Of the state of Europe XIIII. bookes. Containing the historie, and relation of the many prouinces hereof. Continued out of approved authours. By Gabriel Richardson Batchelour in Divinitie, and fellow of Brasen-Nose College in Oxford.

THE NINTH BOOKE. (Book 9)

COntayning the description of the more famous Mountaines, and Rivers of France. Their auncient, and moderne names. The auncient name, and Etymologie of Gaule. The distinction hereof into Gaule on this side, and beyond the Alpes. The begin∣ning, and occasion of the name of Gaule on this side the Alpes. The bounds, situation, and auncient estate of Gaule on this side the Alpes before the subiection thereof to the Romans, and revni∣on with Italy. The auncient limits, and extent of Gaule beyond the Alpes. The first inhabitants of Gaule beyond the Alpes. The intrusion of the neighbouring Germans, and of the Greekes Pho∣censes. The foundation of the auncient, and noble city of Mar∣seilles. The conquest of Gaule beyond the Alpes by the Romans. The description, and face hereof during the Roman government out of Ptolemy, Pliny, Antoninus, and others. The history, inva∣sion, and conquests of the Britons, VVisigothes, Burgundians, Almans, and Frenchmen. The conquest of the whole by the French. The large extent aunciently of the French dominions. The reestablishment of the Roman Empire of the VVest in Char∣les the Great, and the French nation. The name of France. The distinction hereof into the parts, and names of Oosten-reich, and VVest-reich. The division of the grand Monarchy of the French by the sons, and posterity of the Emperour Lewis the Godly. The French kingdomes of Germany, and Italy. Their rent from the nation, and name of the French. The kingdomes of Burgundy, Lorraine, and VVest-France. The Dukedomes of Lorraine, Iuli∣ers, Cleue, Brabant, Luxemburg, Limburg, and Gelderlandt, the Palatinate of the Rhijn, the Bishopricks of Liege, and V∣treicht, the Lantgraueship of Elsatz, the Earledomes of Namur, Hainault, Holland, and Zealandt, parts sometimes of the aunci∣ent

French kingdome of Lorraine. The vniting of Brabant, Lux∣emburg, Lim••urg, Gelderlandt, Namur, Hainault, Holland, Zealandt, Vtreicht vnto the Netherlands, and family of Burgundy; and of the rest to the Empire of the Germans. The Dukedomes of Savoy, and of Burgundy on this side the Soasne, and beyond the Iour, the Earledomes of Lions, and Mascon, the free counrye of Burgundy, the kingdome of Arles, the Earle∣dome of Provence, Daulphiny, and the Common-wealth, and League of the Switzers, parts of the auncient French kingdome of Burgundy. The vniting of the Dukedome of Burgundy on this side of the Soasne, and of Daulphiny, Lionois, and Pro∣vençe to the kingdome of West-France, and of the rest to the Ger∣man Empire. The Earledomes of Flanders, and Artois, parts some∣times of the kingdome of VVest-France. Their division herefrom, and vnion with the Netherlands, and house of Burgundy. The kingdome of France. The present limits, and extent of France, occasioned thorough so many rents, and divisions. The Etymology, or reason of the present names of the countries of France.

THE MOVNTAINES OF GAVLE, OR FRANCE.

THe Land-markes, whereof we will make vse in the discourse following, are the Mountaines, and Rivers hereof.

The Mountaines,* 1.1 whereof there is made any mention by auncient au∣thours, were the Gebenna, Iura, and Vo∣gesus.

The Gebenna, (named thus by Cae∣sar) was the same with the Mountaines Cemmeni of Ptolemy. Caesar maketh them to part the Auverni from the Helvij, or (as Merula interpreteth) the countrey of Auvergne from Vi∣varetz. They are put by Rubys to be the mountaines of Givaudan, and Auvergne.

Iura was that long mountainous ridgea 1.2, which divideth now the Free County of Burgundy from Savoy, and Switzerland, or (as in Caesar) the Sequani from the Helvetij. It lyeth wholy out of France in the parts of Gaule, belonging vnto Germany and the Empire; beginning at the confines of the countrey of Basil not far from the Rhiin ouer against the towne of Waldshut, and continuing from thence South-west by the Northern shores of the lakes Bieler se, Nuwenburger se, and Lemane, and ending a litle short of the riuer Rhosne. It is now called by diverse names; towards the beginning, and neere vnto the auncient castle of Habspurg, Botsberg; betwi••t the river Soasne, and Forspurg, Schaffmat; betwixt Olten, and the Leiftenantship of Humberg, Nider-Hauwestein; afterwards Ober-Hawestein; further West Wasser-fal; then Iurten by the inhabitants of Savoy; after this, and to the end le Mont. S. Claude.

Vogesus was that, which nowe incircling Lorraine, divideth it vpon the East, and South from Elsats, and the Free Countie of Burgundy. It lyeth likewise wholy without the limits of moderne France in the parts, appertayning to the Empire, and is now (saith Merula) amongst other names called le Mont de Faucilles.

THE RIVERS.

THe more great, and noted riuers hereof, having enter course with the Ocean, and which are the maine channels, and receptacles of the other, are the Rhosne, Garonne, Loyre, Seyne, Scheldt, and the Meuse.

The Rhosne springethb 1.3 out of the Mountaine, called by the Dutch Die Furcken, being part of the Alpes Lepontiae, the head thereof being distant about two Dutch miles from the spring of the neerer branch of the Rhiin. With a swift, & headlong streame hastning thorough Wal∣lislandt,

and the Lake Lemane; after having visited the cities of Sion, Ge∣neve, Lions, Vienne, Avignon, and Arles, it falleth with six channels in∣to the Mediterranean sea. The more noted rivers emptied hereinto are the Soasne* 1.4, arising out of the Mountaine Vauge not farre from the springs of the Meuse, and Moselle, and by the townes of Chal••n, & Mas∣con with an imperceptible, & still course, flowing hereinto at Lions: the Isere* 1.5: and* 1.6 Durance, sourcing out of the Alpes.

The Garonnef 1.7, hath its head in the Pyrenaean Mountaines, neere vnto a towne named Catalup. After hauing passed by the great cities of Tho∣louse, and Bourdeaux; betwixt Xaintogne, and the countrie of Medoc in Guienne it is disburdened into the Aquitanique Ocean. The part hereof, intercepted betwixt the Ocean, and the towne of Libourne, or its meet∣ing with the Dordonne, is called the Gironne. Greater riuers, falling hereinto, are the Dordonne, springing out of the Mountaine d'Or in Au∣vergne: Loth: Tarn: and Gers.

The Loire arisethg 1.8 in the hilly countrey of Velay; the place, where it springeth, being called le Font de Leyre, that is, the head of the Loire. After a long, and pleasant course by the cities of Orleans, Bloise, Am∣boise, Tours, and Nantes, below this towne it is receyved into the We∣sterne Ocean. Chiefer riuers, emptying herein, are the Allier, sprin∣ging in Auvergne neere vnto the towne of Clermont: Cher: Vienne: and the Maine.

The Seine* 1.9 hath its head in the Dukedome of Burgundie. Taking its course by the cities of Paris, and Roan, at New-haven in Normandy it falleth into the British Ocean. Chiefer rivers, receiued hereinto, are the Oyse out of Picardie, taken in at Poissy: and the Marne* 1.10, at Pont-Cha∣renton, nere to Paris, streaming from the Vauge, nere Langres.

The* 1.11 Scheldt ariseth in Vermandois. By the cities Cambray, Valencie∣nes, Tournay, Gaunt, and Antwerp it is disburdened into the German O∣cean by two channels; that vpon the right hand dividing Zealandt, & carryed into the sea betwixt the Iland Walcheren, and Schouwen; & the other by the name of the Honte, parting Zealandt from the continent of Flanders, and flowing into the Ocean betwixt Walcheren, and the town of Sluys. More noted riuers, emptying hereinto, are the* 1.12 Sambre: and the Hayne, watring; and dividing Hainault, and occasioning the name of that country.

Them 1.13 Meuse, or Maes springeth out of the Mountaine Vauge in the confines of Lorraine, and of the Free Countrey of Burgundie neere vnto the Monasterie la Voiage in Lorraine. By the more noted townes, and cities of Namur, Luick, Maestricht, Venlo, Grave, Buchoven, Dort, Rotter∣dam, Vlardring, and Brill; betwixt this towne, and Graue-sand in the maine land of Hollandt, after hauing receiued in the Wael, and Leck, (two principall branches of the Rhijn) it is disburdened into the Ger∣man Ocean. The part hereof from Buchoven vnto below Worcum is cal∣led De Nieuwe Maes, or the New Maes for a distinction from the old channell; derived aunciently from Buchoven by the sluces, now called Meedickse Maes, and D'oude Maes, and by the townes of Huesden, and S. Gertrudenberg, afterwards thorough the drowned lands, neere vnto

Dort, then betwixt the two Ilands of Vorn, after this betwixt the Iland Corendick, and the towns Bleynckuliet in the more Northerne Vorn, lastly thorough the maine of this Iland at a towne not farre from Brill, na∣med Geeruliet, carryed into the Ocean. The new Chanell, or Maes from Worcum by Dort, and Rotterdam vnto Vlardring is promiscuously cal∣led by the names of the Niewe Maes; and of the Merwe from a castle so named, whose ruines are yet seene in the drowned land neere Dort. Beyond Vlardring it againe assumeth its former name of the Maes, which it continueth vnto the Ocean.

THE AVNCIENT NAME OF FRANCE.

THE more auncient namea 1.14 of this country was Gallia, or Gaule, being so called from the milkie whitenesse of the people; com∣pared to the Greekes, and Romans, the first imposers.

For the better clearing heereof wee are to distinguish of a twofold Gallia; Cisalpina, or Gaule on this side of the Alpes, and Transalpina, or Gaule beyond the Alpes: for so were those parts named by the Ro∣mans in regard of such their situations towards Italy, the seate of their Empire.

GAVLE CIS-ALPINA.

GAule Cisalpina* 1.15 was otherwise calledb 1.16 Gallia Togata from the Roman habite, and greater civility of the people, conquered by the Romans before the other, and brought vnto their manners, and custome of liuing. This was a part of Italy, as it is at this day accomp∣ted, more aunciently possessed by the Thuscansc 1.17, and first chaunging into this new name vpon the comming of the Gaules from beyond the Alpes, desbourding hither vnder Bellovesus, Nephew to Ambigatus, King of the Celtae, in the raigne of Tarquinius Priscus, King of Rome, & those auncient inhabitants driuen out, subduing the Country, and planting therein. The bounds hereof were the Alpes of France, and Germany, dividing it from those Continents, the Tirrhene, and Adria∣tique Seas, and the riuers Arno, &d 1.18 Rubicon, falling thereinto, and divi∣ding it from the rest of Italy. It contayned the parts where now lye the great Dukedome of Milan, those other of Mantua, Ferrara, Parma, and Vrbin, the States of Genoa, and Lucca, Marca Trevisana, and the country of Venice, Romagna, Piemonte, and the dominions of the great Duke of Tuscanye, lying West of the riuer Arno. They were the Gaules of this division, famous in auncient times for their taking, and sacking

of the city of Rome, and their great Conquests, and victories in Greece, and Asia before mentioned. After long, and fierce warres with the Ro∣mans, the country, and people became at length totally subdued by that nation; which their finall subiection hapned a little before the Se∣cond Punique warre, and about the yeare of Rome 531, M. Claudius Mar∣cellus, and Cn. Cornelius Scipio being then Consuls. For it was in the Consulships hereof (as in the 3^d Booke of Eutropius) that their last war herewith was ended; commenced against the Insubrians. Concerning the after estate hereof, since it was no part of the more auncient, and proper Gaule, see Italy.

GAVLE TRANSALPINA.

GAule Transalpina* 1.19 was divided from Gaule Cisalpina with the Alpes, being bounded on the other sides with the Pyrenaean moun∣taines from Spaine, the riuer Rhijn from Germany, with the Sea Medi∣terranean, and the Aquitanique, and the British Oceans. It comprehen∣ded at this day the Wallons, and Low Countreyes, as farre as the Rhijn, the Dukedomes of Lorraine, Gulick, Sweyburg, & Savoy, the free County of Burgundie, Elsace, Luick, the district of Triers, Stiff van Colen, the Di∣ocese of Mentz, parts of the Lower Palatinate, & Dukedome of Cleve, the most part of the Cantons, and Confederacy of the Switzers, toge∣ther with the great, and renowned kingdome of France, the subject of this present discourse. This was the true, and proper Gallia, whose sundry fortunes, and estates, successions, and alterations follow.

GAVLE VNDER THE FIRST NATIVES.

THE first* 1.20 dominion hereof was vnder the Gaules, occasioning the name of the Country, whose antiquity, and first comming hi∣ther lye without the reach of History, or times memory; a people much renowned for armes, the victorious Conquerours of neighbou∣ring, and remote nations, themselues for a long time remaining vncon∣querable. Their government during their first, and rude times was vnder kings, divided amongst many. Amongst these we read of Am∣bigatus, king of the Bituriges, or Celtae; Teutomalius of the Salyi; Bituitus of the Auverni, with others not worth the mentioning. In the time of Caesar they consisted for the most part of Common-wealths, the name & authority of kings abrogated. The first of forreine Nations flowing hereinto were the Germans, intruding vpon the parts, neighbouring to the Rhijn, from whom the many people of the warlike Belgae were des∣cended. The certaine time of their comming is not set downe. In the raigne of Tarquin the Proud, king of the Romans, and in the 45 Olym∣piade, arriue here the Phocenses, a Graecian people inhabiting Phocaea, a City of Ionia in Asia the lesse, subdued, and driuen out of their Coun∣try

by Harpagus, generall of the army of Cyrus, Monarke of the Persi∣ans; the founders here of the noble city of Massilia, the mother of the many after flourishing colonies of Emporiae, Nicaea, Forum-Iulium, Tau∣rentium, & Olbia vpon the sea-coast hereof, and of Spaine.

GAVLE CONQVERED BY THE ROMANS.

THe Romans* 1.21 were the first, who for the desire of rule, and the greater enlargement of their Empire, invaded this country. A∣bout the yeare of Rome 628. M. Fulvius Flaccus, and M. Plautius be∣ing then Consuls, pretending the iniurie of their cōfederates, the Mas∣sillians, fell out here their first war with the Salyi; subdued by this Ful∣vius, and by the succeeding Consul C. Sextius, together with their neighbours the Vocontij, & Ligures. Vpon occasion of this war, and of the protection, & aide of Teutomalius, King of the Salyi, in the yeares of Rome 631, and 632 hapned their next wars with the Allobroges, assisted by the Auverni, managed successiuely by two of their Con∣suls Cn: Domitius. Ahenobardus, and Q. Fabius Maximus; the issue whereof was the captivity of Bituitus, king of the Auverni with great slaughter of the Barbarians, and the subjection of the whole Southerne part hereof, extended from the sea Mediterranean vnto the Mountains Cemmeni, called afterwards Gaule Narbonensis, first reduced into the order of a Province (as thinketh Sigonius) by this Fabius in the yeare 633 of Romes foundation, and some 5 yeares after that the wars with this Nation beyond the Alpes first begun. Some 70 yeares after∣wards C. Iulius Caesar, governour of the province, in ten yeares space by a long, and bloody war conquered the rest hereof, lying North of the Mountaines Cemmeni, and knowne by the namea 1.22 of Gallia Coma∣ta; all which he reduced vnder the forme of a Province, governed by their Proconsuls, and other names of Magistrates vntill the expiration of the Roman Empire. In the raignes, and Consulships of the Emperours Honorius, & Theodosius the second, and about the yeare of Rome 1164, and of Christ 412, by the gift of Honorius, the Gothes vnder their king Ataulphus first entred into, and tooke possession of Gaule Narbo∣nensis; followed immediatly after by the Burgundians, and Frenchmen; with whose swarmes the whole in a short space became ouerspread, the Roman authority, and Empire, as the name of Gaule, becomming hereby quite extinguished.

THE DESCRIPTION OF GAVLE VNDER THE FIRST ROMAN EMPEROVRS.

THe first* 1.23 division hereof during the Roman government, and those first times, we finde in Caesar to haue beene into the parts of A∣quitania,

contayned betwixt the Pyrenaean Mountaines, and the riuer Ga∣ronne; Celtica extended betwixt the Garonne, & the Seine, & Marne; and of Belgica, reaching from those two rivers of the Marne, and Seine vnto the Rhijn, and the Ocean. He excludeth Narbonensis from the accompt, and name of Gaule; doubtles in regard of the civility of the inhabitants, by their long commerce, and acquaintance with the Romans then growne altogether Italianate, and differing from the o∣ther in fashion, and maner of living. Augustus Caesar notwithstanding, afterwards correcting this division, added Gaule Narbonensis herevnto; making hereby 4 parts, or provinces of the whole Gaule, Narbonensis, Aquitania enlarged vnto the Loire, Celtica, ora 1.24 Lugdunensis, and Belgi∣ca; a division long afterwards obserued vntill the raigne of the Empe∣rour Constantine the Great, whose exacter bounds with their many peo∣ple, and cities follow out of Ptolemy, with reference to Caesar, Stra∣bo, and other best authours of those times.

AQVITANIA.

SO called* 1.25 from the city Aquae Augustae, now D' Acqs in Guienne. The bounds hereof were the Westerne Ocean from the Promontory Oeso of the Mountaines Pyrenaean vnto the mouth of the riuer Loire; the Loire from its head during the whole course thereof vnto its fall into the Ocean, dividing it from Lugdunensis; a line from the head of the Loire vnto the head of the riuer Illiberis in the Pyrenaean Mountaines, se∣vering it from Gaule Narbonensis; and the ridge of the Pyrenaean Moun∣taines, taken betwixt that line, and the Promontory Oeso, parting the same from Spaine. It comprehendeth now the countries of Gascoigne, Guienne, Velay, Gevaudan, Rovergne, Quercy, Perigort, Limousin, Auvergne, Berry, Engoulmois, Xaintoigne, Nivernois, Bourbonnois, & Poictou, with the Dutchye of Raiz in Bretaigne, besides some parts of other countries, accompted in Lugdunensis. The sundry people, and cities hereof with their interpretations follow.

The Pictones, adjoyning to the Loire, and the Ocean (the Pictones of Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny,) contayning now Poictou, and the Du∣chy of Raiz. Whose townes were Augustoritum, now Poictiers. Limo∣num. and Sicor Portus, now Luçon. The Santones (the Santones of Cae∣sar, & Strabo, and Santones Liberi of Pliny,) now Xaintoigne. Whose citie was Mediolanium, (Mediolanum of Strabo) now Xainctes.

The Bituriges, Vipisci (Bituriges Vbisci of Pliny, and Bituriges Ios∣ci of Strabo) now Bourdelois. Whose cities were Burdegala, (Burdega∣la of Strabo) now Bourdeaux. Noviomagus. and Santonum Portus.

The Tarbeli (the Tarbelli of Strabo, and Tarbeli Quartuorsignani of Pliny,) now le pais de Lapourd. Whose citie was Aquae Augustae (the Aquitanib 1.26, from whence the name of the Province, after Pliny) now D'Acqs.

The Limvici, neighbouring to the Pictones (the Lemovices of Cae∣sar, Strabo, & Pliny,) now Limousin. Whose citie was Ratiastum, now Limoges.

The Cadurci (the Cadurci of Caesar, Strabo, & Pliny,) now Quer∣cy. Whose city was Ducona, now Cahors.

The Petrocorij (the Petrocorij of Strabo, and Petrogori of Pliny,) now Perigort: Whose city was Vessuna, now Perigueux.

The Bituriges Cubi (the Bituriges Cubi of Strabo, and Bituriges Li∣beri, surnamed the Cubi of Pliny,) now Berry. Whose city was Vari∣cum (Avaricum of Caesar) now Bourges.

The Nitiobriges (Nitiobriges of Caesar, & Strabo,) now Agennois, & Condomois. Whose city was Aginum, now Agen.

The Vassarij (the Vassei of Pliny) now Bazadois. Whose city was Cossium, now Bazats.

The Tabali (Gabales of Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny,) now Gevaudan. Whose city was Anderidum, now Lodesve.

The Datij. Whose city was Tasta, now Dau.

The Auscii (the Auscij of Strabo, and Ausci of Pliny, and Mela.) Whose city was Augusta, now Auchs.

Part of the A••verni (the Arverni of Caesar, and Strabo, and Arver∣ni Liberi of Pliny, placed by Strabo in the Province Lugdunensis;) now Nivernois. Whose city was Augustonemetum, now Nevers.

The Velauni (the Vellaunij of Strabo,) now Velay. Whose city was Ruessium, now Rieux, or S. Flour.

The Rhutani (the Rutheni of Caesar, and Pliny, and Ruteni of Stra∣bo,) now Rovergne. Whose city was Segodunum, now Rhodes.

The Cuceneni, neighbouring to the Pyrenaean Mountaines. Whose ci∣ty was Lugdunum Colonia, now Oleron.

The more noted Promontories of the Sea-coasts hereof after the same authour were Oeasum, now Olarso. Curianum Promontorium, now Cap de Butz. Santonum Promontorium, and Pictonium Promontorium. The Havens were Santonum Portus. and Sicor Portus, now Lucon. The rivers were Aturius, now Adour. Garumna, now Garonne. Canentellus, now Charente, Ligeris, now the Loire. and Sigmanus.

CELTICA, OR LVGDVNENSIS.a 1.27

SO called* 1.28 from the famous people of the Celtae, and Lions, the chiefe city thereof. The bounds were the Loire from its first head vnto the Ocean, common therevnto, and to Aquitania; the Ocean be∣twixt the falls of the Loire, and the Seine, the Seine during its whole course, and a line, continued right therewith from the spring, or head of the same vnto the meetings of the rivers Doux, and the Soasne, toge∣ther dividing it from Gaule Belgique; and another line drawne from the confluence of the rivers Doux, and Soasne, vnto the head of the Loire, and the Mountaines Cemmeni, parting it from Gaule Narbonensis. It contayneth now all Bretaigne (the countrey of Raiz excepted,) Nor∣mandy

vnto the Seine, France Speciall, Chartrain, Perche, Maine, Aniou, Touraine, the Duchy of Vendosme, the county of Dunois, the countries Blesien, and Tonneres, Orleannois, Lorris, Soulogne, Brie, part of Cham∣paigne, Forest, Lionnois, and the Dukedome of Burgundy. The people, and townes hereof were thus ordered.

The Veneti, (the Veneti of Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny;) the part now of Bretaigne about the towne of Vannes. Whose city was Dariorigum; now Vannes.

The Osismij vpon the sea-coast (Osisimi of Caesar, and Osismij of Strabo, Pliny, and Mela,) the part now of Bretaigne about the towne of S. Pol. Whose city was Vorganium, not vnprobably S. Pol.

The Samnitae, neighbouring to the Loire.

The Aulercij Diabolitae (the Diablintes of Caesar, and Diablindi of Pliny.) Whose city was Naeodunum.

The Arubij. Whose city was Vagorit••m.

The Namnitae (the Nannetes of Caesar, and Pliny;) the part of Bre∣taigne about Nantes. Whose city was Condivincum, now Nantes.

The Rhedones (the Rhedones of Caesar, and Pliny;) the part now of Bretaigne about the towne of Rhenes. Whose city was Condate, nowe Rhenes,

The Biducenses vpon the sea-coast.

The Lexubij (the Lexovij of Caesar, and Pliny;) the part now of Normandy about the towne of Lyseux. Whose city was Naeomagus; probably Lyseux.

The Caletae vpon the sea-coast (the Caletes of Caesar, and Galleti of Pliny, more rightly placed by Caesar amongst the Belgae;) now Caux in Normandy. Whose city was Iuliobona; now Honfleu. These with the Curiosolites, Rhedones, Ambibarri, Osissimi, Lemovices, and Vnelli, with other bordering states vpon the Ocean, Caesar in the 7 booke of his Commentaries, and 32 chap. surnameth the Aremoricae; called thus from their situation vpon the Sea-coast.

