Churches according to the right imperiall before to Henry the 5. Gerhardus Bishop of Engelesme and Legate in Aquitania saide Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. anno 1112. that this inuesting by Emperours and Princes was against the holy Ghost and canonical institution the Councel there consenting to it At what time Pope Paschal there did recant and retract the release that he had made thereof to Henry the fifth before and he prayed pardon for it and prayed them to praye for him Such conscience he made for releasing of the imperiall right to the Emperour But where was this conscence in their predecessours time vnder 36. Bishoppes from the time of Charles the great Was it then counted against the holy Ghost and simonicall heresie Wherefore is now the case thus altered Because as Cusp toucheth the quicke post vero pontifices sanxerunt Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 5. But after the Bishops of Rome haue decreede so that it is not lawfull for any to be inuested of any lay man they were excomminged that were inuested of thē So as Popes rule cases herisies are made That vnder so many Bishops of Rome was yeelded as the lawfull imperiall right now is said to be against the holie Ghost and flat heresie Henriciana haeresis Wig bertina Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1106. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna And because they would bring the Emperors name into publike hate they call it haeresis Henriciana Henries heresie they call it also haeresis Wigbertina Wigbertes heresie Because Wigbert Archbishoppe of Rauenna after Gregory the 7. was hunted out of Rome by the Emperour for his cursing of him at the request of the Romans was made Bishoppe of Rome for him and by the name of Clemens with great solemnitie of many Bishoppes inthronised But because he was placed by the Emperour they haue deuised an heresie after his name Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. in an 1080. to bring his name also in hate which they call Wigbertina So that maketh not on their side for maintayning their kingdome is called heresie What intollerable tyranny and monstrous presumption is this of Bishoppes of Rome as Lucifer mounted in pride Princes praerogatiues made heresie of Popes to take on them to curse and priue Emperours for keeping their auncient right and imperiall prerogatiue and to make heresie as pleaseth them where as they swallowe vppe such a number of Idolatrous heresies of theirowne and they call the doctrine deliuered to vs out of the liuely worde of God heresie and light darkenesse darkenesse light are therfore vnder the curse of God Esai 5. as the Prophet Esay witnesseth But though they call light darknes truth error prerogatiues of Princes heresies their followers daunce after their pipe as those that are bitten of the venemous spider of Italie called Tarantula because by Tarentū there is store of thē so soone as they heare the pipe or minstrel Tarantula they fall a daūsing and cannot leaue till they haue by daunsing digested the poyson which vaporeth out by sweetes as Matheolus thinketh Mathe. in Com. in Dios lib. 2. cap. 57. so they that are bitten with the venemous Spider of Italie the Tarantula of Rome cannot but daūce after the Popes pipe and cannot giue vp and digest the poyson of Poperie vntil God renue them by special grace as it were new make and alter them Thus for what cause Gregorie the 7. and other Popes after excōminged and cursed Henry the 4. Because the Pope of such pretenced quarrel cursed the father therfore should the son rise in armour rebel against his own father God hath made the son himself iudge in the cause for euē for the same cause that the father was cursed on pretence wherof he took on him the treason rebellion against his father he also was cursed of 3. popes after And touching the setting on of the son against his father The setting on of the son against the father the trūpet of pietie was blowen vp before the son because he vndertook the treason in the Popes cause and for executing the Popes curse on his own father Therefore as such impiety outrage against his own father against the ordinance of God is blazed out as pietie to the Pope mother church of Rome So vnder the pretence and visard of pietie religion the treason and rebellion of the son is disguised Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 16. Albert Kranz saith of him Multis persuasit filius sola se pietate in deū terreni patris ad tempus oblitum esse The sonne saith he persuaded many that only in respect of piety to god he had forgotten for a season his father on earth Otto Frisin Epis lib. 7. cap. 8. Otto Bishop of Fris saith Rebellionē sub specie religionis eò quod pater eius a Rom. pontificibus excōmunicatus esset aggreditur Vnder color of religion he attempteth rebelliō because his father was excomminged of the Roman Bishops The Abbat of Vrsperg saith vnder colour of religion Patrem excōmunicatū priuauit regno He priued his father of the Empire being excōminged before Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1124. Let vs heare how of the Popes clergie he is magnified set a gog to this vnnaturall treason and rebellion vnder pretence of pietie religion After that he shrunk from his fathers side as Vrspergensis telleth and raysed rebellion against him Abbas Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. there hee professed saith he obedience to the sea of Rome though with treason he rent the Empire and the bowels of nature in his owne father that begat him it is not treason or rebellion any more but Religion and pietie He condēneth the heresie afore mentioned which they forged against his father for the which he after the death of his father was cursed of Popes also Hee withdrawed himselfe into Saxonie which then was a fitte place for mutenie and rebellion against his father Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 