at length to SAMERCAND the famous place of his birth and glorious seat of his empire Now had Baiazet but a little before one of the greatest princes on earth and now the scorne of fortune and a byword to the world with great impatiencie laine two yeares in most miserable thraldome for most part shut vp in an yron cage as some dangerous wild beast and hauing no better meanes to end his loathed life did violently beat out his braines against the barres of the yron grate wherein he was inclosed and so died about the yeare of our Lord 1399. Yet of his death are diuers other reports some saying That hee died of an ague proceeding of sorrow and greefe others that he poysoned himselfe and the Turks affirming that he was set at libertie by Tamerlane being by him beforehand poysoned whereof hee died three dayes after hee was enlarged a report not like to be true but howsoeuer it was his end appeareth to haue ben right miserable His dead bodie at the request of his sonne Mahomet was by Tamerlane sent to ASPRAPOLIS from whence it was afterwards conueyed to PRUSA and there lieth buried in a chappell neere vnto the great Mahometane temple without the citie Eastward where also lieth his beloued wife Despina with his eldest sonne Erthogrul And fast by in a little chappell lieth buried his brother Iacup whom he in the beginning of his raigne murthered These two great and mightie princes Tamerlane and Baiazet both of them whilest they liued a burâ—hen vnto the world as they tooke their beginning from the Scythes or Tartars so were they of like honourable progenitors descended Baiazet being the fourth in discent from the warlike Othoman the raiser of his familie and Tamerlane in like degree from the great Zingis the first and most fortunat leader of the Tartars his countreymen vnto the pleasures of the East both princes of great power and like spirit wise hardie painefull resolute and most skilfull in martiall affaires but ambitious aboue measure the ground of all the former troubles by them raised to the astonishment of the world Howbeit the great vertues and other the honourable qualities of Baiazet were in him by his chollericke and waiward nature much obscured which made him to exceed both in crueltie and pride being also much more handfast than were his honourable predecessors For which causes he was much feared and lesse beloued of his souldiors and men of warre in generall and of them at his most need forsaken He vsed commonly to say That his treasures were his childrens meat and not his souldiors pay which by way of reproch was by a common souldior cast in his teeth when hee raged to see himselfe by them forsaken in the great battell against Tamerlane telling him as he fled That he ran not away but went to seek his pay wherewith to prouide his children bread Whereas all the aforesaid vertues in Tamerlane were graced with diuers others of like nature no man being vnto his friends more courteous or kind either vnto his enemies more dreadfull or terrible The good seruice of his seruants hee neuer forgot either left the same long vnrewarded being thereof so mindfull as that he needed not by them or others in their behalfe to be put in remembrance thereof hauing alwaies by him a catalogue both of their names and good deserts which he daily perused Oftentimes saying that day to be lost wherein he had not giuen them something and yet neuer bestowing his preferments vpon such as ambitiously sought the same as deeming them in so doing vnwoorthie thereof but vpon such as whose modestie or desert he thought worthie those his great fauours so tempering the seueritie of his commaunds with the greatnesse of his bountie as that it is hard to say whether he was of his nobilitie and men of war for the one more feared or for the other beloued both the great staies of princes states feare keeping the obstinat in their obedience and loue the dutifull in their deuotion But with Baiazet it was not so who deeming all done for him but dutie and by nature chollericke and proud after the manner of tyrants desired aboue all to be of his subjects feared not much regarding how little hee was of them beloued not the least cause of his great fall and miserie and that therein he was of his owne so smally regarded wherin for all that he is to be accounted more fortunat than the other great conquerour his enemie hauing euer since in the lineall descent of himselfe had one of the greatest Monarchs of the world to succeed still in his kingdome and empire as hee hath euen at this day the great Sultan Mahomet the third of that name who now in great majestie raigneth in CONSTANTINOPLE Whereas the glorie of Tamerlane his empire euen in his owne time growne to the height therof and labouring with the greatnesse of it selfe and by him deuided amongst his sonnes shortly after his death decayed rent in sunder by ambition and ciuile discord and not long after together with his posteritie rooted out by Vsun-Cassanes the Persian king to the worlds woonder tooke end nothing of the huge greatnesse thereof now or since then remaining more than the fame thereof as doth also the miserie of the other so brought low But leauing this mirrour of mishap Baiazet vnto his rest and Tamerlane for a while to triumph in SAMERCAND let vs now proceed in the course of our Historie yet not forgetting by the way to remember such Christian princes as then liued together with these two great Monarchs FINIS Christian princes of the same time with Baiazet the first Emperours Of the East Emanuell Palaeologus 1387. 30. Of the West Wenceslaus son to Charles king of Bohemia 1378. 22. Rupertus duke of Bauaria 1400. 10. Kings Of England Richard the second 1377. 23. Henrie the fourth 1399. 12. Of Fraunce Charles the sixt surnamed The welbeloued 1381. 42. Of Scotland Iohn Stuart otherwise called Robert the third 1390. 16. Bishops of Rome Vrban the VI. 1380. 11. Boniface the IX 1390. 14. MAHOMET I. MAHOMETHES PRIMVS QVINTVS TVRCARVM REX FLORVIT ANNO 1405 Vindicibus Mahomet patrium sibi vendicat armis Imperium fractas feruidus auget opes Quod patri abstulerat violentia Tamberlani Imperio reddit Marte fauente suo Ille sagittiferosque Dacas validosque Triballos Contudit populos Ister amoene tuos Turcica sic rursus sublata potentia stragem Attulit imperio Romule magne tuo By force of armes stout Mahomet his fathers kingdome gaines And doth the broken state thereof repaire with restlesse paines What so the force of Tamerlane had from his father tane He by his fortune and his force restor'd the same againe The Dacians he vanquished and Seruians in field And forc'd the people neere to thee faire ISTER for to yeeld So once againe the Turkish state by him rais'd vp on hie Hath to thine empire Romulus brought great
in due place God willing be declared Now was king Richard for the increase of his honour more desirous than before of the citie of HIERUSALEM as the most precious and honourable prize of all that religious warre And thereupon with all the power of the Christians then at his command set forward from PTOLEMAIS and was come on his way as farre as ARSUA a towne situate betwixt CESAREA and IOPPE In the vauward was king Richard himselfe with the Englishmen after whom followed Odo duke of BVRGVNDIE with his French and in the rereward Iaques de Auenes with the Flemmings Brabanders and Wallons who after the death of their countie Philip at the siege of PTOLEMAIS had put themselues all vnder his regiment Saladin with a great armie still at hand and as it were attending vpon them first with certaine ambuscadoes charged the rereward and so afterward came on with his whole power vpon whom Iaques turning himselfe with his Flemmings receiued the charge with great assurance and so long themselues endured the same vntill the French came in to their succours and after them the English also There was fought a notable battell and great valour shewed both on the one side and the other but especially by them of the Turkes part who knew well the purpose of the Christians for the besieging of HIERUSALEM and that thereon depended their onely hope and that hee that could hold the same might almost assure himselfe to carrie away the glorie of that warre The French and English in that battell honorably stroue who might shew the greatest valour neither would the Low countrey men vnder Iaques their generall seeme to bee any thing behind them This sharpe conflict began about noone and continued vntill the going downe of the Sunne King Richard as some write was there wounded with an arrow and Iaques valiantly there fighting was slaine hauing sold his life deere to the great admiration of the infidels and dying left the victorie vnto the Christians It is reported that in this battell were slaine moe Turks and Sarasins than in any one battell within the memorie of man before of the Christians were not lost any great number either any man of name more than the aforesaid Iaques the valiant generall of the Flemmings The next day the Christians remooued to BETHLEM a towne about the mid way betwixt IOPPE and HIERUSALEM But Winter now comming fast on and want of victuals like ynough to increase the king changing his mind for the siege returned with the greatest part of the armie to ASCALON which he that Winter new fortefied the wals thereof being before by Saladin in his despaire demolished the duke of BVRGVNDIE with his Frenchmen all that while quietly wintering at TYRE In the meane time the power of the Christians was that Winter greatly deminished some one way departing from the campe and some another The Italians for the most part with them of PISA who in these three yeares warres had striuen with the Venetians for the honour of their seruice were now returned home as were the Venetians themselues also Neuerthelesse Winter now past and the Spring time come king Richard took the field againe and came to BETHLEM where by the way hee met with an exceeding great number of cammels charged with great store of victuals and munition sent by Saladin out of AEGYPT to HIERUSALEM all which he tooke But purposing to haue gone on to the siege of HIERUSALEM he was by the backwardnesse of the French glad to change his purpose and to returne to PTOLEMAIS for the Frenchmen persuaded by the duke