The Veneli, vpon the sea-coast (the Vnelli of Caesar, and Pliny.

The Veneliocassij (the Vellocassi of Caesar, and Vellocasses of Pli∣ny;) the part now of Normandy about Roan. Whose city was Rothoma∣gus; now Roan.

The Auliorci.

The Abrigcatui (the Abrigcatui of Pliny;) the part now of Nor∣mandy about Auranches. Whose city was Ingena; now Auranches.

The Cenomanni (the Cenomanni of Pliny;) now Maine. Whose ci∣ty was Vindinum; now Mans, Maine, or Vendosme.

The Aulercij Eburaici (the Aulerci, surnamed the Eburovices of Pliny.) Whose city was Mediolanium.

Theb 1.29 Senones (the Senones of Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny;) now Brie. Whose city was Agedicum (Agendicum of Caesar;) now Provence.

The Carnutae (the Carnutes of Caesar, and Strabo, and Carnuti Fae∣derati of Pliny;) now le pais Chartrain, and Orleannois. Whose cities were Autricum; now Chartres. and Cenabum (Genabum of Caesar, and Strabo;) now Oreleans.

The Andicani (the Andes of Caesar, and Andegavi of Pliny;) now Aniou. Whose city was Iuliomagus; now Angiers.

The Parisii (the Parisii of Caesar, Parrisii of Strabo, and Parrhisii of Pliny;) now the country of Paris. Whose city was Lucotecia (Lu∣tetia of Strabo, Lutetia of Caesar, seated in an Iland of the Seine;) now Paris.

The Turupij (the Turones of Caesar;) now Touraine. Whose city was Caesarodunum;) now Tours.

The Tricassij (the Trecasses of Pliny;) the part of Champaigne about Trois. Whose city was Augustomana; now Trois.

The Segusiani, neighbouring to the Arverni (the Segutiani of Cae∣sar, Segusiani of Strabo, and Secusiani Liberi of Pliny;) now Fo∣rest. Whose cities were Forum Segusianorum; now Furs: and Rho∣dumna.

The Meldae (the Meldae of Strabo, and Meldi Liberi of Pliny;) the part of Brie, about the towne of Meaux. Whose city was Iatinum; now Meaux.

The Vadicassij (the Vadicasses of Pliny.) Whose city was Naeoma∣gus; now Nemours.

The Aedui (the Hedui of Caesar, the Hedui Faederati of Pliny, the Hedui, the most famous people of the Celtae, after Mela, the Hedui of Strabo, honoured with the title of the Romans, the first of the Gaules, embracing their friendship, and confederacy;) now the Dukedome of Burgundy, and Lionnois. Whose cities were Augustodunum (Augu∣stodunum, the richest city of the Hedui, after Mela;) now Austun. Ca∣ballinum (Cavillonium of Caesar, and Cabullinum of Strabo;) now Chalon vpon Soasne. Lugdunum (Lugdunum of Pliny, a Roman colo∣ny, situated in the country of the Secusiani, and Lugdunum of Strabo, the chiefe towne of the Segusiani, inhabited by the Romans, and after Narbo the most populous city of the Gaules, a Mart towne, and the place of mintage for the Roman coynes, vsed in this Province;) now Lion, and Carilocus.

The more noted Ports, or Hauens of Gaule Celtica after the same Au∣thour were Crociatonum; a Port of the Veneti. Brivates Portus, now Croisic in Bretaigne vpon the Loire. Vidiana; not vnprobably Blavet. and Staliocanus; now probably the Hauen of Brest. The riuers which he onely mentioneth, were Titius, & Argenis; now Trieu, and Arguennon; falling into the British Ocean at S. Brieu. Here was likewise the Pro∣montory Gobaeum; now le Four in Bretaigne.

BELGICA.

* 1.30 BOunded with the Loire, and the line before-mentioned, drawne from the Loire vnto the meetings of the riuers Doux, & Soasne, dividing it from Celtica; the Ocean betwixt the more Easterne branch of

the Rhiin vnto the mouth of the Seine; the riuer Rhijn from its first source in the Mountaine Adulas (now der Vogel of the Alpes) vnto its fall into the German Ocean, parting it from Germany; and a line drawne from the Mountaine Adulas, and the spring of the Rhijn vnto the confluence of the riuers Doux, and the Soasne, seuering it from Gaule Narbonensis. The country at this day lyeth for the greatest part out of France. It containeth now Picardy, with parts of Normandy, Cham∣paigne, and France Speciall; and in the Low Countryes, and the parts be∣longing to the Empire, the Earledomes of Artois, Hainault, and Flanders, Brabant, Holland vnto the middle branche of the Rhiin (derived by V∣treicht, and Leyden), the parts of Gelderland, and of the district of V∣treicht vnto the said branch of the Rhiin, Zealandt, Limburg, Luxemburg, Namur, Luick, Iuliers, Stiff van Triers, Lorraine, and Bar, West-reich, El∣satz, the Free County of Burgundy, the Dioceses of Colen, and Mentz, parts of the Dukedome of Cleue, and of the Lower Palatinate, together with the parts of the Cantons, and Confederacie of Switzers, included with∣in the Rhiin. The inhabitants, and their cities follow.

The Atrebatii (the Atrebates of Strabo, and Pliny, and Attrebates of Caesar;) now Artois. Whose city was Rigiacum•• now Arras.

The Bellovaci (the Bellovaci of Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny;) now Be∣auvoisin. Whose city was Caesaromagus; now Beauvois.

The Ambiani (the Ambiani of Caesar, and Pliny;) the part of Picar∣dy about the towne of Amiens. Whose city was Samarobriga (Sama∣robrina of Caesar;) now Amiens.

The Rhomandues (the Veromandui of Caesar, and Pliny;) now Ver∣mandois in Picardy. Whose city was Augusta Rhomanduorum; now S^t Quintin.

The Vessones (the Suessones of Caesar, the Suessiones of Strabo, and the Suessiones Liberi of Pliny;) now Soissonois. Whose city was Augusta Vessonum; now Soissons.

The Subanecti (the Vlbanectes Liberi of Pliny;) now the country about Senlis in the Dukedome of Valois. Whose city was Rhotomagus.

The Rhemi (the Rhemi of Caesar, and Strabo, and Remi Foederati of Pliny;) the part now of Champaigne about Rheims. Whose city was Durocottum (Duricorta of Strabo;) now Rheims.

The Nervij (the Nervij of Caesar, and Strabo, and the Nervij Libe∣ri of Pliny;) now Hainault, and the country about Tournay. Whose city was Baganum, now Tournay.

The Morini (the Morini of Caesar;) now Flanders, and the part of Artois about Terwin. Whose city was Tarvanna; now Terwin.

The Tongri beyond the riuer Tabuda (the Tungri of Pliny;) now part of Brabant. Whose city was Atuacutum; now Antuerpen.

The Menapij beyond the Mace (the Menapij of Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny;) now part of Iuliers. Whose city was Castellum.

The Treveri (the Treveri of Caesar, Strabo, and Mela, and the Tre∣veri Liberi of Pliny;) now Luxemburg, and the District of Triers. Whose city was Augusta Treverorum (Augusta of Mela, and Colonia Treverorum of Tacitus; now Triers.

The Mediomatrices, the Mediomatrices of Strabo, and Tacitus, and Mediomatrici of Pliny; the part of Lorraine about the towne of Mets. Whose city was Divodurum, Divodurum of Tacitus; now Mets.

The Leuci, the Leuci of Strabo, and Leuci Liberi of Pliny; part also of Lorraine. Whose city was Tullum; now Toul. and Nasium; now Nancy.

Germania Inferior, or the Lower Germany, extending along the course of the riuer Rhijn from the confluence of that riuer with the Obrincus, or Moselle vnto the Ocean (Germania Inferior of Tacitus;) contayning now Hollandt, Zealandt, Vtreicht, Stiff van Colen, and Cleve. Whose ci∣ties were Batavodurum in the Iland of the Batavians (Batavodurum of Tacitus;) now Duer-steden. Vetera Civitas (Vetera Castra, and Vetera of Tacitus;) now Batemborch. Legio trigesima Vlpia, now Berck. Agrippi∣nensis (Colonia Agrippinensis of Pliny, and Tacitus;) now Colen. Legio Prima Traiana; now Cobolentz. Mocontiacum (Mocontiacum of Taci∣tus;) now Mentz. and Bonna (Bonna of Tacitus;) now Bon.

Germania Superior, or the Higher Germany (Germania Superior of Tacitus,) continued along the Rhijn from the riuer Obrincus, or the Moselle vnto the Mountaine Iura, and the Helvetians; and divided into the many people of the Nemeti (thea 1.31 Nemeti of Pliny, and Nemetes of Caesar,) now part of the Lower Palatinate. Whose cities were Naeo∣magus, not vnprobably Spier. and Rufiniana, now Oppenheim. The Van∣giones (the Vangiones of Caesar, and Pliny,) now part likewise of the Lower Palatinate, and Elsats. Whose cities were Borbetomagus, now Worms. and Argentoratum, now Strasburg. The Triboci (the Triboces of Caesar, and Tribochi of Strabo, and Pliny,) part of Elsats. Whose cities were Breucomagus. and Elcebus, now Schlestat. And the Rauraci (the Rauraci of Caesar, and Raurici of Pliny,) now the countrey of Basil, and part of Elsatz. Whose cities were Augusta Rauracorum, now Basil; and Argentuaria, now Colmar.

The Longones, (the Lingones of Caesar, Strabo, and Tacitus, & the Lingones Faederati of Pliny;) le pais Langroin. Whose city was Audo∣matunum, civitas Lingonum of Tacitus; now Langres.

The Sequani, (the Sequani of Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny;) the Free County of Burgundy. Whose cities were Didattium, now Talcnberg. Visontium, Vesontio of Caesar; now Besançon. Equestris, Colonia E∣questris of Pliny; now Neuf-chastel. and Avanticum, Aventicum of Tacitus; now Avenche.

The Helvetij, the Helvetij of Caesar, and Tacitus; now Switzer∣landt. Whose cities were Ganodurum, now Constents. and Forum Ti∣berij; now Rhysers stul Zurich.

The more noted Mountaines of Belgica after the same authour were the Iurassus, Iurassus of Strabo, and Iura of Caesar, and Pliny; now the Iour: And Adulas Mons; now der Vogel; a part of the Alpes. The Pro∣montories, or Havens were Promontorium Itium, Portus Iccius of Cae∣sar; now Calais, or S. Omar. and Gessoriacum Navale amongst the Mo∣rini; now Boulogne. The riuers were Phrudis; now the Some. Tabuda, Scaldis of Caesar, and Pliny; now the Scheldt. Obrincus, Mosella of

Ausonius; now the Moselle. The Mosa, Mosa of Caesar; now the Mace. and the Rhijn. The greater channels of the Rhijn, whereby that famous river was disburdened into the Ocean, were Ostium Occidentalius, the Wahalis of Caesar; now the Wael. Ostium Medium, falling then into the Ocean at Lugdunum of the Batavi, since diverted another way by the Lecke. and Ostium Orientalius, Fossae Drusinaea 1.32 of Suetonius; now the Ysel.

NARBONENSIS.

b 1.33

* 1.34 CAlled thus from the chiefe city thereof, Narbona. The bounds were vpon the North, those before described, common here∣vnto, and to Aquitania, Belgica, and Lugdunensis; and vpon the other sides the Alpes, extended betwixt the Mountaine Adulas vnto the sea Mediterranean, and the mouth of the riuer Varo, parting it from Italy; the Pyrenaean Mountaines from towards the head of the river Illiberis vnto Veneris Templum, now Cabo de Creux, dividing it from Spaine; and the Sea Mediterranean, intercepted betwixt Veneris Templum, and the mouth of the riuer Varo. It contayned the countries of Languedoc, Pro∣vence, Savoy, and Daulphinie, with the Land of Russeillon, nowe belon∣ging to the Crowne of Spaine. The people, and cities were these.

The Volcae, Tectosages, and Arecomij (the Volcae of Pliny, the Volgi, and Volcae of Caesar, the Volgae, surnamed the Arecomici of Strabo, neighbouring to the Rhosne, and inhabiting the greatest part of the country, lying vpon the West thereof; the Tectosages, part of the Volcae, after Pliny, & the Tectosages of the Volcae, reaching vnto the Pyrenaean Mountaines, after Strabo; the Arecomici of Caesar, Pliny, Mela, and Strabo,) contayning now together the Province of Lan∣guedoc, and the Earledome of Russeillon. Whose cities were Illiberis (I∣liberis, of Pliny, Ilybirris, with a riuer of the same name, after Strabo, Eliberri of Mela;) now Colibre. Ruscinum (Ruscino Latinorum of Pli∣ny, Ruscino a towne, with a riuer of the same name, issuing forth of the Pyrenaean Mountaines, after Strabo, and Colonia Ruscino of Mela;) where now standeth the Castle of Russeillon, neere vnto the town of Perpignian. Tolosa Colonia (Tolosa of Caesar, Tolosa of the Tectosa∣ges of Pliny, Tolosa of Strabo, & Tolossa of the Tectosages, of Mela, one of the most wealthy cities of Gaule Narbonensis;) now Tholouse. Cessero (Cessero of Pliny;) now Castres. Carcaso, Carcasu of Pliny; now Carcasone. Betirae, Biltera of Strabo, a well fortified citie vpon the river Obris, Blitera of the Septumani after Pliny, one of the most rich ci∣ties of Gaule Narbonensis, and Bliterae, a colonie of the Septumani af∣ter Mela; now Beziers.

Narbon Colonia (Narbo of Caesar, & Strabo, Narbo Martius, a colo∣ny of the Decumani, after Pliny, Narbo Martius, a colony of the A∣tacini, and Decumani, and the chiefe of the cities of Gaule Narbonen∣sis

after Mela;) now Narbonne. Nemausum Colonia (Nemausus, the chiefe city of the Arecomici, after Strabo, Nemausum of the Areco∣mici, a towne free of the Latines, & the chiefe of 24 other towns, after Pliny, Nemausus of the Arecomici, one of the wealthiest cities of Gaule Narbonensis (Mela;) now Nismes. and Vindomagus.

The Elycoci (the Helvij of Caesar.) Whose city was Albaugusta, now Viviers.

The Allobroges (the Allobroges of Caesar, Strabo, Pliny, and Me∣la,) Savoy, and part of Daulphinie Whose city was Vienna (Vienna vpon the Rhosne, the chiefe towne of the Allobroges, after Strabo, Vienna, a colony amongst the Allobroges, after Pliny, Vienna of the Allobro∣ges, one of the most rich cities of Gaule Narbonensis, after Mela;) now Vienne.

The Segalauni (the Segovell auni of Pliny) part of Daulphinie. Whose city was Valentia Colonia (Valentia of Pliny, in the countrey of the Ca∣vares;) now Valence.

The Tricasteni (the Tricastini of Pliny.) Whose city was Naeomagus; now Nion.

The Cavari (the Cavares of Strabo, and Mela, and Regio Cavarum of Pliny,) part now of Daulphinie, and Provençe. Whose cities were Accusianorum Colonia; now Grenoble. Aveniorum Colonia (Avenio of Strabo, Avenio of the Cavares, free of the rights of the auncient La∣tines, after Pliny, Avenio of the Cavares, of the most wealthy cities of Gaule Narbonensis, after Mela;) now Avignon. Arausiorum Colonia (Arusio of Strabo, Arausio, a colony of the Secūdani, after Pliny, Arau∣sio of the Secundani, of the most wealthy cities of Gaule Narbonen∣sis, after Mela;) now Aurange▪ and Cabelliorum Colonia (Cabalio of Stra∣bo, and Cabellio of Pliny;) now Cavaillon.

The Salices (the Salyi of Pliny, and Montana Salyum regio of Stra∣bo;) now part of Provençe. Whose cities were Taruscum (Tarascon of Strabo;) now Tarascon. Glanum (Glanum of Pliny, and Glanon of Mela;) now Clandeve. Arelatum Colonia Arelate, a noted Emporie vpon the Rhosne, after Strabo, Arelate, a colonie of the Sextani, after Pliny, Arelate of the Sextani, one of the most wealthy cities of Gaule Nar∣bonensis, after Mela;) now Arles. and Aquae Sextiae Colonia (Aquae Sex∣tiae of the Salyi, after Pliny, Aquae Calidae, or Sextiae, founded by that Sextius, which subdued the Salyes, and named thus from him, & the hot bathes their springing, after Strabo;) now Aix.

The Memini (Memini of Pliny,) part of Provençe. Whose city was Forum Neronis, (Foroneroniensis of Pliny.)

The Vocontij, (the Vocontij of Caesar, Strabo, Pliny, and Mela) part of Provençe. Whose townes was Civitas Vasiorum (Vasia of Pliny, and Mela;) now Vaison.

The Sentij, part of Provençe. Whose city was Dinia (Dinia of Pliny;) now Digne.

The sea-coast townes of Narbonensis were Agathopolis (Agatha, foun∣ded by the Massilians, after Strabo, Agatha, a towne of the Massilians, after Pliny, Agatha of Mela;) now Agde. Anatilorum civitas, Colo∣nia

(Anatilia of Pliny;) now Martegue. Massilia in the Comonni (Mas∣silia of Caesar, and Mela, Massilia, a confederate city, inhabited by a colony of the Greekes Phocaeenses, after Pliny, Massilia, built by the Phocaeenses, a well governed common-wealth, and commaunded by the Nobility, after Strabo;) now Marseilles. Tauroentium; now Toulon.

Olbia (Olbia of Strabo, and Mela;) now Eres. Forum Iulium Colonia (Forum Iulium of Strabo, Forum Iulium, a colony of the Octavani, after Pliny, Forum Iulium, a colony of the Octavij, after Mela;) now Feriuls. and in the Deciatij (Deciates ofa 1.35 Florus, and Regio Deciati∣um of Pliny,) Antipolis (Antipolis of Strabo, and Pliny;) now Antibe.

The Rivers were Illeris; now Techo in the land of Russeillon. Iliberis; now Aude in Languedoc. Atagis. Orobius; now Orbe. Araurius, now Erhaud. Fossae Marianae, a dreane, or channell of the Rhosne; now Ai∣gues Mortes. Rhodanus; now the Rhosne. Canus. Argentius in the Comon∣ni; now Argentine. Varus; now Varo, the common bounds of Gaule, and Italy: disburdened into the French seas. Arar (Araris of Caesar;) now the Soasne. Isara, now the Isere. Druentia, now Durance; empty∣ed into the Rhosne. and Dubis, Alduabis of Caesar; now le Doux in the Free countye of Burgundy, falling into the Soasne.

Heere were likewise the Lake Lemanus (Lemanus of Caesar;) the Lake now of Geneve. and the Promontory Citharistos in the Comonni; now Cercilli, or Cabo de S, Sigo.

The Ilands hereof were Agatha. Blascon, most probably Languillade. the Staechades, being fiue in number, and lying neere vnto the mouth of the riuer Varo▪ and Lerona, now S. Margarita.

Vnto these of Ptolemy* 1.36 are added by Pliny in Aquitania the Beger∣ri; now the country of Begorre. The Convenae; now Cominges. The Elu∣sates (the Flussates of Caesar;) now Foix. The Conserrani, now the coun∣trie about the towne of Coserans. The Ambilatri. Anugnates. Sediboni∣ates. Cocosates. Venami. Onobrisates. Belendi. Monesi. Osquidates Mon∣tani. Sibyllates. Camponi. Bercorates. Bipedimni. Sassumini. Vellates. Tor∣nates. Sottiates, (Sontiates of Caesar.) Osquidates Campestres. Succasses. Latusates; now the country about Lactoure. Basabocates. Sennates. C••m∣bolectri. and Agesinates. In Lugdunensis, the Boij (the Boij of Caesar;) now Bourbonois. The Cariosuelites (the Curiosolites of Caesar) now Cour∣novaille. The Vidugasses. & the Itesui. In Narbonensis the Vulgien∣tes; now the country of Apt. The Tricorij, Tricorij of Strabo. Avatici. Tricolli. Camatullici. Suelteri. Veruccini. Oxubii, (Ligures Oxybii of Strabo.) Ligauni. Suetri. Quariates. Adunicates. Alabecerii. Apollinares. Ceninenses. Cambolecti, surnamed the Atlantici. Livii. Piscenae. Ruteni. Sanagenses. Tascodunitani. Cononienses. Vmbranici. Sardones. Desuvia∣tes. Consuarani. Avantici. Campi Lapidei, (Campus Lapideus betwixt Massilia, and the mouth of the river Rhosne, after Strabo, Littusb 1.37, La∣pideum after Mela;) now la Craux in Provençe. and the Ebroduntii; now le pais Ambrunois in Daulphinie. In Belgica the Toxandri. Pagus Gesso∣riacus; now Boulognois. The Vbii, (the Vbii of Caesar, the Vbii, brought hither from the farther shore of the Rhiin in Germany by Agrippa, after Strabo;) now the Diocese of Colen. The Oromansaci. Hassi. Casto∣logi.

Britanni. Sueconi. Rinuci. Frisiahones. Betasi. and Gagerni. Of townes Apta Iulia; now Apt. Carpentoracte; now Carpentras. Alba Helvorum. Au∣gusta Tricastinorum; now S. Antoni de Tricastin. Aeria; now le Puy en Velaye. Bormannico. Marcina. Athenopolis of the Massilians. and Lucus Augusti.

Strabo* 1.38 addeth in Belgica, the Sicambri (the Sicambri of Caesar;) now Cleuelandt. The Eburones (the Eburones of Caesar;) now part of Iuliers. and the Nantuates, seated at the head of the Rhiin (the Nantua∣tes of Caesar;) now part of the Grisons. In Narbonensis, the Massilien∣ses. Iconij. Pe••yli. and Ligures. with the townes Vrgenum. Contium. Gernum. and Vndalus, at the meetings of the riuers Sulga, & Rhodanus.

In Aquitania amongst the Arverni, the townes Nemossus vpon the Loire. and Gergovia (Gergovia of Caesar;) now Gergoie, a village by Clermont in Auvergne. In Lugdunensis Bibracta, a city of the Hedui (Bi∣bracte of Caesar; now Beaulne in the Dukedome of Burgundy.

Mela* 1.39 addeth the Atacini, named thus from the riuer Atax, vpon which they inhabited. and the towne Citharistes.

Caesar* 1.40 addeth the Ambarri, a part of the Aremoricae. The Mandu∣bij; now part of the Dukedome of Burgundy. The Seduni, part of the Vp∣per Wallislandt. The Veragri; now the Lower Wallislandt. The Catuaci. and the Condrusones. with the townes of Vellaunodunum of the Senones. Matiscona of the Aedui; now Mascon. Alesij of the Mandubij; now A∣lize, a village, neere vnto Semur in the country of Auxois. and Octodurus of the Veragri now Martinach in Wallislandt.

THE DESCRIPTIOM AND ESTATE of Gaule after the Emperour Constantine the Great, towards the expiration of the VVesterne Roman Empire.

THis was the face of Gaule during the first ranke of the Roman Em∣perours.* 1.41 Constantine the Great for the better goverment hereof, subdivided those greater into 17 lesser divisions, or Provinces: which for a more full survey hereof, and because of some difference of names with the former, I haue inserted out of the Catalogue of the Provinces, and cities of Gaule, ascribed to Antoninus Augustus, with relati∣on to Rufus Festus, Ammianus Marcellinus, and to the Authour of the Notitia. These with their cities, and Interpretations follow.

PROVINCIA LVGDVNENSIS a 1.42 prima.

COntayning now Lionois, with part of the Dukedome of Burgundy. The cities hereof were Civitas Lugdunensis, the Metropolis, and ci∣vitas Eduorumb 1.43 civitas Lingonum, Castrum Gaballionensec 1.44, and Castrum Matisconense; now Lions, Authun, Langres, Chalon vpon Soasne, and Mascon.

Provincia Lugdunensisd 1.45 secunda.