17. And at Northuson in Saxonie was a meeting appointed of the nobles and people as Albert telleth and the Clergie kept a Synod there Then after he had displaied his banner of treason and rebellion against his father the Popes Clergie flocked vnto him and hanged about him and rebellious Ruckard Archbishoppe of Mens Ruchard Archbishop of Mens and Geberhardus Bishoppe of Constans helde a great councell of Clergie at Northuson a fit councell for such a practise This Ruckard as Otto calleth him sometime Archchbishop of Mens was bānished of Henry the fourth for his disloyalties in Saxonie hee had made mutenies and conspiracies against him and being an Archrebell and traytor is now become president of this councel whom Henry the 5. by force would haue restored to his sea againe as Bishoppe Otto telleth but that his father was gotte within the towne with his garrison Otto an a. lib. 7 cap. 8. In this councel to
enflame the sonne against his father they admired extolled crowned him with great commendation as if hee had gotten the garland of Religion and pietie by treason and rebellion against his father They commend him for that he did not intermedle in their dealing in councell but referred himselfe to their decrees And therein Albertus commendeth his modestie and Vrspergensis his humilitie and prudencie So they may haue their owne scope in councels and their doctrines and decrees without checke and controlement of Princes they will extoll and magnifie them Alber. Cranz Saxo. Lib. 5. cap. 17. Albert commendeth him for his grauitie and prudencie aboue his yeeres in making answere to demaunds of subiectes made vnto him And to take all aduantages of commendations for him they prayse him for his apparrel for his countenance and the protestation of his speech Hee was brought foorth saith the Abbat in abiectes apparel Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. abiecto productus habitu as dolefull for his fathers case and with his countenance as Albert telleth set to the ground with grauitie he deliuered his answeres His protestation he made with teares standing or trickling by his cheekes The summe of all was this Henry the 5. his protestation if his father will bee subiect to Peter and Pope of Rome hee will yeeld humble obeisance and alleageance vnto him if not then rebellion and treason though against his own father was turned into religion and pietie for Peter and the Pope of Rome This was the sum of his protestation So in this councell treason rebellion against his his father was piety to the pope of Rome in respect of the execution of his curse vpon his father No maruaile where Ruckard the rebell was president of the councell though rebellion bee good religion in respect of the Popes curse If one should rake hell for councels Treason and rebellion counted pietie to the Pope decrees and doctrines of Deuils coulde hee bring more seditious pernitious doctrine against publike states gouernmentes and the ordinance of God Where there is such a Clergie that clappeth their hands to the son the rebelleth against his owne father how monstrous is the head that by cursing of Princes setteth the son vpon the father the subiect vpon the Prince If there be good nature in vs good disposition to publike estates gouernmeÌ„ts true loyaltie to our Soueraigne let vs shun the solicitors of such deuilish suggestions councels and attemptes and abhorre the practisers of them Thus for what cause the Popes cursed Henry the 4. and on what pretence Henry the 5. rebelled against his owne father how he was set on and what commendations of the Clergie were cast vppon him The second cheefe matter of the discourse of this storie is The 2. The paricicidial warre of the vnnatural and parricidiall war of the son against the father Their own writers call it a parricidial warre in the which the son rebelleth took armour against his owne father So the Abbat of Vrsperg notwithstanding his bitter affection against the father calleth it a parricidiall warre Albertus Kranz entring into the story Alb. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 16. and stopping at the strauÌ„gnes therof saith The noueltie of the thing would cause the reader to bee astonied Quis enim patri rebellantem filium tanto ardore audiuit For who hath heard saith he the sonne with such broyle to rebell against his father Quis iura naturae intercidisse tam penitus commeminit vt omni existimatione omni honore exuatur pater a filio Who hath remembred the lawes of nature so cleere to bee abollished that the father of his owne sonne should thus bee turned out of all estimation all honour and his kingedome Thus Albert his very bowels are ready to turne in him when hee looketh first into this vnnatural rebellion of the sonne against the father though otherwise in religion hee was current with the Church of Rome Otto Bishoppe of Frising who was a monk of the order of Cistert before hee was Bishop and lacked not blinde affection to Romish religion reaueth deeper in the outrage of this parricidiall warre Videres saith he lachrimabiles miserabiles apparatus Otto Frisin lib. 7. cap. 9. cerneres mundum contemptum sui luce clarius prodentem quod videlicet contra legem naturae filius in patrem assurgeret Thou mightest see saith hee the lamentable and miserable preparation thou mightest see the worlde by his effectes bewraying his own contempt because against the law of nature the son did rise against his father and contrary to the rule of iustice the souldier did assault the king the seruant his master and brother stood vp against brother and cosin against cosin and intended the shedding of his blood that was neere to him in blood Will not this vnnaturall and vnquoth fact of the worlde prouoke vs to the contempt of it Thus farre Bishoppe Otto of this parricidiall warre Bishop Otto his lesson of the contempt of the world Hee teacheth vs a lesson of contempt