The consent of time disciphering the errors of the Grecians in their Olympiads, the vncertaine computation of the Romanes in their penteterydes and building of Rome, of the Persians in their accompt of Cyrus, and of the vanities of the Gentiles in fables of antiquities, disagreeing with the Hebrewes, and with the sacred histories in consent of time. VVherein is also set downe the beginning, continuance, succession, and ouerthrowes of kings, kingdomes, states, and gouernments. By Lodovvik Lloid Esquire.

CHAP. IIII.

From Faramundus the first king that had all Fraunce in his hand, and from whom all Historians and Chronographers beginne the historie of Fraunce: who beganne his raigne in Fraunce, in the yeere of our Lord and Sauiour 420: of the lawes, gouernment and warres from that time, vnto Clodouaeus the first Christian king of Fraunce, and so vntill Clodouaeus the second of that name, and the 12. king after Faramundus.

NOw this Faramundus the sonne of Mar∣comirus the great, when hee was made * 1.1 king of Fraunce, he cōmitted the charge of his former gouernment which hee had in the East Fraunce, to his brother Marcomirus, & he gouerned the French∣men in Gallia 7. yeeres: and he augmen∣ted the crowne of Fraunce with more territories, as Mosellana, Augusta, and other places. He instru∣cted the rude people, and brought them from rudenesse to ciuilitie, taught them to liue vnder a lawe, made decrees and statutes to gouerne his countrey.

Here the crie of Chronicles: for Pau. Aemilius, writeth this historie farre otherwise: so doeth Langaeus, and hee saith that * 1.2 the Frenchmen were named Franci, of one Francio the sonne of Hector. But the trueth of this historie is found rather in Tri∣temius and Hunebaldus, with whom both Functius and Lazius doe agree. In this they agree all, that from Faramundus time * 1.3 the kings of Gallia were nombred.

Iulius Caesar, (who long serued vnder the Romans in France) deuided Gallia into three countreys: from the riuer of Rhein, vnto the riuer Sequana, and that countrey is called Gallia Bel∣gica: from the riuer of Sein vnto Garumna, that countrey is cal∣led Celtica: and from Garumna vnto the mountaines Pyrenei, which is called Aquitania, which was before called Amorica. With this Plini doeth accord. All these people were in anci∣ent time called Celtae. Reade Strabo and Plini in the description of Gallia: from mount Pyrenei to the riuer Garumna, lieth Aqui∣tania, * 1.4

from thence to Sequana dwelt the Celtes, and frō thence to the riuer Rhein, the Belgians.

I will passe to the kings, who beginne in this Faramundus time to be kings of Gallia, after 870. yeeres warres by his pre∣decessors before: he raigned seuen yeeres, and others affirme 11. yeeres. In this Faramundus time the Lawe called Salica * 1.5 was made. After whome succeeded Clodius his sonne, sirna∣med Crinitus, or Comatus, the second king of all France, which was called then Gallia: he raigned 28. yeeres, and plagued the remnant of the Gaules which dwelt in Gallia vnconquered. He gaue diuers sharpe battels to the Romanes, and commaun∣ded by an Edict, that the Frenchmen should let their beards, and the haires of their head grow, and so to combe & keepe it without cutting: because they might bee knowen hereby to be the Frenchmen, and to make a difference betwene them and others that dwelled within Gallia: wherefore he was sir∣named Clodius Crinitus. * 1.6

In the sixt yeere of his raigne, he ouercame those people called Senouenses and Aurelionenses, which dwelt about Lute∣tia, and ioyned them to the kingdome of Fraunce. He likewise in the ninth yeere of his raigne subdued the Saxons, the Tren∣tones, the Doringes, and brought all that part of Fraunce bor∣dering * 1.7 vpon the sea into subiection: and in the thirtieth yere of his raigne, he also brought Bataui, Tungri, Menaxij, and di∣uers other people that were cōmorant in the edge of France: at what time the Gothes had done great harme in that part of Fraunce called Aquitania, and also the Burgundians subdued much in Lugdunum. This time the Scots and the Pictes inua∣ded * 1.8 Britaine, and spoiled the countrey and did much harme. About this time Atala king of that nation called Hunni in Germanie had much to doe with the Romanes, and both gaue and tooke diuers repulses.