COntaining now the Dukedome of Normandy. The cities were civi∣tas Rotomagensium, the Metropolis; and civ▪ Baiocassium, civ: Abrin∣cuntum, civ: Salarium (id est) Saiorum, civ: Lexoviorum, and civ: Constantia; now Roan, Baieux, Auranches, Sais, Lyseux, and Constances.

Provincia Lugdunensise 1.46 tertia.

COmprehending now Touraine, Maine, Aniou, and Bretaigne. The ci∣ties were civ: Turonum, the Metropolis; and civ: Cenomannorum, civ. Redonum, civ. Andicavorum, civ: Namnetum, civ: Corisopitum, civ: Cianctium, id est Venetum, civ: Osismorum, and civ. Diablintum; now Tours, Mans, Renes, Angiers, Nantes, Kemper-Corentin, Vannes, and Leon, with the towne of Carifes.

Provincia Lugdunensisf 1.47 quarta.

COntaining now Beausse, Brie, Auxerrois, with parts of Champaigne, and of France Speciall. The cities hereof were civitas Senonum, the Metropolis; & civ.g 1.48 Carnorum▪ civ. Antisiodorum, civ. Tricassium, civ. A••∣relianorum, civ. Parisiorum, and civ. Meldu••rum: now Sens, Chartres, Au∣xerre, Trois, Orleans, Paris, and Meaux.

Provincia Bellicah 1.49 prima.

COntaining Lorraine with the district of Triers. The cities hereof were civitas Treverorum, the Metropolis; and civ. Mediomatricum, id est Metis, civ. Leucorum, id est Tullo, and civ. Veredonensium; now Trier, Mets, Toul, and Verdun.

Provincia Bellicai 1.50 secunda.

COntaining now Artois, Picardy, parts of Champaigne, and France Speciall, with the countreyes of Cambray, and Tournay. The cities hereof were civ. Remorum, the Metropolis; and civ. Suessianumk 1.51, civ. Ca∣talaunorum, civ.l 1.52 Veromannorum, civ.m 1.53 Atravatum, civ. Camaracensium, civ. Turnacensium, civ. Silvanectum, civ. Bellovacorum, civ. Ambianensis, civ. Morinum, id est Ponticum, and civ. Bononensium; now Rheims, Sois∣sons, Chaalon vpon Marne, S. Quintin, Arras, Cambray, Tournay, Senlis, Beauvois, Amiens, Terwin, and Boulogne.

Provincia Germaniae 1.54 prima.

COntayning now Sungow, Elsats, West-reich, the Bishoprick of Ment••, and the part of the Palatinate on the side of the Rhijn. The cities were civitas▪ Magontiacensisf 1.55, the Metropolis, now Mentz; and civ. g 1.56 Argentoracensium, civ: Nemetum (id est Spira,) & civ: Vangionensis (id est Wormensis;) now Strasburg, Spire, and Worms.

Provincia Germaniah 1.57 secunda.

COntayning now the district of Colen, Iuliers, Cleve, Luick, Brabant, Namur, Hainault, Limburg, Luxemburg, Gelderland, Vtreicht, Flan∣ders, Holland, and Zealand. The cities hereof were civ:i 1.58 Agrippinen∣sis, the Metropolis, and civ:k 1.59 Tungrorum; now Colen, and Tongeren.

Provincia Maxima Sequanoruml 1.60

COntayning now the Free country of Burgundy, and Switzerland. The cities hereof were civ:m 1.61 Vesontiensis, the Metropolis, now Besançon; and civ: Equestriumn 1.62, now Lausanne, civ: Eluntiorum, now Avanches, civ: Basiliensium (id est Basilea,) now Basil, civ: Noidenolex Aventicus, Castrum Vindonise, Castrumo 1.63 Argentariense, now Colmar, and Castrum Rauracense, (id est) Abucina.

Provincia Alpiump 1.64 Graiarum, & Paeninarunt.

COntayning now Wallislandt, and part of Savoy. The cities hereof were civ: Centronum (id est) Tarantasia, the Metropolis, now Ta∣rantaise; and civ: Valensium (id est) octodurus; now S. Mauris, or Ma••∣tinach.

Provinciaq 1.65 Vienniensis.

COntayning now Daulphinic, Provinçe and Vivaretz, with part of Savoy. The cities were civ: Vienniensiumr 1.66, the Metropolis, now Vienne; and civ: Gennave••siums 1.67, civ:t 1.68 Gratianopolitana, civ: Albensi∣um, civ. Vivario, civ: Decensium, civ:u 1.69 Valentinorum, civ: Avenico∣rum, civ. Arelatensiumx 1.70, civ: Carpentoratensis, civ: Massiliensium, civ: y 1.71 Ricartinorum, civ: Vasionensium, civ: Arausinorum, and civ: Cabel∣licorum, now Geneve, Grenoble, Alby, Viviers, Die, Valence, Avignon, Arles, Carpentras, Marscilles, S. Antony de Tricastin, Vaison, Aurange, and Cavaillon.

Provinciaz 1.72 Alpium Maritimarum.

COntayning now parts of Daulphinie, and Provençe. The cities here∣of were civitas Ebroduno, the Metropolis, now Ambrun; and civ: Diniensium, now Digne, civ: Saniciensium, id est Sanicisio, now Senas, civ: Clannetena, now Glandeves, civ: Venciensium, id est Ventio; now S. Paul. de Vençes, civ: Rigomagensium, civ: Solliniensium, and civ: Cemetenensium.

Provincia Narbonensisa 1.73 prima.

COntayning now Languedoc. The cities hereof were civitas Nar∣bonensiumb 1.74, the Metropolis, now Narbonne; and civitasc 1.75 Tolosatum, id est Tolosa, civ: Beterrensium, civ: Agatensium, civ: Nemausensium, civ: Megalonensium, civ: Lutuensium, id est Lutava castrum, and civ: V∣cetiensis; now Tholouse, Beziers, Agde, Nismes, Magalone, Lodesve, and Vsets.

Provincia Narbonensisd 1.76 Secunda

COntayning now part of Provence. The cities hereof were civitas Aquensium, the Metropolis, now Aix; and civ: Aptensium, civ: Re∣tensium, id est Reias, civ: Foro-Iuliensium, civ: Appencensium, civ: Segeste∣rorum, and civ:e 1.77 Antipolitana; now Apt, Ries, Feriuls, Gap, Cisteron, and Antibe.

Provincia Aquitaniaf 1.78 prima.

COntayning now Berry, Auvergne, Rovergne, Quercy, Limousin, with Gevaudan, and Velay in Languedoc. The cities hereof were civitas Bituricum, now Bourges, the Metropolis; and civ: Arvernorum, civ: Ro∣tenorumg 1.79, civ: Albigensium, civ:h 1.80 Cadorcorum, civ: Lemavicum, civ: Gabalum, and civ: Vellaunorum; now Clermont en Auvergne, Rodes, Al∣by, Cahors, Limoges, Mende, and le Puy en Velay.

Provincia Aquitaniai 1.81 secunda

COntayning now Poictou, Xantoigne, Engoulmois, and Perigort, with Bourdelois, and Agennois in Gascoigne, and Guienne. The cities here∣of were civ:k 1.82 Burdegalensium, the Metropolis, now Bourdeaux; and civ:l 1.83 Agennensium, civ: Etolisnensium, civ: Santonum, civ:m 1.84 Pictavo∣rum, and civ: Petrogoriorum; now Agen, Engoulesme, Sainctes, Poictiers, and Perigueux.

Provincia Novem-populonian 1.85

COntayning the rest of Guienne, and Gascoigne, with the Principali∣ty of Bearn. The cities hereof were civ:o 1.86 Ausciorum, the Metropo∣lis, now Auchs; and civ:p 1.87 Aquensium, civ:q 1.88 Lastoracium, civ: Conve∣narum, civ:r 1.89 Consantanorum, civ: Boatum, quod est Bot, civ: Beranen∣sium, id est Benainas, civ: Aturensium, civ:s 1.90 Vasatica, civ: Tursaubica Tralugorra, civ: Elleronensium, and civ: Ellosaticum; now D'acqs, La∣ctoure, Cominges, Coserans, le pais de Buchs, and Bearn, Aire, Basats, Tar∣be, Oleron, and Euse en Gascoigne.

Of these Viennensis, Lugdunensis prima, Germania prima, Germania Secunda, Belgica prima, and Belgica secunda according to the Authour of the Notitia were Consulary Provinces. The rest were Praesidiall. Rufus Festus accompteth only 14 Provinces; differing from the Authour of the Notitia in that he maketh but two Lugdunenses, and onely one Narbonensis.

The INVASION, and DOMINION of the NORTHERN, and BAR∣BAROVS Nations.

SVch was the estate of Gaule during the subiection hereof vnto the Romans, quite changed by the invasion, and conquests of the Nor∣thern, and Barbarous Nations, and becomming divided into sundry new kingdomes, and names; that more auncient of the Gaules extin∣guished. These were the Britons, Burgundians, Visigothes, Almans, and Frenchmen: whose first entrance, raigne, continuance, and successon, and the Estates occasioned from them, follow in order.

THE BRITONS.* 1.91

THese* 1.92 not vnprobably were a remainder of the auncient Gaules, shut vp within Gaule Armorique thorough the con∣quests, and invasion of the French, and other barbarous intru∣ders, and named thus either from the Britanni, a people mentioned t 1.93 by Pliny in the neighbouring Gaule Belgique, or thorough an after mistake in regard of their common language with the Britons of the Iland, which after Caesar, and Tacitus,u 1.94 was the same of both nati∣ons. More certainely otherwise (not to contradict the vsuall, and re∣ceived opinion, although without the assertion of more auncient Greeke, and Latine Authours, who liued about those times (a beliefe grounded only vpon the authority of Gal. Monumeth. and other late English, & French Historians) they were no other then a colony of the Britons Insulaires about the yeare 385, and in the raignes of

the Emperours Gratian, and Theodosius the first, brought hither, and planted in Gaule Armorique by Maximus, Liefetenant of the Iland for the Romans, then rebelling & vsurping the Westerne Empire against Gratians to secure thereby his retreate into that Iland, if by chance of warre, or otherwise he should be forced againe to leaue the continent. The tyrant Maximus shortly after being vanquished, and slaine by the Emperour Theodosius, they became a free estate, loose from all for∣raine subjection, neglected by the Romans, and the succeeding French∣men, busied with other greater, and more weightie affaires; and rein∣forced not long after with other great disbourdments of the same na∣tion, avoyding the furie of the English, and Saxons, wasting, and de∣stroying their countrey. Their dominion here contayned the part, be∣fore mentioned, of Gaule Armorique, extended betwixt the Ocean, and the rivers Loire, Maine, and Covesnon; since from hence called Bre∣taigne. In the yeare of Christ 766, and the raigne of the Emperour Charles the Great, weakened by civill dissentions, they were first made subject to forraine, and the French commaund; subdued by Astolphus, his Seneschall, or gouernour of the Marches hereof. In the next raign of the Emperour Lewis the Godly they againe notwithstanding reco∣vered their lost kingdome, and liberty: which, the French, being still interessed, and detayned at home by civill broiles, they for a long time after maintayned vntill Duke Peter de Dreux, who overmatched by the power of the French, and fearing their greatenes, made the country first subject to the vassallage of Lewis the ninth, French king; followed by all his successours. In the late memorie of our ancestours Francis the first, French King, and in the right of his wife Claude, Duke hereof, to present all future claime, and disvnion which might hap∣pen, by consent of the Estates incorporated this great Dukedome with the Crowne of France, never from thence to be severed, which, the male issue hereof extinct in Henry the third, Lewis the thirteenth of the house of Bourbon, and Navarre, now raigning (Isabella of Austria, Prin∣cesse of the Lowe Countries, the heire generall, rejected) by the vertue hereof at this day enjoyeth. Their religion was alwayes Christian, and Catholique, instructed in this faith vnder the Romans, before their comming into this Province. Their government vntill their v∣nion with the crowne of France was Monarchicall, first vnder kings, then vnder dukes. Their Princes follow. Conan, an English Briton, pla∣ced here by Maximus in the yeare, and raigne aforesaid. Grallon after some son to Conan. Salomon the first, son to Grallon. Auldran son to Salomon the first. Budic the first, son to Auldran. Hoel the first, son to Budic the first. Hoel the second, son to Hoel the first. Alain the first, son to Hoel the second. Hoel the third, son to Alain the first. Salomon the second, son to Hoel the third. In this prince, Iudicael the last K. of Basse Bretaigne, dying without heires, (for since the last disbourdments hi∣ther of the Britons vntill this time the estate hereof was divided into two kingdomes,) the whole became vnited vnder one Prince. Alain the second, grandchild to Salomon the second. He deceased without heires, the last king of Bretaigne of the house of Conan. Daniel Drem∣ruz;

Budic the second, Maxence; Iohn Reith; and David Wa, chiefes of their factions, the kingdome being then rent into many petty tyrannies, the occasion of the after conquest hereof by Charles the Great. After that the kingdome became againe recouered from the French, Neo∣mene, formerly Lieftenant here, & Gouernour of the Province for the Emperour Lewes the godly, chosen about the yeare 841. Heruspee, son to Neomene, slaine by Salomon, his successour. Salomon the third, the murtherer of Heruspee, son to Rivaillon, brother to King Heruspee. Hee was likewise slaine by Pastenethen, & Gurvant, brothers to Heruspee; and sons to Neomene in the yeare 874: the last king of Bretaigne. A∣lain, surnamed le Rebre, son to Pastenethen, after long misery, and con∣tention for the kingdome, succeeding in the gouerment hereof: the Normans, who had invaded the province, being vanquished, and his competitours slaine, and subdued.

THE DVKEDOME OF BRETAIGNE.

REfusing the more envious name of king, he tooke vpon him onely the title, and stile of Duke; since followed by all the succeeding Princes. Iuhael, and Collodoch, sons to Alain le Rebre. An Inter-regnum for certaine yeares by meanes of the Norman, or Danish invasion, and tyranny, miserably wasting, and subduing the Country. Alain, surna∣med Barbetorte, son to Mathuede, Earle of Porrhoet, and of the daugh∣ter of Alain le Rebre, the Normans being driuen out. Drogon, ••on to Alain Barbetorte, slaine yong by the treason of Fouques, Earle of A∣niou, in whom ended the house of Alain le Rebre. Conan, Earle of Renes, descended from king Salomon the third; his Competitours Hoel, and Guer••ch, naturall sons to Alain Barbetorte, successiuely con∣tending, being vanquished, and slaine. Geffrey, sonne to Conan the first. Alain the third, sonne to Geffrey the first. Conan the second, son to Alain the third. He dyed sans issue. Hoel the fourth, son to Alain, Earle of Cournovaille, in the right of his wife Havoise, sister to Conan the second. Alain the fourth, surnamed Fergent, son to Hoel the fourth. Conan the third, son to Alain the fourth. Eudon, Earle of Ponthieure, in the right of his wife Berthe, daughter to Conan the third. Conan the fourth, sonne to Eudon, and Berthe aforesaid. Geffrey the second, third son to Henry the second, king of England, in the right of his wife Con∣stance, daughter to Conan the fourth. Arthur the first, son to Geffrey, and Constance. He dyed young, and vnmarried, after the French re∣lation, murthered by his vnnaturall Vncle, Iohn King of England, jea∣lous of his better right to that kingdome. Peter de Dreux, in the right of his wife Alis, daughter by a second marriage to Constance afore∣said. He first made the Dukedome subject vnto the soveraignty and homage of the French kings. Iohn the first, son to Peter de Dreux, and Alis Iohn the second, son to Iohn the first. Arthur the second, son to Iohn the second. Iohn the third, son to Arthur the second. He dyed without

heires. After the decease hereof the right was controversed betwixt Iohn, Earle of Montfort, yonger son to Arthur the second, aided by Edward the third, King of England; and Charles de Blois, husband to Ioan la Boiteuse, daughter to Guye, second son to Duke Arthur the 2^d, assisted by Philip de Valois, French king neither side yet prevailing. Iohn the fourth, surnamed the Valiant, son to Iohn, Earle of Montfort a∣foresaid, sole Duke of Bretaigne, after the decease of Charles de Blois, his competitour, thorough the aide, and valour of the English ouer∣throwne, and slaine at the battaile of Auray. Iohn the fift, son to Iohn the fourth. Francis the first, son to Iohn the fift. He deceased without heire male. Peter, brother to Francis the first. He dyed sans heires. Arthur the third, Earle of Richmond, and Constable of France, second sonne to Iohn the fourth. He also deceased without issue. Francis the second, son to Richard, Earle of Clisson, third son to Iohn the fourth. He deceased in the yeare 1488. Charles the eight, French king in the right of his wife Anne, heire of Bretaigne, daughter to Fran∣cis the second. He dyed without issue. Lewes the twelfth, French king, in the right of Anne of Bretaigne aforesaid, daughter to Duke Francis the second, marryed vnto him after the decease of King Charles the Eight. He deceased without male issue. Francis the first, French king, and the third of that name, Duke of Bretaigne, in the right of his wife Claude, eldest daughter to king Lewes the twelfth, and Anne afore∣said. With consent of the estates of Bretaigne in the yeare 1532, he in∣separably vnited the Dukedome to the crown of France. Francis, Daul∣phin of Vienne, eldest son to king Francis the first, and of Claude, crowned Duke of Bretaigne in the yeare 1539. He dyed yong before his father. Henry the second, French king, son to King Francis the first, and Claude. Francis the second, French king, son to Henry the second. Charles the ninth, French king, brother to Francis the second, and son to Henry the second. Henry the third, French king, brother to Francis the second, and Charles the ninth, and sonne to Henry the second, the last French king of the house of Valois, and in whom ended the line, & succession of the Dukes of Bretaigne. After his decease, the line mascu∣line of the house of Valois, and Bretaigne being extinguished, the right hereof was questioned betwixt Henry the fourth, King of France, and Navarre, and Philip the second, king of Spaine, pretending the title of his daughter Isabella, now Princesse of the Low countreyes, descended of Elizabeth, daughter to King Henry the second. By the aide of the En∣glish the Spaniards are beaten out, and the province by vertue of the v∣nion, and incorporation made by King Francis the first, hath since re∣mained still annexed to the crowne of France.

THE BVRGVNDIANS.a 1.95

THese were a* 1.96 German people, inhabiting beyond the riuer of Elb towards the coast of the sea Baltique. Orosius deriveth their name from the Dutch word Burg, signifying in that language (as still it doth) a towne, given vnto them in regard of such their more civill maner of plantation, inhabiting towns, and villages; differing in this from the rest of theb 1.97 Germans. Their first mention we finde in Pliny; placed (as is before related,) & accompted then part of the Vandali. In histories we heare not of them vntill the Emperor Probus, then fought withall, & overthrown by him in a great battaill. Their mention after this is cleere, & frequent. In the raign of the Emp. Valentinian the first we reade of them to the number of 80 thousand fighting men, first de∣scending to the coast of the Rhijn: afterwards in the raign of the Em∣perours Honorius, & Theodosius, as a Christian, and a more peaceable Barbarian, drawne into Gaule by Stilico, liefetenant to Honorius, and permitted there to inhabit, with charge onely to defend the Rhijn, and the Roman frontires against the Frenchmen, and other barbarours na∣tions, preparing to invade the Empire. Their first, and more ancient dwelling amongst the Vandali, was part of the countrey, where now lie the great Dukedomes of Mecklenbourg, and Pomeren. After their de∣scent vnto the Rhijn they tooke vp part of the Lower Palatinate; bor∣dering to that river, and vpon the Almans. In Gaule, after that they had withdrawne thither, they inhabited all, or the greatest part of the Provinces of Maxima Sequanorum, the Alpes Graiae, and Paeninae, Lugdunensis prima, & Viennensis, cōtayning now the Dukedome, & Earle∣dome of Burgundy, Nivernois, Bourbonois, Beauviolois, Lionois, Daulphi∣nye, Savoy, Switzerlandt vnto the river Russ, and the Grisons; confining vpon Italy by the Alpes, and divided from the Almans by the Russ, and the Mountaine Vauge. Their religion before their entrance into Gaule was Catholique, and Christian. Their government was alwayes Monarchicall; divided whilest they remained in Germany amongst ma∣ny Kings; in Gaule governed onely by one. Their princes here were Gondiochus. Gundebault. Sigismond. and Gundemar. In this last prince, warred vpon, and overthrowne, and driven out by Childebert, and Clo∣taire, French Kings of Paris, and Soissons, in the yeare 526, after their continuance of 120 yeares, their kingdome here, and state tooke end; added afterwards as a Province to the French Monarchy. Concerning the after affaire hereof see the Frenchmen.

THE VISI-GOTHES.

* 1.98 THey were the same with the Visigots, sometimes possessing, and inhabiting Spaine; their dominions being extended over both Provinces. Vnder their king Euricus, at which time they were at their height, they held subject vnto them in this province in a manner the

whole Southerne moity hereof; continued from the river Loire vnto the sea Mediterranean, the Alpes, and the Pyrenaean Mountaines, & con∣tayning then Aquitania, with the greatest part of Narbonensis, nowe the countries of Provence, Languedoc, Gascoigne, Guienne, Rovergne, Quercy, Limousin, Perigort, Engoulmois, Poictou, Berry, and Auvergne with others. Driven out of Aquitania by Clovys, the fift king of the Frenchmen, and shortly after Provence by Amalasiunta, protectour of the kingdome of the Ostrogothes, being resigned to Theodebert, French King of Mets, there dominion here became stinted betwixt the river Rhosne, and the Pyrenaean Mountaines in the part of Narbonensis, from the language, dialect, or longer abode there of the nation called af∣terwards Languedoc; which they held vntill their conquest, and ex∣tirpation by the Moores.

THE ALMANS.

* 1.99 COncerning this people it hath beene more fully related in the survey, and discourse of Germany; towards the expiration of the Westerne Roman Empire falling into, and inhabiting part of both pro∣vinces. They shared here in Gaule the province of Germania prima, with part of Maxima Sequ••norum; comprehending now West-reich, Elsats, Sungow, the part of the Palatinate, lying on this side of the Rhijn, with the part of Switzerlandt, contayned betwixt the Rhijn, and the river Russ, being divided from the Burgundians by the Russ, and the Moun∣taine Vauge. By Clovis, the first Christian King of the Frenchmen, they were totally subdued, and their possessions both here, and in Germany annexed to the French dominion; knowne for a long time after by the name of Almaigne, or Suevia.

