The 25 daie▪
CHrist Iesus the sonne of God tooke flesh of the virgin Ma∣rie vpon this day, on the which day the Angell Gabriel ••••∣luted
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CHrist Iesus the sonne of God tooke flesh of the virgin Ma∣rie vpon this day, on the which day the Angell Gabriel ••••∣luted
the Uirgine.
The feast of the mother of the gods called Hylaria festa, was solemnely celebrated in Rome vpon this day, for that the daye began to be longer, for in the time of Iulius Caesar and Octauius Augustus,* 1.1 this day was counted the equinoctiall of the springe, at what time the women of Rome sacrificed vnto Venus with great obsequies.
Theodosius the third of that name Emperour, who was compelled by his Souldiers to take the name of an Emperor, and within two yeares after was constrained vpon this daye to forsake the empire, and to liue a priuate life in a monasterie, he was so persecuted by ••eo the third surnamed Iconoma∣chus, so called for that hee defended Images, who succeeded Theodosius, 717.
Frederike the second,* 1.2 being Emperour was crowned king of Hierusalem, and within 23. yeares after, Conradinus the sonne of Conradus the Emperour, was borne vpon this daye, who died afterward at Naples, 1252.
Nicephorus surnamed Botoniates, was elected Emperor of Constantinople vpon this daye, who by Alexus was driuen out of his Empire into a monasterie, where he died, three years after he was chosen Emperor, 1077.
Iames the firste Bishop of Ierusalem after Christ,* 1.3 and bro∣ther to him according to the manner of the Iewes which called them brethren that were cosins, was stoned to death, in wit∣nesse of his faith, as some writers suppose, 64.
Clemens the third Pope of Rome dyed, 1191, by whose perswasion the Emperour Fredericke the first tooke a voyage into Italie, besieged Mellaine, Cremona, Dertona, and ma∣nye other Townes and Citties which reuolted from him, he brought euen to the grou••de. This Frederike was surna∣med Aenobardus a Bononian borne, and sonne to that Fre∣derike, which was Sonne to Conradus the Emperour.
Macrob. ••
Auent.
Mar. scot. lib. 2.