their generall who well knew the French kings mind That if any thing woorth remembrance were done it was to bee done by them and that the glorie thereof should wholly redound vnto the king of ENGLAND as there in person present and to his Englishmen shewed themselues so vnwilling to the siege as that therin was nothing done to the great griefe of that worthy prince At which time also news was brought vnto king Richard How that Philip the French king forgetfull of his solemne promise made before his departure out of SYRIA had now inuaded the country of NORMANDIE and excited earle Iohn the kings brother a man of an hautie aspiring nature to take vpon him the kingdome of ENGLAND in his absence as had before in like case William the yonger brother serued duke Robert his elder brother then absent at his father the Conquerours death in the first sacred expedition vnder Godfrey of BUILLON Wherfore king Richard beside the present difficulties fearing least while he was so far off in wars for defence of the Christian commonweale he might lose his kingdome at home thought it best to grow to some good end with Saladin and so to make his returne But the politicke and warie Sultan not ignorant of the discord of the Christians and that their forces daily decaied in SYRIA either of the troubled estate of the kings affairs at home in his kingdome or of his desire to returne would not hearken to any other conditions of peace but such as might both for the present weaken the forces of the Christians in SIRIA and discourage others that had a mind to come thither afterward whē they should see that for naught they should trauell to conquer that which in the end they must of necessitie restore againe The conditions he offered were That the Christians should foorthwith restore whatsoeuer they had woon in those three years wars PTOLEMAIS only excepted and that from thence forth for the space of fiue yeares the Turks should not in any thing molest the Christians but to suffer them in peace to liue by them which hard conditions for that no better could be had the king was glad to accept and so concluded a peace Wherby the labor and trauell of the two great kings and so many nations with them were all become frustrat and vaine hauing now to no purpose lost their men their money their time their hope their blood their long trauell to gaine that they must now in one houre forgo nothing more left vnto the poore Christians in SIRIA than the cities of ANTIOCH TYRE and PTOLEMAIS This done king Richard leauing the affaires of ASIA vnto the charge of Henrie countie of CHAMPAGNE his nephew shipping the greatest part of his people with his wife Berengaria first for SICILIA and from thence for ENGLAND where they in safetie at length arriued followed shortly after with some few himselfe where by the way by extremitie of weather he was in the Adriatique driuen to land vpon the coast of HISTRIA where trauelling with a small retinue homewards in the habit of a Templar he was discouered and taken prisoner by Leopold duke of AVSTRIA whom he had before disgraced at the winning of PTOLEMAIS as is before declared who now glad to haue him in his power made prize of him and sold him to Henrie the emperor for fortie thousand pounds by
that did this Cobelitz vnto Amurath The dead bodie of Amurath was presently with all secrecie conueied into his tent by the Basâ—aes and captaines present at his death whether Baiazet was also brought with an ensigne before him as the successour in his fathers kingdome His younger brother Iacup surnamed Zelebi or the noble yet ignorant of that had hapned was by the great Bassaes sent for as from his father who casting no perill but comming into his fathers tent was there presently by them strangled by the commaundement of Baiazet as most histories report howbeit the Turkes annales charge him not therwith This was the beginning of the most vnnaturall and inhumane custome euer since holden for a most wholesome and good policie amongst the Turkish kings and emperours in the beginning of their raigne most cruelly to massacre their brethren and neerest kinsmen so at once to rid themselues of all feare of their competitors This Amurath was in his superstition more zealous than any other of the Turkish kings a man of great courage and in all his attempts fortunat he made greater slaughter of his enemies than both his father and grandfather his kingdome in ASIA hee greatly enlarged by the sword mariage and purchase and vsing the discord and cowardise of the Grecian princes to his profit subdued a great part of THRACIA called ROMANIA with the territories thereto adjoyning leauing vnto the emperour of CONSTANTINOPLE little or nothing more in THRACIA than the imperiall citie it selfe with the bare name of an emperour almost without an empire he wan a great part of BULGARIA and entred into SERUIA BOSNA and MACEDONIA he was liberall and withall seuere of his subjects both beloued feared a man of verie few words and one that could dissemble deeply He was slaine when hee was threescore eight yeares old and had thereof raigned thirtie one in the yeare of our Lord 1390. His dead bodie was by Baiazet conuaied into ASIA and there royally buried at PRUSA in a faire chappell at the West end of the citie neere vnto the Bathes there where vpon his tombe lieth his souldiours cloake with a little Turkish tulipant much differing from those great turbants which the Turkes now weare Neere vnto the same tombe are placed three launces with three horse tailes fastened at the vpper end of them which he vsed as guidons in his wars a thing in antient time not strange There standeth a castle with a tombe made in remembrance of him in the plaines of COSSOUA where he was slaine and his entrailes buried which giueth occasion for some to report that hee was there also himselfe enterred FINIS Christian princes of the same time with Amurath the first Emperours Of the East Iohn Palaeologus 1354. 30. Andronicus Palaeologus 1384. 3. Emanuell Palaeologus 1387. 30. Of the West Charles the fourth 1346. 32. Wenceslaus son to Charles king of Bohemia 1378. 22. Kings Of England Edward the third 1327. 50. Richard the second 1377. 23. Of Fraunce Iohn Valois 1350. 14. Charles the fifth 1364. 16. Charles the sixt surnamed The welbeloued 1381. 42. Of Scotland Dauid Bruce 1341. 29. Robert Stuart 1370. Bishops of Rome Innocent the VI. 1354. 10. Vrban the V. 1364. 8. Gregorie the II. 1372. 7. Vrban the VI. 1378. 11. BAIAZET BAIAZETTHES PRIMVS QVARTVA TVRCORVM REX ANNO 1390 Fulminis in morem celeri rapit agmina motu Baizethes fidei pacis impatiens Regni Hadrianopolim sedes sibi legit vt esset Posset vt Europae iungere regna suis. Constantinopolim gemina obsidione fatigat Iam Graetas vana spe sibi spondet opes Cum Tamburlano praebet sua terga catenis Vinctus in cauea probra pudenda subit Prowd Baiazet most false of faith and loathing blessed peace His warlike troupes like lightening to shake he doth not cease Of HADRIANOPLE he makes choice for his imperiall seat That EVROPS kingdomes he might joyne vnto his empire great CONSTANTINOPLE he distrest twice with straight siege and long And vainly thought to haue possest the Graecians wealth by wrong But ouercome by Tamberlane fast bound in fetters sure Trod vnder foot and cloas'd in cage great shame did there indure THE LIFE OF BAIAZET THE FIRST OF THAT NAME THE FOVRTH AND MOST VNFORTVNAT KING OF THE TVRKES BAiazet or as the Turks call him Baiasit of his violent and fierce nature surnamed Gilderun or lightening succeeded his father Amurath in the Turkish kingdome his younger brother Iacup being strangled immediatly after his fathers death as is before declared He in the first yeare of his raign inuaded SERVIA and there besieged CRATOVA a citie of the Despots whereunto the siluer mines of SERVIA not the least cause of that warre belonged Which citie was yeelded vnto him vpon condition That the Christian inhabitants might with life and libertie depart Who were no sooner gone out of the cittie but that by his commaundement they were all most cruelly slaine by his men of warre for that purpose sent out after them At this time hee also woon VSCUPIA with diuers other castles in the countrey neere vnto CRATOVA Sigismund at the same time king of HUNGARIE a yong prince of great hope and brother to Wenceslaus then emperour of the West aduertised from the Seruians his allies and confederats of these proud proceedings of Baiazet by his embassadours sent of purpose requested him That as he was a just prince and wished to liue in quiet with his owne to desist from doing of such open wrong and from inuading of such countries of his friends and confederats as he had no right in Which embassadours so sent Baiazet detained without answere vntill such time as he had ouerrun a great part of the Despot his country and therein done what he thought good Then calling the said embassadours vnto him into one of the strong townes which hee had in euerie corner filled with his owne souldiours told them that they might there see that his right both vnto that towne and the rest by him taken was good inough for as much as the verie wals acknowledged the same and so giuing them leaue to depart willed them so to tell their master Which his proud answere by the same embassadors reported vnto the yong king no lesse troubled him than if open warre had by them been denounced vnto him seeing the tyrant as should seeme pretending right vnto whatsoeuer hee could by force get neuerthelesse being himselfe not yet well setled in his kingdome and in doubt of the contrarie faction that altogether liked not of his election into HUNGARIE for their king he was glad at that time to put it vp and so to hold himselfe content The next yeare Baiazet by Ferises Beg tooke the citie of VIDINA with many other strong townes and castles in SERVIA and afterwards returned to HADRIANOPLE But whilest that hee thus raged in EUROPE the Caramanian king inuaded and spoiled the frontiers of his countries in ASIA which although he was not then at