THE FRENCHMEN.a 1.100

* 1.101 THese were certaine people of the Germans, mentioned by Pto∣lemy, and the auncient Geographers, and inhabiting neere vnto the fall of the Rhiin, towards the maine of the Roman Empire for their greater strength, and security joyning into this one nation, and lea∣ving their many old names, and vniting into this common. Concer∣ning the Etymologie of the name, authours agree not. Some would haue them thus called from their bold, and fierce natures, which name should haue beene given vnto them by one of the Valentinian Empe∣rours: whose errour is hereby apparent for that we reade of the French long before any such Roman Emperour. Pontanus doth otherwise de∣riue the name from the word: Francesca, a weapon, peculiar to the Na∣tion; an Etymologie also without ground, and alike vncertaine. The most probable with the leaue of Pontanus is that of Hotomannus from the word Franck, signifying Free with the auncient Dutch, as

now with the moderne, (for such was the first language of this nati∣on;) taken vp by the sundry German people, whereof these were com∣posed, in ostentation of their valour, in regard of their freedome, and liberty from the Roman servitude, and injuries, with continuall excur∣sions invading the provinces hereof, themselues remaining safe from the like retaliations, secured by their intricate, and vnpassable woods, and marishes. Their first expresse mention we finde to haue beene in the raigne of the Emperour Galienus, then ransacking Gaule, & Spaine, and serving the rebell Posthumius in his warres hereagainst. After this they are frequently named in the raignes of the succeeding Empe∣rors: in the raign of Clodius the second, forraging Gaule, & at Moguntia∣cum to the nūber of 700 slaine by Aurelianus, afterwards Emperour, then Tribune of the 6 Legion Gallican: of Probus, overthrowne in battaill by the army hereof, and with a fleete of ships pillaging, and spoyling along the sea-coasts of Sicily, Afrique, and Greece: of Dio∣clesian, with the neighbouring Saxons infesting the sea-coasts of Gaule Belgique, and Armorique: of Constantius, son to Constantine the Great, with the Almans, and Saxons after their wonted manner pillaging, and ransacking Gaule, and spoyling no lesse then 40 cities in the tract hereof along the Rhijn: of Valentinian, and Valens, with the Saxons againe breaking into, and spoyling the same province: of The∣dosius the second, and Valentinian the third, slaine in great numbers by the valiant Aelius, lieftenant herevnto, and driven out of a part of Gaule, neighbouring to the Rhijn, which they then newly had sea∣zed vpon. Their country during these their first affaires was wholy in Germany, seated betwixt the Almans, and the Saxons, and extended a∣long the shore of the Rhijn from the meeting hereof with the Meine vnto the fall of that river into the German Ocean, quarting in Gaule vp∣on the further side of the Rhijn the province of Germania secunda. They comprehended the countries, where are at this day Engern, Marck, Bergen, part of Cleve, Stiff van Vtreicht, Gelderlandt, & Hessen, the Earledome of Zutphen, Over-Ysel, West-phalen, North-Hollandt, toge∣ther with the East, and West-Freislandts. The severall Dutch people, which they contayned (vniting into this generall name,) were the Bructeri, reaching along the shore of the Rhijn betwixt the river of the Meine, and Colen: the Sicambri, extended from thence vnto the division of the Rhijn at Schenken-scans: the Chamavi, seated neere vnto the fall, or mouth of the Rhijn: the Salij, lyinga 1.102 about the river Isala, now Ysel, called thus from hence, and occasioning the name of the pretended Salique Law: the Minores Frisij, now North-Hol∣landt: the Maiores Frisij, now West-Freislandt: the Tencteri,b 1.103 Ansua∣rii, and Cherusci. For thus we finde them dictinctly called, placed, & attributed to this common name in the table published by Peutinger, written in the time of the later Roman Emperours. The first time of their sixt plantation in Gaule (following the most credited authours) hapned in the raigne of the Emperour Valentinian the third, vnder Clodi••, their second king from Pharamond, conquering, and inhabiting the countrey of Germania secunda; whether that they were but onely

in part expulsed from hence by Aetius, or returning againe with grea∣ter confidence, & fury after the death hereof, murthered by Valenti∣an, jealous of his vertues. Vnder Merove, succeeding vnto Clodio, they added herevnto the first Belgica. Vnder Childeric they added the second Belgica; withdrawing by litle, and litle out of Germany, their an∣cient abode, and leaving the Moorish wood-lands, which they there possessed, vnto the Saxons, violently pressing vpon them from the North, busied here in the conquests, and plantation of better coun∣tries. Vnder Clovys, their fift king (the Visigothes overcome, and the Almans subdued,) they tooke in the provinces of Aquitania, & Germa∣nia prima, cleared Belgica of the Romans (vnder Siagrius then keeping possession about Soissons,) and added in Germany to their kingdome, & name, whatsoever was then held by the Almans, and Bavarians, con∣tayning the part hereof, extended betwixt the river Meine, and the Alpes. Vnder Childebert, and Clotaire, sons to Clovys, and kings of Pa∣ris, and Soissons (the French dominion being then divided,) they con∣quered the Burgundians. Vnder Theodoric, brother herevnto, & king of Mets, or Austrasia, they subdued the Thuringians. Vnder Theode∣bert, king of Austrasia, grand-child vnto Clovys, and son to Theodo∣ric they tooke in Provence, or the part of Gaule Narbonensis, contayned betwixt the riuer of Rhosne, and the Alpes; surrendred by Amalas∣iunta, and the Ostrogothes, by whom it had beene gotten, and detayned from the Visigothes. Vnder Charles Martel, regent of the kingdome for the titulary princes, they vtterly expulsed the Visigothes, and Moores out of Languedoc; their last retreate in this province. Vnder Charles the Great they tooke from the Moores in Spaine the part of Tarraconensis, where was afterwards the great, and famous Earledome of Barcelona, and conquered the kingdomes, and nations of the Britons, Saxons, A∣vares, and Lombards, vniting vnder the Monarchy of the French the whole Gaule Transalpine, Pannony, Germany vnto the riuers Eydore, Elb, and the Saltza, the best part of Italy, together with the title, and ho∣nour of Roman Emperour, for a certaine time afterwards remaining hereditary to the royall families of this nation; in whose raigne, and in that next of his son, the Emperour Lewis the Godly, the Empire, and dominion hereof was at the height, thorough their civill discords, & that vnprovident division made by the sons of the Godly, declining shortly after, and breaking into fiue lesser kingdomes, of Italy, Germa∣ny, or East-France, Lorraine, Burgundy, and West-France, all which not long after comming into the hands of stranger princes, ceased to bee French, resolving into sundry petty states, and governments; West-France excepted, wherein the name, and accompt of the nation at this day resteth confined, the maner whereof with their continuance, suc∣cessions, and whole fortunes vnto our times, or during French, we will shew hereafter. We finde at this time the accompt, and name of France (for thus was called the greatest part of the French dominions after their possession, and plantation by this nation) to haue extended over the whole Gaule, as also over Pannony, and the parts of Germany sub∣ject herevnto; their auncient names worne out. It contayneth then

two divisions, or kingdomes, famous in the French, and Dutch histories, of Oosten-reich, or Austrasia; or of West-reich, or Westrasia; for thus wee read them corruptly named in the Latine Authours of that ruder age. Oosten-reich signified the Easterne kingdome, so called from such its si∣tuation, compared with the other division. It was otherwise named East-France, in regard likewise of its more Easterly situation. Also Dutch France from the Dutch language of the people. It was likewise called the kingdome of Metz from the towne of Metz, then the royall seate of the kings hereof. It contained all Pannony, and Germany sub∣ject to the French, and within the Rhijn the parts lying betwixt that ri∣uer, and the Meuse, and Scheldt, comprehending now Lorraine, Luick, Elsats, the districts of Trier, Colen, and Mentz, the Dukedome of Gulick, parts of Cleve, and of the Lower Palatinate, together with the many provinces of the Low Countreyes, contained betwixt those rivers. At this day the French name, and accompt being wholly extinguished in those parts, the name is onely preserued in the Dukedome of Oostenrich in High Germany, sometimes parcell hereof. West-reich signifyed in the Dutch language the Westerne kingdome; for thus was it situated, com∣pared to the other. It was also called West, and Roman France from such its situation, and language, mixed with the Latin; compounding now the moderne French. It contained in a manner now moderne France. The kings of the French, vntill the division of the kingdome, and Mo∣narchy hereof by the sons of Lewes the Godly follow. Pharamond, from whom they first begin the succession hereof. He raigned wholy in Ger∣many, & is put to haue bin the authour of the pretended Salique-law. Clodion, son to Pharamond. Vnder this Prince they first planted in Gaul. Merove, Master of the horse to Clodion, left protectour of the king∣dome for his yong sons; ouer whom he vsurped. The disinherited sons of Clodion (which were Auberon, Regnault, and Ranchaire (for so were they named) retiring into the countreyes of Ardenne, and about the Moselle, begun there the estates so called; from whom descended afterwards the Princely houses of Lorraine,* 1.104 Brabant, Namur, and Hainault. Childeric, son to Merovy. Clovys, son to Childeric. This Prince first established here the Christian religion, and mightily en∣larged the French dominions, the Romans, and neighbouring Barba∣rians ouercome, and vanquished. Childebert, Clodomire, Clotaire, and The∣odoric, sons to Clovys, the kingdome being diuided amongst them; whereof the two former were stiled kings of Paris, and Orleans; the o∣ther two of Soissons, and Mets. Clotaire, sole king of the French, the o∣ther brethren dying without issue, or their posterity failing. In the raignes of these foure brethren kings, the kingdome of Burgundy, and of the Thuringians, with Provençe in Gaule Narbonensis was anne∣xed to the French dominions. Chilperic, Aribert, Gontran, and Sigibert, sons to Clotaire, the kingdome being again divided; whereof the two former shared Soissons, and Paris, the other two the kingdomes of Orleans, & Austrasia. At this time liued together the two monsters of their sex, Brunehaut, and Fredegonde, Queenes to Sigebert, and Chil∣peric aforesaid, for their vnnaturall cruelties, famous in the French hi∣stories,

this being the murtherer of her owne husband, and of her bro∣ther-in-law Sigibert, the other of eleuen kings, and Princes, royally descended, and amongst others of her sonnes, and grand-children Childebert, Theodebert, and Theodoric, Kings of Austrasia. Clo∣taire the second, son to Chilperic, and Fredego••de, Monarch of the French; his Vncles Aribert, and Gontran, deceasing without heires, and the house of Sigibert by the cruelty of Brunehaut, being extin∣guished. Dagobert, and Aribert, sons to Clotaire the second, whereof this raigned in Aquitania, or in the parts of France contained betwixt the Loire, and the Pyrenaean mountaines; the other in the rest of the French dominions. Dagobert, sole king of the French; Chilperic the son of Aribert, dying without heires. In the raigne hereof the Vasco∣nes, a Spanish people, inhabiting where is now the kingdome of Na∣varre (descending from the Pyrenaean Mountaines) first invaded the neighbouring part of Aquitania, since from hence called Gascoigne; shortly after their first entrance conquered to the French by Aribert aforesaid. Clovys the second, son to Dagobert. Clotaire the third, son to Clovys the second. He dyed yong without heires. Theodoric, brother to Clotaire the third, deposed for his slouth, and insufficiency to go∣verne, and shut vp in a Monastery. Chilperic, brother to Theodoric, slaine by his rebellious subjects, pretending his cruelty, and tyranny. Theodoric, after the death of Chilperic assumed againe vnto the king∣dome. About this time the auncient vertue of the French Monarches of the race of Merove, begun to decline, cloystered vp for the most part within their palaces, and giuing themselues wholly vnto luxury, and ease, committing in the meane time the affaires of state vnto the Maiors of their palaces, who hereby hauing once seazed vpon the go∣verment, transmitting the same to succession, ceased not vntil they had bereft them of all authority, and name, vsurping vpon them at length the kingdome. Clovys the third, son to Theodoric. he dyed yong with∣out heires. Childebert, son to Theodoric, and brother to Clovys the third. Dagobert the second, son to Childebert. Daniel a Priest, named Chilperic after his being king, vpon the decease of Dagobert the se∣cond, chosen by the Nobility, opposed by Charles Martel, Maiour of the Palace. Clotaire the fourth, set vp by Charles Martel, enemy to Chilperic. Chilperic sole king of the French after the decease of Clo∣taire the fourth. Theodoric, son to Dagobert the second. Childeric, son to Thedoric, the last king of the house of Merove; vpon pretence of an hereditary slouth, negligence, basenesse, and disability of the Princes of this line, by the especiall aide, and authority of Zacha∣ry then Bishop of Rome, deposed by Pepin, then Maior of the Palace, and shorne Monke. Pepin, Major of the Palace, son to Charles Martel, whose ancestours had for a long time borne that title, & go∣verned the State; Childeric being deposed, elected King in the yeare 750. Charles the Great, son to Pepin. In this prince in regard of the extraordinary greatnes of the French Monarques, and of their well deservings to the Christian common-wealth in generall, and to the Papacy in particular, by the chiefe practise, and meanes of Pope Leo

the third in the yeare 800 after a vacancy of 330 yeares the name, & dignity of Roman Emperour of the West was restored, and confer∣red vpon this Nation. Hee enlarged the French dominions with the kingdomes of the Britons, Lombards, Avares, & Saxons, the mightiest of all the French Monarques, and since his time of all the Emperours of the West. Lewis surnamed the Godly, son to Charles the Great; the last Monarque of the French Nation. Lotharius, Lewis, and Charles, surnamed the Bauld, sons to the Emperour Lewis the Godly, the do∣minions of the French being divided amongst them. Of these Lotha∣rius had Italy with the title of Roman Emperour, & in Gaule, or France within the Rhijn, the parts of Austrasia, Burgundy, and Provençe. Lewis had Germany, or East-France, and Charles had West-France, both with the title of Kings. Not long after the Emperour Lotharius turning Re∣ligious, to the further rent hereof subdevided his part amongst his three sons Lewis, Lotharius, and Charles (his two brothers Lewis, and Charles the Bauld yet living,) assigning vnto Lewis, Italy with the ti∣tle of Roman Emperour, to Lotharius, Austrasia, from the portion, or kingdome hereof afterwards named Lot-reich, or Lorraine, and to Charles, Burgundy, and Provençe with the name, and stile of Kings. By this meanes the dominion of the Frenchmen hitherto entier, and vnder one, or never long divided, became seuered (as hath beene before re∣lated) into fiue kingdomes, never againe vnited, of Italy, Germany, Lor∣raine, Burgundy, and West-France; whose continuance, and estate, during the time that they were French follow, in order.

The KINGDOME of ITALY vnder the FRENCH.

* 1.105 THis was not accompted any part of France. It was begun by the Lombards, succeeding to the Ostro-gothes, drawne in hither by the treason, and discontent of Narses, generall in the Gothish wars for the Emperour Iustinian. By the raigne of Aistulphus (the Exarchy destroyed) it contayned all Italy (Apulia, and Calabria remaining then to the Greekish Emperours, and the lands of the Popes only excepted.) The Lombards being subdued by Charles the Great about the yeare 774 it was annexed to the French dominions. In the person of Pepin, son to Charles the Great, it was made a particular French kingdome, car∣ryed from one Caroline, or French familie vnto another with the title of Roman Emperour, for the most part annexed therevnto, vntill the Emperour Charles the Fat, after whom it ceased to be French; vsurped by the Italians, and succeeding Germans. The French kings here of the house of Charles the Great follow. Pepin king of Italy, second son to the Emperour Charles the Great. He deceased before his father. Bernard king of Italy, son to Pepin. Lewis surnamed the Godly, eldest son to the Emperour Charles the Great; Emperour of the Romans, & king of France, and Italy. Lotharius, eldest son to the Emperour Le∣wis the Godly; Emperour of the Romans, and king of Italy. Lewis,

Emperour of the Romans, and king of Italy; eldest son to the Empe∣rour Lotharius. Charles, surnamed the Bauld, youngest son to the Em∣perour Lewis the Godly; Emperour of the Romans, and King of West-France, and Italy. Carloman, King of Bavaria, and Italy; eldest son to Lewis, surnamed the Auncient, King of Germany, second son to the Emperour Lewis the Godly. Charles surnamed the Fat, Empe∣rour of the Romans, and King of Germany, and Italy; younger son to Lewis the Auncient, and brother to Carloman. He deceased in the yeare 888 without issue the last King of Italy of the French, and house of Charles the Great; succeeded vnto by Berengarius Duke of Friuli, Guy Duke of Spoleto, & other petty tyrants of the Italian Nati∣on, the posterity of Charles the Great commaunding in France, and Germany being then illegitimate, or in nonage, and the power of the French thorough their factions, & the many divisions of that grand monarchy then much declined.

The whole time that the French commaunded in this province ac∣compting from the overthrow, and conquest of Desiderius, and the Lombards by Charles the Great vnto the decease of the Emperour Charles the Fat lasted 114 yeares.

THE KINGDOME OF GERMANY OR EAST-FRANCE.

THis* 1.106 kingdome was begun, as before, in the person of Lewis, sur∣named the Auncient, second son to the Emperour Lewis the Godly, vnto whose lot it fell in the division of the French Monarchy betwixt him, and his brethren Lotharius, and Charles the Bauld. It contayned all Pannony, and the parts of Germany, subject to the French Empire. After the decease of the Emperour Conrade the first without heires, this likewise left off to be French, commaunded ever after by princes of the Dutch Nation, and resolving into its old name of Germany againe, the name, and memory of France, and of the French extinguished. The Kings here of the house of France, and Charles the Great, and vntill the Dutch, or Saxons follow. Lewis before mentioned, the founder of the kingdome, second son to the Emperour Lewis the Godly. Carloman, Lewis, and Charles surnamed the Fat, sons to Lewis, the first King; raigning together, the kingdome being divided amōgst them. Charles the Fat, sole King of Germany; his two brethren Carloman, & Lewis deceasing without heires, or issue lawfull. After the decease of the Emperour Lewis the Stammeter, King of West-France, as the onely left heire of the Caroline line, or of age to governe, he became king of Italy, and Emperour of the Romans; a title for the greater power, and mightinesse of this kingdome, still afterwards continued in the prin∣ces hereof, as during the French race, so of that of the Saxons, and since these became electiue vnto this day. Arnulph, naturall son to Carloman, brother to Charles the Fat. Lewis, son to Arnulph. Conrade the first, son to Conrade, brother to Lewis. He deceased in the yeare

919, the last Emperour of the Romans, and King of Germany of the French, & of the house of Charles the Great; succeeded vnto by Henry, surnamed the Fouler, Duke of Saxony, and by the Nation of the Dutch.

THE KINGDOME OF LOT∣REICH, OR LORRAINE.

* 1.107 THis signifyed with the auncient French, the kingdome of Lo∣tharius; being so called from Lotharius the second, son to the Em∣perour a 1.108 Lotharius, whose share it was of the French dominions, & in whom the kingdome first began. It contayned all Austrasia, lying in Gaule, or in France within the Rhijn; being divided from East-France, or the kingdome of Germany by the river Rhijn; from West-France by the Scheldt; and from the kingdome of Burgundy by the Mountaines of the Iour, and Vauge. Lotharius the second, deceasing without heires, or legi∣timate, & the whole house of the Emperour Lotharius being extinguish∣ed, after long debate, and contention betwixt the Kings of West-France, and Germany, and sundry divisions, revnions, and alterations during the Caroline line, in the raignes of the Emperour Otho the third, and of Lewis the last French King of the house of Charles the Great, this kingdome, and name tooke end, the title of Kings of Lorraine be∣ing then left off by those princes, and the part hereof contayned be∣twixt the rivers Meuse, & the Scheldt, belonging to the French Kings, being incorporated with France, and the other part, lying betwixt the Meuse, and the Rhijn, being added vnto Germany; divided after∣wards into sundry lesser States, partly at this day subject to the Em∣pire, partly to the family of Austria, and Burgundy, and to the States of the vnited provinces of the Netherlands: the Dukedome of Lorraine, Cl••ve, Gulich, Zweibruck, Brabant, Gelderlandt, Luxemburg, & Limburg, the Earledomes of Hollandt, Zealandt, Hainault, Namur, & Zutphen, the Lantgravedome of Elsatz, the County Palatine of the Rhijn, the Marqui∣sate of the Sacred Empire, the Lordship of Malines, & the Bishopricks of Vtreicht, Luick, Triers, Colen, Mentz, Metz, Toul, Verdun, Spier, Worms, and Strasburg, whose originall, and fortunes follow after we haue first set downe the names, & order of the Kings of Lorraine. Lotharius the second, the first king, son to the Emperour Lotharius. He dyed without lawfull issue. Lewis surnamed the Auncient, King of Germany, and Charles the Bauld, King of West-France, sons to the Emperour Lewis the Godly; after the decease of Lotharius the second. vsurping this ti∣tle, and name, & dividing the kingdome betwixt them, whereof Le∣wis had the part lying betwixt the Meuse, & the Rhijn, & Charles the part contayned betwixt the Meuse, & the Scheld. Carloman, Lewis, & Charles the Fat, sons to Lewis the Auncient, Kings of Germany, & of the part of Lorraine betwixt the Meuse, and the Rhijn; and Lewis surnamed the Stammerer, son to Charles the Bauld, Emperour of the Romans, & King of West-France, & of the part of Lorraine on this

side the Meuse. After the decease hereof, Lewis, and Carloman, his two bastard sons, succeeding in the kingdome of West-France, sur∣rendred their part of Lorraine vnto Carloman, Lewis, & Charles the Fat, the sons of Lewis the Auncient, & Kings of Germany before mentioned. Charles, surnamed the Fat, son to Lewis the Auncient, after the decease of his two brothers Carloman, & Lewis, without heires, Emperour of the Romans, & sole King of Germany, & Lor∣raine. Arnulp, base son to Carloman, brother to Lewis the Fat; Em∣perour of the Romans, & King of Germany, & of the whole Lorraine. Zuentebald, naturall son to the Emperour Arnulph; King of the whole Lorraine. He deceased without heires. Lewis, son to the Emperour Arnulph; Emperour of the Romans, & King of Germany, & of the whole Lorraine. Conrade, nephew to the Emperour Lewis, Empe∣rour of the Romans, & King of Germany, & of the whole Lorraine. He lost the kingdome of Lorraine vnto Charles, surnamed the Sim∣ple, King of West-France. Charles, surnamed the Simple, son to the Emperour Lewis the Stammerer, King of West-France, & of the whole Lorraine. Vpon agreement made with the Emperour Henry the first, he restored vnto him the part hereof betwixt the Meuse, & the Rhiin. Charles the Simple, King of West-France, & of Lorraine on this side the Meuse; and Henry the first Emperour of the Romans, and King of Germany, and of Lorraine beyond the Meuse. Rodulph of Burgundy, King of France, and of Lorraine on this side the Meuse. Lewis the fourth, French King, and of Lorraine on this side the Meuse. Otho the first, Emperour of the Romans, and King of Germany, & of Lorraine betwixt the Meuse, and the Rhijn. Lotharius the third, French King, and of Lorraine on this side the Meuse. Otho the second, Empe∣rour of the Romans, and King of Germany, and of Lorraine beyond the Meuse. Lewis the fift, French King, and of Lorraine on this side the Meuse; and Otho the third, Emperour of the Romans, and king of Germany, and of Lorraine beyond the Meuse. Vnder those two prin∣ces the title, and kingdome of Lorraine ceased to be; incorporated, and vnited with West-France, & Germany. The many States arising out of the ruines hereof follow.

THE DVKEDOMEOE LORRAINE.

* 1.109 THis now onely retayneth the auncient name of the kingdome of Lorraine. It was begun in the yeare 993 in the person of Char∣les, Duke of Brabant, younger brother to Lotharius the third, and vn∣cle to Lewis the fift, the last French Kings of the house of Charles the Great, to whom it was given with this title by the Emperour Otho the second. It contayneth then besides moderne Lorraine, the countrey of Brabant (vnited to the name hereof, and called Basse Lorraine,) to∣gether with Luick, & Gulick. The manner, how these were rent here∣from, we will shew in the Catalogue of the Princes, whose succession,

and order follow. Charles, Duke of Brabant, Vncle to Lewis the fift, King of France, Duke of Lorraine by the gift of the Emperour Otho the second. He dyed in bonds, caught, and imprisoned by Hugh Capet, the vsurping King of France, jealous of his better right to that Crowne. Otho, son to Charles. He deceased without issue. Godfreye the yonger, surnamed with the Beard, eldest son to Godfrey, Earle of Ardenne, Buillon, and Verdun, after the decease of Otho succeeding in the Dukedome hereof by the gift of the Emperour Henry the se∣cond, the heires generall Gerberge, and Hermengarde, sisters to Otho, excluded. Gozelo, brother to Godfrey the yonger. Godfrey the second, son to Gozelo. Godfrey the third, son to Godfrey the second. He died without issue. Godfrey of Buillon, the fourth of that name, son to Eu∣stace, Earle of Buillon, and of Ydain, sister to Godfrey the third. He became king of Hierusalem, and deceased in the Holy land without heires. He sold the temporalty of the city, and country of Luick vn∣to Speutus, then Bishop hereof; continuing euer since by this right se∣vered from the Dukedome, belonging to these Prelates. About the same time (as it is thought) the towne, and country of Gulick were likewise divided herefrom, seazed vpon with the title of Earle by Eustace, brother to Godfrey. Bauldwin, brother to Godfrey of Buil∣lon, king of Hierusalem, and Duke of Lorraine. He lost Brabant, or Basse Lorraine to Geffrey, surnamed with the Beard, Earle of Lorraine, des∣cended from Gerberge, daughter to Charles of France, the first Duke of Lorraine. He also dyed without heires. Theodoric, son to Willi∣am, Baron of Ianville; brother to Godfrey, and Bauldwin, kings of Hi∣erusalem. Simon the first, son to Theodoric. Mathew the first, son to Simon the first. Simon the second, son to Mathew the first. Frederique the first, son to Simon the second. Theobald the first, son to Frederique the first. Mathew the second, son to Frederique the first, and brother to Theobald the first. Frederique the second, son to Mathew the second. Theobald the second, son to Frederique the second. Frederique the third, son to Theobald the second. Rodulph, son to Frederique the third. Iohn, son to Rodulph. Charles the second, son to Iohn. Reiner d'Aniou, Duke of Bar, and afterwards king of Sicily; Duke of Lorraine in right of his wife Isabel, daughter to Charles the second. Iohn the second, son to Reiner of Aniou, Duke of Bar, and of Isabel of Lorraine aforesaid. Nicholas d' Aniou, son to Iohn the second. He dyed without heires. Reiner the second, son to Frederique, Earle of Vaudemont, and of Yo∣land, daughter to Reiner d' Aniou▪ and Isabel of Lorraine. After the decease of his grandfather Reiner d' Aniou, he became also Duke of Bar. Antonye, son to Reiner the second. Francis, son to Antony. Charles the third, son to Francis, Duke of Lorraine, and Bar, and Earle of Vaudemont in the time of Wassenburg, and of Albizius my Au∣thours.

