them to invade that countrey whose people he pretended were weak and few the land wealthy and fruitfull so that the conquest would be easie especially they having his assistance in the present service and perpetuall patronage hereafter Animated herewith in come the Corasines with their wives and children bringing their housholds with them to win houses and lands for them into Syria and march directly to Jerusalem which being a weak and unfortified place was taken without resistance Weak and unfortified Strange It is confessed on all sides that Frederick the Emperour and Reinoldus his Lieutenant spared no expense in strengthening this city since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks Who then can expect lesse then an impregnable place where so much cost was sown Which driveth us to conceive one of these three things Either that the weaknesse of this citie was chiefly in the defenders hearts Or else that formerly there happened some blind and silent dispoiling of this place not mentioned by Authours Or lastly that Jerusalem was a Jericho I mean a place cursed in building like Pharaohs lean kine never a whit the fatter for devouring much meat and which still went in rags though her friends bestowed change of raiment upon her Thus this city after that it had been possessed fifteen yeares by the Christians was wonne by this barbarous people never since regained to our religion Sleep Jerusalem sleep in thy ruines at this day of little beauty and lesse strength famous onely for what thou hast been The Christians flying out of Jerusalem with their families took their course towards Joppa but looking back beheld their own ensignes advanced on the citie-walls so done in policie by their enemies Whereupon their credulity thus commented That their fellows had beaten the Corasines in Jerusalem and by these banners invited them to return But going back they found but cold or rather too hot entertainment being slain every mothers child of them Dull nostrils not to sent so stale and rank a stratageme of their foes so often used so easily defeated not to send some spies to tast the bait before all swallowed it But men marked out for destruction will runne their own heads into the halter Chap. 10. Robert Patriarch of Ierusalem with the whole strength of the Christians conquered by the Corasines THe desperatenesse of the disease priviledgeth the taking of any Physick The Christians being now in deep distresse resolved on a dangerous course but as their case stood thought necessary For they made peace with the Sultan of Damascus and Seisser and with the Sultan of Cracci These were Dynastes in Syria of some good strength and were at discord with the Sultan of Babylon and swearing them to be faithfull borrowed an armie of their forces
Leprosie was one epidemicall infection which tainted the Pilgrimes coming thither This though most rife in our Saviours time God so ordering it that Judea was sickest while her Physician was nearest at this time of the Holy warre was very dangerous Hence was it brought over into England never before known in this Island and many Lazar-houses erected for the relief of those infected therewith Their chief house was at Burton-lazars in Leicester-shire I say not as this disease began with the Holy warre in England so it ended with it Sure such hath been Gods goodnesse that few at this day are afflicted therewith and the leprosie of Leprosie I mean the contagion thereof in this cold countrey is much abated Many other sicknesses seised on the Pilgrimes there especially in summer The Turks like Salamanders could live in that fiery countrey whose scorching our Northern bodies could not endure Yea long before I find it observed by Vitruvius that they who come cold into hot countreys cannot long subsist but are dissolved whilest those that change out of hot into cold find not onely no distemper and sicknesse by the alteration but also grow more healthfull solid and compacted But this perchance is easilyer said then maintained But let us not hereupon be disheartened to set on our Southern foes for fear to be impaired nor they invited to invade us by hope to be improved Know it is not so much the climate as bad and unwholesome diet inraging the climate against us which unsineweth those Northern nations when they come into the South Which bad diet though sometimes necessary for want of better food yet is most-times voluntary through mens wilfull intemperance In the Portugall action anno 1589 more English owed their Calenture to the heat of wine then weather Why do our English merchants bodies fadge well enough in Southern aire why cannot our valour thrive as well there as our profit but chiefly for this That merchants are carefull of themselves whilest souldiers count it basenesse to be thriftie of their own healths Besides the sinnes of the South unmasculate Northern bodies In hot countreys the Sirens of pleasure sing the sweetest which quickly ravish our eares unused to such musick But should we marching Southwards observe our health in some proportion of temperance and by degrees habituate our selves to the climate and should we keep our souls from their sinnes no doubt the North might pierce the South as farre and therein erect as high and long-lasting tropheys