the releefe thereof by sea Of which preparation Saladin vnderstanding as also of the kings comming by letters intercepted by his scouts directed to the besieged for the holding out of the siege with promise of speedie reliefe he presentâ—y rise with his armie and departed whereof the king being aduertised retired to SEPHOR Not long after Saladin according to his ambitious nature desirous aboue measure to extend the bounds of his kingdome and seeing the successe of his attempts against the king of HIERUSALEM not answerable to his desire conuerted his forces vnto the countries more eastward and passing the riuer EUPHRATES and entring into MESOPOTAMIA partly by force partly by corruption got into his hand the cities of EDESSA CARRAS and diuers others In which time the king of HIERUSALEM tooke occasion first to spoile the country about DAMASCO and after that diuers other places of the Sultans kingdome making hauock of whatsoeuer came in his way and so laded with the spoile of the Turkes retired to HIERUSALEM Saladin with victorie returning out of MESOPOTAMIA in reuenge of the injuries done vnto him in his absence marched directly to ALEPPO the strongest citie of the Christians in that part of SYRIA which aboue all other he longed after where hee had not long lien but that it was by the treason of the gouernour deliuered into his hands with all the countrie thereabouts wherwith the Christian princes were so discouraged that they euen then began to feare greater matters to ensue The prince of ANTIOCH sould TARSVS the metropoliticall citie of CILICIA to Rupinus prince of ARMENIA for that he saw it was not without great charge and danger to be by him defended being so farre from him and Saladin as it were now stept in betwixt him and it At the same time king Baldwin at NAZARETH fell sicke of a feauer the leprosie also his old disease growing dayly more and more vpon him in so much that dispairing of his life he called vnto him Guy Lusignan countie of IOPPA and ASCALON vnto whom he had before espoused Sybill his eldest sister and in the presence of his mother the Patriarch and all the chiefe commaunders of the souldiers of the sacred war appointed him gouernour of the kingdome reseruing vnto himselfe only the title of a king with the citie of HIERUSALEM and a yearely pension of ten thousand duckats All which was done to the great disgrace and discontentment of the countie of TRIPOLIS the old gouernour It was not long but that Saladin hauing breathed himselfe a little after so great labours came againe into the Holy land where he tooke many castles and did infinit harme in so much that the countrey people were glad for feare to forsake their houses and to flie into cities The Christian armie in the meane time lying fast by at SEPHOR not once moouing although many a faire occasion were offred For the chiefe commaunders affectionated vnto the countie of TRIPOLIS and enuying at the preferment of Guy the new gouernour were vnwilling to fight but finding one excuse or other suffered the enemie at his pleasure to spoile the countrey and so in safetie to depart which he had neuer before done in those quarters Within lesse than a moneth after Saladin with a great armie well appointed with all the habilliments of war needfull for the besieging of a citie or strong castle came againe into the land of PALESTINE and passing through the countrey beyond IORDAN sat downe at last before PETRA in hope by the taking thereof to haue made his passage betweene AEGYPT and DAMASCO more safe Of which his purpose king Baldwin hauing knowledge and taught by the euill successe of late to what small purpose it was to commit the managing of his wars vnto a generall so euill beloued and lesse regarded as was Guy his brother in law sent against him with his armie Raymund the countie of TRIPOLIS the old gouernour whom he had againe restored vnto the gouernment and displaced Guy Of whose comming Saladin hearing raised his siege after he had lien there a moneth and so departed A little before this expedition the king still growing sicker and sicker his foule disease still increasing by the common consent of the nobilitie appointed Baldwin his nephew by his sister Sybylla a child but of fiue yeares old to succeed him in the kingdome and the countie of TRIPOLIS to haue the gouernment of the state during the time of his minoritie This Sybilla the kings sister was first married to William the yoonger marquesse of MOUNT-FERRAT who dying within three months after left her with child with this his posthumus sonne Baldwin now by his vncle deputed vnto the hope of the kingdome After whose death she was married to Guy Lusignan countie of IOPPA and ASCALON the late gouernour who taking in euill part this the kings designement especially for the gouernment of the kingdome by the countie of TRIâ—OLIS departed from the court as a man discontented vnto his citie of ASCALON whereof the Patriarch and the princes of the sacred war fearing and that not without cause great danger to ensue came to the king then holding a parlament at the citie of ACON most humbly requesting him for auoiding of further danger and the safetie of his kingdome to receiue againe into his fauour the countie Guy his brother in law and to make an attonement betwixt him and the countie of TRIPOLIS But this their request sorted to no purpose so that the parlament was dissolued without any thing for the good of the commonweale in that point concluded After that time the kingdome of HIERUSALEM began still more and more to decline In the old king Baldwin sicke both in bodie and mind was almost no hope in the yoong king yet vnfit for so great a burthen much lesse and the dissention betwixt the two counties Guy and Raymund with their fauorits was like enough to bring great harme vnto the state Besides that the countie of TRIPOLIS fearing the power of Guy his enemy was thought to haue secret intelligence with Saladin the Turke in so much that the king was almost in purpose to haue proclaimed him traitour Wherefore the king now rested onely vpon the counsell of William archbishop of TYRE and the masters of the knights of the sacred war by whose aduise he sent Heraclius Patriarch of HIERUSALEM Roger Molins master of the kinghts of S. Iohns and Arnold master of the Templars embassadours vnto Lucius the third then Pope vnto Fredericke the emperour Philip the French king and Henrie the second king of ENGLAND to declare vnto them the dangerous state of that Christian kingdome and to craue their aid against the Infidels These embassadours comming to the Counsell then holden at VERONA with great grauitie and diligence in the presence of the Pope and of the emperour declared the hard estate of the Christians of the East with their humble request vnto them for aid in such sort that they mooued
subject to his furie euen to the gates of the citie but knowing that so strong a citie was not without great charge and long siege to be woon he thought it good to make proofe if it might by pollicie or corruption bee gained Wherein he so cunningly dealt with the Patriarch that he had by his meanes the castle otherwise almost impregnable for gold betrayed vnto him By meanes whereof hee in short time became lord and master of that famous citie about ninetie yeares before hardly gained by the whole power of the Christians after eleuen moneths siege and with it fiue and twentie cities moe that depended of the fortune thereof with all the prouinces belonging thereunto alwayes deemed to haue been the third part of the kingdome of HIERUSALEM The losse of this so great a citie together with the ruine of the whole kingdome had in short space filled euery corner of Christendome with the heauie report thereof Wherwith the Christian princes of the West namely Frederick the Germane emperour with Frederick his sonne duke of SUEVIA Philip the French king Henry the second king of ENGLAND Otto duke of BVRGVNDIE Leopold duke of AUSTRIA with many other great princes and prelats of GERMANIE ITALIE and other places not a little mooued as also with the pittifull complaints of the embassadours at the same time sent from the distressed Christians and the effectuall persuasions of Clement the third then Pope promised and all or most part indeed made great preparations which they afterwards though not all at once as letted by other occasions but at diuers times imployed for the most part with the danger of their owne persons against the Turks for the reliefe of the poore oppressed Christians and recouerie of the holy land but with what successe shall hereafter God willing be declared Of which so great preparations made against him Saladin not ignorant set at libertie Guy the king of HIERUSALEM whom contrarie to his promise made at ASCALON hee had now detained a yeare in prison yet before his enlargement exacting of him an oath Neuer by force of armes afterwards to seeke to recouer his kingdome or to reuenge the wrongs hee had sustained hoping thereby to stay the comming of the other princes in his quarell Which oath for all that the Pope dispensed withall as extorted by constraint from him at such time as Saladin had longer detained him in prison than of right he should Guy now at libertie and yet in mind a king came to TYRE but could not be there receiued the citizens hauing before sworn their obedience vnto Conrade marquesse of MONT-FERRAT by whom they had been notably defended against the furie of Saladin Wherefore departing thence with such power as he had and the dispersed Christians daily repairing vnto him out of all parts of SIRIA he came and besieged PTOLEMAIS Where he had not long lien but that first came vnto him the Venetian fleet with them also of PISA and after them the Flemmings with a fleet of fiftie saile who all joyned their forces together for the winning of the citie But whilest the Christians thus lay at the siege of PTOLEMAIS came Saladin with a great armie to the reliefe of the besieged where betwixt him and the Christians was fought a great battaile wherein the Christians at the first had the better but afterward fainting and readie to flie had there vndoubtedly receiued a notable ouerthrow had not Geffrey Lysignan the kings brother left for the guarding of the campe in good time come in with new supplies and not only staied their flight but also repressed the farther pursute of the fierce enemie now almost in possession of the desired victorie Neuerthelesse there were two thousand