THE BISHOPRICK OF LIEGE.

IT was thus named* 1.110 from the city of Liege; the chiefe of the coun∣try, & seate of the Prince. It was sometimes a part of the Dukedome of Lorraine; by Godfrey of Buillon, sold to Speutus, Bishop of that See, and made a particular State. The order of the Bishops, and Princes, we finde not.

THE DVKEDOME OF IVLIERS.

IT * was so called from the chiefe city Iuliers. It was also a part of the Dukedo••e of Lorraine, rent, and divided therefrom, and made a particular Earledome by Eustace, brother to Godfrey of Buillon, king of Hierusalem, the first Prince. In the yeare 1329, and in the per∣son of William the fourth, it was translated to a Marquisate by the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria. Shortly after in the person of the same Prince it was made a Dukedome by the Emperour Charles the fourth. By Mary onely daughter to William the fift, & wife to Iohn the third, Duke of Cleve, it was brought with the Dukedome of Bergen vnto that family, wherein euer since it hath continued; belonging now to the Princes of Brandenburg, & Nuburg, heires of that house. The order of the first Princes we finde not. The rest for brevity sake we omit.

THE DVREDOME OF CLEVE.

* 1.111 THis lyeth in both Provinces of Gaule, & Germany, divided by the Rhij••, & named thus from the towne of Cleve. When the state begun, or by whom, it is not agreed, Their assertion is lesse ab∣surd, who draw the beginning hereof from one Aelius Gracilis, to whom the country should be giuen with the title of Earle by Pepin the Fat, and Charles Martel, Maiors of the Palace in France. By the Empe∣rour Sigismond in the Councell of Constance, and in the person of A∣dolph the eleaventh, it was made a Dukedome. The right hereof, & of Gulick, and Bergen, with the Earledome of Marck, appertaine now to the Princes of Brandenburg, and Nuburg; the line masculine failing, and ex∣tinguished in William the second, the last Duke. From Theodoric the tenth, and more cleare times, the Princes follow. Theodoric the tenth, li∣ving about the raigne of the Emperour Lewes of Bavaria. Mary, daughter to Theodoric. She married vnto Adolph the ninth of that name, Earle of Marck, whereby these two Earledomes became vnited in one family. Adolph the tenth, son to Mary, and Adolph the ninth.

He liued in the raigne of the Emperour Charles the fourth. Adolph the eleaventh, son to Adolph the tenth, created first Duke of Cleve by the Emperour Sigismond at the Councell of Constance in the yeare 1417. Iohn the first, son to Adolph the eleaventh. Iohn the second, son to Iohn the first. Iohn the third, son to Iohn the second. He marryed vnto Mary, daughter vnto William the fift, Duke of Gulick, and Ber∣gen, by meanes whereof those two estates became added to this fami∣ly. Amongst other issue he had Anne of Cleve, Queene to Henry the eight, king of England. William the first, son to Iohn the third. William the second, son to William the first; the last Duke of Cleve, Gulick, and Bergen, and Earle of Marck, continued in the line masculine, and des∣cended from Adolph the tenth. He deceased in the yeare 1609 with∣out issue. After his decease the estates hereof were controver∣sed betwixt the Emperour Rodulph the second, pretending the preroga∣tiue, and right of the Empire vpon the failing of the male issue; and Wolfang▪ Prince of Nuburg, and George-William, Duke of Prussen, des∣cended from the eldest daughters of Duke VVilliam the first, by the fa∣vour, and armes of neighbouring Princes (Gulick besieged, and taken) established in the possession hereof. George-VVilliam Duke of Prussen, son to Iohn Sigismond, Marquesse, and Electour of Brandenburg, and to Anne, daughter to Albert, Duke of Prussen, and to Mary-Leonor, eldest daughter to William the first, Duke of Cleve; and Wolfang; prince of Nuburg, son to Philip-Lewis, Count Palatine of Nuburg, & to Anne-Magdelin, second daughter to Duke William the first, and sister to Duke William the second, Dukes of Cleve, Gulick, and Bergen, and Earles of Marck in the yeare 1616, and at this present.

THE PALATINATE OF THE RHIIN.

IT likewise lyeth on both sides of the Rhijn; so named frō the Counte-Palatines, * 1.112 or Princes thus stiled, aunciently seated in those parts, and in continuance of time by gift, purchase, marriage, & armes becom∣ming Lords hereof. How these by litle, & litle became seazed of the countrey, reade Franc: Irenicus in his 3 booke, & 54, & 55. chapters. Who were these first Paltzgraues it is not agreed vpon. Trithemius nameth Count Palatines before the raigne of the Emperour Charles the Great. Others accompt their beginning from the time of this Em∣perour. Irenicus more probably from the Emperours of the German race, & house of Saxony. They were not more aunciently Princes, or he∣reditary, and but onely chiefe Iudges amongst the Dutch, or Presidents in their courts of judicature thus entitl'd; appointed by the Emperours, and continuing during pleasure. The first of these (whereof there is any certaine mention) was one Henry, living in the raigne of the Em∣perour Otho the third, appointed one of the six first Electours of the Em∣pire. After him the Counte Palatines, & Electours follow. Sigifrid, Counte Palatine of the Rhijn, and Elector, son to Adelheild by a for∣mer

husband, wife vnto Henry the first Electour. Ezeline, & Conrade, sons to Sigifrid. Lutolphus, son to Ezelin. Conrade in the raigne of the Emperour Henry the fift. Frederique, son to Frederique with the one eye, Duke of Schwaben, and nephew to the Emperour Conrade the third. Henry, surnamed the Lion, Duke of Saxony, & Bavaria. Henry, son to Henry, surnamed the Lion. Engerus. Henry the fourth. Hitherto the order was confused. Otto the second, Duke of Bavaria, vpon his mar∣riage with Gertrude, daughter vnto Henry the fourth, created Counte Palatine of the Rhijn, and Electour by the Emperour Frederique the second. He deceased in the yeare 1259. Lewis the second, Duke of Bavaria, & Electour, & Counte Palatine of the Rhijn. He dyed in the yeare 1294. After the decease hereof these two Estates of Bavaria, & the Palatinate became againe divided, as they haue continued ever since; Lewis his younger son, succeeding in the part of Bavaria (since called the Dukedome of Bavaria, and contayned betwixt the Danow, and the Alpes,) and Rodulph, his eldest son, in the Electourship, and the Palatinate of the Rhijn, together with Nortgow, aunciently part of the Dukedome of Bavaria, and then first seperated, and from the possession of these princes, named since the vpper Palatinate, or the Palatinate of Bavaria. Rodulph, eldest son to Lewis the second, Ele∣ctour, and Counte Palatine of the Rhijn. His younger brother Lewis succeeded in the Dukedome of Bavaria; created afterwards Roman Emperour, from whom the present Dukes of Bavaria are descended. Adolph, surnamed the Simple, Electour, & Coute Palatine of the Rhiin, eldest son to Rodulph. His younger brother Robert, & Rodolph were also stiled Electours, a chiefe cause of his surname of Simple. Rupert son to Adolph the Simple, Electour, & Counte Palatine of the Rhijn, Rupert the second, son to Rupert the first. Hee was afterwards created Roman Emperour. Lewis the third, surnamed with the beard, son to the Emperour Rupert. From Stephen of Bipont, his younger brother, descended the Dukes of Zweibruck, or Bipont, as also the moderne Electours; the house of Lewis the third becomming afterward in Ot∣to-Henry extinguished. Lewis the fourth, son to Lewis the third. Philip, son to Lewis the fourth. Lewis the fift, son to Philip. He dyed without heires. Frederique the first, son to Philip, and brother to Lewis the fift. He also dyed without heires. Otto-Henry, son to Rupert, brother to Lewis the fift, and Frederique the first, the last Electour, and Counte Palatine of the Rhijn of the house of Lewis the third; deceasing with heires, after whom succeeded in Electourship the house of Stephen of Bipont. Frederique the third, Duke of Zimmeren, son to Iohn the secōd, son to Iohn the first, son to Frederique Earle of Spanheim, sonne to Stephen of Bipont, son to the Emperour Rupert (the house of Lewis the third failing in Otto-Henry) in the yeare 1559, succeeding in the Electourship, & Palatinate. He was stiled Frederique the third in re∣gard of Frederiquea 1.113, surnamed the Victorious, younger son to Lewis the third, who, although not Electour, had notwithstanding vsurped this title in the minority of Philip Electour, of whom he was Guardi∣an. Lewis the sixt, son to Frederique the third. Frederique the fourth,

son to Lewis the sixt, governed in his minority by Iohn Casimir, Count Palatine of the Rhiin, and Knight of the honourable order of the Garter in England, son to Frederique the third, and brother to Le∣wis the sixt. Frederique the fift, son to Frederique the fourth, Electour, and Count Palatine of the Rhiin, chosen King of Bohemia against the Emperour Ferdinand the second; whose wife is the most illustrious princesse Elizabeth, sister to his Maiestie Charles King of Great Bri∣taine.

THE LANGRAVE-SHIP OF ELSATS.

THis tooke* 1.114 the name from the river Ill, the chiefe of the country. The State was begun in the raigne of the Emperour Otho the third; the first Lantgraue after Irenicus being one Theodoric. In the raigne of the Emperour Frederique the second the male succession of these Lantgraues failing, by meanes of daughters it became divided betwixt Albert the second, Earle of Habspurg, Albert Earle of Hohen∣burg, & Lewis Earle of Ottingen. The Earle of Hohenburg shortly after vpon the marriage of Anne, his daughter, vnto Rodulph, afterwards Emperour, son to Albert the second, Earle of Habspurg, surrendred his part vnto that familie. By this meanes the house of Habspurg, af∣terwards of Austria, became seazed of two parts hereof (contayning now the vpper Elsats,) the Free Cities excepted. The rest (compre∣hēding at this day the lower Elsats) the Earle of Ottingen sold vnto the Bishop of Strasburg, whose Successours now hold the same; vsurping the title of Lant-graues of Elsats. The certaine order of the first Lant∣graues we finde not.

These countries, with the townes, & Bishopricks of Trier, Colen, Mentz, (Metz, Toul, Verdun, Spier, and Worms, are by their princes immediate∣ly held of the Empire; thorough their long commerce with, and sub∣jection to the Dutch for the greatest part now speaking that language, and accompted proper parts of the kingdome, or empire of the Ger∣mans.

THE DVREDOME OF BRABANT.

THe* 1.115 name of the countrey is auncient, so named after some from the towne Bratispantium of Caesar; mentioned in the second booke of his Commentaries. The Dukedome was begun in the person of Charles of France, vncle to Lewis the fift, and brother to Lotharius the fourth, French Kings; by the gift hereof belonging to his share of the kingdome of Lorraine. This first prince by the liberality of the Empe∣rour Otho the second becomming afterwards Duke of Lorraine, vnited this vnto that Dukedome, and accompt, called then Basse Lorraine; in

which name, & vnion it continued both during the Caroline line, and that of Ardenne vnto Bauldwin, Duke of Lorraine, and King of Hierusa∣lem, brother vnto Godfrey of Buillon. Vnder this prince (busied in wars abroad against the Infidels) by the favour, and aide of the Emperour Henry the fift (whose sister he had married) in the yeare 1108, it was againe divided from the Dukedome of Lorraine, and made a distinct dukedome by Geffrey, surnamed with the beard, Earle of Lovaine, be∣fore mentioned, descended from Gerberge, eldest daughter to Charles of France, the first prince; in which division, and estate it hath still continued vnto our times. By Margaret, daughter to Iohn the third, wife to Philip the Hardy, Duke of Burgundy, it came to the familie of Burgundy; carried hereby to that other of Austria, wherein now it resteth. Since the division hereof from Lorraine, the Princes follow. Geffrey the first, surnamed with the beard, Earle of Lovain, descended from Gerberge, & the house of France; by whom the Dukedome was recovered from Lorraine, and the house of Ardenne. Geffrey the second, son to Geffrey the first. Geffrey the third, son to Geffrey the se∣cond. Henry the first, son to Geffrey the third Henry the second, son to Henry the first. Henry the third, son to Henry the second. After the decease hereof Aleide, his widow, in the minority of her children for eight yeares space governed the Dukedome; the heire not being designed. Iohn the first, second son to Henry the third, elected by the Estates of the Countrey; his eldest brother Henry in regard of his many defects, and infirmities rejected, approved only by the city of Lovain, a cause of some warre betwixt the sides, with litle adoe in regard of their inequality soone after appeased. Iohn the second, son to Iohn the first. Iohn the third son to Iohn the second. Wenceslaus, Duke of Luxemburg, son to Iohn King of Bohemia, and brother to the Em∣perour Charles the fourth, in the right of his wife Ioane, eldest daugh∣ter to Iohn the third. They dyed without issue in the yeare 1406. Anthony the second, son to Philip the Hardy, Duke of Burgundy, and of Margaret, daughter to Lewis Malan, Earle of Flanders, & Margaret, younger daughter to Iohn the third; his elder brother Iohn, after∣wards Duke of Burgundy, yeelding over his right, vpon condition that the house hereof failing, the Dukedome should return vpon him, and his heires. He was slaine, fighting againg the English, at the battail of Agen-court in France. Iohn the fourth, son to Anthony. He marry∣ed vnto Iaqu••line, Countesse of Holland, from whom he was divor∣ced, dying young, & without heires in the yeare 1426. He founded the Vniversity of Lovain. Philip the first, son to Anthony, and bro∣ther to Iohn the fourth. He also dyed young, vnmarried, & without heires; in whom ended the house of Anthony, son to Philip the Har∣dy. Philip the second, surnamed the Good, Duke of Burgundy, son to Iohn Duke of Burgundy, grand-child to Philip the Hardy, nephew to Anthony, and cosen German to Iohn the fourth, and Philip the first (the house of Anthony failing) succeeding in the Dukedome of Brabant by right of blood, and of the former agreement, made with Antony. Charles, surnamed the Fighter, Duke of Burgundy, & Bra∣bant,

son to Philip the second. Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, and Duke of Burgundy, and Brabant, in the right of his wife, Mary of Bur∣gundy, daughter to Charles the Fighter. Philip, son to Maximilian, and Mary. Charles afterwards Roman Emperour, son to Philip. Philip the second, king of Spaine, son to the Emperour Charles the fift. Isabella, daughter to Philip the second, king of Spaine, now Dutchesse of Bur∣gundy, and Brabant, and Princesse of the Netherlands.

THE DVKEDOME OF LVXEMBVRG.

THis* 1.116 was sometimes a part of the Principality of Ardenne, first di∣vided therefrom in the raigne of the Emperour Otho the first, by Si∣gifrid, son to Ricuin, Prince of Ardenne, vnto whose share it fell in the division of that Principality betwixt him, and his other brethren; en∣titled thus from the castle, now the towne of Luxemburg, belong∣ing aunciently to the Monastery of S. Maximinus of Trier, and ex∣chaunged with him for other lands, the seate of the Prince. By the Em∣perour Charles the fourth it was made a Dukedome in the person of his brother Wenceslaus. By Elizabeth, the last Princesse, wanting heires, it was sold to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in which family, and the succeeding name, and house of Austria, it hath euer since remai∣ned, possessed now by Isabella of Austria, and accompted amongst the 17 Provinces of the Netherlands. The order of the first Princes we finde not. The latter follow. Henry the first (from whom my Author beginneth,) Earle of Luxemburg, slaine in fight, neere vnto the castle Worancan; taking part with Reinold, Earle of Gelderland, a∣gainst Iohn the first, Duke of Brabant, contending for the Dukedome of Limburg. Henry the second, son to Henry the first in the yeare 1308, elected Roman Emperour. Iohn, son to Henry the second. Hauing mar∣ryed vnto Elizabeth, daughter to Wenceslaus the third, he was elected king of Bohemia; slaine by the English, fighting for the French at the battaile of Cressy. Wenceslaus the first, yonger son to Iohn; created the first Duke of Luxemburg by his brother, the Emperour Charles the fourth. He dyed sans issue. Wenceslaus the second, eldest son to the Empe∣rour Charles the fourth, Emperour of the Romans, and king of Bohe∣mia. He also deceased without issue. Sigismond, yonger son to the Em∣perour Charles the fourth, Emperour of the Romans, and king of Bo∣hemia. By the right of his wife Mary he became also king of Hungary. Enriched with so many states, and kingdomes, he surrendred his right hereof vnto Elizabeth, daughter to his brother Iohn, Marquesse of Brandenburg. Elizabeth, daughter vnto Iohn, Duke of Gorlitz, and Marquesse of Brandenburg, by the gift of her Vncles, the Emperours Wenceslaus, and Sigismond, Dutchesse of Luxemburg; the last prince. Hauing no heires she sold the inheritance hereof vnto Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, possessed euer since by that house.

THE DVKEDOME OF LIMBVRG.

IT was so called from the towne of Limburg; first an Earledome, af∣terwards made a Dukedome by one of the Henry Emperours. By Iohn the first Duke of Brabant, pretending some title hereunto, it was con∣quered to the house of Brabant from Reinold the first, Duke of Gelder∣landt, husband to Ermengarde, the onely daughter of Herman, the last Duke; possessed now in this right by the Princes of Burgundy, & Au∣stria. The order, and succession of the Princes we finde not.

THE EARLEDOME OF NAMVR.

NAmed thus from the chiefe towne thereof, Namur. The time when it first begun, is vncertaine. By Iohn, or after others by The∣odore, or Theodoric, the last Earle, it was sold to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, whose posterity the P••inces of the house of Burgundy, and Austria, now enjoy it by that right.

THE EARLEDOME OF HAINAVLT.

IT tooke the name from the riuer Haine* 1.117, watering, and dividing the country. The estate is very auncient, being sometime a part of the great Earledome of Ardenne, from the which it was divided, & made a distinct Earledome in the person of Alberic, surnamed the Orphelin, one of the yongest sons of Brunulph, Count of Ardenne, dispossessed, & slain by Dagobert, French King; who restored, & dividing that country with his other brethren, had this part giuen him with the title of Earle, by Sigebert king of Austrasia, to be held vnder the soveraignty of the French kings. After long continuance, and often change by Iaqueline, the last Princesse (wanting heires,) together with Holland, Zealand, and VVest-Freislandt, vnited in that family, it was surrendred vnto Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, her next kinsman; in whose house the right, and possession hereof now remaineth. The Princes follow. Albe∣ric, before mentioned, one of the yonger sons of Brunulph, Earle of Ardenne; the first Earle of Hainault. VVaultier the first, son to Alberic. VVaultier the second, son to Waultier the first. VVaultier the third, son to Waultier the second. He dyed without male issue. Albon the first, in right of his wife, eldest daughter to Waultier the third. Albon the se∣cond, sonne to Albon the first, and of the daughter of Waultier the third. Manassier, sonne to Albon the second. Regnier the first, son to Manassier. Regnier the second, son to Regnier the first. Regnier the third, son to Regnier the second. Bauldwin Earle of Flanders in right of

his wife Richilde, sole daughter to Regnier the third. Bauldwin the second, son to Bauldwin, & Richilde aforesaid. Hee succeeded only in the Earledome of Hainault. Bauldwin the third, son to Bauldwin the second. Bauldwin the fourth, son to Bauldwin the third. Bauldwin the fift, sonne to Bauldwin the fourth. Bauldwin the sixt, sonne to Bauld∣win the fift. Hee marryed vnto Margeret, Countesse of Flanders; by which meanes these two Earledomes were the second time vnited vnder one prince. Bauldwin the seaventh, sonne to Bauldwin the sixt, and Margaret, Earle of Flanders, and Hainault. Ioan, eldest daughter to Bauldwin the seaventh, Earle of Flanders, & Hainault. She dyed sans issue, having beene twise marryed to Ferdinand, son to Sancius, K. of Portugal, & to Thomas, son to Thomas, Earle of Savoy. Margaret the second, younger sister to Ioane aforesaid, and daughter to Bauldwin the seaventh; Countesse of Flanders, and Hainault. Shee married vnto William of Burbon, Lord of Dampier, brother to Archem∣bauld, Duke of Bourbon, and deceased in the yeare 1279. Before her marriage she had by Buscart, her Tutour, or Guardian, Prior of the Monasterie of S. Peter in L'isle, a son named Iohn d'Avesnes, by a∣greement, & consent of his other brethren, succeeding in the Earle∣dome hereof; Flanders descending vpon the legitimate issue, the heire of Margaret, and William of Bourbon, Lord of Dampierre. Iohn d' Avesnes, naturall son to Margaret the second, and Buscart, Earle of Hainault. He marryed vnto Aleide, daughter to Florentius the fourth, and sister to the Emperour William, Earles of Holland. Iohn the se∣cond, son to Iohn d'Avesnes, and Aleide aforesaid. After the decease of Iohn the first, Earle of Holland, without children, in the yeare 1300 hee succeeded in the Earledomes of Holland, & Zealand, and in the Lordship of West-Freisland; continued still afterwards vnited in his successours. William the first, son to Iohn the second, Earle of Hainault, Holland, & Zealandt, & Lord of West-Freislandt. William the second, son to William the first. He deceased without issue; slaine at Staveren by the rebellious Frisons. Margaret the third, sister to William the second, and wife to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria, Countesse of Hainault, Holland, & Zealand, and Lord of West-Frei∣slandt. Younger sister herevnto was Philippa, Queene to Edward the third, king of England. Betwixt this princesse, and her vnnaturall son William the third arose great quarrels, & contention about the possession hereof, the oceasions of the factions d'Houc, & Cabelliau a long time after afflicting Holland, the first taking part with the mo∣ther, the other with the son; the controversie at length being compo∣sed betwixt them, & the Empresse, the mother, being contented only with Hainault, deceasing in the yeare 1355, and buried at Valenciens. William the third, younger son to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria, & of Margaret aforesaid, Earle of Hainault, Holland, & Zealandt, and Lord of West-Freislandt. Tainted with this vnnaturall rebellion, and wickednes against his mother, he fell into a frensy, wherein he lan∣guished for the space of 30 yeares; deceasing without islue. Albert the first, son to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria, & Margaret, & yonger

brother to William the third, during his sicknesse, & malady Gover∣nour of all the provinces of the Netherlands, subject to the house of Bavaria. Stephen, the eldest son to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria, & Margaret succeeded in the Dukedome of Bavaria. William the fourth, son to Albert the first. Iaqueline, daughter vnto William the fourth. After long, & much trouble, & sundry vnfortunate, and ill succeeding marriages, shee resigned the Estates of Hainault, Holland, Zealand, & West-Frelslandt vnto Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, her next kinsman, deceasing without issue. Philip, surnamed the Good, sonne to Iohn Duke of Burgundy, & of Margaret, daughter to Albert the first, sister to William the fourth, and aunt to Iaqueline; by right of bloud, and the resignation of Iaqueline, Earle of Hollandt, Zealandt, and Hai∣nault, and Lord of West-Freislandt, by whom these foure provinces were all brought vnto the house of Burgundy, afterwards of Au∣stria.