as ever the South did in the North. Nor must it have admittance without examination into a judicious breast what some have observed That Northern people never enjoyed any durable settled government in the South Experience avoweth they are more happie in speedie conquering then in long enjoying of countreys But the first Monarch the world ever knew I mean the Assyrian came from the North Whence he is so often styled in Scripture The King of the North conquering and for many yeares enjoying those countreys which lie betwixt him and the sunne as Chaldea Mesopotamia Babylonia Syria Egypt To speak nothing of the Turks who in the dichotomizing of the world fall under the Northern part and coming out of Scythia at first subdued most Southern countreys Chap. 16. The seventh impediment the Vitiousnesse of the undertakers THus are we fallen on the next hindrance of successe in this Holy warre the Vitiousnesse of the undertakers But here first we must make an honourable reservation for many adventurers herein whom we confesse most pious and religious persons Let us not raise the opinion of our own pietie by trampling on our predecessours as if this age had monopolized all goodnesse to it self Some no doubt most religious and truly valiant as fearing nothing but sinne engaged themselves in this action of whom I could onely wish that their zeal herein had either had more light or lesse heat But with these I say not how many but too many went most wicked people the causers of the ill successe It will be objected Sanctitas morum hath been made of some a note of the true Church never the signe of a fortunate armie Look on all armies generally we shall find them of the souldiers religion not troubled with over-much precisenesse As our King John said whether wittily or wickedly let others judge That the Buck he opened was fat yet never heard Masse so many souldiers have been successefull without the least smack of pietie some such desperate villains that fortune to erroneous judgements may seem to have favoured them for fear True but we must not consider these adventurers as plain and mere souldiers but as Pilgrimes and Gods armie in whom was required and from whom was expected more pietie and puritie of life and manners then in ordinarie men whereas on the contrarie we shall make it appear that they were more vitious then the common sort of men Nor do we this out of crueltie or wantonnesse to wound and mangle the memorie of the dead but to anatomize and open their ulcerous insides that the dead may teach the living and lesson posteritie Besides those that went many were either driven or fled to the Holy land Those were driven who having committed some horrible sinne in Europe had this penance imposed on them To travel to Jerusalem to expiate their faults Many a whore was sent thither to find her virginitie Many a murderer was enjoyned to fight in the Holy warre to wash off the guilt of Christian bloud by shedding bloud of Turks The like was in all other offenses malefactours were sent hither to satisfie for their former wickednesse Now God forbid we should condemn them if truly penitents for impious May he who speaketh against penitents never have the honour to be one since Repentance is the younger brother to Innocence it self But we find that many of them reverted to their former wickednesse they lost none of their old faults and got many new mending in this hot countrey as sowre ale in summer Others fled hither who having supererogated the gallows in their own countreys by their severall misdemeanours theft rapes incest murders to avoid the stroke of Justice protected themselves under this voyage and coming to Palestine so profited in those Eastern schools of vices that they learned to be more artificially wicked This plainly appeareth as in sundrie other Authours so chiefly in Tyrius a witnesse beyond exception who often complaineth hereof And if we value testimonies rather by the weight then number we must credit so grave a man who writeth it with grief and had no doubt as much water in his eyes as ink in his pen and surely would be thankfull to him that herein would prove him a liar Chap. 17. The eighth hindrance the Treacherie of the Templars Of Sacriledge alledged by Baronius the cause of the ill successe RObert Earl of Artois upbraided the Master of the Templars That it was the common speech that the Holy land long since had
been wonne but for the false collâ—sion of the Templars and Hospitallers with the Infidels Which words though proceeding from passion in him yet from premeditation in others not made by him but related deserve to be observed the rather because common reports like smoke seldome but from some fire never but from much heat are generally true It is not to be denied but that both these Orders were guiltie herein as appeareth by the whole current of the storie Yea King Almerick fairly trussed up twelve Templars at once hanging them for delivering up an impregnable fort to Syracon These like a deceitfull chirurgeon who hath more corruption in himself then the sore he dresseth prolonged the cure for their private profit and this Holy warre being the trade whereby they got their gains they lengthened it out to the utmost So that their Treacherie may passe for the eighth