The theater of honour and knight-hood. Or A compendious chronicle and historie of the whole Christian vvorld Containing the originall of all monarchies, kingdomes, and estates, with their emperours, kings, princes, and gouernours; their beginnings, continuance, and successions, to this present time. The first institution of armes, emblazons, kings, heralds, and pursuiuants of armes: with all the ancient and moderne military orders of knight-hood in euery kingdome. Of duelloes or single combates ... Likewise of ioustes, tourneyes, and tournaments, and orders belonging to them. Lastly of funerall pompe, for emperours, kings, princes, and meaner persons, with all the rites and ceremonies fitting for them. VVritten in French, by Andrew Fauine, Parisian: and aduocate in the High Court of Parliament. M.DC.XX.

The Genealogie or Pedigree of the Royall House of Bourbon.

* 1.1WEe haue already said, that of Monsieur Robert of France, Count of Clermont in Beauuoisis, and of Beatrix of Bourgongne, there came three Sonnes and as many Daughters. The eldest Son was Lewes of Clermont, called the Great, First Duke of Bourbon, Iohn of Clermont, Baron of Charolois in Bourgongne, and Lord of Saint Iust in Champaigne, who espoused Ioane, Heyre to the Count of Soiss••ns, & of this Mar∣riage issued but one Daughter, Iane of Clermont, Wife to Iohn of Bologne, and likewise of Auuergne: And

Peter of Clermont, Great Arch-deacon of the Church of Paris. The Daughters were:

Blanche, Wife to Robert, the Great Count of Bologne, and of Auuergne.

Margaret, Wife to Iohn of Flanders, Count of Namur,* 1.2 Sonne to Guy, Count of Flanders: And

Mary, who became a Nun, at Poissy.

Monsieur Robert of France, dyed the Seauenth day of February, One Thou∣sand, Three Hundred, and Seauenteene, & l••eth buried at the Iac••bines of Paris.

* 1.3Lewes of Clermont, tearmed the Great, First Duke of Bourbon, tooke to Wife Mary of Henault, Sister to the Count of Henault, by whom he had three Sonnes, and as many Daughters.

The Eldest Sonne was

1. Peter, First of the Name, Second Duke of Bourbon in Succession.

2. Iam••s of Bourbon, First Count of Charolois, and Count de la March, and of Ponthieu, Constable of France, slaine at the Battell of Poictiers.

3. Philip of Bourbon, Lord of Beaujeu, deceasing without any Children.

The Daughters were

1. Iane or Ieane of Bourbon, Wife to 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Eldest Sonne of Iohn, Count de 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

2. Mary, giuen in her first Marriage, to Monsieur Guy of Cyprus, the eldest Sonne to Hugh, King of Cyprus, and of Hierusa∣••••••. In this Marriage was borne Hugh of Lus••••nan, Prince of Galilee. In Second Marriage, shee was espoused to Robert, Prince of Tarentum, in the Kingdome of Naples, who entituled himselfe Em∣perour of Constantinople. In regard that Katherine of Valois, Empresse of Constan∣tinople, Second Wife to Monsieur Philip of Sicily, Prince of Tarentum, and Fa∣ther of the said Robert, had giuen to the same Philip her Husband, the Right which belonged to her in the Empire of Greece, and whereof shee had not any enioying.

The last Daughter was

3. Beatrix, Wife to Philip, Eldest Sonne to the said Monsieur Philip of Si∣cily, Prince of Tarentum, the youngest Sonne to the Second Charles King of Sicilie.

Lewes, First Duke of Bourbon, dyed the Two and Twentieth day of Ianuary, in the Yeare, One Thousand, Three Hun∣dred, Forty and One; hee also lyeth bu∣ried at the Iacobines of Paris.

II. Peter, First of the Name, Second Duke of Bourbon, tooke to Wife Isabell of Valois, Daughter to Monsieur Charles of France, Count of Valois, Sonne, Bro∣ther, Vncle and Father to Kings of France, and yet himselfe not being a King. In this Marriage hee had one only Sonne, the maine Subiect of this Discourse; & Seauen Daughters, where∣of the first was.

1. Ioane or Iane of Bourbon, endued with admirable beauty, Wife to King Charles, Fift of the Name; of him and of his Wife, the Portraicts (according to the life) are to bee seene on the Portall in the Conuent of the Celestines at Paris.

2. Blanch, Wife to the King of Castile, Dom Pedro the Cruell, who made this Wife a Prisoner, and kept Concubines in the liberty of his Conscience. But death reuenged her wrongs, by meanes of the French, who expelled him out of his Kingdome, and enstauled in his place Dom Henry, Second of the Name.