Christians there slaine and amongst them Gerard master of the Templars Saladin by that which was now done perceiuing how hard a matter it would be for him by land to relieue his citie sent for the fleet which he had strongly rigged vp at ALEXANDRIA and so by force put new supplies both of men and victuals into the besieged citie Wherewith the Turks encouraged made often sallies vpon the Christians and in despight of the Christian religion whipped the image of Christ crucified which they had for that purpose in the sight of the Christians set vp vpon the top of the wall With the same fleet also he so scoured the seas that no victuals or new supplies of men could that way without great danger be brought vnto the campe whereby such scarcitie and want of all things began shortly after to arise among the Christians that some of them not able longer to indure the famine fled vnto the Turks campe then lying not farre off crying out for bread Of which distresse in the campe of the Christians Saladin knowing right well both by such fugitiues as daily came ouer vnto him and by his owne espials yet made shew as if hee vnderstood nothing thereof but suddainly rising with his armie as doubtfull of his owne strength departed leauing his campe full of all manner of victuals Whereof the Christians vnderstanding and supposing him to haue for feare been gone indeed in great numbers hasted vnto the forsaken campe as vnto a most desired prey where whilest they were gorging themselues Saladin suddainly returning and getting betwixt them and home made of them a great slaughter Neuerthelesse the Christians hauing now lien before the citie six months continued the siege all the Winter ouercomming with patience the hardest difficulties in hope of aid from the other Christian princes whose comming they expected with the first of the next Spring during which time many an hot skirmish passed betwixt them and the Turkes both by sea and land Whilest the Christians thus lay at the siege of PTOLEMAIS Frederick the emperour with diuers of the great Germane princes and others before resolued vpon an expedition for the recouerie of the Holy land and the reliefe of the distressed Christians in SYRIA hauing now raised a great armie furnished with all things necessarie for so long a journey set forward from RATISBONE and so comming to VIENNA and passing through HVNGARIA BVLGARIA and THRACIA arriued at length at CONSTANTINOPLE where he was by Isaack Angelus the emperour that then raigned honourably entertained but indeed more for feare and fashion sake than for any loue or good will for that he after the suspicious manner of the Greekes hauing in distrust so great a power of the Latine emperors wished rather for his absence than his presence And therefore ceased not in what he might to hasten his passage ouer into ASIA pretending for the colour thereof The necessitie the Christians had of his present aid So the emperour with his armie passing ouer the strait and without resistance marching through the greatest part of the lesser ASIA entred into LYCAONIA where meeting with a great power of the Turks that were come from the Sultan of ICONIVM to stay his farther passage hee ouerthrew them in a great battell
wals the Turks with no lesse courage still beating them down againe But in the heat of this so dreadfull and desperat an assault Saladin still houering aloofe came now vpon the sudden assailed the camp of the Christians filling the same with feare and tumult whose charge they that were left for the defence of the same at the first notably receiued but finding themselues too weake began to giue ground by which means the Turks tooke certaine tents with some ensignes and fired some other of the pauilions of the Christians hauing slaine somewhat mo than an hundred of the defendants The Christians in the meane time little preuailing in the assault troubled with the danger of their campe retired to the reliefe thereof But the Turke perceiuing himselfe too weake for the whole power of the Christians retired also yet not with such hast but that he had there almost lost himselfe This notable assault was giuen the fourteenth of October after which many light skirmishes passed betwixt the Christians and the Turks but more for bootie than for any other great purpose In the meane time diuers great princes of the West that had vowed themselues vnto this sacred warre came thither whose number rather increased the want of victuals than furthered the seruice At which time also the discord betwixt Guy the king whose wife and children were now dead and Conrade marquesse of MONT-FERRAT who had married Isabell the late queenes sister by whom he pretended a claime vnto the title of the imaginarie kingdome did much harme vnto the proceedings of the Christians So pleasing a thing these haughtie stiles be vnto the loftie minds of the ambitious Shortly after the Christians yet lying at the siege the contagion and famine still encreasing it fortuned that duke Frederick fell sicke of the plague whereof he died and with the great mourning of the whole armie was afterward solemnly buried fast by his father in the cathedrall church at TYRE After whose death the Christians attempted no great matter against the citie although they were oftentimes by the Turkes prouoked but lay still strongly entrenched expecting some greater aid from the princes of the West Now all the hope of the Christian affaires in SIRIA and in the land of PALESTINE rested vpon the comming of the two mightie princes Philip the second of that name king of FRANCE and Richard the first king of ENGLAND who hauing agreed betwixt themselues with their combined forces to relieue the distressed Christians of the East and againe if it were possible to repaire the broken state of the kingdome of HIERUSALEM were now met together at MARSEILLES in PROVENCE From whence the French king first departing with his fleet for CICILIA and with a prosperous gale for certaine daies holding on his course now come nigh vnto the island was by force of a furious tempest suddenly arising so tossed and tumbled in the deepe that many of his ships there perished eaten vp of the sea others by force of weather driuen vpon the sands and rocks were there broken all to pieces and the rest some with their masts broken some with their tacklings and sailes rent and all in generall sore weatherbeaten with much adoe arriued at MESSANA the desired port at which place king Richard afterwards but with better fortune arriued with his fleet also Both the kings now met together resolued there to winter the French king enforced by necessitie so to doe for the repairing of the late losses he had receiued as well in his people and prouision as in his shipping all which was to be relieued by new supplies out of FRANCE and the king of ENGLAND staying to take order for the dowrie of his sister Ioan widdow of William the late king of CICILIA with Tancred the base sonne of Roger that had now aspired vnto the kingdome of that island About which matter great stirs arise betwixt king Richard the queenes brother and Tancred the new king in so much that it was like to haue broken out into open warre had it not to the good contentment of king Richard beene otherwise taken vp and so the controuersie ended But whilst these two great kings thus wintred in this fruitfull island and oftentimes as good friends met together sometime for their disport and sometime to confer of their so waightie affaires the way as was thought to haue appeased all former displeasure and to haue encreased loue it fell out cleane contrarie jealousie and distrust not onely reuiuing the old but also still raising new quarrels betwixt them to the great hinderance of the common good by them intended which may serue for a warning to all great princes willing to continue in amitie to hold a good opinion one of another Neuer to see one the other or comming so to an interuiew not to conuerse or stay long together which as it is not often done without the danger of their persons so can it not possibly be long continued but that it will engender in themselues as well as in their followers jealousie enuie hatred and mistrust as we haue before said and hereafter in the course of this historie may appeare There was an old quarrell betwixt these two great kings Richard and Philip about Adela the French kings sister whom Richard hauing before his father yet liuing affianced had now rejected as her whom his aged father Henrie the second had too familiarly vsed and in steed of her to the great disgrace of the French espoused the ladie Berengaria daughter to the king of NAVAR which indignitie with diuers others then arising betwixt the French and the English as then with great heart burning smouldred vp in respect of the common cause then in hand afterwards brake out againe to the shamefull ouerthrow of this most honourable expedition and lamentable disturbance of both realmes Winter past and the Spring now come the French king not altogether the best pleased first loosed from MESSANA and with his fleet in safetie arriued at PTOLEMAIS where he was by the Christians now the third yeere lying at the siege so joyfully receiued as if he had beene to them sent with succours from heauen After whom shortly after followed also king Richard of whose fleet by force of weather sore beaten dispersed two ships by the rage of the tempest driuen a ground vpon the coast of CYPRUS were by the island people spoiled and the men that in them had hardly escaped the danger of the sea with most barbarous inhumanitie some slaine and some taken prisoners the rest of the fleet arriuing there also were with like inciuilitie forbidden to land the Cipriots readie at hand in all places to keepe them off With which so great an indignitie the king justly mooued and by force landing his people with incredible celeritie and successe ouerran the whole island neuer ceasing vntill he had made a full conquest thereof and taken Isaack Comnenus commonly called the king of that island and of some