impediment Baronius concludeth this one principall cause of the Christians ill successe That the Kings of Jerusalem took away that citie from the Patriarchs thereof herein committing sacriledge a sinne so hainous that malice it self cannot wish an enemy guilty of a worse But wether or no this was sacriledge we referre the reader to what hath been largely discussed before And here I could wish to be an auditour at the learned and unpartiall arguing of this question Whether over-great donations to the Church may not afterwards be revoked On the one side it would be pleaded who should be judge of the over-greatnesse seeing too many are so narrow-hearted to the Church they count any thing too large for it yea some would cut off the flesh of the Churches necessary maintenance under pretense to cure her of a tympanie of superfluities Besides it would be alledged What once hath been bestowed on pious uses must ever remain thereto To give a thing and take a thing is a play too childish for children much lesse must God be mocked therewith in resuming what hath been conferred upon him It would be argued on the other side That when Kings do perceive the Church readie to devoure the Commonwealth by vast and unlimited donations unto it and Clergie-men grown to suspicious greatnesse armed with hurtfull and dangerous priviledges derogatorie to the royaltie of Princes then then it is high time for Princes to pare their overgrown greatnesse But this high pitch we leave to stronger wings Sure I am in another kind this Holy warre was guiltie of sacriledge and for which it thrived no whit the better in that the Pope exempted six and twentie thousand manours in Europe belonging to the Templars and Hospitallers from paying any tithes to the Priest of the parish so that many a minister in England smarteth at this day for the Holy warre And if this be not sacriledge to take away the dowrie of the Church without assuring her any joynture in lieu of it I report my self to any that have not the pearl of prejudice in the eye of their judgement Chap. 18. Three grand faults in the Kingdome of Ierusalem hindring the strength and puissance thereof COme we now to survey the Kingdome of Jerusalem in it self We will take it in its verticall point in the beginning of Baldwine the third when grown to the best strength and beautie yet even then had it some faults whereby it was impossible ever long to subsist 1. It lay farre from any true friend On the West it was bounded with the mid-land-sea but on all other sides it was environed with an Ocean of foes and was a countrey continually besieged with enemies One being to sell his house amongst other commendations thereof proclaimed That his house had a very good neighbour a thing indeed considerable in the purchase and might advance the fale thereof a yeares value Sure I am the Kingdome of Jerusalem had no such conveniencie having bad neighbours round about Cyprus indeed their friend lay within a dayes sail but alas the Kings thereof had their hands full to defend themselves and could scarce spare a finger to help any other 2. The Kingdome was farre extended but not well compacted all the bodie thereof ran out in arms and legs Besides that ground inhabited formerly by the twelve tribes and properly called the Holy land the Kingdome of Jerusalem ranged Northward over all Celosyria and Cilicia in the lesser Asia North-eastward it roved over the Principalities of Antioch and Edessa even unto Carrae beyond Euphrates Eastward it possessed farre beyond Jordan the strong fort of Cracci with a great part of Arabia Petrea Southward it stretched to the entrance of Egypt But as he is a strong man whose joynts are well set and knit together not whom nature hath spunne out all in length and never thickened him so it is the united and well compacted Kingdome entire in it self which is strong not that which reacheth and strideth the farthest For in the midst of the Kingdome of Jerusalem lay the Kingdome of Damascus like a canker feeding on the breast thereof and clean through the Holy land though the Christians had many cities sprinkled here and there the Turks in other strong holds continued mingled amongst them 3. Lastly what we have touched once before some subjects to the Kings of Jerusalem namely the Princes of Antioch Edessa and Tripoli had too large and absolute power and authoritie They would do whatsoever the King would command them if they thought good themselves Now subjects should be Adjectives not able to stand without much lesse against their Prince or they will make but bad construction otherwise These three hindrances in the Kingdome of Jerusalem added to the nine former will complete a Jurie Now if any one chance to censure one or two of them let him not triumph therein for we produce not these impediments severally but joyntly not to fight single duells but all in an armie Non noceant quamvìs singula juncta nocent Chap. 19. What is to be conceived of the incredible numerousnesse of many armies mentioned in this storie FRequent mention hath been made through this Holy warre of many armies as well Christian as Turkish whose number of souldiers swell very great so as it will not be amisse once for all to discusse the point concerning the numerousnesse of armies anciently And herein we branch our opinion into these severals 1. Asian armies are generally observed greater then those of Europe There it is but a sucking and infant companie to have ten thousand yea under fiftie thousand no number The reason of their multitude is not that Asia is more populous but more spatious then Europe Christendome is enclosed into many small Kingdomes and free States which severally can send forth no vast numbers and seldome agree so well as to make a joynt collection of their forces Asia lieth in common in large countreys and many of them united under one head Besides it is probable especially in ancient times as may be proved out of Scripture that those Eastern countreys often spend