This Clodius when hee had enlarged the kingdome of Fraunce with the most part of Gallia, and had raigned twentie yeeres, some say 17. yeeres, hee died: in whose time Valenti∣nianus * 1.9 had married Eudoxia the daughter of Theodosius the

Emperour, by whom Valentinianus was made Augustus. This time Theodosius waged warres against the Vandols, who had a * 1.10 king named Giezirichus, who had license by Valentinianus to dwel in Affrica: who had dwelt there in despite of the Romans for the space of 95. yeeres, vntil by Iustinianus the Emperour, they were thence expelled and driuen out: and at that very time the Hunnes entered and spoiled Thracia and Illyrica, and subdued with sword and fire, vntill they came to Thermopila. Likewise in the foureteenth yeere of this Clodius, the Gothes brake their league against Spaine, and possessed with the sworde the next territories to Spaine, and besieged the citie of Narbon.

This time Patricius was sent from Celestinus then bishop of Rome to Ireland, to instruct the Irishmen in the Christian faith: of this Patricke the Irishmen bragge much. In the time of * 1.11 this Clodius, Vortigerus with the Saxons by deceit and craft in∣uaded Britaine: for hitherto the Britaines kept tacke with the Romanes, sometime in warre with them, and sometime in * 1.12 peace. Reade more of this in Beda. This was in the yere after Christ 446: at what time great persecution was in Affrike vn∣der king Giezirichus the Vandole, and the heresie called Euti∣chiana beganne to rise in Constantinople. This time raigned in Persia, Vararanes the fift of that name, and fifteenth king of Persia.

After this time we reade of no mention made of any Olym∣piad, though long before they were little vsed: for the Olym∣piads flourished vntill the time of Lucius Silla the Dictator: yet * 1.13 vsed for computation sake, (but with most absurd and grosse errours,) both of Zenophon and Thucydides, who little vsed them, and yet erred in them, though they liued and wrote then when the Olympiads most flourished: and it made me al∣so oftentimes to auoyd the Olympiads in my histories, for that I found great errors in them.

But I will come to the thirde king of Fraunce Meroueus the sonne of Clodius, who succeeded his father and raigned * 1.14 12. yeeres, others say but 10: and so the errour which was in

the yeeres of Faramundus, is corrected and amended. This king lost nothing which his father got. He did not onely de∣fend and maintaine all those countreys and territories which were ioyned to the kingdome of Fraunce by his father, but also enlarged the same with the vanquishing and subduing of the Romanes in many places.

These French people by this time became so strong and so mightie, that they were feared of all Northren nations, and therefore certaine countreys conspired against them, and commenced warre against them, as Attila king of the Hunnes, * 1.15 who slew his owne brother called Bleda, (which ioyntly raig∣ned in the kingdome) for to haue the sole gouernment: with him that time ioyned Vualaricus king of the East Gothes, Arda∣ricus king of Gepida, and other nations of the North. These commenced warre vpon Meroueus with fiue hundreth thou∣sand souldiers: but he was ayded with Theodoricus king of the Vestgothes, and with Aetius the Romane lieutenant. And the battaile was terrible and great, and endured from Sunne ri∣sing to Suune setting, where 188. thousande were slaine, but * 1.16 the victorie fell to the Frenchmen, with great slaughter on ei∣ther side: for in that battaile was slaine Theodoricus king of the * 1.17 Vestgothes, whose bodie was brought with great pompe and solemnitie to Tolosa to be buried.

In the next yeere after this great battaile, Attila king of the Hunnes (being of the mightiest power, and of the greatest * 1.18 force of all Germanie,) inuaded Italy, ouerthrowing and vt∣terly spoyling all partes and places of Italy where hee came into: the harme and spoyle he did was such, that Leo the first of that name, then Bishop of Rome, came in his pontificall robes and met him, (to whom Attila vsed great reuerence,) * 1.19 and obtained peace. The like is written of the great Alex∣ander, who with the like honour reuerenced the high Priest at Hierusalem, by whom Alexander was pacified, and his warre turned to peace.