ebbe deuided betwixt two weake princes raigning but at the deuotion of the Tartar In which confusion of the Turkish empire so rent not onely diuers men of greater power and authoritie amongst them shared vnto themselues some one corner of the declining kingdome and some another but many of the obscure and basest people also bearing with them nothing but their bowes and arrowes tooke the strait passages of the mountaines and from thence with their dayly incursions did much harme in the countries of the Christians joyning vpon them which was no great matter for them to doe the garrisons which were woont to defend the same being for want of pay quite disbanded and the castles vpon the frontiers by them abandoned which at the first as a thing of small importance neglected was at length vnto the Greekes a great cause of the ruine and decay of the greatest part of their state in ASIA These mischeefes vnregarded grew dayly more and more the Turkes still gaining vpon the Greekes what they lost vnto the Tartars Whose inuasions the glorie of their kingdome onely excepted was not so hurtfull vnto them as the cause of their much greater felicitie afterwards At length it fortuned that a great power of these aduenturous Turkes meeting together in PAPHLAGONIA were about to haue inuaded the territories of the Christians against whom Michaell Paleologus the emperour sent out a strong and puissant armie to stay their further comming on lest breaking in that way they should without resistance at their pleasure forrage the countrey before them Which armie conducted by vnskilfull captaines encountering with the Turkes was by them in a great battell ouerthrowne and vtterly defeated few or none of all that great multitude escaping for whilest the Greeks vnaduisedly pursued the Turks retiring of purpose before them they were by them drawne into the danger of a greater power lying in ambush for them and so entrapped were slaine with an exceeding great slaughter After which so great a victorie the beginning of the miserie of the Christians in the lesser ASIA the Turkes without let or stay ouerranne all the countrey vnto the riuer SANGARIVS vpon the banks whereof the Greeke emperour was glad to fortifie diuers townes and forts to keepe them out of BITHINIA Neuerthelesse they in short time after subdued all the countries from PONTVS and GALATIA vnto the LYCIAN and CARIAN sea and the riuer EVRIMEDON which they diuided amongst them into diuers Toparchies little or nothing acknowledging the soueraigntie either of Mesoot or Kei-Cubades Whilest the Turkes in the lesser ASIA thus win from the Christians on the one side and loose to the Tartars on the other many an hard conflict in the meane time passed betwixt the Aegyptian Sultans with their Mamalukes and the Tartars for the soueraigntie of SYRIA The poore remainder of the Christians all that while there in doubt both of the one and of the other From whom and from the Armenians then also much infested by the Mamalukes diuers embassadors were sent vnto the Pope the Christian princes of the West to craue their aid and helpe in that their hard estate whose praiers little preuailing with the rest yet so mooued Lewis the French king and Henry the third then raigning in ENGLAND that they both promised them aid Whereupon Lewis a man of great deuotion and alwaies forward in that seruice against the infidels tooke vpon him the crosse the cognisance of the sacred war causing his three sonnes Philip that succeeded him in the kingdome surnamed the Faire Peter countie of ALANCON and Iohn countie of NEVERS surnamed Tristan for that his mother was in her greatest heauinesse for the taking of her husband deliuered of him in AEGYPT and most of the nobilitie of FRANCE to do the like vnto whom also Theobald king of NAVAR his sonne in law Alphonsus his brother and Guydo earle of FLANDERS joyned themselues And so hauing put all things in readinesse tooke his way to MARSEILLES and from thence embarking himselfe with his armie in the Genowaies ships hired for that purpose set forward the first of March in the yeare 1270. But being at sea he was by force of weather constrained to land in SARDINIA and there to stay a while departing thence he at length arriued at CARTHAGE the place by him desired where in the entrance of the hauen he surprised certain of the enemies ships but landing his men and assaulting the town he was there notably repulsed This is not that antient great and famous citie which sometime mightily stroue with the proud mistresse of the world for soueraigntie but another built long after in the ruines or at least not far from the ruines of the same In the besieging whereof the Frenchmen â—ound such resistance as well put them in remembrance of the antient glorie of the Carthaginians One day it fortuned as the king thus lay at the siege that the defendants made a great and fierce sally out vpon the Frenchmen who before commaunded so to do by little and little retired to draw their enemies farther on betwixt whom and the citie the Constable with a great power comming in and charging them behind and they which before retired now standing close vnto them they were on both sides hardly beset who for all that as became valiant men worthily defended themselues and made there a great fight though not without extreame perill which they in the citie beholding gaue out a most hideous and piteous crie a certaine signe of their hard estate within astonying with the suddennesse thereof both their friends their enemies But whilest they of the towne betwixt hope and dispaire stood thus beholding the fight at land the Frenchmen by sea approching a bulwarke on that side of the townâ— tooke it without resistance which so dismaid them without that they began foorthwith to flie of whom the greatest part casting away their weapons were by the kings commandement taken to mercie and they likewise of the towne vpon promise of their liues yeelded the same vnto the king CARTHAGE thus woon the king layd siege vnto TVNES the chiefe cittie of that kingdome being not farre off where by the way he was encountred by the king of the countrey who hauing there lost ten thousand of his Moores betooke himselfe to flight with the rest Who thus ouerthrowne resolued no more to tempt fortune but to keepe himselfe safe within the wals of his citie if happily so he might as it oftentimes falleth out more weaken his enemies by lying still and protracting the time than by open force and valour Which their purpose king Lewis perceiuing resolued not to stirre from thence vntill that he were become master of the citie which as it seemed could not hold out for want of victuals considering the multitude of people that were got into it Neuerthelesse thus besieged both by sea and land and so straightly hemmed in on euerie side as that no reliefe could possibly bee brought vnto it
relieue himselfe came to composition with Orchanes for Othoman was then sicke of his old disease the gout couenanting with him that they might in safetie with life and libertie depart and so much of their goods as they themselues could carie and so yeelded to him the citie Which conditions as most write were on the Turks behalfe well and faithfullie performed yet some there be that report them to haue bene in most part by Orchanes broken Thus was PRUSA one of the greatest cities of that part of ASIA yeelded vnto the Turks in the yeere of our Lord 1327 and was afterwards by Orchanes made the royall seat of the Othoman kings About this time or verie shortly after Othoman in the eight and twentith yeare of his raigne died at the age of 69 in the yeare of our Lord 1328 and lieth buried at PRUSA where his tombe is yet at this day to be seene in a certaine chappell of an old monasterie in the castle standing in the middest of the citie couered with a mantle of greene chamlet a little Tulipant or Turkish hat such as he vsed to weare lying ouer his head far differing from those which the Turks now weare especiallie the better sort of them so great that they can therwith scarsly come in at a doore There is also another monument of him to be seene at SUGUTA fast by the sepulchre of his father Ertogrull there made by his sonnes in remembrance of him whereof some haue reported him to haue bene there buried Howbeit the Turks themselues generally suppose the true monument wherein he is interred to be at PRUSA as is aforesaid He was wise politicke valiant and fortunate but full of dissimulation and ambitious aboue measure not rash in his attempts and yet very resolute what hee tooke in hand hee commonly brought to good effect to all men he was bountifull and liberall but especially to his men of warre and the poore whom he would many times feed and cloath with his owne hands Of a poore lordship he left a great kingdome hauing subdued a great part of the lesser ASIA and is worthily accounted the first founder of the Turks great kingdome and empire Of him the Turkish kings and emperours euer since haue bene called the Othoman kings and emperours as lineally of him descended and the Turks themselues Osmanidae as the people or subiects of Othoman or Osman for so he is of the Turks commonlie called NOte that in the reckoning vp of certaine of the great Christian Princes and Prelates of the same time at the end of euery the Turkish Kings and Emperors liues the first and greatest number following their names sheweth the yeare of our Lord wherein such an Emperour King or Bishop began to raigne or sit and the number following how long he raigned or sat As for example Andronicus the elder began to raigne in the East in the yeare of grace 1282 and raigned 4◠yeares and so of the rest Wherein we seeke not the exact computation vnto a moneth or day as not much materiall to our Historie or any part of our purpose but onely the reasonable view of the great princes of the forepassed times as they liued in ages together Christian princes of the same time with Othoman Emperours Of the East Andronicus Palaeologus the elder 1282.43 Andronicus Palaeologus the younger 1325.29 Of the West Albertus of Austria 1298.10 Henrie of Lucelburg 1308.6 Lewes the fourth of Bauaria 1314.32 Kings Of England Edward the first 1272.34 Edward the second 1307.20 Edward the third 1327.50 Of Fraunce Philip the faire 1286.28 Lewes 1314.2 Philip the long 1316.5 Charles the faire 1321.7 Of Scotland Iohn Baliol. 