different degrees of bountie the Spanish Polish Danish Scots and all other people of Europe The French I make the Founders for these reasons First because they began the action first Secondly France in proportion sent most adventurers Some voyages were all of French and all voyages were of some French Yea French men were so frequent at Jerusalem that at this day all Western Europeans there are called Franks as I once conceived and perchance not without companie in my errour because so many French men came thither in the Holy warre Since I am converted from that false opinion having found that two hundred yeares before the Holy warre was dreamed of namely in the time of Constantine Porphyrogenetes Emperour of the East all Western Christians were known to the Greeks by the name of Franks so that it seemeth the Turks borrowed that appellation from the Grecians Thirdly As France sent the most so many of most eminent note She sheweth for the game no worse cards then a pair royall of Kings Lewis the Young Philip Augustus and Saint Lewis besides Philip the Bold his sonne who went half-way to Tunis The first and last Christian King of Europe that went to Palestine was a French man and all the Kings of Jerusalem Frederick the Emperour onely excepted originally were of that nation Fourthly Even at this day France is most loyall to the cause Most grand Masters of the Hospitallers have been French men And at this day the Knights of Malta who have but foure Albergies or Seminaries in all Christendome have three of them in France viz. one of the France in generall one of Avergne and one of Provence Yet France carrieth not the upper hand so clearly but that Germanie justleth for it especially if we adde to it the Low-countreys the best stable of woodden horses and most potent in shipping in that age of any countrey in Europe which though an amphibion betwixt both yet custome at this day adjudgeth it Dutch Now these are the severall accents of honour in the Germane service First That countrey sheweth three Emperours in the Holy warre Conrade Frederick Barbarossa and Frederick the second The last of these was solemnly crowned and peaceably possessed King of Jerusalem Secondly Germanie sent more Princes to this warre then all Europe besides It would be an infinite task to reckon them all it being true of the Germane Nobilitie what Logicians say of a Line that it is divisibilis in semper divisibilia Here honours equally descend to sonnes and daughters whereby they have Counts without counting in the whole Empire There were seventeen Princes of Henault and seven and twentie Earls of Mansfield all living together So that one of their own countreymen saith That the Dutch esteem none to be men but onely such as are Noble-men We will not take notice of Germanie as it is minced into pettie Principalities but as cut into principall Provinces We find these regnant Princes for as for their younger brethren herein they are not accounted to have been personally present in the Holy warre Prince Palatine of Rhene Henry 1197 Duke or as others King of Bohemia Jaboslaus or Ladislaus 1147 Duke of Saxonie Henry the younger 1197 Marquisse of Brandenburg Otho 1197 Archbishops of Mentz 1 Conrade 2 Siphred 1197 Archbish. of Triers Theodoricus 1216 Archbish. of Colen Theodoricus 1216 Dukes of Austria 1 Leopoldus the second 1190 2 Frederick 1197 3 Leopoldus the third surnamed the Glorious 1216 Dukes of Bavaria 1 Guelpho 1101 2 Henry 1147 3 Lewis 1216 Landt-graves of Thuringia 1 Herman 1197 2 Lewis 1227 Marquesse of Moravia Conrade 1197 Duke of Mechlenburg Henry 1277 Earls of Flandres 1 Theodoricus 1147 2 Philippus 1190 3 Baldwine 1200 4 William Dampier 1250 5 Guido 1270 Dukes of Brabant 1 Godfrey 1195 2 Henry 1227 Earl of Holland William 1216 All these I say not these were all went themselves led forth other companies suitable to their greatnesse The Reader as he lighteth on more at his leisure may strike them into this catalogue Thirdly Germanie maintained the Teutonick Order wholly consisting of her nation besides Templars and Hospitallers whereof she had abundance of whose loyall and valiant service we have spoken largely before Lastly She fought another Holy warre at the same time against the Tartars and other barbarous people which invaded her on her North-east-part And though â—ome will except That that warre cannot be intituled Holy because being on the defensive it was rather of nature and necessitie then pietie yet upon examination it will appear that this service was lesse superstitious more charitable to