Now after in the eleuenth yere of Meroueus, he besieged * 1.20 Augusta the chiefest citie of Treueres which Attila a litle before

tooke with the sword, and possessed it, but recouered into Fraunce againe: so that the Frenchmen by this time grewe so great & so strong, since the time they came first from Scythia * 1.21 into Germanie, when they dwelt about the riuer of Rein, in those places which are now called Holland, Gilderland, Cliue∣land, and Frizland, that they beganne to aduance themselues, and to extol their kingdom aboue the Empire: for with con∣tinual warres of almost 870. yeeres, with the slaughter of ma∣ny of their kings, dukes, and barons, when they were yet cal∣led Sicambri, and after Franci, and now Galli, they became at length so strong, that rather the empire was subiect to France, * 1.22 then France to the empire. For this French nation (as I said before) behaued themselues so in all places where they dwelt, that they would both vse their maners and speach, and there∣fore were they called by so many names, as Neumagi, Marco∣mani, Sicambri, Germani, Franci, and Galli. But this word France was encreased more and more, and what victorie or conquest * 1.23 soeuer these kings obtained, stil they ioyned it to that part of Fraunce where they first inhabited, vntill they had conque∣red all other names within Gallia to be France, and that euen from Francus which raigned but fewe yeeres before our Sa∣uiour Christ.

Now after that Merouaeus had raigned 12. yeres he died, after * 1.24 whom succeeded his sonne Childericus, who after he had raig∣ned king for one yeere, hee vsed such an inordinate filthie life and insolencie, that he was dispossessed of his kingdome: in whose place Egidius a Romane was elected, who raigned eight * 1.25 yeeres, some say but 3. yeres after. But before he went he re∣posed all his trust in Virodomarus his friend, an excellent soul∣dier, to whom he gaue halfe a piece of gold, & kept the other halfe himselfe, willing him to beleeue no message without he sawe that halfe piece of golde. But reade this historie in Aemilius and you shall finde howe Childericus was by Virodo∣marus * 1.26 restored to his kingdome againe, and how Virodomarus was brought from Turingia with all the nobles of France into his kingdome: where Childericus was placed againe in his

kingdome, being then gone to Bisinus king of Turingia for re∣fuge and succour, and with him came from thence Basana the kings daughter: some say, that she was Bissinus wife the king. * 1.27 The histories say, that she came and followed after Childeri∣cus from her father, whom Childericus married, and by whom * 1.28 hee got Clodoueus, which was the first king that receiued the Christian faith.

Childericus after his returne to his kingdome, remembring the victories and cōquests of his father, began valiantly to re∣couer those places and townes frō the Romans, which Egidius while he gouerned Fraunce had willingly lost. He layd siege to * 1.29 Coloni•…•… and ouerthrew it, he remoued Odoacer from Fraunce which hee inuaded with a huge armie, and put him to flight: and when he had recouered all Fraunce from the Romanes sub∣iection, hee appointed lieutenants and generals in euery pro∣uince of Fraunce, and left all Fraunce free from the Romanes to * 1.30 his sonne Clodoueus, and died when he had raigned 26. yeeres: others say 23. yeeres, Paul. Aemilius affirmeth 30.

In the time of this king came Ambrosius Aurelius the Romane, and tooke the gouernment of Britaine, after 20. conflicts hee * 1.31 was slaine by the English Saxons: at what time certaine Britaines sailed ouer and came & possessed Aquitania. For now raigned in Italy Odoacer (Hercules being driuen before out of Fraunce as you heard by Hildericus) this Hercules hauing setled him selfe in Italy, and assuming there the name of a king, the Empire was remoued at that very time into Germany, and Rome and all Italy were gouerned by strangers. All the West kingdomes were much molested and sore vexed this time, for (as you * 1.32 heard) Vortiger, and after Hengistus scattered the Britaines to seeke new dwellings, so me into Cambria (which is now called Wales, where they euer dwelt since that time) and some to France, which is called in France to this day litle Britaine. A∣gaine * 1.33 the Longobards setled themselues about the riuer Danu∣bius, and diuers other nations in Germanie, and in the West countreys were placed and againe displaced by warre.