These Estates begun for the most part by the French, seated in their part of Lorraine, and first held vnder their right, thorough the quar∣rels, factions, and sundry imperfections, raigning in that nation, haue since wholy withdrawne themselues from all subjection hereof; ac∣knowledging the soveraignety of the Dutch, accompted part of their Empire, and reckoned in their tenth circle of Burgundy. At this day notwithstanding (chiefely since their possession by the house of Bur∣gundy) thorough the no lesse sicknesse, and maladies of the languish∣ing German Empire, they haue likewise freed themselues in a maner from all acknowledgment hereof, neither suiting their Imperiall Court, nor obeying the orders of their Diets, neither yeelding any ayde, or service to the Emperour; with the provinces of Flanders, & Artois sub∣ject only to their owne princes, the Dukes of Burgundy, & Austria.

THE EARLEDOME of HOL∣LAND, and ZEALAND.

* 1.118 THey were thus named from their low, & maritime situations. Ve∣xed with the pyracyes of the Normans, about the yeare 857, for their better defence, they were first giuen with this title, together with the neighbouring countrie of the Frisons, vnto Theodoric, son to Sigebert, prince of Aquitania, by the Emperour Charles the Bauld. By Arnulph their fourth prince, quitting the French alleagiance, they were first made subiect to the fief, and soveraignttie of the Dutch Em∣perours. In Iohn the second they became added to the house of Hainault. In VVilliam the third, to the house of Bavaria. In Philip the Good, to the familie of Burgundy. In Philip the second, to the house of Austria, where∣in now the right remaineth. In the raigne of Philip the second, king of Spaine, and the third of that name, Duke of Burgundy (occasioned tho∣rough their difference in Religion, and the rough goverment of his Spanish officers,) together with the provinces of Vtreicht, Over-Ysel, Gel∣derland, VVest-Freislandt, & Groningen they shoke off the yoake of their

princes; after about 40 yeares warre treated withall, and acknowledg∣ed as free estates by his son Philip the third. Their Princes follow. The∣odoric, son to Sigebert, prince of Aquitania, first Earle of Holland, and Zealand, and Lord of West-Freisland, in the raigne, & by the gift of the Emperour Charles the Bauld. Theodoric the second, son to Theodo∣ric the first. Theodoric the third, son to Theodoric the second. Arnulph, son to Theodoric the third, slaine against the Frisons; with whom (still rebelling) this prince, & his successours had often, and continu∣all war. Hee made subject these provinces to the soveraignety of the German Emperours. Theodoric the fourth, son to Arnulph. Theodoric the fift, son to Theodoric the fourth. He dyed sans issue. Florentius the first, son to Theodoric the fourth, and brother to Theodoric the fift. Theodoric the sixt, son to Florentius the first. In the minority hereof (Rupert Earle of Flanders, second husband to his mother Gertrude, and protectour herevnto being overcome, & driven out) the coun∣tries hereof are vsurped, & seazed vpon by Godfrey, surnamed le Bossu, Duke of Lorraine, slaine by treason in the yeare 1075, accomp∣ted by some amongst the Earles of Holland, & Zealand. Florentius the second, son to Theodoric the sixt. Theodoric the seaventh, son to Floren∣tius the second. Florentius the third, son to Theodoric the seaventh. Theodoric the eight, son to Florentius the third. Hee deceased without male issue. Ada, daughter to Theodoric the eight; marryed vnto Le∣wis, Earle of Lossen, driven out by William, Earle of East-Friesland. She dyed without heires. William the first, Earle of East-Freisland, brother to Theodoric the eight, and vncle vnto Ada, Earle of Hol∣land, & Zealand, & Lord of West-Freisland. Florentius the fourth, son to William the first. It was Margaret daughter herevnto, and wife to Herman, Earle of Henneberg, who is so famous in the Dutch histories for her monstrous birth of 365 children, christned altogether by the names of Iohn, & Elizabeth, by Guy Suffragan of Vtreicht; deceasing vpon the same day with their mother in the yeare 1276, and buried at Losdun, neere vnto the Hage, whose monument, & epitaphe are there yet to be seene. William the second, son to Florentius the fourth. He was elected Roman Emperour; slaine by the rebellious Frisons. Florentius the fift, son to William the second. He marryed vnto Bea∣tres, daughter to Guy, Earle of Flanders, by whom he had in way of dowry the whole right given vnto him, which the Earles of Flanders chalenged in the Iland of Walcheren, & Zealand, for a long time con∣troversed betwixt the two houses. Meyerus in his historie of Flanders would haue him to haue beene the first Earle of Holland, who should take vpon him the title, and name of Earle of Zealand. Iohn the first, son to Florentius the fift. Hee marryed vnto Elizabeth, daughter to Edward the second, King of England, & deceased without issue in the yeare 1300, the last Earle of Holland, & Zealand, & Lord of West-Freisland of the house of Aquitaine. Iohn the second, Earle of Hainault, son to Iohn d'Avesnes, & Al••ide, or Adelheide, daughter to Floren∣tius the fourth, & sister to the Emperour William; Earle of Holland, & Zealand, & Lord of West-Freisland. William the third, son to Iohn

the second. William the fourth, son to William the third, slaine at Sta∣veren against the Frisons in the yeare 1345 sans issue. Margaret, eldest daughter to William the third, & sister to William the fourth; the last princesse of the house of Hainault, She marryed vnto the Emperour, Lewis of Bavaria. William the fift, younger son to Margaret of Hai∣nault, & to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria. Hee dyed phrenetique without issue, noted for his rebellion, & disobedience towards his mother. His elder brother, Stephen, succeeded in the Dukedome of Bavaria, from whom haue descended the present Dukes of Bavaria. Albert, son to the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria, & of Margaret of Hainault, younger brother to William the fift. William the sixt, son to Albert. Iaqueline, daughter to William the sixt. Shee dyed with∣out issue, the last princesse of the house of Bavaria; Countesse of Hol∣land, Zealand, & Hainault, a••d Lord of West-Freislandt. Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, son to Iohn Duke of Burgundy, & of Margaret, daughter to Albert, & sister to William the sixt. Charles, surnamed the Fighter, Duke of Burgundy, sonne to Philip the Good; slaine by the Switzers, & Lorrainers, before Nancie. Marie, daugh∣ter to Charles surnamed the Fighter, the last princesse of the house, or name of Burgundy; Countesse of Holland, Zealand, & Hainault, and Lord of West-Freislandt. Shee marryed vnto Maximilian the first, Arch-duke of Austria, and afterwards Emperour of the Romans. Phi∣lip the second, son to Maximilian, & Mary, and afterwards the first of that name king of Spaine, in right of his wife Ioane, eldest daughter vnto Ferdinand the fift, & Elizabeth, Kings of Castile, & Aragon. Charles son to Philip, & Ioane aforesaid, heire of the houses of Burgun∣dy, Austria, & Spaine▪ and the fift of that name Emperour of the Ro∣mans. Philip the third of that name Duke of Burgundy, & the second of the name King of Spaine, son to the Emperour Charles the fift; vn∣der whose government the provinces of Holland, Zealand, and West-Freisland first revolted.

The Bishopricke, or Lordship of Vtreicht.

* 1.119 NAmed thus from the city Vtreicht. The estate was first occasio∣ned by one Willebrod, an Englishman, the Apostle of those parts; vpon his conversion of the country from Paganisme instituted first Bishop hereof about the yeare 611, and during the Regency of Pepin the Fat, Majour of the Palace in France. The Successours of this Willebrod in continuance of time by the liberality of the French Kings, & of the German Emperours, haue attayned vnto, as well the tem∣porall, as the spirituall iurisdiction of the countrey, together with Over-Ysel beyond the Rhiin, belonging likewise vnto the sea, which vnder the fief hereof they still held subject vnto them vntill the Emperour Charles the fift, who (taking occasion vpon their many losses, and dam∣mages, susteined from the Gelders, with whom the Bishop then had warre,) pretending their disability to resist that enimy, by the consent of Henry, Counte Palatine, then Bishop, seazed vpon the whole tem∣porall

domaine hereof, leauing onely the spirituall to the Prelates; which also since the vsurpation of the Countryes by the States of the Vnited Provinces hath likewise beene taken from them, remayning af∣terwards onely titulary. In the raigne of Philip the second, king of Spaine, these Countryes were likewise freed from the yoake of Spaine, or house of Austria; contayning now two distinct States, or Provinces, of Vtreicht, and Ouer-ysell. The order, and succession of the Bishops for breuity sake we let passe.

The Dukedome of GELDERLAND.

IT* 1.120 was so called from the castle, afterwardes the towne of Gelders, founded here by two brothers VVickard, and Luppolà, created by the inhabitants first guardians, or protectours of the country, in the raigne of the Emperour Charles the Bauld; continuing this title to succession. In the person of Otto, Earle of Nassau, hauing marryed Aleide, daughter to Wickard, the last guardian, it was made an Earledome by the Empe∣rour Henry the third. In Reinold the first it was made a Dukedome by the Emperour Lewes of Bavaria. After the decease of Charles of Egmond, the last Duke, by composition betwixt him, and the Emperour Charles the fift, and the pretence of a former donation made by Duke Arnold vnto Charles the Fighter, Duke of Burgundy, this Province with the Earledome of Zutphen (vnited for a long time in the house of the Dukes of Gelderland) descended vpon the Emperour Charles the fift; added by him to his other Provinces of the Netherlands. Vnder Philip the second, King of Spaine, for the greatest part this shoke off the Spanish yoake; with Zutphen gouerned now in maner of a Free estate, confede∣rate with the rest of the vnited Provinces. The princes follow. Otto, earle of Nassau, before-mentioned, in right of his wife Aleide, daughter to VVickard, the last guardian, created first Earle of Gelderland in the yeare 1079 by the Emperour Henry the third. He had for second wife So∣phia, daughter to Wickman, the last Earle of Zutphen; by which meanes that Country, and Earledome, became annexed to the house of Gelderland. Gerard the first, son to Otto, and Aleide, Earle of Gel∣derland. Gerlac, his yonger brother, and son to Otto, and Sophia, inhe∣rited the Earledome of Zutphen. After the decease of Gerlac without heires, he succeeded likewise in the Earledome of Zutphen, continued euer since in the same Princes with Gelderland. Henry the first, son to Gerard the first, Earle of Gelderland, and Zutphen. Gerard the second, son to Henry the first. He dyed sans issue. Otho the second, brother to Gerard the second. Gerard the third, son to Otho the second. Otho the third, son to Gerard the third. Reinold the first, son to Otho the third, created first Duke of Gelderlandt in the yeare 1339 by the Em∣perour Lewes of Bavaria. Reinold the second, Duke of Gelderlandt, & Earle of Zutphen, sonne to Reinold the first. Reinold the third, sonne to Reinold the second. Hee deceased sans issue. Ed∣ward, brother to Reinold the third. He also dyed without issue. Ma∣ry, sister to Edward, and Reinold the third. She marryed vnto William

the first, Duke of Iuliers. William, son to William the first, Duke of Iu∣liers, and Mary aforesaid. He dyed without issue. Reinold the fourth, brother to William, and son to William, Duke of Iuliers, and Mary. He likewise deceased without issue. Mary C. of Gelderland, daugh∣ter to Ioane, sister to William, and Reinold the fourth, and daugh∣ter to William, Duke of Iuliers, and Mary. Arnold, son to Mary, and to Iohn, Lord of Egmond. Worthily incensed against his vnnaturall son Adolph, by whom he had beene a long time most inhumanely de∣tayned in prison, hee partly sold, and bequeathed these estates vnto Charles surnamed the Fighter, Duke of Burgundy, to be occupyed, & enioyed by that house after his decease. Charles, surnamed the Fighter, Duke of Burgundy, after the decease of Arnold, succeeding in the Dukedome of Gelderland, and Earledome of Zutphen (Adolph, son to Arnold, hauing beene disinherited by his father) by vertue of the sale, and legacy before-mentioned. Adolph of Egmond, the vnnaturall son of Duke Arnold, after the decease of Charles the Fighter (slaine before Nancye) restored by Mary, Dutchesse of Burgundy, daughter to Charles the Fighter. Charles of Egmond, Duke of Gelderland, and Earle of Zutphen, son to Duke Adolph. Wearyed with long warres against the Princes of the Netherlands of the house of Burgundy, and Austria, pretending the legacy, & sale of Duke Arnold, vpon agree∣ment, & composition made with the Emperour Charles the Fift, hee yeelded ouer these estates vnto him, to bee enioyed after his decease, in case that he left no issue. He dyed without issue. Charles the fift, Em∣perour of the Romans, and king of Spaine by vertue of the agreement before-mentioned, made betwixt him, and Duke Charles of Egmond, succeeding in the Dukedome of Gelderland, and Earledome of Zut∣phen, Philip the second, King of Spaine, son to the Emperour Charles the fift. In the raigne of this Prince these two Provinces revolted with the rest from vnder the Spanish goverment; with those of Holland, Zea∣landt, Vtreicht, Over-ysell, West-Friselandt, and Groningen, making now the most potent, and renowned confederate, and vnited States of the Netherlands.

The KINGDOME of BVRGVNDY.

THis* 1.121 Kingdome was begun in the person of Charles, son to the Emperour Lotharius, and brother to the Emperour Lewis the se∣cond, & to Lotharius, King of Austrasia, or Lorraine; whose share it was of the French dominions in the division of the part of the Emperour Lotharius, made betwixt him, & his other brethren. It contained the greatest part of the auncient Kingdome of the Burgundians, occasioning the name; together with Provençe. It comprehendeth now besides Provençe, the Dukedome, & Free County of Burgundy, Savoy, Daulphinye, Lionois, & the Confederacy of the Switzers. It lay divided from Germany by the Rhijn; from Italy by the Alpes; from the Kingdome of Lorraine

by the Mountaine Vauge; & from the kingdome of West-France by the river Rhosne, and by the moderne Westerne limits of the Dukedome of Burgundy. These three brethren Lewis, Lotharius, & Charles, sons to the Emperour Lotharius, not long after deceasing without male issue, or issue legitimate, and the house of the Emperour Lotharius being by that meanes extinguished, the kingdome became vsurped, & seazed vpon by the Emp: Charles the Bauld, & vnited by him, as a province, to his kingdome of West-France. The Kings of Burgundy vntill this vnion follow. Charles, yonger sonne to the Emp. Lotharius, the first French K. of Burgundy. He dyed without issue. Lewis the 2^d, Emp. of the Ro∣mans, & Lotharius the second, K. of Austrasia, brothers vnto Charles the first K. after the decease of their brother succeeding in the kingdome of Burgundy, & dividing it betwixt thē; the Mountain Iour bounding, and severing their portions. They also both dyed without heires, or lawfull; in whom ended the house of the Emperour Lotharius, eldest son to the Emperour Lewis the Godly. Charles surnamed the Bauld, Emperour of the Romans, & ••ing of West-France; vncle to Charles, Lewis, & Lotharius the second, & brother to the Emperour Lothari∣us. Vnder this prince this first French kingdome of Burgundy tooke end, being added, as a province, to West-France▪ parted by him into three divisions, or governments, of Burgundy on this side of the river of So∣asne. Of Burgundy beyond the Soasne▪ and of Burgundy beyond the Iour; contayning together, and occasioning not long after the Dukedome of Burgundy on this side of the Soasne, with the Earledomes of Lyon, and Mascon; the Dukedomes of Burgundy beyond the Iour; and the king∣dome of Arles, or Burgundy, whose beginnings, and after fortunes fol∣low.

The Dukedome of Burgundy on this side the Soasne.

THis* 1.122 was part of the devision of Burgundy on this side the Soasne, subdevided by the Emperour Charles the Bauld into 5 lesser Can∣tons, the Counties of Dijon, Austun, Chalon, Mascon, & Lyon, governed a part by their Earles, not then hereditary, and but such Magistrates of the Kings of West-France, so named. The estate was begun in the per∣son of Theodoric, Counte of Authun, vnto whom Eudo King of France having given the Counties of Dijon, & Chalon, vnited all three into one entier Dukedome; from the first possession of this prince entitl'd then of Austun, shortly after by Richard his son (who succeeded him) named of Burgundy. The heires of this princely house haue in con∣tinuance of time got seazed of the many provinces of the Low-coun∣tries, by the Emperour Charles the fift revnited with Germany, & ma∣king the tenth circle of the Empire, called from hence the circle of Bur∣gundy. The Dukedome notwithstanding, their first patrimony, still held vnder the fief of the French Kings, was in the raigne of Mary wrested from them, and vnited to the Crowne of France by king Le∣wis the eleaventh; nothing now hereof remayning vnto them, but the

title. The princes follow. Theodoric, before mentioned, the first Duke, in the raigne of Eudo, king of France. He was stiled only Duke of Au∣thun. Richard son to Theodoric. He first tooke vpon him the title of Duke of Burgundy. Rodulph, son to Richard. Becomming afterwards Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine, hee left this Dukedome vnto his younger brother, Hugh surnamed the Black. Hugh, surnamed the Blacke, brother to Rodulph; the last Duke of Burgundy of the house of Theodoric, Duke of Austun; succeeded vnto by the house of An∣iou, and the brethren of Hugh Capet, king of France, by compositi∣on, & agreement made herewith, forced by that potent family. Otho the first, Duke of Burgundy, younger brother to Hugh Capet, the v∣surping King of France. Eudo the first, brother to Otho the first. Henry the first, brother the Otho, & Eudo the first. They all three died with∣out heires. Robert the first, King of France, sonne to Hugh Capet, Duke of Burgundy by the greater swey of that familie, & kingdome; Otho Guillaume, first Earle of Burgundy, being excluded, to whom the Dukedome had beene assigned by Duke Henry the first, son to his wife Gerberge. Robert the second, eldest son to Robert the first, French King. His younger brother Henry succeeded in the kingdome of France. Hugh the second, son to Henry, son to Robert the second. Hee became Monke of Cluny, resigning his temporall estates vnto his bro∣ther Otho. Otho the second, brother to Hugh the second. He founded the famous Monasterie of Cisteaux. Hugh the third, son to Otho the second. Otho the third, son to Hugh the third. Hugh the fourth, son to Otho the third. He deceased in the Holy Land, left commaun∣der there of the army of Philip Augustus, French King, against Sala∣din, & the Infidels, after the returne of that prince towards France. O∣tho the fourth, son to Hugh the fourth. Hugh the fift, son to Otho the fourth. Robert the third, son to Hugh the fift. Hugh the sixt, son to Ro∣bert the third. He dyed vnmarryed. Eudo the second, brother to Hugh the sixt, and son to Robert the third. Philip the first, son to Philip, son to Eudo the second. He deceased sans issue, the last Duke of Burgun∣dy of the house, or name of Capet, succeeded vnto by the house, or name of Valois. Iohn, French king, sonne to Philip de Valois, French King, and to Ioane of Burgundy, daughter to Robert the third, and si∣ster to Hugh the sixt, & Eudo the third, succeeding in the Dukedome of Burgundy in the yeare 1361. Philip the second, surnamed the Hardy, younger son to Iohn, French King, Duke of Burgundy. Hee married vnto Margaret, daughter to Lewis Malan, Earle of Flanders, heire of the houses of Flanders, the Free County of Burgundy, Artois, Nevers, Rethel, Brabant, & Limburg; by meanes whereof they all became v∣nited in the family of Burgundy. Iohn the second, son to Philip the Har∣dy; slaine by Charles, Daulphin of Vienne, the occasion of the bloody civill wars in France betwixt the houses of Burgundy, & Or∣leans. Philip the second, surnamed the Good, son to Iohn the second. As th•• next heire of that house after Iaqueline, before mentioned, he be∣came Earle of Hainault, Holland, and Zealandt, and Lord of West-Freislandt; transmitted to his posterity. He also added to his house

the Dukedome of Luxemburg, bought of Elizabeth, the last Duchesse thereof, and the Earledome of Namur, purchased of Theodore, the last Earle. Charles surnamed the Fighter, son to Philip the Good, slaine in battail before Nancy in Lorraine by the Switzers, and Lorrainers. Mary, Duchesse of Burgundy, daughter to Charles the Fighter. Shee lost this countrey vnto Lewis the eleaventh, French King, ever since incorporated with France, retayning only the title, left vnto her Suc∣cessours. Shee married vnto Maximilian the first, Arch-duke of Au∣stria, & afterwards Emperour of the Romans, the last princesse of the house, or name of Valois. Philip the third, son to Maximiliam the first, Archduke of Austria, and Emperour of the Romans, and to Mary de Valois aforesaid; succeeding in the provinces, & estates of the Ne∣therlands, and in the title of Duke of Burgundy. Hee marryed vnto Ioane, eldest daughter vnto Ferdinand the fift, & Elizabeth, Kings of Spaine. Charles, the second of the name, Duke of Burgundy, & the fift of the name Emperour of the Romans, son to Philip the third, Duke of Burgundy, and to Ioane of Spaine; heire of the three houses of Bur∣gundy, Spaine, & Austria. He added to the dominions of Burgundy in the Low Countries the countryes of Gelderland, Zutphen, Vtreicht, Over-Ysel, and Groningen. Philip, the second of that name king of Spaine, and the fourth of the name Duke of Burgundy. In the raigne of this prince the provinces of Holland, Zealandt, Vtreicht, Over-Y∣sel, Gelderlandt, Zutphen, West-Freisland, & Groningen, part of the dominions of Burgundy, revolted from vnder the government of their princes, knowne now by the name of the Vnited Provinces. Isa∣bella, daughter to Philip the second king of Spaine; by the gift, and as∣signment of her father succeeding in the title of Burgundy, and in what is left of the Netherlands. Shee married vnto Albert Arch-duke of Austria, younger son to the Emperour Maximilian the second, lately deceased.

THE EARLEDOME of LYON, and MASCON, now LIONOIS.

THey* 1.123 contayned the rest of Burgundy, lying on this side the So∣asne, devided by the Emperour Charles the Bauld (as hath beene before related) into fiue lesser Cantons; the Counties of Dijon, Austun, and Chalon, making the Dukedome of Burgundy; and those other of Lyon, & Mascon: commaunded by their severall Earles, being then but such officers of the Emperour, thus named, becomming after this to be Vsu-fructuaryes, and hereditary. They came afterwards to the right of the Bishops, & Church of Lyon; vnited with France, and making the countrey, now called Lionois, held (as was still the Dukedome of Burgundy) vnder the right, & soveraignety of the French Kings.

THE DVKEDOME OF BVRGVN∣DY BEYOND THE IOVR.