of the world by such monstrous effects and wicked workes thereof hee maketh it a Schoole of contempt of the world to vs since the great states and pillers thereof are so out of course and such vnnatural outrage is in it if we can put on godly affection to learne his godly lesson This is the fruite of stories to make them schooles of godly lessons not by words but by actions and practise set before vs. And at the incounter like to haue beene at Mens betweene the father and the sonne the father keeping the Citie Ab. Vrsp in chro in an 1105. the sonne comming with force to assaile it the hartes of the noble men did begin to melt and they consulted howe to staye the outrage of the paricidiall war in which both nature and ciuil gouernment warred vpon it selfe Likewise in the confines of Beme by the riuer of Danubius where both the father and the sonne had pitched and bickering begane nature began to worke in the nobles againe that as Albert sayth Rem impiam execrati ibant redibant detesting the impious worke Alb. Cranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 17. they went to and fro to stay the bloodie battaile And when the sonne had passed the riuer and the battaile ready to strike as if hee felte nature in his owne bowels fighting a battaile within him he turneth on his owne battaile and cryeth what doe wee Pater est Dominus est Imperator est qui tendit ex aduerso The battaile of nature in the boâ—â—ls of the sonne Impietate plena est si venit victoria tanto miserabilor exitus si vincamur Nolim parricida esse si de totius mundi dominio quis pacisceretur It is saith he my father my Lorde and Emperour which commeth against vs. The victorie though it fall to vs is full of impietie and if we bee ouerthrowen so muche more miserable is
hand was wounded for his periurie A warning to all treason and rebellion against his Prince This may be example to all estates and persons to keepe their hartes and hands true to their Prince according to Godes ordinance least Gods vengeance fall on their harts heads as it did vpō Absolon the traytours hart and vppon their hand which they lifte vp against their Prince as it did vppon the right hand of Duke Rodolph rufully repenting for it Thus the example of Duke Rodolph by whom and how hee was set on of his rebellion and euill successe last of his rufull repentance Now will I discourse the storie of Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his rebellion against Henry the 4. his father The Order the treason and rebellion against Henry the 4. his owne father And for the more orderly treating of it I will referre my selfe to these cheefe pointes First of his cause and pretence and setting on to this treason and rebellion against his father Secondly of the vnnaturall and parricidial warre of the sonne against the father Thirdly of the taking and deposing of Henry the fourth Fourthly of his death and crueltie shewed on his corpes Fiftely of the mone and iudgment of their owne wryters of his case Laste of all of the iudgement of God on Henry the 5. in the ende Thus the order of my discourse◠this storie The first The cause pretence of rebellion of Henry the 5. against his father The first is his cause and pretence and setting on to that horrible treason and rebellion against his owne father The cause and pretence of his treason and rebellion against his owne father was Pope Gregorie the seuenth Pope Vrbane the second and Pope Paschal the second their curses on Henry the fourth his father and withall their priuing him of his Empire What the cause and his desert was that the Popes thus cursed and priued him let vs heare out of their owne writers The Abbat of Vrsperg very parciall on the Popes side against the Emperour noteth this to bee the cause Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1075. Because two Popes of Rome solemnly cited the Emperor to make his apparance at Rome before them and he came not and for contempt against them and because he would not submitt himselfe to them he was of Gregorie the seuenth excomminged and cursed then of Vrbanus the second after of Paschal the second Another cause by Albertus reporte is aleaged out of the aunsweres of the Bishop of Mens and Wormes to the Emperour when they came to depose him for Simonie in collating Bishoprickes Abbacies which they cal the inuesting of Bishoppes and Abbates Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 20. by the hande of Princes into their royalties they hould of them Thus as in the right of their imperial prerogatiues The imperial right in inuesting of Bishoppes Abbates c Emperours haue held and continued from the time of Charles the Emperour surnamed the great and vnder 63. Bishoppes of Rome aboue 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And after the thousand yeere that the Deuill was let lose out of the bottomlesse pitte Reue. 20. as out of the Reuelation I haue noted he raged in the Bishoppes of Rome against the principates of the earth making a quarrell for inuesting Bishoppes and Abbates by ley hand to the royalties of their dignities which they termed simenicall heresie I wil lay downe the wordes of Iohn Cuspinian concerning the cause Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 5. who was a man of great authoritie and a counceller to Maximilian the Emperour and though he were of their Religion yet without partialitie layeth down the cause Discordiae somes erat saith he talis The cause that bread the discord was such Now 380. yeeres and moe from Charles the great vnder 63. The case of inuestiture for which Popes cursed Emperors Bishoppes of Rome it was lawfull for the king to collate Episcopal dignities Abbatices by a ring a rod which now by authoritie custome most auncient preuileges by the space of so many yeeres was established But after Popes ordeyned that eccelsiasticall dignities or inuestiture might not of any ley parson bee collated and