But to Clodoueus the son of Childericus by Basana, who came * 1.34

to the kingdome of Fraunce at the age of 21. yeeres, and raig∣ned 30. yeeres: he liued 15. of them a Pagane vnchristened: in the other 15. he was christened, and was the first that receiued the Christian faith into Fraunce, and also the first king that possessed all Gallia vnder the crowne of Fraunce: for in foure great battailes he had these victories.

The first against the Romanes, whose lieutenant was called * 1.35 Siagrius, who was taken in the bat•…•…aile and slaine, and the ar∣mie of the Romanes put to flight and slaine.

The second warre was against Gothemarus and Gotegiseleus, who before had slaine in warre Chilpericus his wiues father, and Sigismundus his wiues vncle: this warre Clodoueus tooke in hande at the suite and earnest request of his wife Clotil∣dis, for shee was a Christian, who laboured much with the king her husband to become a Christian, and with as great care shee dayly solicited the king to reuenge her father and vncles death.

The thirde warre was against the Almanes, at what time * 1.36 he vowed if God would giue him the victorie, hee would be∣come a Christian, which he performed, and obtained the vi∣ctory, and was baptized by Remigius bishop of Rheme.

The fourth warre was against Alaricus king of the Gothes, whom he slew in the fielde, and discomfited all his armie.

By these foure great victories Clodoueus had brought all Gallia to be all Fraunce: for during his bastards sonnes time, he subdued Turingia, and enlarged his countrey from the riuer of Rhein, vnto the riuer Sequana. Theodoricus being by his father Clodoueus sent as President to Aquitania, at what time he brought diuers people (by the sworde) vnder his fathers subiection, as Albios, Rhatenes, Tolasates, and the people called Auerni: He subdued Vastonia and other places. Reade more of the warres of Clodoueus, of his vowes, and conuersion to the faith, and of his victories, in Paul. Aemilius, and in Tilius: who after he had raigned thirtie yeeres he died, and was bu∣ried in Paris. * 1.37

Hitherto reacheth Hunibaldus historie of the antiquitie of

Fraunce, which he wrote and deuided into 18. bookes, con∣teyning the history of all the kings, from the first Marcomirus which came from Scythia, vntill the time of Clodoueus death, which were 47. kings which raigned by sundry names for the space of 950. yeeres.

While this Clodoueus raigned, the Saracens inuaded Phoeni∣cia, Syria, and Thracia, and did great harme. This time raigned * 1.38 in Persia Lambases, whom Procopius named Blasen: and about this time Anastatius the Emperour builded a most strong ci∣tie in Mesopotamia, and named it after his owne name Anasta∣sia: and walled the citie of Theodocia in Armenia, which the Emperour Theodosius had builded.

In the time of this Clodoueus Arthur raigned in Britaine, who did much annoy the Saxons, and had if he had long liued, re∣stored the Britaines againe to their former libertie. But to returne to the successors of Clodoueus, who left behinde him foure sonnes, Theodoricus, Clodomirus, Childebertus, and Lotha∣rius, * 1.39 amongst whom the kingdome of Fraunce was deuided, the whole kingdome made a Tetrarchia: and so in processe of time the whole kingdome fell to Childebertus hand, frō whom the lines of the kings of Fraunce descende vntill Hildericus, though some say it doth descend from Lotharius: yet raigned these 4. brethren in seueral Prouinces of Fraunce, as foure Te∣trarches for a time. During which time, reade Procopius and Paul. Aemilius and see the euents of fortune, the vncertaintie * 1.40 of states, and change of earthly dignitie, and how Theodoricus, and Clodomirus two of the brethren, with all their children died: then Childebertus deuided the whole kingdome be∣tweene him and his brother Clotarius.

