a Tyrant both detaining the dowrie and imprisoning the person of Joan wife to William late King of Sicilie and sister to King Richard But in what a case was he now having two such mightie Monarchs come unto him To keep them out was above his power to let them in against his will Well he knew it was wofull to lie in the rode where great armies were to passe For power knoweth no inferiour friend and the land-lord commonly loseth his rent sometimes his land where the tenant is too potent for him At last he resolved how wisely or honestly let others judge openly to poise himself indifferent betwixt these two Kings secretly applying himself to the French which King Richard quickly discovered as dissembling goeth not long invisible before a judicious eye Mean time the citizens of Messana did the English much wrong if not by the command with the consent of the King For though it be unjust to father the base actions of unrulie people on their Prince yet Tankred not punishing his people for injuring the English when he might and was required thereunto did in effect justifie their insolencies and adopt their deeds to be his Wherefore King Richard to avenge himself took Messana by assault seised on most forts in the Island demanding satisfaction for all wrongs done to him and his sister Tankred though dull at first now pricked with the sword came off roundly with many thousand ounces of gold and seeing as the case stood his best thrift was to be prodigall gave to our King what rich conditions soever he demanded Worse discords daily encreased betwixt the Kings of France and England King Richard slighting the King of France his sister whom he had promised to marrie and expressing more affection to Beringaria daughter to the King of Navarre Some Princes interposing themselves in this breach rather asswaged the pain then removed the maladie So dangerous are ruptures betwixt great ones whose affections perchance by the mediation of friends may be brought again to meet but never to unite and incorporate King Philip thinking to forestall the market of honour and take up all for himself hasted presently to Ptolemais Richard followed at his leisure and took Cyprus in his way Isaac or Cursac reigned then in Cyprus who under Andronicus the Grecian Emperour when every factious Noble-man snatched a plank out of that shipwracked Empire seised on this Island and there tyrannized as a reputed King Some falsely conceive him a Pagan and his faith is suspected because his charitie was so bad killing the English that landed there not having so much man as to pitie a woman and to suffer the sea-sick Lady Beringaria to come on shore But King Richard speedily overran the Island honoured Isaac with the magnificent captivitie of silver fetters yet giving his daughter libertie and princely usage The Island he pawned to the Templars for readie money And because Cyprus by antiquitie was celebrated as the seat of Venus that so it might prove to him in the joyous moneth of May he solemnly took to wife his beloved Lady Beringaria Chap. 8. The taking of the citie Ptolemais WHilest King Richard stayed in Cyprus the siege of Ptolemais went on and though the French King thought with a running pull to bear the citie away yet he found it staked down too fast for all his strength to stirre Mean time the plague and famine raged in the Christians camp which the last yeare swept away fiftie Princes and Prelates of note Who no doubt went hence to a happie place though it was before Pope Clement the sixth commanded the angels who durst not but obey him presently to convey all their souls into Paradise which should die in their Pilgrimage This mortalitie notwithstanding the siege still continued And now the Christians and Turks like two fensers long playing together were so well acquainted with the blows and guards each of other that what advantage was taken betwixt them was merely casuall never for want of skill care or valour on either side It helped the Christians not a little that a concealed Christian within the citie with letters unsubscribed with any name gave them constant and faithfull intelligence of the remarkable passages amongst the Turks No Prince in this siege deserved more then Leopoldus Duke of Austria who fought so long in assaulting this citie till his armour was all over gore bloud save the place covered with his belt Whereupon he and his successours the Dukes of Austria renouncing the six Golden larks their ancient arms had assigned them by the Emperour a fesse Argent in a field Gules as the paternall coat of their family By this time King Richard was arrived taking as he came a dromond or Saracen ship wherein were fifteen hundred souldiers and two hundred and fiftie scorpions which were to be imployed in the poisoning of Christians and now the siege of Ptolemais more fiercely prosecuted But all their engines made not so wide a breach in that citie walls as envie made betwixt the French and English Kings Yet at last the Turks despairing of succour their victuals wholly spent yeelded up the citie by Saladines consent on condition to be themselves safely guarded out of it all Christian prisoners Saladine had were to be set free and the Crosse to be again restored The houses which were left with the spoil and prisoners were equally divided betwixt Philip and Richard Whereat many Noble-men partners in the pains no sharers in the gains departed in discontent Some Turks for fear embraced the Christian faith but quickly returned to their vomit as religion died in fear never long keepeth colour but this dayes converts will be to morrows apostates Hereupon it was commanded that none hereafter should be baptized against their wills Here the English cast down the ensignes of Leopoldus Duke of Austria which he had advanced in a principall towre in Ptolemais and as some say threw them into the jakes The Duke though angrie at heart forgot this injurie till he could remember it with advantage and afterwards made King Richard pay soundly for this affront It is not good to exasperate any though farre inferiour for as the fable telleth us the beetle may annoy the eagle and the mouse befriend the lion When the citie was taken it grieved the Christians not a little that their faithfull correspondent who advised them by his letters could no where be found Pitie it was that Rahabs red lace was not tied at his window But indeed it was probable that he was dead before the surrendring of the citie Greater was the grief that the Crosse did no where appear either carelessely lost or enviously concealed by the Turks Whilest the Christians stormed hereat Saladine required a longer respite for the performance of the conditions But King Richard would not enlarge him from the strictnesse of what was concluded conceiving this was in effect to forfeit the victorie back again Besides he
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
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
 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.