The Third Daughter was

3. Bonna, Wife to Amades, Count of Sauoye, Sirnamed the Green, in the Chro∣nicle of our Duke Lewes the Second.

4. Katherine, Wife to Iohn, Count of Harcour.

5. Mary, Wife to Godfrey, Sonne to the Duke of Brabant.

6 Margaret, two seuerall times mar∣ried. First to Iohn, the Sonne of Henry, Lord of Suilly: Last to Arnauld Amani∣on, Lord of Albret.

7 Another Mary, a professed Nunne at Poissy.

This Peter the first, second Duke of Bourbon, died in the yeare of Grace, One thousand three hundred fiftie and sixe, the nineteenth day of September, in the Battaile of Poictiers, lost by King Iohn, a∣gainst Edward of England, third of the name, and he likewise lieth buried at the Iacobines of Paris.

III. Lewes, second of the name, third Duke of Bourbon tearmed the Good, Au∣thor of this discourse, by Anne Daul∣phine his wife, had two Sons, and two Daughters. The Sonnes were Iohn; who was Duke after his Father: and Lewes, who died yong in the Hostell of Bour∣bon at Paris. Iohn Duke of Berry loued this man dearely, for hee was a goodly sweet Youth, towardly, and of a cheare∣full disposition. In regard of this inti∣mate affection towards him, the Duke of Berry departed from his Castell of Nesle, and passing the Riuer of Seine, en∣tred into Bourbon, the Hostell of Duke Lewes, to comfort him, and when the Duke of Bourbon knew that the Duke of Berry was there: he well vnderstood the cause of his comming, for then the sick∣nesse of his Sonne began to grow worse and worse. And yet although it did so, he could not forbeare seeing him, as he thought it an article of duetie in him, for the Duke of Berry was his great Vnckle, and this visitation of his, was in hope to free him from his sicknesse.

But when the Duke of Berry saw the Duke of Bourbon, his heart began to tremble, passion preuailing, and his eyes streaming forth teares, that he was not able to vtter one word. Whereupon Duke Lewes of Bourbon, causing him to goe foremost, went vp with him into an vpper Chamber, where were many people,* 1.4 & then thus he spake to the Duke of Berry. My Lord, I thanke you for this louing visitation, and your com∣passion on my Sonne Lewes, who is now gon to God. Well I know, that you are come hither to me, to shew me the certainty of your affection; a much meaner Lord had suffised in this case: But good Bloud neuer is vnmindefull of the naturall loue, which ought to be in one towards another. Wherfore I tell you my Lord, that this passible life, is lodged but as in a Inne or Hosterie: but the life to come, firme, stable, & the dwel∣ling house of the Immortall Soule, is the ready way of flying vp to God. For truely my Lord, in mine opinion, the end of liuing is very good, because a man hath sound thoughts, intire reason, and his naturall vnderstanding setled and certaine, for those Offices appertaining to the life of man. And you know my Lord, that Nature, the Mother of all things, hath giuen to vs men habitations, wherein we may dwell toge∣ther: but she hath giuen vs no house for a perpetuall abiding. Wherefore my Lord, seeing God hath taken hence my Sonne; it was his pleasure so to doe, for he did but lend him me, he hath made him fit for him, & blessed be his name therfore. No doubt he is in better case then all his kinred; but Fortune, who bringeth the loftie low, and exalteth the humble, tooke him away somewhat too soone.

The Duke of Berry, and all the rest, hearing these words deliuered by the Duke of Bourbon, could not abstaine from teares. But the Duke of Berry going down the stairs, went with many noble Gentlemen in his company, to the Chamber where the dead Body lay (ready for carrying to the earth) whereto he did a seemely honour. And when Duke Lewes of Bourbon (who was in the Gallerie) beheld the Processions par∣ting from his House, furnished with a world of lighted Torches, and the body of his Son lying on the Biere; his tender heart was ready to rift in twaine, and fatherly af∣fection streamed forth at his eyes. Immediately he entred into his Chappel, where he called for his Confessor M. Peter de Chantelle, a good Diuine, & other Chaplains, who performed the Office for the youth so lately departed; all the Knights & Officers of the Hostel, admiring at the constancie & patience of the Duke their Lord & Master.

The Daughters were

Beatrix of Bourbon, twise maried: First to Iohn, the Duke of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, & of Hungaria, or Polonia. And in second Nuptials, to Eudes, Lord of Grancey.

The said Lewes, the good Duke,* 1.5 dyed (as we haue already said) at Mont-Lu∣son, and his Body enterred at Souuigny. Hee was once determined, to finish his dayes at the Celestines of Vichy, by him

founded: if hee had returned in health from the Voyage of France, which hee vndertooke, comming to helpe his Ne∣phewes the Sonnes of Orleans, against Iohn of Bourgongne, the murtherer of their Father. But he died on the way be∣ginning his iourney.