In the meane season let vs see what was done in other coun∣treys: for while these foure brethren gouerned Fraunce, Rome * 1.41 was taken being besieged by the Gothes, and destroyed and left desolate by Totila king of the Gothes: he also vanquished the Brutians and the Lucans, hee tooke Apulia and Calabria, and besieged Placentia. This warre of the Gothes cōtinued 18. yeeres, during which warre raigned 3. kings ouer the Gothes:

the first Vitiges, who destroyed Rome in his time, but reedified and builded againe by Belisarius: the second king Alaricus, who was slaine within few moneths: so that the most time of this 18. yeeres were continued vnder Totila, who plagued so sore * 1.42 Italy and Rome, that after that time Rome was so decayed and possessed with strangers, that sooner you should finde in Italy a Germane then a Romane: and in Rome it selfe, tenne Van∣dols, tenne Gothes, or tenne Longobards, for one citizen, in so * 1.43 much that they were not able to appoint a Consul to go∣uerne them, who had gouerned them for the space of 447. yeres: so long the Consuls of Rome gouerned the citie, which was vntill the Emperours time, and then they gouerned the whole worlde. But now, not onely the dignitie of Con∣suls was lost, (which were of long time languishing and de∣caying, since ciuil warres betwene themselues, with persecu∣tion of the godly, and tyrannie of the wicked Emperors) but the name it selfe vtterly perished and quite abolished by those nations of Germanie, who were scant knowen in Augustus Caesars time: and therefore valeat Roma cum Papa, who entred into Rome, and tooke possession thereof within 40. yeeres of Clotarius gouernment. At what time he erected vp his Papa∣cie * 1.44 in Rome, when Mahomet aduaunced vp the kingdome of the Saracens. The Pope beganne his Papacie in Rome 14. yeres before Mahomet beganne his kingdome ouer the Saracens in Arabia.

Nowe a Pope for an Emperour gouerned Rome, a prophet for a king raigned in Arabia: of whome I spake in the historie of the Church, and in the historie of the Saracens. And now I will make mention of Iustinianus, who gouerned then as Emperour: vnder whome Bellisarius annoyed Italy, subdued Siracusa, and tooke Catina, and in the last yeere of his Consul∣ship subdued Sicilia.

After that, he passed into Affrica, and deliuered Carthage from the siege of Stoze, and appointed one Salomon gouer∣nour ouer the towne. This Bellisarius prooued so excellent a * 1.45 captaine vnder Iustinianus the Emperor, that he aduanced the

name of the empire through his victories gotten in diuers bat∣tels, that some write that Bellisarius had a triumph graunted him at Rome, appointed by the Emp. Iustinian: much is writtē of this Bellisarius in the wars called Persicum, which Iustinianus * 1.46 begā, but Bellisarius ended. This Bellisarius toke Catina, Siracusa, and subdued al Sicilie, Rauenna, & Naples, and was made gene∣rall vnder Iustinian in the East empire, where he merited the name of a good souldier. Iustinianus made the 4. bookes of the Institutes and other 50. bookes of ciuill lawe, called the Pan∣dects, * 1.47 which Tribonianus ended, and brought to perfection.

This time Cosroes king of Persia inuaded Cilicia, and Syria, he tooke Antiochia, and now againe the fourth time, after he had concluded peace with Iustinianus, he inuaded the territories of the Romanes, but he was now driuen thence by Bellisarius: at what time Arethus king of the Saracens came, and yeelded to Iustinianus both his kingdome and his children. Totila king of the Gothes this time gaue an ouerthrow to Demetrius vpon the sea, and tooke Neapolis. During these 45. yeres, Hunni in∣uaded * 1.48 Europe, spoyled and wasted into Bizantium, which is Constantinople: in Britaine died Arthur the sonne of Vter Pen∣dragon, after whome succeeded Constantius a wicked lewde Prince, about which time, Narses a Persian with a great ar∣mie entred into Italie, vanquished the Gothes at Tagira, and a∣gaine the Gothes ouerthrowen by Narses at Necerium, and at * 1.49 last driuen out of Italie, and their king Totila slayne. Thus farre Procopius writeth of the warres of the Gothes. Nowe to Clotharius, which raigned in Fraunce 5. yeeres after the death of his three brethren and their children, and died, as Blondus saieth, at Tridentum: after whose death, Fraunce was againe deuided betweene the sonnes of Lotharius, who is called in Be∣roaldus, * 1.50 Clotarius, which raigned 5. yeres after Childebertus, and died & was buried in the church of S. Medardis in Suetia, which Church he began to builde a litle before he died.