1292. Robert Bruce 1306.24 Bishops of Rome Boniface the VIII 1295.8 Benedict the XI 1304.2 Clement the V. 1306.11 Iohn the XXII 1317.18 ORCHANES ORCHANES OTHOMANNI FI SECVNDVS TVRCARVM REX FLORVIT ANNO 1328 Suscipit Orchanes defuncti septra parentis Major vt ingento sic magis arte valens Bi thynos Phrygiamque domat Prusamque superbam Et populos latè Marte fauente premit Sic laetus tantis Asiam turbasse ruinis Transit in Europam Callipolimque capit Rident interea Graeci sua damna sed ecce Dum sua contemnunt in sua fata ruunt RICH. KNOLLEVS His father dead Orchanes takes his scepter vp in hand As one of deeper wit and reach his foes for to withstand The Phrigians and Bithynians he by force of armes brought low Proud PRVSA with faire NICOMEDE and many cities moe And glad in ASIA to haue made such hauocke and such spoile His forces into EVROPE sends the Graecians there to foile Who meane while laughing at their losse did make thereof a game Not thinking what a world of woe was to ensue the same THE LIFE OF ORCHANES OR VRCHAN SECOND KING OF THE TVRKES AFTER the death of Othoman his two sonnes Orchanes whom the Turks call Vrchan and Aladin his brother hauing with great solemnitie enterred their father at PRVSA immediatly summoned a Parlament whereunto both the brethren came accompanied with the chiefe of their nobilitie This parlament was called especially for the establishing of the succession in this new kingdome and for the diuision of Othomans treasure and goods betwixt them two his sonnes But vpon view taken there was no money plate or jewels found in the kings coffers for that he had in his life time most bountifully bestowed it vpon his men of warre so that all the wealth hee left vnto them his sonnes was the honourable remembrance of his life for them to immitate large dominions for their possessions store of readie horses and armour fit for seruice with great heards of beasts and cattell for household prouision Whereupon Orchanes demaunded of his brother Aladin what order hee thought was best to be taken with those things by their father so left To whom Aladin answered That it was most requisite first to establish a king in their fathers kingdome which like a good sheepherd might gouerne and defend his subjects rule and maintaine his men of war prouiding all things meet for defence of his kingdome And that vnto him of right belonged all these other things by their father left as the patrimonie of his successour for the common good and maintenance of his estate As for mine owne part said Aladin I claime no interest therein you being my elder brother and so vnto me in steed of a father by whom also you haue been these two yeares as it were alreadie put in possession of the kingdom all things being committed to your gouernment during the time of his late sickenesse This modestie of Aladin was greatly commended of all the antient counsellors by meanes wherof the kingdome in all peaceable maner discended to Orchanes In regard of which courtesie Orchanes would gladly haue made Aladin his brother President of his counsell which honour he would in no wise accept but requested rather that hee would giue him the lordship of FODORE in Tekences countrey
the fact and to carrie the first newes thereof to Selymus secretly conuayed himselfe away and fled in hast to CONSTANTINOPLE But Baiazet attainted with the force of the poyson began first to feele most greeuous gripings in his stomacke the strong paine whereof appeared by his miserable complaining and heauie groning in the midst of which torments he gaue vp the ghost in the yeare 1512 when he had raigned thirtie yeares The Turkes report that he died a naturall death but Antonius Vtrius a Genoway who at that time serued in Baiazet his chamber and was present at his death reporteth That vpon his dead bodie the euident tokens of poyson were to bee seene His dead bodie with all his treasures were presently brought backe againe to CONSTANTINOPLE and deliuered to Selymus who caused the bodie of his father to be with the greatest solemnitie that might be buried in a most sumptuous tombe in a chappell neer vnto the great Mahometane temple which he had before built for himselfe at CONSTANTINOPLE which monument there remaineth at this day to bee seene His seruants were all by Selymus restored to their places which they before held in the Court in the time of their old master excepting fiue of the pages of his chamber who lamenting the death of their master aboue the rest had attired themselues all in mourning apparell for which cause they were by the commaundement of Selymus cast in prison where two of them were put to death the other three at the sute of Solyman Selymus his sonne and of other two Bassaes were saued but being stript of their rich apparrell and whatsoeuer els they had gotten vnder Baiazet they were enrolled for common souldiors vnder Sullustares Bassa Of these three this Antonius Vtrius the Genoway before spoken of was one who after ten yeares miserable captiuitie amongst the Turks at last escaped at such time as Selymus was by the Persian discomfited and with much adoe returning againe into ITALIE writ the historie of all such things as hee himselfe had there seene with the calamities of Baiazet his house and a great part of the tyrannous raigne of Selymus Hamon the false Iew as the same author reporteth comming to CONSTANTINOPLE and expecting some great reward for his foule treason by the commaundement of Selymus had his head presently strucke off with this exprobation of his trecherie That oportunitie seruing hee would not sticke for reward to doe the like against Selymus himselfe Of this Baiazet Ianus Vitalis writeth this Elogium Dum rerum exquiris causas dum procul Hunnes Carmannos Cilices Sauromatasque domas Baiazete domi proles tua te petit armis Et te per fraudes amouet imperio Adijcit inde nouum sceleri scelus tibi miscet Pocula lethiferis illita graminibus Intempestiuos crudelis vipera foetus Per sua sic tandem funera rupta parit Quid tutum est cui sint ingentia regna tiranno Si timeat natos progeniemque suam In English thus Whilest that thou Baiazethes seekes of things the hidden cause And faine wouldst bring the Hunne and Russe vnder thy Turkish laws Thy sonne at home steps vp in armes against thy royall crowne And by false treason and deceit finds meanes to plucke thee downe Whereto he addeth mischeefe more and straight without delay By poyson strong in glittering boule doth take thy life away The cruell viper so brings forth her foule vntimely brood Which eat and gnaw her bellie out their first and poysoned food What things may princes hold for safe that do great kingdomes sway If of their children they must stand in dread and feare alway R. K. FINIS Christian princes of the same time with Baiazet the second Emperors of Germanie Frederick the third Archduke of Austria 1440. 54. Maximilian the first 1494. 25. Kings Of England Edward the fourth 1460. 22. Edward the fifth 1483. 0. Richard the third 1483. 3. Henrie the seuenth 1485. 24. Henrie the eight 1509. 38. Of Fraunce Lewis the eleuenth 1461. 22. Charles the eight 1483. 14. Lewis the twelfth 1497. 17 Of Scotland Iames the third 1460. 29. Iames the fourth 1489. 25. Bishops of Rome Xystus the IIII. 1471. 13. Innotentius the VIII 1484. 8. Alexander the VI. 1492. 11. Pius the III. 1503. 26 daies Iulius the II. 1503. 9. SELYMVS SELYMVS PRIMVS TVRCARVM IMPERATOR TERTIVS FLORVIT AN o 1512 En Selymus scelere ante alios immanior omnes In patris fratrum dirigit arma necem In Persas mouet inde ferox Memphitica regna Destruit Syros Aethiopasque domat Hinc in Christicolas irarum effundere fluctus Ipsorumque imo vertere regna parat Cùm diro victus prosternitur vlcere Christus Scilicet est populi portus aura sui Lo Selymus in crueltie exceeding others farre His father and his brethren both destroies with mortall warre The Persian fiercely he assailes and conquers Aegypts land The Sirian and the Mooâ—e likewise he tam'd with mightie hand But purposing in his mad mood the Christians to confound And the memoriall of their name to roote from off the ground A loathsome Canker eat him vp and brought him to his end Christ is to his the safest port when he will them defend THE LIFE OF SELYMVS FIRST OF THAT NAME THE THIRD AND MOST WARLIKE EMPEROVR OF THE TVRKES THis Selymus by fauour of the great Bassaes and men of war whom he had before corrupted hauing depriued his father Baiazet first of the empire and shortly after of his life also and now fully possessed of the empire himselfe first tooke view of the treasures which the Turkish kings and emperors his auncestors had before of long time heaped vp in great aboundance out of which hee gaue vnto the souldiours of the court two millions of duckets and for a perpetuall remembrance of his thankfulnesse towards them augmented their daily wages allowing vnto euerie horseman four aspers a day and to euerie footman two aboue their wonted allowance By which exceeding bountie he greatly assured vnto himselfe the minds of the men of warre Shortly after he passed ouer with a great armie into ASIA leauing the gouernment of the imperiall citie of CONSTANTINOPLE vnto his onely sonne Solyman and marching into GALATIA came to the citie of ANCYRA in hope there to haue oppressed his elder brother Achomates But he vnderstanding before of his comming withall wisely considering how vnable he was to withstand his forces fled before into the mountaines of CAPADOCIA vpon the confines of ARMENIA taking vp men by the way as he went and praying aid of all sorts of people yea euen of such as were but of small abilitie themselues and vnto him meere strangers that so hee might in best manner he could prouide such strength as might serue him to make head against his brother and for the recouerie of ASIA Selymus hauing spent that sommer without doing anie thing worth the speaking of and considering that he