they were excomminged that were inuested in that sort Hitherto Iohn Cuspinian his wordes in the storie of Henry the fift Albertus Cranz Deane of Hanburg Alb. Cranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 37. and a writer of their owne side doth thus speaking of Henry the 5. lay downe his iudgment of the case If saith he the Emperour meaning Henry the 5. who after was cursed of the Pope likewise for the same cause that he rebelled against his owne father did aske nothing but only the inuestiture of the lands called the graunt of the royalties the free elections to Churches and Abbaies reserued in the vacation he seemeth to demaund right Thus Albert his wordes touching the cause of inuestiture only he doth not like that the prouision for the person shall goe with it for the which he sayeth the controuersie was betweene the kingdome and the priesthood The Abbat of Vrsperg also speaking of the reconciling of Henry the fifth to Pope Calixtus sayth Ab. Vrsp in an 1122. hee did relinquishe the inuestiling of Churches which the German kinges so long hadde exercised and which hee purposed neuer during life to haue left least thereby he should preiudice the honour of his kingdome Thus Vrspergensis And yet otherwhere hee raueth against Henry the fourth Abbas Vrsperg in an 1106. for resisting the Popes censures and calleth him Nabuchodonezer and Iulian and sheweth his euill affected minde to him and his partialitie in wryting his storie which of Cuspinian also is noted Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. though in religion he be concurring with him Thus the bishoppes of Rome about that time that Sathan was loosed out of his chaine made schismes and hurleburlees in Christendome by encroching the auncient right of the mperiall prerogatiue touching the case of inuesting aforesaid which continued in the body of the Empire from Charles the great the first Emperour of the West after the diuision of the Empire and vnder 63 Bishoppes of Rome and more then 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And because Henry the fourth would not yeeld vppe this imperiall prerogatiue and the auncient right of the Empire he was cursed of Gregorie the seuenth and other Popes and priued of his Empire though he continued Emperour about 50 yeeres lacking one as the Abbat confesseth And after that auncient right imperiall prerogatiue thus confirmed by authority Abbas Vrsperg in an 1102. custome and most ancient priuileges as Cuspinian witnesseth was called Simonicall heresie In the Lateran councell vnder Paschal the 2. Paschal 2. in Lateran councel who cursed Henry the fourth the father and Henry the fifth the sonne for the case of inuesting and for their mainteyning the Emperial prerogatiue therein and who himselfe had released the inuesting of
the Emperor withdrawing himselfe a while The Bishops of Mens Colon and Wormes with violeÌ„ce deposed their soueraigne Lord Henrie the 4. inuested himselfe in the Imperial robes returning These saith he â—â—e the Imperiall ornaments of estate these by the goodnesse of the euerlasting king and election of Princes haue bin bestowed on me God is able also in these to continue vs and to hold your hands froÌ„ the worke you intend although we be now disgarnished of our forces and armies for supposing our selues to bee in safetie we made no preparation against suche violence But let the feare of God stay you whom pietie doth not reclaime and if you reuerence neither behold we are in presence we cannot resist your force The Bishops staggered The Bishops pluck the crowne from the Emperors head but after they encouraged one the other to set on the Emperor to pluck the crown froÌ„ his head and wheÌ„ they had plucked him out of his seat they turned him out of his Imperiall robes ornameÌ„ts The Emperor fetting deep sighes saith thus vnto theÌ„ God the Lorde of reueÌ„ge see it take reuenge of the wickednes you commit I susteine ignominie and dishonor that neuer the like was heard before for the sins of my youth of the iust iudge I am punished you neuerthelesse shal not be free froÌ„ sin because you haue falsified your othes of loyaltie The Emperor coÌ„pareth his Bishops to Iudas the Traitour you shal not escape the vengeance of that iust iudge your honor neuer prosper your portion be with him that betraid Christ But they stopping their eares go back carrying the imperial robes ornameÌ„ts to his son Thus far the report of the storie of the deposing of Henry the 4. out of Alberâ— who telleth it out of the Chronicle of Germanie for he saith Haec est narratio nostrorum aâ—naliuÌ„ Who that hath bowels of good naturâ— in him would he not rue to heare the pitifull plaint of so valiant a Prince to his sworne subiects that had been aduaunced to so high dignitie of him Hee gaue ghostly counsell to them which shoulde haue giuen it to him But their eares were stopped like the deafe Aspes Psal 48. They wilfully brake the oth of their alleageance they layde violent handes on the Royal person of the Prince they vndertook the execution of treason and the Popes curse vppon the sacred person of their prince by whome they were mounted vp in high estate of honor Thus in the treason and rebellion of the sonne against Henry the 4. his father and in the deposing of him in the ende the bishops which chiefly should haue bene faithfull and loyall to him were the principall actors and instruments against him and tooke on them the execution of the Popes curse and the violent deposing of the Emperor from his Imperiall estate King Iohn of England Fabian 2. vo part 7. in anno 1205 So in king Iohn of England his time the execution of the Popes curse vpon him and the realme was committed to the Bishops of London Ely Winchester and Herford who after they had denounced it against the king the land were fain to flie the land And in that blind time when the Pope sate in the consciences of simple people to binde