After whom succeeded Cherebertus the sonne of Clotarius, * 1.51 a wicked vicious king, who after he raigned 9. yeeres, died in the armes of his concubine at Paris: after him Chilpericus raig∣ued

14. yeres, as vitious and wicked as his brother, yet of him lineally do discend the line of the kings of France vntil Childe∣ricus time, he was caused to be slaine betweene Landricus and * 1.52 his strumpet Fredegunda, and was also buried in Paris. Now Iustinus the yonger, a daughters sonne of Iustinianus, gouerned in the empire: warrre was proclaimed by the Romanes against the Persians, at what time Hormisda raigned king of Persia, who was vanquished by Tiberius Constantius: and againe the Per∣sians lost those townes which they had gotten during the go∣uernment of Iustinianus.

This time Chilpericus left a childe of the age of 4. moneths, called Clotarius the second of that name, and the 10. king of Fraunce, who raigned 44. yeeres: this king being yet an infant * 1.53 vnder the protectiō of Landricus, whom Guntrandus the kings vncle had made master of the horse, Childebertus king of Medi∣omatrices sought to attempt through force to gouerne France, but in vaine, for he mist of his purpose: for he & his wife died within a while after vpon one day, supected to be poysoned. Howbeit, when Clotarius came to any estate ciuill, warres be∣gan * 1.54 in France betwene the king, and Theodobertus and Theodo∣ricus two sonnes of Hildebertus: these two brethren plagued sore the king, vntill they were deuided one against another, and then al France was afflicted. But during these ciuil vex∣ations in France, the Persians wasted Palestine, tooke Ierusalem and their patriarch Zacharias, they raged against the Egyptians, and they subdued Alexandria and Libya, vntill Aethiope, tooke Carthage, and proudly denied the Emperour Heraclius peace: but the Persians and their king Cosroes repented their denial, for * 1.55 Heraclius prepared warre, and leuied an armie, and entred into Persia, & flew in that voyage 50000. Heraclius the second time persecuted the Persiās with sword and fire so hard, that Cosroes their king was slaine. By this time the Persians were on euery side so assaulted & so weakned, that they were most miserably * 1.56 slaine and destroyed, & their kingdom taken by the Saracens.

About this time Caddwalader the last king of the Britaines, * 1.57 was by a dreame admonished to leaue his kingdome, and to

passe ouer sea to Rome, at what time the English Saxons pos∣sessed the whole Isle of Britaine, sauing Scotland and the Picts.

Let vs leaue France for a while in their ciuil dissentions be∣tweene Clotarius and the two sonnes of Childebertus, named Theodoricus & Theobertus, who after they constrained the king * 1.58 to accept what cōditions of peace they lusted, these two bre∣thren fell out, that againe all France was in armes, & for a time France was most miserablie afflicted. Now Persia being de∣stroied the third time by the Saracēs, we wil passe ouerthe Pope in Rome, & Mahomet in Arabia, and returne to Germanie, a coū∣trey so famous of late, that the Monarchie & sole empire flou∣rished there: though the Romans in Iulius Caesars time made no * 1.59 accompt of them, calling all those nations which are called Vandols, Gothes, Hunnes, Hungarians, Danes, Sueuians, Russians, and others by one name Germanes. These coūtreis and kingdoms flourished when the East kingdoms decaied, and that within 500. yeres of Augustus time, when Rome was in her most glory & dignitie: and for that the names of their kings may be read in Functius, I wil not set them down: for those that were of any great renowme in histories, chiefly the Gothes and Vādols, who hitherto had 24. kings, and the Longobards who had 17. kings. Diaconus writes of them, & Functius in his table records them: and therfore I wil returne to Clotarius, who when he had raig∣ned 41. yeeres, he assigned Dagobertus his eldest sonne king of * 1.60 Austratia, ioyntly to gouerne France with him for three yeeres more, and then Clotarius died in the 44. yere of his raigne.