Christendome and more rationall and discreet in it self it being better husbandrie to save a whole cloth in Europe then to winne a ragge in Asia Chap. 22. The English and Italian service compared Of the Spanish Polish Norvegian Hungarian Danish and Swedish performance in this warre NExt in this race of honour follow England and Italie being very even and hard-matched England it is no flatterie to affirm what envie cannot denie spurreth up close for the prize and though she had a great disadvantage in the starting Italie being much nearer to Palestine yet she quickly recovered it Our countrey sent one King Richard the first and three Kings sonnes Robert Courthois Richard of Cornwall and Prince Edward to this warre Yea England was a dayly friend to this action and besides these great and grosse summes of visible adventurers she dropped and cast in privily many a Pilgrime of good qualitie so that there was scarce any remarkable battel or memorable siege done through the warre wherein there were not some English of eminent desert Yet Italy cometh not any whit behind if the atchievements of her severall States Venetians Genoans Pisans Sicilians Florentines were made and moulded up together Yea for sea-service and engineers in this warre they bear the bell away from all other nations But these things allay the Italian service 1. It was not so abstracted from the dregs of mercinarinesse as that of other countreys whose adventurers counted their very work herein sufficient wages but before they would yeeld their assistance they indented and covenanted with the King of Jerusalem to have such and such profits pensions and priviledges in all places they took to them and their posteritie not as an honorarie reward freely conferred on them but in nature of wages ex pacto contracted for aforehand as the Genoans had in Ptolemais and the Venetians in Tyre 2. These Italians stopped two gaps with one bush they were Merchant-Pilgrimes together applied themselves to profit and pietie Here in Tyre they had their banks and did drive a sweet trade of spices and other Eastern commodities 3. Lastly As at first they gave good milk so they kicked it down with their heel and by their mutuall discord caused the losse of all they helped to gain in Syria Spain was exercised all the time of this warre in defending her self against the Moores and Saracens in her
Dukes of Austria bear Gules a Fesse Argent in memory of the valour of Leopoldus at the siege of Ptolemais whereof before The Duke of Savoy beareth Gules a Crosse Argent being the crosse of S. John of Jerusalem because his predecessours were speciall benefactours to that Order and assisted them in defending of Rhodes Queens Colledge in Cambridge to which I ow my education for my first seven yeares in that Universitie giveth for parcel of her Arms amongst many other rich Coats the Crosse of Jerusalem as being founded by Queen Margaret wife to King Henry the sixth and daughter of Renate Earl of Angiers and titular King of Sicilie and Jerusalem The noble and numerous familie of the Douglasses in Scotland whereof at this day are one Marquesse two Earls and a Vice-count give in their Arms a mans Heart ever since Robert Bruse King of Scotland bequeathed his heart to James Douglasse to carry it to Jerusalem which he accordingly performed To instance in particulars were endlesse we will onely summe them up in generals Emblemes of honour born in Coats occasioned by the Holy warre are reducible to these heads 1. Scallop-shells which may fitly for the workmanship thereof be called artificium naturae It seemeth Pilgrimes carried them constantly with them as Diogenes did his dish to drink in I find an Order of Knights called Equites Cochleares wearing belike Cockle or Scallop-shells belonging to them who had done good sea-service especially in the Holy warre and many Hollanders saith my Authour for their good service at the siege of Damiata were admitted into that Order 2. Saracens Heads It being a maxime in Heraldrie That it is more honourable to bear the head then any other part of the bodie They are commonly born either black or bloudie But if Saracens in their Arms should use Christians heads I doubt not but they would shew ten to one 3. Pilgrimes or Palmers Scrips or Bags the Arms of the worshipfull family of the Palmers in Kent 4. Pilgrimes Staves and such like other implements and accoutâ—ements belonging unto them 5. But the chiefest of all is the Crosse which though born in Arms before yet was most commonly and generally used since the Holy warre The plain Crosse or S. Georges Crosse I take to be the mother of all the rest as plain-song is much senior to any running of division Now as by transposition of a few letters a world of words are made so by the varying of this Crosse in form colour and metall ringing as it were the changes are made infinite severall Coats The Crosse of Ierusalem or five Crosses most frequently used in this warre Crosse Pâ—â—ée because the ends thereof are broad Fichée whose bottom is sharp to be fixed in the ground Wavée which those may justly wear who sailed thither through the miseries of the sea or sea of miseries Molinée because like to the rind of a mill Saltyrée or S. Andrews Crosse Florid or garlanded with flowers the Crosse crossed