and loose the king by practise of the Pope and popish Prelates was so encountred and wrapped in troubles that at length he yelded himselfe to Randolph the Popes Legate by oth Fabian 2. vo part 7. in anno 1212 to stand to the Popes order Finally hee was driuen on his knees to take the crowne from his head as Fabian reporteth it to resigne it with solemne wordes into the Popes handes and after to resume it as Feodarie to the Pope as Fabian telleth vppon a yeerely fee of a thousand marks to be paid vnto him So wheÌ„ there is variance in the land and the Pope is vmpire by cursing of Princes and lands hee fingreth and filcheth gaine and setteth a sale his cursings and blessings againe Popish Prelates are the Popes hands and bowels in Countries To whom chiefly doth hee commit the trust of the execution of such things to popish Prelates They are as the Popes hands in countries they are as the bowels of his own body and as if their conscience liued of him they are made actors and instruments eftsoones against their own Princes for him as in the practise of stories we see Running to Rome And if there grow quarrell betweene the Prince them they goe round to Rome The Pope is the vmpire they keepe that string for their bowe whatsoeuer faileth at home Tho. Becket packed him to Rome againste Hen. the 2. Thomas Becket returned with authoritie froÌ„ the Pope against the Prince Anselme Archbishop of Canter Anselme Archbishop of Canterb. sped him to Rome against Henrie the first at his return held a conuocation at London by the authority of the Pope against the Prince Lanfrank Archbishop of Canterburie Lanfrank likewise Archbishop of Canterburie Thomas of York pleated the libel of their preemineÌ„ce at Rome vnder William the conqueror Abbat Benet Abbat Benet had 5. times been at Rome Rome was their paradise on earth to run in pilgrimage to it The Pope as a God sate in dark consciences as hauing Peters key to bind lose The Abbat of Vrsperg who himself had bin at Rome runneth in Romish religion with them and raileth vpon Hen. the 4. for resistance against Popes of Rome yet hee cryeth out on Rome for sucking the gaine of the world and saith Gaude mater nostra Roma Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. quia aperiuntur catarractae the sauroruÌ„ in terra vt ad te confluant riui aggeres nummorum in magna copia our mother Rome reioyce saith he because the sluces and Gulfes of gaine are opened on earth Mother Rome sacketh the treasure of the earth that streames and heapes of money may come flowing in to thee in great abuÌ„dance Thus the Abbat though hee were her deare sonne yet crieth out on his mother Rome for sucking the treasures of the erth And now because his mother Rome hath byn kept so long fasting froÌ„ England the gulf of her great gaine stopped there not only she is hungred but with rauening iawes gapeth coÌ„tinuallie ouer it by practise of monstrous treasons and rebellioÌ„s to pluck it in again Thus of the taking and deposing of Henrie the 4. and of the Bishops that were chiefe instruments and actors in it The fourth chiefe point of the discourse of this storie The 4. The death of Henry the 4. and the crueltie on his corps is of the death of Henry the fourth and the crueltie shewed on his corse After that Henrie the Emperor was of the bishops aforesaide thus deposed and dispoyled of the robes of estate and the Imperiall ensignes he fled to Limburg and lighting on a prince a hunting Alb.
bishoppe Aeneas Syl. in Hist Austral he was a Monke by profession of the superstitious order of Cistertians died amongst the Monkes of that order in the abbate of Moromond so that no exception can be taken against his religion of those that are of the Bishoppe of Romes side to disclaime against him Touching his great skill and experience in stories he was of great fame and renowne for it and wrot a storie from the beginning of the worlde to his owne time He liued about the time of Frederick the first Emperor of that name to whom he was neere in blood and he began to write his storie but before his death he could not finishe it Thus of the nobilitie authoritie religion and geeat skill in stories of Otto Bishoppe of Frising Nowe let vs heare his owne wordes touching the matter wee haue in hand Otto Fris Epis anna lib. 5. cap. 35. Lego relego saith hee Romanorum regum imperatorum gesta nusquam inuenio quenquam eorum ante hunc a Romano Pontifice excommunicatum vel regno priuatum nisi forâ—e quis pro anathemate habendum ducat quod Philippus ad breue tempus a Romano Epipscopo inter poenitentes collocatus Theodosius a beato Ambrosio propter cruentam caedem a liminibus ecclesiae sequestratus sit I reade saith he and reade ouer againe the actes of the Roman Kinges and Emperours and no where I finde any of them before Henry the fourth to haue been excommunicated of the Roman Bishoppe or priued of his kingdome except parhappes one say it to be deemed for a curse Philip. Theodosius that Philippe of the Roman Bishop was set for a small time in the nomber of the penitentes and that Theodosius for a bloody slaughter was of blessed Ambrose sequestred froÌ„ the ingresse of the Church Thus farre Bishoppe Otto his wordes He maketh his auow vpon his skil experience of stories being a famous writer of them that before Henry the fourth hee neuer cold finde any Rom. Emperour of king excoÌ„minged cursed of any Bishop of Rome though he had red and red ouer againe their stories Thus of his authoritie touching this case Now let vs looke into that time when the bishops of Rome began to adueÌ„ture such practises against christian Emperours and Princes Reue. 20. It was about the time that Sathan was let loose out of his chaine as in the Reuelations we reade that Sathan was bound of the Angell 1000. yeeres in the bottomlesse pit and after that hee must bee loosed for a little season Grego 7. Gregorie the seuenth Pope of that name which cursed first