This Dagobertus was the 11. king frō Faramundus, and had a * 1.61 brother named Aribertus, to whom he gaue Aquitania in pos∣session, and gouerned himselfe after his father in Fraunce 14. yeres: he was very vitious and so giuen to women, that when he would trauaile he would haue his womē caried with him, Agmina Scortorum, a whole armie of concubines, who went * 1.62 in habits of Queenes, and dwelt in pallaces made vnto them by the king Dagobertus. And with this vice there was ioy∣ned an other vertue, which was to banish all those Iewes out of Fraunce, that would not become Christians: for nowe

Fraunce hath their vines and grapes, and all the countrey of Fraunce flourished since Probus the Emperours time, who first * 1.63 suffered them to haue the vse and benefites of all vines.

By this time his brother Aribertus died in Aquitaina, and left a sonne behind him, named Hilpericus, who likewise died after his father shortly, and all Fraunce fell to Dagobertus: who at that time placed his eldest sonne Sigebertus king of Austrasia, where sometimes Dagobertus gouerned during three yeeres of his fathers raigne. Dagobertus had warres with the Vuindos whom he vanquished by the ayde of the Saxons, and also hee * 1.64 had warres against the Vascons, who though they reuolted as Tritemius affirmeth, yet receiued them into fauour. In Rome now had raigned 9. seueral popes, whose names are set down in the history of the church, and ouer the Saracens (who quite had subdued all Persia before) raigned already foure Amyras of Mahomets sects. Thus in Rome a silly priest became a great Pope, and in Arabia a false Prophet of one age with the pope * 1.65 became a mighty king, which by his greatnes attained a sur∣name called Amyras: of whom likewise I haue spoken in the historie of the Saracens.

• 1 Pharamundus reigned 8. yeeres, Beroaldus saith 11. yeeres.
• 2 Clodius Faramundus sonne surnamed Criui∣tus reigned 18. yeeres.
• 3 Meroueus succeeded his father Clodius, and reigned 10. yeeres.
• 4 Hildericus the first reigned 26. this is cal∣led of many Childericus.
• 5 Clodoueus reigned 30.
• 6 Childebertus reigned 45. yeeres.
• 7 Lotarius or Cotarius 5. yeeres.
• 8 Heribertus reigned 9.
• 9 Hilpericus or Chilperi∣cus 23. for marke whō Beroaldus, Ruffinus, and others doe name Chilpe∣ricus, that same doeth Functius name Hilpe∣ricus, & so of Cheriber∣tus Functius he nameth Heribertus.
• 10 Lotarius 2. the sōne of Hilpericus 14. yeeres.
• 11 Dagobertus succeeded his father, and reigned 14. yeeres.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Faramundus ap∣pointed his brother Mar∣comirus East Fraunce.
• * 1.2

  P. Aemil. lib. 1.
• * 1.3

  Faramundus the first king of Gallia.
• * 1.4

  Plini lib. 4. cap. 17. 18.
• * 1.5

  Lex Salica made in Fara∣mundus time. Clodius the se∣cond king of Fraunce.
• * 1.6

  Clodius was sir∣named Crini∣tus.
• * 1.7

  The diuers vi∣ctories of this Clodius.
• * 1.8

  Scots and Picts inuaded Bri∣taine.
• * 1.9

  Clodius died.
• * 1.10

  Ruffinus de orig. Francorum.
• * 1.11

  Reade Gildas, Giraldus and Beda in the hi∣storie of Bri∣taine.
• * 1.12

  The antiqui∣tie of English Saxons in Bri∣taine, called before Aru∣brones Roxones.
• * 1.13