Besides the divers tricking or dressing as piercing voiding fimbriating ingrailing couping And in fansie and devices there is still a plus ultra insomuch that Crosses alone as they are variously disguised are enough to distinguish all the severall families of Gentlemen in England Exemplary is the Coat of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham five Scallop-shells on a plain Crosse speaking his predecessours valour in the Holy warre For Sir Nicolas de Villiers Knight followed Edward the first in his warres in the Holy land and then and there assumed this his new Coat For formerly he bore Sable three Cinquefoils Argent This Nicolas was the ancestour of the Duke of Buckingham lineally descended from the ancient familie of Villiers in Normandie then which name none more redoubted in this service For we find John de Villiers the one and twentieth Master of the Hospitallers and another Philip de Villiers Master of Rhodes under whom it was surrendred to the Turks a yeelding equall to a conquest Yet should one labour to find a mysterie in all Arms relating to the qualitie or deserts of the owners of them like Chrysippus who troubled himself with great contention to find out a Stoicall assertion of Philosophie in every fiction of the Poets he would light on a labour in vain For I beleeve be it spoken with loyaltie to all Kings of Arms and Heralds their Lieutenants in that facultie that at the first the will of the bearer was the reason of the bearing or if at their originall of assuming them there were some speciall cause yet time since hath cancelled it And as in Mythologie the morall hath often been made since the fable so a sympathie betwixt the Arms and the bearer hath sometimes been of later invention I denie not but in some Coats some probable reason may be assigned of bearing them But it is in vain to digge for mines in every ground because there is lead in Mendip hills To conclude As great is the use of Arms so this especially To preserve the memories of the dead Many a dumbe monument which through time or sacriledge hath lost his tongue the epitaph yet hath made such signes by the scutcheons about it that Antiquaries have understood who lay there entombed Chap. 25. Some offers of Christian Princes for Palestine since the end of the Holy warre by Henry the fourth of England Charles the eighth of France and Iames the fourth of Scotland AS after that the bodie of the sunne is set some shining still surviveth in the west so after this Holy warre was expired we find some straggling rayes and beams of valour offering that way ever and anon the Christian Princes having a bout with that designe To collect the severall essayes of Princes glancing on that project were a task of great pains and small profit specially some of them being umbrages and State-representations rather then realities to ingratiate Princes with their subjects or with the oratorie of so pious a project to woo money out of peoples purses or thereby to cloke and cover armies levied to other intents Besides most of these designes were abortive or aborsive rather like those untimely miscarriages not honoured with a soul or the shape and lineaments of an infant Yet to save the Readers longing we will give him a tast or two and begin with that of our Henry the fourth of England The end of the reigne of this our Henry was peaceable and prosperous For though his title was builded on a bad foundation yet it had strong buttresses most of the Nobilitie favoured and fensed it And as for the house of York it appeared not its best bloud as yet ranne in feminine veins and therefore was the lesse active Now King Henry in the sunne-shine evening of his life after a stormie day was disposed to walk abroad and take in some forrein aire He pitched his thoughts on the Holy warre for to go to Jerusalem and began to provide for the
a Lady of great perfection and of a Mahometane become a Christian at the request of his wife he besieged the citie Jerusalem and took it without resistance The Temple of our Saviour he gave to the Armenians Georgians and other Christians which flocked thick out of Cyprus there to inhabit But soon after his departure it fell back again to the Mammalukes of Egypt who enjoyed it till Selimus the great Turk anno 1517 overthrew the Empire of Mammalukes and seised Jerusalem into his hand whose successours keep it at this day Jerusalem better acquitteth it self to the eare then to the eye being no whit beautifull at all The situation thereoâ— is very uneven rising into hills and sinking into dales the lively embleme of the fortunes of the place sometimes advanced with prosperitie sometimes depressed in misery Once it was well compacted and built as a citie that is at unitie in it self but now distracted from it self the suspicious houses as if afraid to be infected with more miserie then they have alreadie by contiguousnesse to others keep off at distance having many waste places betwixt them not one fair street in the whole citie It hath a castle built as it is thought by the Pisans tolerably fortified Good guard is kept about the citie and no Christians with weapons suffered to enter But the deepest ditch to defend Jerusalem from the Western Christians is the remotenesse of it and the strongest