IT* 1.124 was situated betwixt the Mountainous ridge of the Iour, and the Alpes, and the Rhijn; comprehending at this day the Dukedome of Sa∣voy, and the confederacy of the Switzers, & Grisons. It was first an Earle∣dome, begun in the person of Conrade, brother to Robert the great, and vncle to Eudo, afterwards French King, appointed first Counte, or go∣vernour hereof by the Emperour Charles the Bauld. In the person of Rodulph, son to Conrade, succeeding herevnto in the Earledome, or go∣vernment, it was raised to a petty kingdome, named of Burgundy, by Eudo French King, the more hereby to enoble his house, and to affront Bozon, Earle of Burgundy beyond the Soasne, who already had vsurped the title of King of Burgundy by the aide, & assistance of the German Emperours. Rodulph notwithstanding after the decease of Eudo, being vnwilling to displease the Emperours, changed afterwards his more odious title of King for that lesser of Duke; continued by the succee∣ding princes. By Bozon the second, the last Duke of Burgundy Transiu∣raine, vpon the decease of his brother Rodulph the second without heires succeeding in the kingdome of Arles, or Burgundy, it became vnited to that kingdome, continuing in this vnion vntill the expiration, and end of that State. The princes follow. Conrade aforesaid, first Earle, or Governour of Burgundy beyond the Iour, in the raigne of the Em∣perour Charles the Bald. Rodulph the first, son to Conrade; first King, af∣terwards Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine in the raignes of Eudo, and Charles the Simple, French Kings. Charles the Simple being im∣prisoned, and deposed by his factious nobility, he became afterwards King of France. The better to strengthen his side, and to assure his ill got kingdome he gaue the Dukedome of Burgundy Transiuraine vnto Rodulph Duke of Burgundy on this side the Soasne. Rodulph the se∣cond, Duke of Burgundy on this side the Soasne; by the gift of Ro∣dulph French King, succeeding in the Dukedome of Burgundy Tran∣siuraine. Contending with Hugh, King of Arles, & Burgundy for the Empire, and kingdome of Italy, he exchanged his right vnto Italy for the kingdom of Arles; resigning vnto his brother Hugh, surnamed the Blacke, the Dukedome of Burgundy on this side the Soasne, and to his brother Bozon, this other of Burgundy Transiuraine. Bozon, Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine by the gift of his brother Rodulph, king of Arles. His brother Rodulph, King of Arles deceasing without issue, he became also King of Arles, & Burgundy; in whom ended the name, & title of the Dukedome of Burgundy Transiuraine, or beyond the Iour, vnited to the kingdome of Arles.

The Kingdome of ARLES, and BVRGVNDY.

THis* 1.125 Kingdome was begun in the person of Bozon, brother to Iudith, wife vnto the Emperour Charles the Bauld, by the gift of this prince made first Earle, or Governour of Burgundy beyond the Soasne; after his decease in the raigne of the two bastard brothers, Lewis, and Carlo∣man, French Kings, created king of Arles, and Burgundy (for thus were these kings stiled) by the Emperour Charles the Fat, to bee held vnder the right of the German Emperours. It contained at the time, when it was first erected, onely the division, or Earledome of Burgundy beyond the Soasne, before-mentioned: lying betwixt that riuer, and the mountaine Iour; the Rhosne, and the Alpes; and the Vauge, and the Sea Mediterranean, & cōprehending now the Countryes of Provençe, Daul∣phinye, & the Free County of Burgundy. By Bozon the second, Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine, vpon the decease of his brother Rodulph the first sans issue, succeeding in this kingdome, the Dukedome of Burgundy Transiuraine was added hereunto. In Rodulph the second, deceasing with∣out heires, the kingdome, & state tooke end, giuen by him to the Em∣perour Conrade the second, & to Henry surnamed the Black, son herevn∣to, and of his sister Gisela; incorporated by them to the German King∣dome, & Empire, & parted afterwards into sundry lesser Signeuryes & Gouerments, the Earledomes of Provençe, & of the Free County of Bur∣gundy, the Dukedome of Savoy, Daulphinye, and the Confederacy of the Switzers, and Grisons, partly at this day holding of the Empire, partly vnited with the Kingdome of France, & partly being Free Estates. The order of the Princes follow. Bozon the first, Earle of Burgundy, on this fide of the Soasne; created first king of Burgundy or Arles, in the raigne of the Emperour Charles the Fat, & of Lewes, and Carloman, French kings. Lewis son to Bozon, & of Ermengarde daughter to the Emperour Lewes the second. He was chosen, & crowned king of Ita∣ly, & Roman Emperour by the factious Italians; betrayed afterwards at Verona to his Competitour Berengario, Duke of Friuli, & sent back with his eyes plucked out. Hee dyed sans issue, leauing the kingdome vnto Hugh d' Arles (bastard son to Lotharius the second, King of Lor∣raine, & Waldrada, his concubine) Earle of Provençe. Hugh d' Arles by the gift of Lewis succeeding in the kingdome of Arles, and Burgundy. Elected together with Rodulph, Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine by their severall factions king of Italy, for his more easie, & quiet possessi∣on of Italy he gaue Arles, & Burgundy vnto Rodulph his competitour. Rodulph the first, Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine, vpon composition with Hugh d' Arles succeeding in the kingdome of Arles, & Burgun∣dy. He gaue the dukedome of Burgundy Transiuraine, vnto his brother Bozon the second, & died without issue. Bozon the second, Duke of Bur∣gundy Transiuraine, after the decease of his brother Rodulph the first, succeeding in the kingdome of Arles, & Burgundy. By this Prince, and

meanes, Burgundy Transiuraine, or beyond the Iour, became vnited with the kingdome of Arles, & Burgundy. Conrade, son to Bozon the se∣cond. Hee married vnto Maude, sister to Lotharius, & daughter to Lewes the fourth, French kings. Rodulph the second, son to Conrade, & Maude. Iustly incensed against the French kings of the house of An∣iou in regard of their iniuries done vnto his family, and to the house of Charles the Great (from the which he was descended by his mo∣ther) in the vsurpations of Burgundy on this side the Soasne, and of the kingdome of France, destitute of heires, and quitting the French par∣tie, he gaue the Kingdome of Arles, & Burgundy vnto Conrade the second, Emperour of the Germans, & to Henry, surnamed the Black, son to the Emperour Conrade, & of his sister Gisela. By this meanes ended the kingdome of Arles, & Burgundy; vnited by the Emperour Conrade the second, & his son Henry the Black, vnto the German Empire, & divided into the Provinces, and Estates, before-mentioned, of Pro∣vençe, and Daulphiny, the Free County, Savoy, and of the Switzers, whose beginnings, and continuance vnto our times follow.

THE EARLEDOME OF PRO∣VENCE, OR ARLES.

BY this name* 1.126 we reade in Caesar the whole more Southerne divi∣sion of Gaule, named afterwards Gaule Narbonensis, to haue beene called; in regard of the civility of the inhabitants, and subjection here∣of to the Roman lawes, and much difference from the other newly conquered, and barbarous Gallia, excluded by this Author from the accompt of Gaule, and named the Furthera 1.127 Province. The rest of this Roman Province of Gaule, by the invasion, and conquests of the barba∣rous nations taking vp new names, the appellation onely remained in the part hereof, contayned betwixt the Rhosne, & Alpes. Falling to the share of Charles, son to the Emperour Lotharius, it became a parcell of his kingdome of Burgundy. Afterwards in the person of Bozon the first, it was made a part of the kingdome of Arles, and Burgundy. In the person of Hugh d' Arles (supposed by Rubys to haue beene the bastard son of Lotharius the second, king of Lorraine, and of his Concubine Wal∣drada) it was first made an Earledome, being giuen vnto him with this title by king Bozon the first, to bee held vnder the soveraignty of the kings of Arles, and Burgundy. Hugh d' Arles, Earle of Provençe, by the gift of Lewis, son to Bozon, becomming afterwards king of Arles, and Burgundy, and not long after this resigning that kingdome vnto Ro∣dulph the second, Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine (exchanged for the kingdome of Italy,) reserued here onely this Earledome for his sonne William, to he held vnder the soueraigne right of the kings of Arles, & Burgundy; confirmed afterwards by Conrade the second, and the Cerman Emperours, but with cōdition to be held of the Emperours. By the Em∣perour Albert the first, the fief, & whole right of the Earledome of Pro∣vençe, belonging to the German Emperours, was vnited to Philip Augustus

& the French kings. By Charles d' Aniou, the last Earle of Provēçe; wāting heires, the country was given to Lewis the Eleventh, French K. by whō it was incorporated with the kingdome of France, in which vnion, & state it now remaineth. The order of the first Earles we find not. From Raimūd the last Earle of the house of Hugh d' Arles, vnto Charles d' Aniou aforesaid, & the vnion of Provençe with the crown of France, they were continued, as followeth. Raimund, Earle of Provençe, descē∣ded frō Hugh d' Arles, before mētioned. Charles the first, Earle of An∣iou, & Maine, & afterwards K. of Naples, & Sicily, brother to Lewis the ninth, surnamed the Saint, French King; Earle of Provençe in right of his wife Beatres, daughter to Raimund. Charles the second, King of Naples, & Earle of Provençe, son to Charles the first. Robert, King of Naples, & Earle of Provençe, son to Charles the second. Ioane the first, Queene of Naples, & Countesse of Provençe, daughter to Charles, Duke of Calabria, son to King Robert. By this Princesse, the city, & countrey of Avignon were first alienated from the Earledome of Pro∣vençe, and given to the Popes in lieu of a certaine tribute, pretended to be due for the kingdome of Naples, held of the Papacy, and for many yeares vnpayed vnto that sea. Lewis the first, yonger sonne to Iohn, French King, adopted by Ioane the first. Hee succeeded onely in Provençe. The kingdome of Naples after the decease of Queene Ioane became seazed by Charles Durazzo, descended from Charles the first; continued after in his family vnto queene Ioane the second. Lewis the second, son to Lewis the first; Earle of Provençe. Lewis the third, son to Lewis the second. He dyed without heires. Reiner, bro∣to Lewis the third; Earle of Provençe, & in right of his wife Isabel, Duke of Lorraine. Deceasing without surviuing heires male, he gaue the Earledome of Provençe to his brother Charles, Earle of Maine. Charles, Earle of Maine, & Provençe, brother to Reiner. Wanting heires he bequeathed this countrey vnto Lewis the Eleaventh, French King; since which time it hath continued vnited with the Crowne of France.

DAVLPHINY.

THe* 1.128 Estate was begun by Guy, surnamed the Fat, Earle of Albon, vsurping, & seazing vpon the countrey hereof, with the title of Earle of Vienne, in the raigne of Rodulph the second, surnamed le Fay-ne∣ant, the last king of Arles, & Burgundy. Guy the third of that name, Earle of Vienne, taking the Dolphin for his armes, alluding to the na∣ture of that fish, which of all other is accompted the most familiar, and friendly vnto man, first named himselfe Dolphin of Vienne, from whom the succeeding princes haue still continued the stile, and the countrey from thence beene called Daulphiny. In the yeare 1340 Humbert, last Daulphin of Vienn••, destitute of heires, deceasing gaue this countrey vnto Iohn, French king, with condition that the eldest sonnes of France should alwayes beare that title, and bee immediate Princes; a custome still afterwards vnto this day observed by the French. The Princes,

for as many as wee find of them, were these. Guy the first, surnamed the Fat, before mentioned, Earle of Albon, descended from Girard, Earle of Vienne, dispossessed, & thrust out by the Emperour Charles the Bauld; the pretence of this his vsurpation, & title. Guy the second, son to Guy the first. Guy the third, son to Guy the second. He first sti∣led himselfe Dolphin of Vienne. The order of the Dolphins from this prince we finde not, and vntill Humbert. Humbert the last Dol∣phin of Vienne of the house of Guy the Fat. Charles, eldest son to Iohn, French King, the first Dolphin of the house of France, by the gift of Humbert, in whom this countrie was vnited with France; the title continued still afterwards in the eldest sons of the French Kings. This province (as part of the kingdomes of Arles, & Burgundy) was aunciently held of the German Empire. How it was cleered from the right hereof, we cannot certainely relate.

The Free Countrey of Burgundy.

IT* 1.129 hath beene thus named from the Free Estate, which the inhabi∣tants enjoy vnder their Princes. The Earledome was begun in the per∣son of Otho-Guillaume, son to Gerberge, Countesse of Dijon, wife to Hen∣ry the first, Duke of Burgundy on this side the Soasne; seazed hereof by the aide, & power of Robert, French King, in lieu of that Dukedome given vnto him by Henry the first, and whereof he had bin deprived by King Robert. By Ioane Countesse hereof, & of Artois, (married vnto Philip, surnamed the Long, French King) it became with Artois possessed by the house of France. By Margaret, daughter to Ioane, and Philip the Long, French King, marrying to Lewis the first, Earle of Flanders; it was carryied to the house of Flanders; from whence it descended to those of Burgundy, & Austria, where now it resteth. The order of the Earles follow. Otho-Guillaume before mentioned, first Count Palatine of Burgundy in the raigne of Robert, King of France. Reinard the first, son to Otho-Guillaume. William the first, son to Rei∣nard. Stephen, son to William the first; slaine in the holy wars against the Infidell. William the second, son to Stephen. Reinard the second. He gaue to Berthold, son to the Emperour Conrade the third, the cities of Geneve, & Lousanne. Frederique Barbarossa, Emperour of the Ro∣mans, in the right of his wife Beatres, daughter to Reinard the second. Otho the first, third son to the Emperour Frederique Barbarossa, & of Beatres. He deceased without heire male. After the decease of Otho the first, the right was questioned betwixt Otho, D. of Merā, husbād to Beatres, eldest daughter to Otho; & Girard, Counte of Vienne, hus∣band to Ioane, younger daughter to Otho; both princes being ac∣knowledged by their factions, and vsurping the title of Earles of Bur∣gundy; a cause of long war, and contention betwixt the sides. Otho the second, Duke of Meran; and Girard, Counte of Vienne in the right of their wiues, Beatres, & Ioane aforesaid, daughters to Otho the first. Otho the third, Duke of Meran, son to Otho the second; and Stephen, son to

William, Earle of Chalon, & Salins, next heire to Girard, Counte of Vienne. Iohn, son to Stephen. Hugh, son to Iohn. This tooke to wife Aliz, daughter to Otho the third, Duke of Meran; in whom the two different houses were vnited, and the quarrell composed. Othelin, son to Hugh, & Aliz aforesaid. He tooke to wife Maude, Countesse of Artois. Ioane, Countesse of Artois, & Burgundy, daughter to Othelin, & Maude. Shee marryed vnto Philip, surnamed the Long, French King. Margaret, Countesse of Artois, and Burgundy, daughter vnto Philip, the Long, French King, & Ioan. Shee marryed vnto Lewis the first, Earle of Flanders. He was slaine fighting against the English for the French in the battail at Crecy. Lewis the second, surnamed Ma∣lan, Earle of Flanders, Burgundy, & Artois, son to Lewis the first, and Margaret. Margaret, Countesse of Flanders, Burgundy, & Artois, daughter to Lewis the second, surnamed Malan. Shee marryed vnto Philip de Valois, surnamed the Hardy, Duke of Burgundy, sonne to Iohn, French King. By this meanes the three great Earledomes of Burgundy, Flanders, and Artois became annexed to the family of Bur∣gundy; by Mary of Valois, wife to Maximilian the first, brought after∣wards to the house of Austria. The Earledome of Burgundy hath al∣wayes beene held vnder the Empire, being a parcell of the kingdome of Arles, & Burgundy.

THE DVKEDOME OF SAVOY.

THe* 1.130 Estate was begun in the person of Beroald, surnamed the Saxon; in recompence of his many good services done herevnto, created first Earle of Maurienne by Rodulph the second, king of Arles, and Burgundy. Amadis the second of that name, Earle of Maurienne, having given vnto him by the Emperour Henry the fourth the litle countrey of Savoy (adding it herevnto, and leaving his former title of Maurienne,) first tooke vpon him the name of Earle of Savoy, continu∣ed by the succeeding princes. In the Councell of Constance, and in the person of Amadis the eight it was made a Dukedome by the Empe∣rour Sigismond. The Princes follow. Beroald, first Earle of Maurien∣ne, surnamed the Saxon, in the raigne of Rodulph the second, King of Arles, & Burgundy. Humbert the first, son to Beroald, Earle of Mau∣rienne; confirmed by the Emperour Conrade the second. Amadis the first, Earle of Maurienne, son to Humbert the first. Humbert the se∣cond, Earle of Maurienne, son to Amadis the first. Amadis the second, son to Humbert the second. He first named himselfe Earle of Savoy, in the raigne of the Emperour Henry the fourth. Humbert the third, Earle of Savoy, sonto Amadis the second. Thomas the first, son to Humbert the third. Amadis the third, son to Thomas the first. Boniface, son to Amadis the third. He dyed without heires. Peter, son to Tho∣mas the first, & brother to Amadis the third. He dyed without male issue. Philip the first, brother to Peter. He deceased also without heires. Amadis the fourth, son to Thomas of Savoy, son to Thomas the

first. Edward the first, son to Amadis the fourth. He deceased without heires. Amadis the fift, son to Amadis the fourth, and brother to Edward the first. Amadis the sixt, son to Amadis the fift. Amadis the seaventh, Earle of Savoy, sonne to Amadis the sixt. Amadis the eight son to Amadis the seaventh, created first Duke of Savoy in the Coun∣cell of Constance by the Emperour Sigismond. He turned Religious; living an Anchoret at Ripaille vpon the Lake of Geneve. Hee was afterwards by the Councell of Basil made Pope against Eugeni∣us the fourth by the name of Faelix the fourth, after some 9 yeares Pa∣pacy againe quitting the world, and returning to his Cell at Ripaille, where in a private state he dyed. Lewis, Duke of Savoy, sonne to A∣madis the eight. Amadis the ninth, son to Lewis. Philibert the first, Duke of Savoy, son to Amadis the ninth. He deceased without heires. Charles the first, brother to Philibert the first. Charles the second, son to Charles the first. He dyed without heires. Philip the second, sonne to Lewis, son to Amadis the eight, & great vncle to Charles the second. Philibert the second, son to Philip the second. He also left no heires of his body. Charles the third; son to Philip the second, and brother to Philibert the second. Emanuel Philibert son to Charles the 3^d. Charles Emanuel, son to Emanuel Phil. now Duke of Savoy.

The League, and Vnion of the Switzers.

THis* 1.131 is an aggregate state, consisting of sundry different particu∣lars, vnited onely in a generall league; named thus from the Can∣ton of Switz, one of the three first joyning in this confederacie, occa∣sioning, and bringing on the vnion of the rest. They comprehend the whole auncient countrey of the Helvetij: parts of the Allobroges, Rau∣raci, & Germans beyond the Rhijn, together with the Mountaine peo∣ple of the Veragri, Seduni, Lepontij, Sarunetes, with others, inhabiting the hollow bottomes of the Alpes Lepontiae, Rhaeticae, and Paeninae: at this day whatsoever is contayned betwixt the Mountainous ridge of the Iour, & the Lakes of Como, & Maggiore in Italy; & the Lake of Geneve, and the Rhiin, intercepted from the head thereof vnto below Basil. Simlerus devideth them into three distinct rankes, the Cantons, the Confederate States, and the Prefectures, subject to the Cantons.

The Cantons of the Switzers.

THese properly make the body of the Common-wealth of the Swit∣zers; vnited in a more strict league then the rest, and enjoying sun∣dry rights, & prerogatiues before the other; who alone haue voices in their generall assemblies, consult, and determine of warre, & peace, commaund the Prefectureships, share the spoiles of their enemies, and partake of the sundry profits, and emoluments of the vnion, and state. They are 13 in number, the Cantons of Vren, Switz, Vnderwald, Lu∣cern, Zurich, Glarona, Zug, Bern, Fribug, Soloturn, Basil, Schaff-hausen, and Appenzel, all sometimes parcels of the kingdome of Arles, and Bur∣gundy

(Schaff-hausen excepted, lying beyond the Rhijn;) conveyed af∣terwards to the Empire by the Emperour Conrade the second, & heerein partly becōming Free Estates, & partly subject to Monasteries, & to the house of Habspurg, and Austria. How these were freed herefrom, & by what meanes, & at what time they were incorporated into this Confe∣deracy, and Vnion, we will shew in order.

The Cantons of Vren, Switz, aud Vnderwald.

THese are rude mountainous countreyes without any towne, or almost civill habitation, bordering vpon the Lukes of Lucern, and Waldstet see; neighbouring otherwise to the Grisons, Wallis-landt, & the Alpes Lepontiae. Aunciently they were Free estates, subiect immediatly to the German Empire, commaunded by the deputies hereof. Vnder the Em∣perour Albert the first, affecting the dominion hereof, and their subje∣ction to his house of Austria, thrusting out his praefects (provoked with their insolent, & tyrannicall goverment,) for their better defence & stronger head against that potent enemy in the yeare 1307 they joyned into a league, first temporary only of ten yeares, afterwards vpon their great victory at Mortgarten obtayned against the Arch∣duke Leopold, son to the Emperour Albert the first, in the yeare 1315, and raigne of the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria, made perpetuall. These were the first, who began this Confederacy, called afterwards of the Switzers from the Canton Switz, the more potent of these three, or be∣cause the most famous; the most exposed to the injuries, and incursi∣ons of their enemies, deriuing the name, still as they were incorpora∣ted, vnto the other Confederates.

The Canton of Lucern.

THe towne standeth vpon the river Russ, and the Lake named from hence the Lake of Lucern, common hereunto, & to the three first Can∣tons. Aunciently this belonged to the Abbey of Murbach, of whom it was bought by the Emperour Albert the first, & added to the right, & Dominions of Austria. Vexed with continuall, & long warres of the three first Cantons, & invited by their example, & liberty, in the yeare 1332, pretending the negligence, tyranny, & injuries of the house of Austria, it shooke off the yoake hereof, vniting in the perpetuall league of the Switzers.

The Canton of Zurich.

THe towne is situated vpon the riuer Limat, and the lake of Zurich. Heretofore it appertained to two auncient Monasteries hereof, vn∣der the protection of the Dukes of Zeringen, guardians of the towne, & Monasteries. Berchtold the fift, the last Duke of Zeringen, & guardian hereof, deceasing without heires, by the Emperour Frederique the second

in recompence of the faith, & loyalty hereof still obserued towards the Emperours in their long quarrels with the Popes, it was exemp∣ted from all superiour jurisdiction, sauing of the Empire; continuing afterwards a free state. In the yeare 1351, threatned with a dangerous & great warre from Albert, Archduke of Austria, the malignant neigh∣bouring nobility, & other bordering states, it joyned in the perpetuall Confederacy of the foure first Cantons.

The Canton of Glarona.

IT is a valley of some 3 German miles in length, extēded along the riuer Limat, environed on al sides with high inaccessible mountaines, & ad∣mitting one onely entrance; confining vpon the VVest with Vren, and Switz; & vpon the East, & South with the Grisons, & named thus from a little towne, so called, the chiefe of the Country. This likewise aunci∣ently enjoyed a free estate vnder the Abbatesse of Seckingen, & the pro∣tection first of the Emperours, then of the Earles of Burgundy, & Habs∣purg. By the pretence, & title of this Protectourship it was made subject to the house of Austria by the Emperour Albert the first, heire of Hab∣spurg. Invaded by the fiue first Cantons, in the yeare 1351 it revoulted from vnder the subjection of the Princes of Austria, offended with their wrong, & insolent goverment; voluntarily yeelding herevnto, sworne vnto their perpetuall league, & admitted amongst their Can∣tons.

The Canton of Zug.

THe towne is situated vpon the Lake, from hence called Zugen See, be∣twixt Zurich, & Switz. It belonged to the Arch-Dukes of Austria; by what right we finde not. In the yeare 1351, & warre hereagainst, it was besieged, & taken in by the fiue first Cantons; admitted into their perpetuall confederacie, and made a Canton.

The Canton of Bern.

THe towne standeth vpon the riuer Aar, founded by Berchtold, the last Duke of Zeringen; to which family the Countrey aunciently appertained. By this Berchtold, the last Duke, hauing no heires, it was enfranchised, & giuen to the Empire; remaining after this for a long time Imperiall. In the yeare 1352 it ioyned in a perpetuall league with the three first Cantons; afterwards by the decree of Stantz, in the yeare 1381, made generall with all the Cantons, then Confede∣rate.

The Canton of Friburg.

LYing vpon the river Sana; founded by Berchtold the fourth, Duke of Zeringen, not long before Bern. The house of the Dukes of Zerin∣gen, the auncient Lords, being extinguished in Berchtold the fift, it descended to the Earles of Kyburg, by whom it was sold to the Empe∣rour Rodulph the first, Earle of Habspurg; continued almost two hun∣dred yeares afterwards by this right in the house of Habspurg, and Au∣stria. In the time of the Archduke Albert, it revolted to the side of the confederate Switzers; after some private leagues in the yeare 1481, and assembly of Stantz, received with Solothurn into their perpetuall confederacy.

The Canton of Solothurn.