Henrie the 4. Emperor of that name was about the yeere of our Lord. 1072. as Platina the writer of the popes liues maketh computatioÌ„ Platina in vita Greg. 7. he was called Hildebrand the monke before And in the Councell of Brixia of 30. Bishops assembled there Concil Brixi he was charged to be Manifestus necromanticus phitonico spiritu laborans Ab. Vrsperg in an 1080. idcirco à vera fide exorbitans that is an open Necromancer and one that wrought by a Familiar or euill spirit and therfore is straid from the true faith Worm a coÌ„cil an 1076 And in the Councell of Wormes of the Bishops assemble there hee is charged with heynous crimes with periuries with abuse of noueltie with infamie Ab. Vrsperg in an 1074. at his death at Salern whether for feare of Henrie the 4. whom hee had cursed before hee was faine to flie hee confessed to a Cirdinall that was familiar with him that hee was set on by the Diuell to reare vppe discorde and warres it Christendome Io. de Heraul lib. de statu eccle ex Ante And taking remorse and sorrowe for it commaunded him to pray forgiuenesse of Henrie the fourth for him and that he should release him of the excommunication against him It is maruell though after a thousand yeeres the Diuel as it were turned loose in the worlde beganne thus to rage in the Romane Bishoppes and to curse and banne Christian Emperours and Princes which so highly were praised for princely qualities and vertues of famous writers of their owne side as before I haue rehearsed about that tyme Gregorie the 7. called Hildebrand did as a brand of hell set Christendom a fire with diuision discorde ciuill and mortall warres And as Bishop Otto voucheth in his trauell of stories of the Roman kings and Emperours hee could neuer finde any of them excomminged or cursed of a Roman Bishop before Henry the fourth of this Gregorie the seuenth was excomminged and cursed as we haue hard before Henr. 4. Grego 7. Was hee not a fit instrument of the Diuell to giue the on set of such diuelish discord ciuill warres rebellions and bloodshed in Christendome And if wee look neerer to the thousand yeeres mentioned before out of the ReuelatioÌ„s after which Sathan should be loosed out of his chaine Syluester 2. Syluester the 2. Pope of that name the great Necromancer Sorcerer Platina in vita Syl. 2. and that wrought by the Diuell in the Sea of Rome was then Pope about the yeere of our Lorde 1000. or 1002. as Platina Charanza Charanza in summa con others set downe the account As if assoone as Satan was let loose out of the bottomelesse pit and of his chain to goe about to deceiue the people which are in the foure quarters of the earth as in the Reuelation S. Iohn writeth Reue. 20. he did take vp his place on earth in the Roman Sea in Siluester the seconde who was about the 1000. yeere after Christ or two aboue as commonly they account Hee as Platina the writer of Popes liues and officer to them as Abbat Tritenhemius of him witnesseth Platina in vita Syl. 2. came to bee Pope by the helpe of the Diuell and on this condition that after death wholy he should be his After Platina telleth how at his death the Diuell deceiued him by mistaking the worde Hierusalem supposing that he should not die till he came to Hierusalem but sodainly he was ouertaken in a place called Hierusalem in the Church of S. Crosse at Rome And he telleth also out of one Martinus that by the clattering of bones and sweat of his graue Syluester the 2. his graue they prognosticate the death of the Pope as the coÌ„mon opinion was There folowed him sundry sorcerers necromancers wicked Popes in the Sea of Rome as Bâ—dict the 9 Benedict 9. who as Platina reporteth appeared in a monstrous shape after his death Platina in vita Bene. 9. because of his monstrous life And in Syluester the thirde Platina in vita Syl. 3. the same Platina saith the Popedome was come to that state that hee got it that with briberie and ambition could carrie it Beno the Cardinall Beno the Cardinall reporteth that from Syluester the second to
father The Abbat of Vrsperg with too much partialitie and bitternesse against Henry the 4. Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. corrupteth the storie and therefore of Cuspinian one of their owne religion is reproued as also Hermānus Contract Hermānus Blondus Platina Merula Mouthie Merula and such others The Italian wryters of stories as Blond Plat. such others are 2. great pleasers of Popes and deliuer not the storie with such indifferencie between Emperours and Popes as they should doe because of the partialitie of religion and of their Countrie and their intertainment following after Popes The freshe fountaine Arethusa of Sicilie by the salte Sea is counted a strange thing in nature Italian wryters of stories Arethusa the foūtaine And in writing of stories it strange for an Italian writer of stories to be free from partialitie of Popes being so neere them and eftsoones appertayning to them as Platina and Blondus and such others Therfore with good iudgment they must be red to sifte the corne from the chaffe the storie from the partialitie of Popes But the Abbat of Vrsperg though he be not of the Countrie of Popes yet because he hath a Pope in his conscience as rolled on the groundes of Poperie runneth thicke with dregges of partialitie to Popes Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1106. and so corrupteth the clerenesse of the storie No maruaile though hee call Henry the 4. thus cursed of the Popes an Arch-pirate and Arch-heritike Nabucodonezer and Iulian. Iohn Cuspinian who was of Maximilians councell and of their owne religion Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. prayseth Henry the fourth for an eloquent liberall and godly Prince sharpe of wit and warlike and luckie in the warres that fought moe battailes in his owne person then either M. Marcellus or Iulius Caesar the famous warriers in the stories Thus