wall to fense it is the Turkish Empire compassing it round about Poore it must needs be having no considerable commoditie to vent except a few beads of Holy earth which they pay too deare for that have them for the fetching There is in the citie a covent of Franciscans to whom Christians repair for protection during their remaining in the citie The Padre Guardian appointeth these Pilgrimes a Friar who sheweth them all the monuments about the citie Scarce a great stone which beareth the brow of reverend antiquitie that passeth without a peculiar legend upon it But every vault under ground hath in it a deep mysterie indeed Pilgrimes must follow the Friar with their bodies and belief and take heed how they give tradition the lie though she tell one never so boldly The survey finished they must pay the Guardian both for their victuals and their welcome and gratifie his good words and looks otherwise if they forget it he will be so bold as to remember them The Guardian farmeth the Sepulchre of the Turk at a yearly rent and the Turks which reap no benefit by Christs death receive much profit by his buriall and not content with their yearly rent squeeze the Friars here on all occasions making them pay large summes for little offenses The other subsistence which the Friars here have is from the benevolence of the Pope and other bountifull benefactours in Europe Nor getteth the Padre Guardian a little by his fees of making Knights of the Sepulchre of which Order I find some hundred yeares since Sr John Chamond of Lancels in Cornwall to have been dubbed Knight But I beleeve no good English subject at this day will take that honour if offered him both because at their creation they are to swear loyaltie to the Pope and King of Spain and because honours conferred by forrein Potentates are not here in England acknowledged neither in their style nor precedencie except given by courtesie Witnesse that famous case of the Count Arundel of Wardour and Queen Elisabeths peremptorie resolve That her sheep should be branded with no strangers mark but her own The land about it as Authours generally agree is barren Yet Brochard a Monk who lived here some two hundred yeares since commendeth it to be very fruitfull Sure he had better eyes to see more then other men could or else by a Syâ—eâ—doche he imputeth the fertilitie of parcels to the whole countrey But it is as false a consequence as on the other side to conclude from the basenesse of Bagshot-heath the barrennesse of all the Kingdome of England We may rather beleeve that since the fall of the Jews from Gods favour the once-supernaturall fertilitie of the land is taken away and the naturall strength thereof much abated and impaired Chap. 28. Whether it be probable that this Holy warre will ever hereafter be set on foot again THus we state the question Whether this Holy warre I mean for the winning of the citie of Jerusalem and recovering of Palestine will probably ever hereafter be projected and acted again We may beleeve this tragedie came off so ill the last acting that it will not be brought on the stage the second time 1. The Pope will never offer to give motion to it as knowing it unlikely to succeed Policies of this nature are like sleights of hand to be shewed but once lest what is admired at first be derided afterwards 2. Princes are grown more cunning and will not bite at a bait so stale so often breathed on The Popes ends in this warre are now plainly smelt out which though prettie and pleasing at first yet Princes are not now like the native Indians to be cozened with glasse and gaudie toyes The load-stone to draw their affection now out of non-age must present it self necessary profitable and probable to be effected 3. There is a more needfull work nearer hand to resist the Turks invasion in Europe Heark how the Grecians call unto us as once the man in the vision did to S. Paul Come over into Macedonia and help us Yea look on the Popes projects of the last Edition and we shall find the businesse of the Sepulchre buried in silence and the Holy warre running in another chanel against the Turks in Christendome 4. Lastly who is not sensible with sorrow of the dissensions better suiting with my prayers then my penne wherewith Christian Princes at this day are rent in sunder wounds so wide that onely Heavens chirurgerie can heal them Till which time no hope of a Holy warre against the generall and common foe of our Religion We may safely conclude that the regaining of Jerusalem and the Holy land from the Turks may better be placed amongst our desires then our hopes as improbable ever to come to passe except the Platonick yeare turning the wheel of all actions round about bring the spoke of this Holy warre back again Chap. 29. Of the many Pretenders of titles to the Kingdome of Ierusalem NO Kingdome in the world is challenged at this day by such an armie of Kings as this of Jerusalem It is sooner told what Princes of Europe do not then what do lay claim to it they be so many Take their names as I find them in the Catalogue of Stephen a Cypriot 1 The Emperour of the East 2 The Patriarch of Ierusalem 3 The Lusignans Kings of Cyprus 4 Emfred Prince of Thorone 5 Conrade de la-Rame Marquesse of Montferrat 6 The Kings of England 7 His Holinesse 8 The