IIII. Iohn of Bourbon, First of the name, Fourth Duke of Bourbon, tooke to Wife Mary de Berry, Daughter to Mon∣sieur Iohn of France, Duke of Berry, and of Auuergne, Count of Poictou, and to Iane, Daughter to the Count of Armaig∣nac. Of this Marriage there issued three Sonnes.

The First Sonne was.

1. Charles, First of the name, Duke of Bourbon.

2. Lewes, Count of Montpensier: And

3. Iohn of Bourbon, Bishop of Puy, (in Latine Auicium in Auuergne) and Abbot of Clugny.

The said Iohn, First of the name, was taken in the Battell at Azingcourt, fought betweene Hesdin and Therouane, and lost by the French, the Fiue and Twen∣tieth day of October, One Thousand, Foure Hundred and Fifteene. Hee was nineteene yeares prisoner at London in England, where he dyed in the yeare one thousand, foure hūdred, thirty foure.

Next succeeded his Sonne

V. Charles. First of the Name, Fift Duke of Bourbon, who won the Battell of Bauge in Aniou, against the Duke of Clarence, slaine in the Field the Ninth Day of Aprill, One Thousand, Foure Hundred, & Twenty: And in the yeare, One Thousand, Foure Hundred, Twen∣ty Sixe; the said Charles espoused Agnes de Bourgongne, daughter to Iohn the Bad, and Sister to the Duke of Bourgongne, Philip the Second. In this Marriage were borne Sixe Sonnes, & Fiue Daughters.

The Sonnes were

1. Iohn, Second of the name.

2. Lewes, dying young vnmarried, al∣beit betrothed to the Daughter of the King of Cyprus.

3. Peter, Lord of Beaujeu.

4. Charles, Cardinall of Bourbon, and Archbishop of Lyons.

5. Lewes, Bishop of Liege: And

6. Iames of Bourbon, dying young at Bruges.

The Daughters were

1. Iane of Bourbon, Wife to the Prince of Orenge.

2. Katherine, Wife to Adolph, Duke of Gueldres.

3. Margaret, Wife to Philip of Sauoye, Count de Bresse, and de Baugie, afterward Duke of Sauoye, Father and Mother to Louisa of Sauoye, who was the Mother of King Frances the First.

4. Isabel, who was Wife to the last Charles, Duke of Bourgongne: And

5. Mary of Bourbon, who was twice married. First, to Iohn Duke of Calabria, Sonne to Rene, King of Sicilie, Duke of Aniou; The Second time to Gaston, who was Sonne to the Count of Foix.

Which Charles, First of the Name, was High Chamberlaine of France, and dy∣ed in the Yeare, One Thousand, Foure-Hundred, Fifty and Sixe.

After whom succeeded his Eldest Sonne.

VI. Iohn, Second of the Name, Sixt Duke of Bourbon. In his young yeares hee won the day at Fourmigny, against the English. He was three seuerall times married: First to Madam Ioane of France, daughter to King Charles the Seauenth, Sirnamed the Victorious. His Second Wife was Katherine of Armaignac, Daughter to Iames of Armaignac, Duke of Nemoux. And his Third Wife was Iane of Bourbon, daughter to Iohn of Bour∣bon, Count of Vendosme.

The said Iohn the Second, Great Chamberlaine of France, dyed, with∣out leauing any Heyres of his Body; so that his Successor was his Third Bro∣ther, the Lord of Beaujeu.

VII. Peter, Second of the Name, Seauenth Duke of Bourbon, who tooke to Wife Madame Anne of France, El∣dest Daughter to King Lewes the Ele∣uenth of the Name, Regent of France, vnder King Charles the Eight his Bro∣ther. In this Mariage was borne their only Daughter Susanna of Bourbon, in whom ended the Ligne of the Males, being the eldest Dukes of Bourbon, and Counts of Montpensier, of whom the Ap∣pennage was Clermont in Beauuoisis, re∣maining in the house of the said Dukes of Bourbon, vnto Peter the Second, of whom we speake at this present.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Of Monsieur R••bert of France, and Beatrix of Bourgongne.
• * 1.2

  Son, Brother Vncle & Fa∣ther of K••••gs▪ and yet 〈◊〉〈◊〉 no King.
• * 1.3

  The 〈…〉〈…〉 of Bour∣bon.
• * 1.4

  The Duke of Bourbon his speechs to the Duke of Berry
• * 1.5

  The death of the good Duke of Bourbon.