Cuspinians prayses of him Otto Frisin Episc ann lib. 7. cap. 11. Bishoppe Otto reporteth the opinions of others touching his almes deedes and many workes of mercie donne by him in respecte whereof they think he merited of God as out of the humors of the darkenesse of that time they speake to haue the wanton conuersation of his youth wholie he was aliue to bee punished with such afflictions in this present world Thus Bishoppe Otto deliuereth the iudgmentes of others of him Albert Deane of Hanburg and deuout of their side Alber. Kranz Saxo. Lib. 5. cap. 24. yet can not bury in silence his condigne prayses he sayeth hee was a noble a learned a valiant Prince of goodly personage fit for a king and that by the space of 50. yeeres kept the soueraigntie of the publike state yet hee inspergeth him with great vices and pride that would not stoupe Thus Alberts report of him Touching Pope Gregorie the 7. that first cursed him Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1800. Brixiense Con. he is charged in the councell of Brixia with haynous crimes and that he is a Necromansier and that dealeth with a familiar And the Bishoppes in the councell of Brixia referre themselues to the authoritie of a councell at Mens holden against him before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1076. Worma concil And in the councell of Wormes hee is likewise charged with great infamies Otto Fris Epis lib. 6. cap. 35. Bishoppe Otto sayeth that hee was the first of his knowledge in the Roman stories that tooke vpon him to excommunicate and curse a Roman Emperour or king The Abbat of Vrsperg saith Ab. Vrsperg in an 74. that vnder him the whole Church began to be turmoild with new errors of schismes that neuer were hard before In the coūcel of Wormes likewise he is charged that the Church of God through the abuse of his nouelties is indaungered with so sore a tempest Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1076. Thus the Bishoppe of his owne religion and wryters of his own side reporte of him and of the strange euils of schismes and diuisions neuer heard of before and of the abuse of his nouelties No marueile then though he were the firste that vndertook the excōmunicating cursing of a Roman Emperour as Otto voucheth and rent the whole Church with schismes and the ciuill and publike state with diuisions and rebellions Bishoppe Otto when hee commeth to the point of the cause touching the deposing of Henry the fourth from his Emperiall state vppon the Popes curse Bishop Otto suspendeth his iudgment passeth it ouer without interlasing his owne iudgement and opinion of the proceedings thereof and sayeth all which thinges whether they were lawfullye or vnlawfullye done wee doe not determine Thus Bishoppe Otto kepte his iudgment in suspence Otto Frising Episc lib. 7. cap. 11. touching the proceedinges against Henry the fourth by laying downe the storie with profession that hee will not lay downe any iudgement of it May wee not as it were at a loupe and hole see the day So we may sound his iudgment by his profession that hee will giue noe iudgement in the cause If hee had liked the Popes curse and the proceedinges against the Emperour he needed not to be daintie of his iudgment whereof no daunger ensued to him which was so plausible on the Popes side and at which the Popes Clergie as it were clapped their handes But because it was a bone in his conscience to haue such outrage done to Princes vppon the Popes curse hee keepeth his conscience cleere for giuing iudgment in the case though otherwise for his religion right on the Popes side the Monkes of Morimond Abbey among whome he dyed and the order of the Cistertian Monkes which he professed might witnesse Aeneas Syl. in Hist Austral If hee should lay downe his iudgment against the Pope in fauour of Henry the fourth he shuld plucke the Pope and his Clergie vpon him Then Otto one of their owne Bishoppes and a professed Monke of the Cistertians order Heretikes against the Pope Henry the 4. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna Wekil Archbishop of Mens Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1085. should be an heretike against the Pope also as Henry the fourth was made an heretke for opposing himselfe against the Pope and Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna was made an heretike because of Henry the fourth he was promoted to be bishoppe of Rome in the place of Gregorie the seuenth and as Wekil the Archbishop of Mens was called an Arch-heretike in the councell of Quintiligoburg as Vrspergensis calleth it because in holding disputatiō against Geberherdus Archbishop of Salzburg for Henrie the 4. his soueraigne Lord he laid downe his reasons of the preiudicing his Soueraigne by the Pope other Princes and that he being dispoyled of his dominion in Saxoni before Duke Rodolphs rebellion was not lawfully to bee called We kill his disputations for Henry the 4. iudged and condemned They were so netled with the disputation of VVekill the Archbishop of Mens for his Soueraigne that they called an other councel at Quintilingoburg where