c E EArthquake most terrible in Constantinople 476 h Edward eldest sonne to Henry the third king of England taketh vpon him an expedition into the Holy land and arriueth at Tunes 119 c. arriueth at Ptolemais 120 g. taketh Nazareth and putteth the Turks to flight h. by a desperat Sarasin dangerously wounded with an enuenomed knife k. cured of his wound maketh peace with the Sultan and returneth into England 121 a. the Aegiptians diuersly affected towards the Mamalukes 542 i Eiuases Bassa hath his eyes burnt out 258 m. Elpis the Aegiptian Sultan besiegeth Tripolis and taketh it by force 122 l. winneth Sidon and Berythus and raseth them taketh Tyre by composition and winneth all the strong holds in Syria and Palestine from the Christians except onely the strong citie of Ptolemais 122 m. maketh peace with the remainder of the Christians m. Emanuell the Greeke Emperour with a great power inuadeth the dominions of the Sultan of Iconium 38 h. looseth a great part of his armie 39 c. in danger to haue been taken notably defendeth himselfe 40 l. in his greatest distresse hath peace offered him by the Sultan which he gladly accepteth 42 i. he vanquisheth Atapack the Sultans Generall m. falleth sick and dieth 43 a Emanuell the Greeke Emperour vpon hard conditions obtaineth peace of Baiazet the Great Turke and becommeth his tributarie 206 l. by his embassadours offereth his Empire vnto Tamerlan so to become his vassale 221 d. commeth himselfe vnto him at Prusa 222 h. honourably entertaineth him comming in priuat ouer to Constantinople i. Embassadours sent from Tamas the Persian king to Selymus 836 h. honorably entertained by the Turks at Hadrianople 837 b. the Persian embassadour in going to visit Muhamet the Visier Bassa in danger to haue been slaine d. the rich presents by him giuen to Selymus 838 g Emir Hamze the Persian prince commeth into Siruan 939 c. killeth Caitas Bassa and recouereth Ere 's d. ouerthroweth the Tartars and taketh Abdilcheray 940 g. recouereth Sumachia i. returneth to Casbin k. ouerthroweth the vauward of the Turks armie 990 l. in a great battell ouerthroweth Cicala Bassa and the Bassa of Caraemit 993 b. dareth Osman the Turks Generall battell c. with his owne hand killeth the Bassa of Caraemit f. killeth also the Bassa of Trapezond with twentie thousand Turks moe 994 g. ouerthroweth twentie thousand of the Turks in the battell of Sancazan 995 b. ouercommeth the rebellious Turcomans and executeth their leaders 998 h. sacketh Salmas 1000 k. putteth the Bassa of Reiuan to flight l. slaine by one of his Eunuchs 1002 h Emir Chan hauing his eyes put out dieth miserably in prison 973 c the Emperour the French king and the king of Polonia entangled in their leagues with the Turke refuse to giue aid vnto the Venetians against him 842 k. the Empire of Trapezond ouerthrown and subuerted by Mahomet the Great 361 a. Ertogrul with his brother Dunder and foure hundred families of the Turks stay in their returne toward Persia. 133 f. by his good seruice obtaineth of Sultan Aladin a place at Suguta for himselfe and his Turks to dwell in 434 k. taketh the castle of Cara-Chisar from the Christians 135 a Euboea taken from the Venetians by Mahomet the Great 406 k Eurenoses his rich present vnto Amurath at the marriage of his sonne Baiazet 193 b Eudocia the Empresse contrarie to her oath desirous to marrie dealeth cunningly with the Patriarch to dispence with her oath 7 d. marrieth Diogenes Romanus a prisoner condemned to die and maketh him Emperour f. she is deposed by the traitours Iohn Ducas Psellus and others and thrust into a Monasterie 10 i Eustace Gouernour of the kingdome of Ierusalem discomfiteth the Sarasins in a great battell neere vnto Ascalon and not long after dieth 28 i F FAmagusta besieged by the Turks 852 k. hath a new supply put into it by Quirinus 855 c. described 863 b. the number of the defendants in it c. twice assaulted and notably defended by the Christians d. â— vndermined 865 a. furiously by the Turks assaulted and valiantly by the Christians defended b. a great part of the wall blowne vp and the citie againe assaulted 866 g. yeelded vp to the Turks m. Famine in Scodra 426 g Faulconers and Huntsmen in great number in the Turks Court 338 k Ferat Bassa sent by Solyman against Alis Beg the mountaine prince 600 i. treacherously murthereth him and his foure sonnes l. Ferat Bassa by Amurath chosen Generall of his armie against the Persians in stead of Sinan 965 d. in the space of fifteene dayes buildeth a fort at Reiuan as he was by Amurath commaunded 966 i. breaketh vp his armie at Erzirum 967 d. raiseth a new armie f. fortifieth Lori 968 k. buildeth a fort vpon the strait of Tomanis 969 a. reprooueth Veis Bassa of Aleppo 970 k. is himselfe reuiled by the Ianizaries and Spahi l. by them disobeied and threatened 971 d. his stout answer to his mutinous souldiors f. his tents ouerthrowne and he againe threatened 972 g. disgraced breaketh vp his armie at Ardachan k. grieuously complained of to Amurath 973 e. by Amurath againe made Generall against the Persians 999 b. commeth to Van. 1000 g. putteth succours into Tauris 1001 d. taketh Genge 1004 m. sent by Mahomet Generall of his armie into Hungarie 1060 l. disgraced at his first comming to the armie m. ouerthrowne in Valachia 1062 h. sent for to Constantinople and there strangled 1073 b. Ferdinand king of Bohemia laieth claime to the kingdome of Hungarie 605 b. taketh Buda e. crowned king of Hungarie 606 k. seeketh for the fauour of Solyman 608. is by him reiected and threatened k. persuaded by the Hungarian fugitiues to inuade Hungarie 698 g. dissuaded by Lascus k. sendeth Lascus to Solyman and other embassadours to the queene of Hungarie to demaund of her that kingdome 699 b. he inuadeth Hungarie 700 g. taketh Pesth and Vacia and besiegeth Buda h. dieth 791 d. Filek taken by the Christians 1027 c Foscarus a graue Senatour 693 f. vnworthily disgraced by the multitude 694 g. Foureteene wagons loaded with the heads of the slaine Christians 1017 c Francis the French king the more to trouble the Emperour solliciteth Solyman to inuade his territories 725 c Francus Acciauoll duke of Thebes by the commaundement of Mahomet murthered 354 l Fredericke the Emperour taketh vpon him an expedition into the Holy land 66 b Fredericke duke of Sueuia the Emperours sonne in his fathers stead chosen Generall of the Christians armie 66 m. hath Antioch deliuered vnto him 67 d dieth of the plague and is buried by his father in the Cathedrall Church at Tire 68 g Fredericke the Germane Emperour vndertaketh an expedition into the Holy land 98 l. crowned king of Ierusalem which is by him repaired 99 e the Frenchmen and Wallons in mutinie at Pappa 1116 k. compact with the Turks to deliuer to them the towne 1117 a. seeking secretly to haue fled are most of them slaine and the rest that were taken
to Derbent 940 h. killeth Sahamall his father in law 941 d. is by Amurath sent for into Siruan 974 h. laid in wait for by Mahomet the Tartar king 975 b. ouercommeth the Tartars lying in wait for him c. by Amurath made chiefe Visier and Generall of his wars against the Persians 976 k. raiseth a great armie 989 c. wisely appeaseth his mutinous souldiors vnwilling to goe for Tauris 990 g. commeth to Tauris 991 b. taketh the citie e. in thirtie daies buildeth there a strong castle 992 i. giueth the citie to be spoiled by his souldiors k. leaueth Giaffer the Eunuch Bassa of Tripolis with a garrison of twelue thousand souldiors gouernour of Tauris 994 i. dieth 995 c. much lamented for at Constantinople 996 h P PAlaeapolis by Sultan Aladin giuen to Othoman 138 l Palotta yeelded to the Turks 1025 d Pantogles with the Turks fleet commeth to the siege of Constantinople 342 l. displaced 344 k Paphlagonia and Pontus with a great part of Cappadocia woon by Mahomet the Great 360 l Partan the Visier Bassa sent by Solyman against the supposed Mustapha bringeth him to Constantinople 769 e. sent by Solyman to haue brought Baiazet to Amasia is by him with good words sent backe againe 773â— standeth indifferent for giuing or not giuing of battell vnto the Christians at Lepanto 875â— encourageth his souldiors 876 i. flieth himselfe out of the battell 879 c Paradiser executed for yeelding vp of Canisia vnto the Turks 1133 e Peace concluded betwixt king Vladislaus and Amurath the second 289 b. by the persuasion of Iulian the Cardinall vnfortunately broken by Vladislaus 295 d. Peace concluded betwixt Mahomet and Scanderbeg 386 i. betwixt Baiazet and Caytheius 450 i. betwixt Baiazet and the Venetians 463 a. betwixt the Venetians and Solyman 694 l. betwixt the Venetians and Selymus the second 904 k. betwixt Amurath the third and Mahomet the Persian king 1005 b Peloponâ—sus described 353 e. made tributarie to the Turke 354 h. subdued by the Turks 355 e Pera yeelded vnto the Turks 349 c Perenus the noble Hungarian vpon the suspition of aspiring apprehended 732 k. matters surmised against him 733 a. he Valentinus and Maylat three of the chiefe of the Hungarian nobilitie vnworthily kept in perpetuall prison 734 b Persecution in the Greeke church for matters of Religion 145 c Persians better horsemen than the Turks 517 b. Peâ—th taken by Cason Admirall of the Turks fleet vpoÌ„ the Danubius 709 a. besieged by the marquesse of Brandenburg 729 e. in vaine assaulted 731 c. the siege giuen ouer 732 h. taken by the Christians 1146 e Peter a French Hermit going on pilgrimage to Ierusalem obserueth the miserie of the Christians vnder the Turks and Sarasins 12 l. in the counsell of Claremont deliuereth his message in the behalfe of the poore oppressed Christians 14 g. he with Gualter Sensauier the first that set forward in the great expedition of the Christians into the Holy land 14 k. looseth greatest part of his armie 15 d. discouraged about to haue stolne home brought back and enforced to take anew oath for his fidelitie and perseuerance in the warre 18 k Peter Damboyse Grand Master of the Rhodes a carefull Gouernour 427 e. his cheerefull speech vnto the rest of his knights and souldiors 428 h Peter Emus for his barbarous crueltie beheaded at Venice 978 l Petralba yeelded to Scanderbeg 285 d Petrella yeelded 285 c Petrinia taken by the Christians 1074 k Philaretus the Greeke Emperours lieutenant put to flight by the Turks 8 l Philadelphia taken by Baiazet 204 b Philes a deuout man but no souldior vndertaketh the deâ—â—nce of the Greeke Empire against the Turks 156 i. in plaine battell ouerthroweth them 157 c. Philip the second of that name the French king in going towards the Holy land suffereth shipwracke vpon the coast of Sicilia 68 i. arriueth at Ptolemais m. his speech vnto Richard