  The errors of the Olympiads.
• * 1.14

  Meroueus the thirde king.
• * 1.15

  Attila king of the Hunnes, V∣ualaricus king of the East. Gothes, Ardari∣cus king of Ge∣pida, ioyned together a∣gainst the French.
• * 1.16

  Til. in Cron. Franc. Reg.
• * 1.17

  The great vi∣ctorie of the Frenchmen.
• * 1.18

  Attila a strong king.
• * 1.19

  Ioseph. lib. 71. cap. 8.
• * 1.20

  Augusta besie∣ged by Mero∣neus.
• * 1.21

  These places the Frenchmen fi•…•…st inhabited after they had come from Scythia.
• * 1.22

  Fraunce flou∣rished.
• * 1.23

  The Romane Empire fell to decay.
• * 1.24

  Childericus the fourth king of Fraunce.
• * 1.25

  Egidius raig∣ned 8 yeeres.
• * 1.26

  Aemil. lib. 1.
• * 1.27

  Til Chron. Francor. r•…•…g.
• * 1.28

  Clodoue•…•…s the first of that name recei∣ued first the Christian faith in France.
• * 1.29

  P. Aemil. in Childe•…•…ico.
• * 1.30

  Childericus died.
• * 1.31

  A nomber of B•…•…itaines came ouer sea, and possessed A∣quitania.
• * 1.32

  Vortiger and after him Hengistus.
• * 1.33

  The first time that Armorica was named litle Brita•…•…ne.
• * 1.34

  Clodoueus the fift king.
• * 1.35

  Reade of th•…•…se 4. great victo∣ries Blondus and Procopius.
• * 1.36

  Clodoueus the first perfor∣med his othe and became a Christian, af∣ter his victorie had against the Almanes.
• * 1.37

  Thus farre Hu•…•…ibaldus.
• * 1.38

  In this time of Clodoueus, raig∣ned Emperour Anastatius, and in Britaine raigned Ar∣thur.
• * 1.39

  Cl•…•…doueus 4. sonnes.
• * 1.40

  Procop lib. 1. de bell. Gothor.
• * 1.41

  Reade of theis 18. yere warre Procop. lib. 2 de bello Persico.
• * 1.42

  This king To∣t•…•…la plagued Italy & Rome.
• * 1.43

  More Vandols and Gothes in Rome then Citizens.
• * 1.44

  The kingdom of the Pope, and the king∣dome of Ma∣hom•…•…t, began at one time.
• * 1.45

  Bellisarius much com∣mended.
• * 1.46

  Bellisarius a no∣ble captaine vnder Iustinia∣nus.
• * 1.47

  Pandects made by Iustinianus the Emperor.
• * 1.48

  This time died Arthur i•…•… Britaine.
• * 1.49

  Prccopius of the warres of the Gothes thus farre.
• * 1.50

  De Chron. Fran•…•….
• * 1.51

  Cherebertus a wicked vici∣ous prince.
• * 1.52

  This time be∣ganne warres betweene the Romanes and the Persians.
• * 1.53

  Clotarius the tenth king.
• * 1.54

  Reade Tilius de reg. Franc.
• * 1.55

  The victorie of Heraclius ouer the Per∣sians.
• * 1.56

  Polyb. lib. 4.
• * 1.57

  Caddwalader the last king of the Britaines.
• * 1.58

  Warres be∣tweene Theo∣doricus and Theobertus.
• * 1.59

  Vādoles, Gothes, Hunnes, Danes, Hungarians, and others, were by the olde Romane•…•… called Ger∣manes.
• * 1.60

  Clotarius died.
• * 1.61

  Dagobertus the 11. king.
• * 1.62

  Til Chron. Franc. reg.
• * 1.63

  Fraunce suffred to haue their vines by Pro∣bus the Empe∣rour.
• * 1.64

  Dagobertus di∣ed vpon the 4. kal. of Febru∣arie.
• * 1.65

  Mahomet.