the fourth and faithfull Bishoppes to him out of their graues doth he not exalt himselfe by the oppression of the liuely word of God and of Princes and ciuill gouernments and such horrible and monstrous outrages in the world But Otto lamenteth the great outrages of the world in this exaltation of the Church of Rome Rome it selfe was not free from them as the mother of the mischeifes Otto Frising Episc lib. 6. cap. 35. For as Otto saith Roma obsessa capta vastata Papa super Papam c. Rome it selfe saith he was besieged taken ransacked Pope vpon Pope and king vpon king c. And because of the number of the great vnnaturall outrages of those times of Hen. the 4. and Henry the 5. of which he writeth he sayth these our times for of his own experience not onely of report he wryteth the storie of those times as very neere them himselfe for hee wrote the storie of Friderick the first vnder whom he liued and dyed in great honour which are thought to be the last times drawing former sinnes to their ende by the outrage of sinnes threatning the end of the world If this he spake of his time about 4. Outrages of sinnes a signa of the worlde drawing to an ende hundred yeeres agone and more what shall we say of the outrage of greeuous sinnes and practises and vnnatural and monstrous treasons in these latter times in which the Deuil finding his time to be but short as S. Iohn sayth in the Reuelations striueth to winne the mastery of himselfe Reue. 12. and to exceede himselfe in contriuing and practising bloody treasons and outrages against the Church of God and Princes set vp of God to bee nurses thereof But our comforte is 1. Cor. 1. faithfull is the Lord as Paul sayth by whom we are called into the fellowship of his son Iesus Christ And thus he comforteth the Thes faithfull is he which called you who will also doe it 1. Thes 5. And feeling experieÌ„ce of this comfort courage in himself to Tim. he saith 2. Tim. 4. the Lord wil deliuer me froÌ„ euery euil worke wil preserue me to his heauenly kingdom The hairs of our head are told our states euer are in his sight this prouideÌ„ce preueÌ„teth immineÌ„t dauÌ„gers Ther is a monument or memoriall booke written before him as Malachi calleth it Zepherziccharon Mala. 3. for them that feare the Lord and for theÌ„ that thinke on his name God geue vs grace with hearty prayer to sue to him that 〈◊〉 memoriall booke may continually bee before him for the long and prosperous preseruation of Elizabeth our Queene against al immineÌ„t daungers conspiracies and treasons at home and abroad whatsoeuer The 6. The Iudgement of God on Henry the 5. for his rebellion and treasons against his father The sixte of the chiefe pointes of my discorse of this storie is the iudgment of God on Henry the 5. for his treason and rebellion against his father Wherin I will note the iudgement of God on him touching the cause touching the cursing of Popes touching the treason and rebellion of his owne subiects touching his warres touching his treasure touching lacke of fruit and touching his own body First note touching the cause First touching the cause wherefore his father was cursed of the popes It was obiected to him of the Bishoppes that deposed him Albert reporting it out of the Chronicles of Germany for that hee would not yeeld to Popes the ancient right prerogatiue of the Empire from Charles the great 1. Emperor of the West continued by the space of 300. yeeres vnder 63 Bishops of Rome Cuspinian witnessing it Touching the inuesting of Churches which they called Symony or the Symonical heresie and excomminged those that receiued such inuesting of Princes by lay hand as they terme it Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his sonne after he came to the Empire maintayned the same right and auncient prerogatiue of the Empire against Popes and was purposed neuer during life to leaue it Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1122. as Vrspergensis noteth least he should preiudice the honour of his kingdom While it was his fathers case he took part with Popes against him While his father opposed himselfe against Popes in the defence of the auncient right and prerogatiue of the Empire he by practise of Popes and vpon pretence of religion opposed himself against his father professed obedience to the Sea of Rome Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. condemned the heresie afore said betrayed his owne father tooke armes vpon him and rebelled in the Empire against him But after by persecution he had worn out his owne father by the practise and backing of Popes and their Clergie and that he was Emperor himselfe and it was now his owne case then was the case cleane altered It was heresie no more it was vnlawfull obedience to the Sea of Rome to yeeld vp the ancient right and priueleges of the Empire Then could he send aunsweare by his souldiers to Pope Paschal that such demaundes were not to be graunted because it was written â—â—ue to Caesar those thinges that are Caesars and to God those that are Gods Then the case remayning on his conscience was cleane chaÌ„ged Then he made not conscience to lay violent hands vpon Pope Paschal by his souldiers in the Church and to carry him prisoner into his campe there to put him in sure gard â—il by solemne instrument he had yeelded vp the claime Alb. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 33. as Albert wryteth it But while it was his fathers case it was heresie in him religion in himselfe to rebell against his father Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 8. as Bishoppe Otto said Rebellionem sub specie religionis eò quòd pater eius a Romanis Pont. excoÌ„municatus esset molitur Rebellion vnder colour of religion he attemteth because his father was excomminged of the Roman Bishops Religion was the pretence but ambitioÌ„ of soueraigntie appeareth to bee practise as the same Otto saith Otto Frising Epis lib. 7. cap. 9. The 2. note The Roman kingdom for ambitioÌ„ to raigne was diuided not onely ciuilly but parricidially Thus Otto touching the cause wherfore hee rebelled against his owne father The second note is of the iudgment of God touching the cursings of Popes on him also Pope Pasc the 2. which cursed the father tyced Henry the 5. the son to treason and rebellion against him and who to the counsel of mens wher his father required audience sent his Legats to renue and confirme his old curses against him after that Henry the 5. Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1106. Paschal 2 Gelatius 1. Calixtus 2. was Emperour for the same cause and claime fell a cursing him also 3. Popes in a row Paschal the 2. Gelasius the 2. and Calixtus the 2. did set on him with cursing and banning for the same cause They