king of England and the other Christian princes in his sickenesse 70 i. he sweareth vnto King Richard not to inuade his territories in France and so returneth home k. Phocas by killing of Mauritius the Emperour with his children possesseth himselfe of the Greeke Empire 22 g. slaine afterwards by them of his owne guard g. Piall Bassa Solymans Admirall sent to remooue the Christians out of Zerbi 784 h. in disgrace with Solyman shunneth to come to Constantinople 787 a. by Selymus the second sent against the Venetians 845 e. in vaine attempteth the island of Tenos 846 g. Pisaurius the Venetian Admirall doth very great harme vnto the Turkes 460 l. Plague and famine among the Turks 1060 m. Plague in the Venetian fleet 849 a Polinus the French embassadour with presents from Francis the French king meeteth Solyman comming from Buda 725 d. his request to Solyman e. returneth into Fraunce 726 g. sent backe againe to Solyman by the way solliciteth the Venetians to take vp armes against Charles the Emperor h. grieued not to find the Turke so readie to send his fleet in the aid of the King his master as he had before hoped m. is sharply shaken vp by Solyman Bassa 727 c. brought to the speech of Solyman himselfe 728 i. by him reiected vntill the next Spring k. setteth forward with Barbarussa and the Turks fleet 735 a. by his letters from Ostia comforteth the Popes Legat in Rome d. Podolia and Ruscia inuaded by the Turks 457 a the Pope and the King of Spaine fearing least the Venetians should make peace with the Turke hasten their confederation with that State long before by them delaied 859 a. a perpetuall league concluded betwixt the Pope the King of Spaine and the Venetians 860 h. the league proclaimed m. the Popes letters vnto the king of Polonia to dissuade him from inuading of Moldauia to the trouble of the Transyluanian prince 1081 b Preianes commeth to the Rhodes 581 c Presents of great valour sent by the Persian king vnto Selymus 837 f Prince Ciarcan slaine 219 b Princes of Germanie ioyne their forces with king Ferdinand against the Turke in Hungarie 728 l Prusa yeelded vnto the Turks 176 l. burnt by Isa. 240 l. repaired by Mahomet 241 a. againe burnt by the Caramanian king 249 f Q QVeene Isabella with child 695 e. deliuered of a sonne 696 i. that sonne by the name of Stephen crowned king of Hungarie 697 a. her answer vnto the embassadour of king Ferdinand demanding of her the kingdome of Hungarie 699 d. inuaded by king Ferdinand craueth aid of Solyman 701 b. by the commaundement of Solyman departeth with her young sonne out of Buda 713 e. yeeldeth vp to king Ferdinand all the right she had in Transyluania Hungaria 756 h Quinque Ecclaesiae yeelded vnto the Turks 736 h. Qumsay in the prouince of Mangi of all the cities in the world the greatest 75 f R RAb besieged by Sinan Bassa 1041 b. battered and assaulted 1044 h. by treason yeelded vnto the Bassa l. notably againe surprised by the Christians 1103 b Rama forsaken of the Turks
cruell and bloodie sight betwixt the Christians and the Turks euen in the Temple of Ierusalem 1099 Godfrey duke of Buillon by the generall consent of the Christian armie chosen first king of Ierusalem An hundred thousand Turks and Sarasins slaine Godfrey of Buillon first Christian king of Ierusalem dieth of tâ—e plâ—gâ—â— 1100 Baldwin countâ—â— of Edessa and brother to Godfrey second king of Ierusalem 1101 King Baldwin mortally wounded Ptolomais woon by king Baldwin Bohemund dieth at Antioch 1111 Sidon woon 1118 Baldwin Brâ—gensis chosen king of Ierusalem 1118 1120 1122 Iâ—ppa besieged bâ— the Sarasins Tâ—re bâ—siâ—â—ed by the Christians 1124 Damasco in vaiâ—e besieged by the Christians The death of Baldwin the second the third king of Ierusalem 1131 Caâ—o Ioannes 〈◊〉 Greeke empeâ—â—uâ— seâ—keth 〈…〉 Tâ—e death of 〈…〉 the Greeke emperour The miserabâ—◠〈…〉 of Ierusalem Baldwin the third of that name fift king of Ierusalem 1142 Conrade third emperor of Germanie taketh vpon him an expedition into the Holy land Conrade the emperour not suffred to enter into Constantinople The Turke with 〈…〉 A notable speech of Conrade the emperour to encourage his soldiers to aduenture the riuer Meander The Turks ouerthrowen by the Christians with a woonderfull slaughter Nicetas Choniates Annali primo rerum à Manuele Comoeno Imperatore gestar fol. 139. Iconium in vaine besieged by the Christianâ— 1146 The honourable expedition of Lewis the French king by the malice of the Greeks and 〈◊〉 of other Christian princes of Syria frustrated and brought to naught Damasco in vaine besieged by Lewis the French king 1147 Paneade taken and sacked by the Turks Paneade â—gaine repaired by the Christians The death of king Baldâ—in lamented by his â—â—â—mies 1163 Dâ—scord amongst the Tâ—â—kâ— in the lesser â—sia Masâ—t the Sultan deuideth his kingdâ—m amoÌ„gst 〈◊〉 three sâ—nnes Another foolish Icarus Nicetas Choniates reâ—um ab imperat Manuele Comnenâ— gestar lib. 3. fol. 143. Vnkindnesse betwixt the emperour and the Sultan Baldwin slainâ— The miserie of the Christians by the Turks inclosed in the straits The emperour in great perplâ—â—itie The desperat resolution of the emperour A moâ—â— miserabâ—e spectacle The emperour in danger to haue been takâ—n notably defendeth himselfe The malapert speech of an insolâ—nt soldiour to the emperour The great patience of the emperour The â—earfull resolution of the emperour A sharpe reprehension of a common soldior vnto the emperour The emperour returneth The emperour aâ—together 〈◊〉 not what he hâ—d 〈◊〉 to the Sultan Andronicus aspireth Ambition couered with the zeale of the commonweale Andronicus departeth from Oenum towards Constantinople Androniâ—us encampeth in sight ouer against Constantinople Xiphilinus senâ— ouer to Andronicus dealeth â—â—faithfully in dâ—â—ng his messagâ— The proud answer of Andronicus Contostephanus reuolteth to Andronicus Alexius in despaire Alexius and his friends apprehended A strange alteration Alexius broght to Andronicus hath his eyes put out The meeting of the Patriarch Andronicus Andronicus passeth ouer the straâ—â— Andronicus taketh vpoâ— him the gouernment Andronicus tyrannizeth A miserable state of a commonweale Mary the daughter of Emanuell with her husband Caesar poysoned by Andronicus Xene the empresse accused of treason and condemned Dangerous to speake the truth to a tyrant A wicked counsell The miserable death of the empresse The slie practise oâ— Andronicus in aspiring to the empire Alexius depriued of the empire Alexius coÌ„demned to die Alexius the emperour cruelly strangâ—â—d An vnequall mariage Androniâ—us seeketh 〈◊〉 â—â—â—annie to establish his estate Exceeding crueltie Isaack Angelus taketh saâ—ctuary The people in a tumult â—eâ—ort vnto Angelus Andronicus in vaine seeketh to appease the tumultuous people Isaack Angelus by the people in a 〈◊〉 saluted emperour Andronicus forsaken of his flattering fauourits A strange chaÌ„ge Andronicus the emperour taken and brought in bonds to Angelus Andronicus the emperor hanged vp by the heeles Nicetas Chomates Annal. lâ—b 1. fol. 161. col 4. Isaack Angelus the emâ—eâ—our 〈…〉 Isaack the emperour 〈◊〉 froÌ„ the empire and 〈◊〉 of his 〈…〉 brother 〈◊〉 Cazastâ—lan the Turkâ— Sultan 〈…〉 vpon the 〈◊〉 empire in the â—â—sser Asia The sonnes of Clizasâ—lan at variance among themselues Almericus 〈◊〉 king of Hierusalem Noradin the Turke discomfited by the Christians Aâ—â—â—andria yeeâ—ded to Aâ—meâ—icus 1167 Pelusium takeâ—â— by Almericus The Sultan of Aegypt vnder the colour of friendship slainâ— by Saracon How the kingdome of Aegypt first fell into the hands of the Sarasins with the notable alterations thereof 1170 1171 1173 Baldwin the fourth of that name seuenth king of Hierusalem Saladin ouerthrowne by king Baldwin 1177 The Christians deuiding the spoil ouerthrown by the Turks Saladin goeth 〈◊〉 of Aegypt to Damasco Galiley spoâ—led and the castle of Buâ—â— taken by the Turks Berytus in vain besieged by the Turks Saladin inuading Mesopotamia iâ— himselfe inuaded by the king of Hierusalem Aleppo betraied vnto the Turks Petra in vaine besieged by the Turks Discord in the court of Hierusalem King 〈◊〉 sendeth embassadours vnto the Christian princes of the West for aid 1185 〈…〉 of Hierusalem Saladin vpoÌ„ the discord of the Christians taketh occasion to inuade the Holy land Ptolemais besieged by Saladin 1187 Guy king of Hierusalem taken prisoner Hierusalem besieged Hierusalem taken by Saladin The famous city of Antioch betrayed vnto the Turkes 1160 Fredericke the emperour setteth forward towards the Holy land Fredericke the emperours sonne 〈◊〉 generall of the Christian armie A great battell betwixt the Turks and the Christians Ptolemais assaulted by the Christians An old grudge betwixt Philip the French king and Richard king of England King Richard reuengeth the iniurie done vnto his people by the Cipriots King Richard arriueth at Ptolemais 1191 The French king sâ—eaâ—â—th vnto king Riâ—hard in 〈◊〉 absence not to inuade his territories in France King Richard marcheth with his army towards Hierusalem A notable battel fought betwixt king Richard Saladin King Richard purposing to haue besieged Hierusalem â—s by the baâ—kwardâ—es of the French enforced to retire King Richard 〈…〉 to 〈◊〉 a peaâ—e with Saladin King Richard returning out of the Holy land taken prisoner by Leopold duke of Austria 1197 The Turks ouerthrown by the Christians Ioppe repaired by the Christians The Germaine princes returne home 1199 Kingdomes after the manner of other things haue but their time to flourish in and so againe decay The Turks driueÌ„ out of Persia by the Tartars 1202 The beginning of the Aladinian kingdome in the lesser Asia as Sebastia and Iconium Alexius the yong prince craâ—eth aid of Philip the emperour and the Latine princes against his vncle the vsurper Great preparation made by the Christians for an expedition into the Holy land Alexius coÌ„meth vnto the armie A great â—leet of the Latineâ— before Constantinople The Latines by force enter the hauen of Constantinople A hot skirmish betwixt the Greekes and the Latines at their landing Isaack the old emperour taken out of prison and againe saluted emperour together with young Alexius his son 〈◊〉 seeketh 〈◊〉 bring the Latines