THe towne was aunciently Imperiall vnder the protection of the Dukes of Zeringen; situated vpon the river Aar. After some private Confederacies in the yeare 1481, and meeting of Stantz, with Friburg, it was admitted into the generall league of the Switzers.

The Canton of Basil.

THe city lyeth vpon the Rhiin, the greatest of the Confederates; aun∣ciently Imperiall, & Free. Iealous of the ambition, & greatnes of the house of Austria, and of the malice of the bordering nobility, in the yeare 1501 it vnited into the generall, & perpetuall league of the Con∣federate Switzers.

The Canton of Schaff-hausen.

THe towne likewise is situated vpon the Rhiin on the side, or shore of Germany. It belonged once to the Abbot, and Monasterie hereof, founded by the Earles of Nellenburg in the raigne of the Emperour Henry the third, first beginning, and occasioning the towne; by litle, & litle withdrawing from the subjection hereof, and becomming Im∣periall, acknowledging onely the Empire. By the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria, with other townes, it was alienated from the Empire, and given to Frederique Arch-duke of Austria in lieu of a certaine summe of money, due vnto him vpon a peace, & composition made betwixt them. The Arch-duke Frederique being proscribed, it was recove∣red againe by the Emperour Sigismond, and restored to the Empire. The Emperour Sigismond deceasing, and succeeded vnto by the Em∣perour Frederique the third, of the house of Austria, Sigismond Arch∣duke of Austria attempting againe to surprise it, the inhabitants hereof for their better defence obtayned certaine temporary, and private leagues with the Cantons of Zurich, Bern, Lucern, Switz, Zug, and

Glarona; in the yeare 1501 made perpetuall, and generall with all the Switzers, admitted vnto the number of the Cantons.

The Canton of Appenzell.

IT is a moūtainous country aboue S. Gal; neighbouring to the Grisons, & named thus from the litle town of Appenzel, the chief of the coun∣try. The auncient Lords hereof were the Abbots of S. Gal, naming the towne; their vsuall residence, or seiour. In the time of the Abbot Cuno, the inhabitants rebelled from vnder their government, assuming li∣berty, which after long vnprofitable warre, defended by their moun∣taines, and the aide of the Switzers, they were at length content to sell vnto them. In the 1452 they joyned in a perpetuall league with the 7 first Cantons, afterwards in the yeare 1513 made generall with all the Switzers; the last received into this common Confederacie, & amongst the number of their Cantons.

The Confederates of the Switzers.

HOw these differ from the Confederate Cantons we haue before 〈◊〉〈◊〉. They containe the Abbot, and towne of S. Gal, the Grisons, the Bishop of Sitten, and Wallislandt, and the townes of Rotweil, Mulhau∣sen, Biel, Geneve, and Nuwenburg. Of these onely Rotweil, and Mulhau∣sen are confederate with all the Cantons. The rest haue league with particular Cantons.

The Abbot of Saint Gal

St Gal, whereof the Abbot is entitl'd, is a towne, and monasterie in Turgow, so called from S. Gal, a Scotishman, the Apostle of those parts, about the yeare 630 retiring amongst the mountaines hereof; whose cell this was, occasioning afterwards the towne, & monastery. The Abbot is prince of the Empire; vnto whom (besides what now o∣therwise he holdeth in Turgow) belonged sometimes the towne of S. Gal, and countrey of Appenzel. Appenzel, and S. Gall revolting, & toge∣ther confederating against him, Gaspar Landerberg, the 52 Abbot, to secure the rest (fearing also their defection) obtayned of the Cantons of Zurich, Lucern, Switz, and Glarona to be admitted into their prote∣ction, & league; continued vnto this day, notwithstanding the diffe∣rence hereof with some of these Cantons in matters of religion

The Towne of Saint Gal.

THe towne grew from the monasterie. It was a towne Imperiall; in ma∣ny things notwithstanding obnoxious to the Abbots. In the warre of the Abbots, with Appenzel, it tooke part with Appenzel; conti∣nuing still afterwards in the friendship, & confederacy hereof. In the

yeare 1452 (the Abbots having before joyned in league with the foure Cantons before mentioned) the towne to strengthen it selfe with the same neighbouring nation, obteyned the protection, and confedera∣cy of the six Cantons of Zurich, Bern, Lucern, Switz, Zug, & Glarona.

The Grisons.

THese possesse the Valleyes of the Alpes about the heads of the rivers Inn, Rhijn, & Adise. They haue aunciently beene confederate a∣mongst themselues; devided into three leagues; the league particular∣ly called of the Grisons, or the Higher League; the league of the House of God; and the Lower League. In the yeare 1497, the League of the Gri∣sons vnited in a perpetuall League with the seaven first Cantons. In the next yeare following, the League of the House of God, vpon occasion of their quarrels with the house of Austria, Lords of the neighbouring Countrey of Tirol, joyned in the same confederacy. The lower League haue no particular confederacy with the Switzers. They remaine not∣withstanding firme in their friendship, and society, in regard of their league with the other Grisons.

The Bishop of Sitten, and VVallislandt.

IT is a long valley of the Alpes Paeninae, extended along the course of the river Rhosne from the spring thereof vnto the Lake of Geneve; de∣vided into the Vpper, & Lower Wallislandt; whose chief city is Sitten, the seate of the Bishops, the Lords of the Countrey. In the yeare 1475 these entred into a perpetuall league with the Canton of Bern, renewed in the time of my authour. Afterwards in the yeare 1533 the Bishop, and the 7 Resorts of the Vpper Wallislandt (who commaund, and haue dominion over the rest) joyned in a more strict league with the Cantons of the Switzers, professing the Roman religion, of Lucern, V∣ren, Switz, Vnderwauld, Zug, Friburg, & Solothurn; wherein amongst o∣ther conditions, vsuall in leagues, is provided their mutuall defence in the cause of Religion.

Rotweil.

THe towne is Imperiall; lying beyond the Rhijn in Schwaben vpon the left shore of the Neccar, not farre from the head of that river, and of the Danow. In the yeare 1519, it vnited in a perpetuall league with all the 13 Cantons.

Mulhausen.

IT is also a towne Imperiall vpon the river Ill in Sungow. In the yeare 1515 it also joyned in a generall, and perpetuall league with all the Switzers.

Biel.

IT is a towne situated vpon the Lake, named from hence Bieler See; subject to the Bishop of Basil, enjoying notwithstanding its sundry immunities, & priviledges. In the yeare 1306 it made a particular league with Bern, renewed in the yeare 1352. Afterwards in the yeere 1367, for their more firme vnion these communicated to each other their Burgracht, or the freedome, or priviledge of their townes.

Geneve.

IT is a noted city vpon the Lake of Geneve, & the river Rhosne, where it issueth forth of this Lake. It belonged sometimes to the Bishops hereof. Vpon the change of Religion (the Bishops driven out) the inhabitants became a free estate; for their better defence against these, and the Dukes of Savoy, attempting against their liberty, vni∣ting in a perpetuall league with Bern, communicating to each other their Burgracht.

Nuwenburg.

THe towne standeth vpon the Lake, named from hence Nuwenburger See. It is subject to the Earles entitul'd hereof; who in the time of my authour were the Dukes of Longe-ville in France, confederate in a strict league with the Canton of Bern.

The Prefectures of the Switzers

THese are certaine lesser peeces, partly now lying in Switzerlandt, & partly amongst, and beyond the Alpes in Italy, subject to the joynt commaund, and authority of the many Cantons hereof, accrewing vn∣to them by purchase, gift, and by meanes of their warres with the princes of Austria, vnto whom the greatest part sometimes belonged. They are the countrey, & towne of Baden, Bremgarten, Mellingen, Rap∣perswyl, the Free Provinces in Wagenthal, Turgow, the government of Rheineck, the towne, and countrey of Sargans, Lugano, Locarno, the Vale of Magia, Mendrisio, and Belinzano,

Baden.

THe towne is situated vpon the river Limat; named thus from the hot Bathes. The auncient Earles hereof extinguished, it descended (by what meanes we finde not) vnto the house of Habspurg, afterwards of Austria. Frederique, Arch-duke of Austria, being proscribed by the Emperour Sigismond, lost this towne with others vnto the confederate

Switzers in their warres before-mentioned against the Archduke Fre∣derique. It now jointly also obeyeth the eight first Cantons.

Mellingen.

IT is a little towne vpon the same riuer of Russ••, below Bremgarten, aunciently likewise belonging to the house of Habspurg, and Austria, & surprised with Bremgarten, & Baden by the Confederate Switzers in their warres against the Archduke Frederique; obeying now likewise the eight first Cantons.

The Free Provinces in Wagenthall.

THese are certaine castles, & townes thus named, below Lucern; the chiefe whereof are Meyenberg, and Richensee vpon the riuer▪ Russ, & the Lake Richensee. They were also once subiect to the Archdukes of Au∣stria; in the aforesaid warres of the Switzers against the Archduke Frede∣rique surprised, and taken from that house by the Canton of Lucerne. They are commaunded now by the seuen first Cantons.

Rapperswyl.

IT is a towne vpon the Lake of Zurich, the seate sometimes of the Earles. thus named; from whom it descended vpon the Princes of Habspurg, and Austria. Vnder the Archduke Sigismond in the yeare 1458, it was surprised by the Cantons of Vren, Switz, Vnderwald, and Glarona; obeying euer since the joint authority of these 4 confederate Switzers.

Turgow.

IT is a country bordering vpon the Rhijn, called thus from the riuer Thur. It sometimes also was subiect for the most part to the Princes of the house of Austria; wonne herefrom by the seuen first Cantons in their warres against the Archduke Sigismond in the yeare 1460. It obey∣eth now the seuen first Cantons; the towne of Sⁱ Gal, and the parts be∣longing to the Abbots of S^t Gal, and Rinou, and to the Bishops of Con∣stance excepted. The right notwithstanding of iudicature in criminall causes, for the part of the Switzers, appertaineth iointly to all the ten first Confederates; taken first from the Archduke Frederique by the Emperour Sigismond, pawned to the city of Constance, and vpon the peace betwixt the Emperour Maximilian the first, and the Switzers in the conclusion of the Suevian warre, and in the yeare 1499, yeelded vp to the ten first Cantons.

The Country, and towne of Sargans.

THese were the Sarunetes of Pliny; part of the Rhaeti Alpestres. Aun∣ciently they obeyed the Countes of VVerdenberg; Earles likewise hereof. In the yeare 1483, George Earle of Werdenberg, and Sargans, sold these to the seuen first Cantons; who now in this right iointly command the same.

The Prefectourship of Rheineck.

THis bordereth vpon the left shore of the Rhiin, aboue the Lake of Constance. It containeth the towne of Rheineck, whereof we name it, (the seate of the Governour) Alstetten & a valley of the Alpes, extended towards VVerdenberg. It aunciently belonged to the Archdukes of Au∣stria. After sundry changes of the Lords thereof, it was sold to the in∣habitants of Appenzel; taken afterwards from them during their warres with the Abbot of S. Gal by the 4 Cantons of Zurich, Lucern, Switz, and Glarona, then confederate with the Abbot. It now iointly is commaun∣ded by the seuen first Cantons, together with the Canton of Appenzel.

Locarno.

IT is a town in the borders of Italy vpō the Lake Maggiore. It belonged aunciently to the Dukes of Milan. In the yeare 1513 by Maximilian Sfortia it was giuen to the 12 first Cantons, with the Vale of Magia, and the townes of Lugano, and Mendrisio, in recompence of their good ser∣vice done vnto him against the French, chased out of Italy, and his Dukedome of Milan, chiefly by their aide; confirmed vnto them by the succeeding Dukes. It is now governed by the ioint commaund of the 12 first Cantons, Appenzel excluded, not admitted into their confe∣deracie vntill after this gift.

The Vale of Magia.

IT is a valley of the Alpes Lepontiae, named thus from the riuer Magia, running thorough the valley, and receiued into the Lake Maggiore at Locarno. It was sometimes likewise subiect to the Dukes of Milan, be∣longing to Locarno, made now a distinct Prefectourship. By the afore∣said gift of Maximilian Sfortia, it came to the 12 first Cantons, com∣maunded now iointly by them.

Lugano.

THe towne is situated vpon the Lake, thus called, in the same borders of Italy. It also sometimes belonged to the Dukes of Millan; by Ma∣ximilian Sfortia, giuen to the 12 first Cantons, now the Lords thereof.

Mendrisio.

IT lyeth vpon the Lake of Lugano, belonging sometimes to that town; made now a seuerall goverment. By Maximilian Sfortia, with Luga∣no, Locarno, and the vale of Magia, it was giuen to the 12 first Cantons, now possessed by them.

The countrie of Belinzano.

THis contayneth three prefectureships of Belinzano, Palenser-tal, and Riviera. The towne is situated vpon the river Tesino betwixt the head thereof, and the Lake Maggiore. The whole sometimes belon∣ged to the Earles of Masox; sold by them to the Cantons of Vren, and Vnderwald; about the yeare 1422 surprised by the Dukes of Milan, & lastly delivered in the yeare 1500 by the inhabitants to the Canton of Vren during the warres betwixt those Dukes, & the Frenchmen. It now obeyeth the three first confederate Cantons of Vren, Switz, and Vn∣derwald, commaunding by course in the three severall prefectureships.

The Kingdome of VVest-France.

* 1.132 THis Kingdome was begun in the person of Charles, surnamed the Bauld, yongest son vnto the Emperour Lewis the godly; whose portion, or share it was in that vnprovident devision of the French do∣minions made betwixt him, & his brethren Lotharius, and Lewis. It was devided from the kingdomes of Lorraine, & Burgundy, or the share of the Emperour Lotharius by the rivers of the Scheld, and the Rhosne; contayning the whole France lying vpon the West of those rivers vnto the Pyrenaean Mountaines, and the Aquitanique, French, & British Oce∣ans; Bretaigne only excepted. By Charles the Bauld, the first prince, Burgundy on this side the Soasne (comprehending now the Dukedome of Burgundy, & the countrey of Lionois) were added to this kingdome, & devision. By King Iohn, Daulphiny. By Lewis the eleaventh, the Earle∣dome of Provence. By Francis the first, Bretaigne; by which meanes the kingdome became this way enlarged vnto the river Soasne, and the Alpes. On the other side by Henry the second, and the league of Cam∣bray, the Earledomes of Flanders, and Artois, aunciently held of the crowne, were quitted from all homage, and right hereof vnto Philip the second, King of Spaine, and the heires of the house of Burgundy.

The Kingdome of France

AT this day (the name, and posterity of the French worne out in all other parts of the auncient French dominions, and the distinction of West-France abolished) this now only retaineth the name of France. The order of the Kings of West-France, or France follow. Charles, sur∣named

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the Bauld, the founder of the kingdome, youngest son to the Emperour Lewis the Godly. Hee was afterwards created Roman Empe∣rour, and deceased in the yeare 857. Lewis the first, surnamed the Stammerer, son to Charles the Bauld. He was also Roman Emperour. Hee dyed without lawfull heires; Charles the Simple, his onely legitimate son, not being borne vntill after his decease. In regard of this defect the Empire of the Romans became translated from the Kings of West-France vnto the Kings of Germany of the house of Charles the Great. Le∣wis the second, & Carloman, naturall sons to the Emperour Lewis, sur∣named the Stammerer; joynt Kings, created in the minority of Charles the Simple, Lewis the second deceasing, Carloman raigned alone, who dyed not long after. Lewis the third, surnamed le Fay-neant, sonne to Carloman. His raigne was but short, deposed for his slought, & ma∣ny vices, and shorne Monke of Saint Denys. Charles, surnamed the Fat, son to Lewis the Auncient, King of Germany, and Emperour of the Romans; called in by his faction, & elected King of West-France in the minority of Charles the Simple. Hee was deposed not long after, and deprived of all his estates, dying in great misery, and want nere vnto Constance in Germany in the yeare 889. Eudon, guardian to Charles the Simple, (son to Robert Earle of Aniou, son to Witichind, prince of the Saxons in the raigne of the Emperour Charles the Great;) in the minority of his pupill after the Emperour Charles the Fat, created French King. After some two yeares raigne he was like∣wise deposed by this factious, & vnconstant nation; succeeded vnto by Charles the Simple. By meanes notwithstanding of this election, there followed afterwards long quarrels, and contention for the kingdome betwixt his kindred, the house of Aniou, and Charles the Simple, and his issue during the whole Caroline line; a chiefe pretence of Capets vsurpation. Charles the Simple, the legitimate son of the Emperour Lewis, surnamed the Stammerer. He had warres with Robert, Earle of Aniou, brother to King Eudon; in regard of the election of Eudon pretending right to the kingdome, and slaine by him in a battaill. Af∣ter a short, and troublesome raigne, caught, & imprisoned at Peronne by Hebert, Earle of Vermandois, and forsaken by the nobility, hee resigned the kingdome to Rodulph, Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine. Rodulph Duke of Burgundy Transiuraine, son to Conrade Earle of Burgundy Transiuraine, brother to Robert the first, Earle of Aniou, & vncle to King Eudon, vpon the imprisonment, and forced resignation of Charles the Simple elected French King. Lewis the fourth, son to Charles the Simple, and Elgina, daughter to Edward, surnamed the Elder, and sister to Athelstan, Kings of England; surnamed the For∣reiner for that during the captivity of his father, and the vsurpation of Rodulph, he lived exiled with his vncle Athelstan in England: after the death of the vsurper called home, and restored to the kingdome. Hee had wars with Hugh, surnamed the Great, Earle of Paris, & Ma∣jour of the Palace, son to Robert the second; jealous of the populari∣ty, greatnes, and the ambition of that house. Lothaire, son to Lewis the fourth. In the raigne hereof Hugh Capet, heire of the house of Ani∣ou,

son to Hugh the Great, begun againe to renew the auncient qua∣rell of his family touching the kingdome, the which not long after he obtayned. Lewis the fift, son to Lothaire. He dyed young without issue, the last French King of the house of Charles the Great. Hugh Capet, son to Hugh the Great, Earle of Paris, and Majour of the Pa∣lace, after much quarrell betwixt the houses of Aniou, and of Charles the Great, thorough a long basenes, slougth, and pusillanimity of the degenerate princes of that line, the present dislike of Charles, Duke of Lorraine, the next heire, the long greatnes, and still growing po∣pularity of his house, his flattery, and crafty insinuations with the no∣bility, and people, and religious pretences, and of his right, and suc∣cession to King Eudo, and Rodulph, in the yeare 965 elected king by this wavering nation; Charles, Duke of Lorraine, excluded, caught afterwards by him, and imprisoned during life. Robert, son to Hugh Capet. Henry the first, younger son to Robert, preferred by his father before Robert, his elder brother, succeeding in the Dukedome of Burgundy. Philip the first, son to Henry the first. Lewis the sixt, son to Philip the first. Lewis the seaventh, son to Lewis the sixt. About the raigne of this prince dyed Iohn de Temporibus by the stiffe consent of the French, and German writers reported to haue lived from the Emperour Charles the Great vnto this time for aboue the space of 300 yeares. Philip the second, surnamed Augustus, sonne to Lewis the seaventh. Lewis the eight, son to Philip the second. Lewis the ninth, surnamed the Saint, son to Lewis the eight. Philip the third, son to Le∣wis the ninth. Philip the fourth, surnamed the Faire, son to Philip the third. Lewis the tenth, surnamed Hutin, son to Philip the Faire. Hee deceased without male issue. Philip the fift, surnamed the Tall, brother to Lewis the tenth. Hee also dyed without issue male. Charles the fourth, brother to Lewis Hutin, and Philip the Tall. He also deceased without male issue. Philip the sixt, surnamed of Valois, the next prince of the blood of the line masculine; succeeding by the pretence of a Salique Law. In the raigne hereof began those long, and fierce wars betwixt the French, & Edward the third King of England, descen∣ded of Isabel, daughter to Philip the fourth, pretending in this right for the kingdomes: the issue whereof was the great overthrowes of the French at the battails of Crecy, and Poictiers, the captivity of Iohn, French King, and the restitution of Normandy, and other parts of France taken from the English by King Philip Augustus; lost not∣withstanding not long after to King Charles the fift, with Aquitaine, & Guienne, vntill that time still held by the English nation. Iohn, French King, sonne to Philip the sixt, taken prisoner in the English warres by Edward, Prince of Wales, son to Edward the third, at the battaile of Poictiers. Charles the fift, son to Iohn. He recovered againe the countries of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Guienne, and whatsoe∣ver else the English held in the continent of France; the towne, and forts about Calis onely excepted. Charles the sixt, son to Charles the fift. In the raigne hereof fell out that fatall discord betwixt the houses of Orleans, and Burgundy, by the advantage whereof, the

weakenes of this phrenetique king, and their victory at Agincourt, (Charles the Dolphin disinherited, and Henry the fift, King of Eng∣land, having married Catherinne his daughter, made Regent of France) the English again got seazed of the chiefest parts of the king∣dome hereof; Henry the sixt, King of England, being afterwards crowned king of France at Paris. Charles the seaventh, son to Charles the sixt. After long trouble, & warres (Philip the Good, and the fa∣ction of Burgundy reconciled) hee againe cleered France of the En∣glish; the towne, & countrey of Calis excepted. Lewis the eleaventh, son to Charles the seaventh. Charles the eight, son to Lewis the elea∣venth. He dyed sans issue. Lewis the twelth, Duke of Orleans, and Va∣lois, the next prince of the blood of the line masculine. Hee marryed vnto Anne, Dutchesse of Bretaigne, and deceased without heire male. Francis the first, Duke of Engoulesme, the next prince of the blood of the race masculine. He marryed vnto Claude, Dutchesse of Bre∣taigne, daughter to Lewis the twelth, & Anne, and incorporated Bre∣taigne to the crowne of France. Henry the second, son to Francis the first. He wonne the towne, & countrey of Calis from Mary, queene of England. Francis the second, son to Henry the second. Charles the ninth, son to Henry the second, and brother to Francis the second. Henry the third, son to Henry the second, and brother to Francis the second, and Charles the ninth. These three brethren kings all dyed without issue; the last princes of the house of Valois. Henry the fourth, King of Navarre, son to Antony of Bourbon, Duke of Vendosme, & Ioane, queene of Navarre, the next prince of the blood of the line masculine, descended from Lewis the ninth, surnamed the Saint; slain at Paris by that wretched Assassinate Ravaillart. Lewis the thirteenth, son to Henry the fourth, King of France, & Navarre now raigning.

The Earledome of Flanders.

THis* 1.133 belonged sometimes vnto the kingdome of West-France, held still by the princes thereof vnder the fief of this crowne; quitted vnto Philip and second, king of Spaine, and to the heires of the house of Burgundy by Henry the second, French King, & the late league of Cambray. Concerning the occasion, and beginning of the name hereof we cannot relate any thing certainely. The estate was begun after Wassenburg in the person of one Lideric Buc, vnto whom the Countrey was given with the title of Forester by Dagobert the first, French King; at that time for the most part lying waste, and without almost inhabitants thorough the vastnes of the woods, and marishes, and the pyracyes of the Danes. In the person of Bauldwin, the last Fo∣rester, it was made an Earledome by the Emperour Charles the Bauld, whose sister Iudith he had marryed; in which stile it hath ever since continued. It contayned then besides moderne Flanders the coun∣trey of Artois, and the parts of France, where now lie Vermanduois, & Boulognois, or vnto the Some. By Earle Philip the first, the parts of Ver∣manduois, Artois, and Boulognois, were severed from Flanders (given in

way of dowry with Isabel, daughter to his sister Margaret, and Bauldwin Earle of Hainault, vnto Philip Augustus, French king,) since incorpo∣rated by this meanes vnto the Crowne of France; part whereof be∣came afterwards the Earledome of Artois. The Princes follow. Li∣deric Buc, the first Forester, son to Salvart, Prince of Diion, created by Dagobert, French King according to Wassenburg in the yeare 611, after Heuterus in the yeare 621. Antony Buc, son to Lide∣ric Buc, slaine by the Danes. Boschart, son to Lideric Buc, and brother to Antony. He was driuen out by Theodoric, French king, hauing on∣ly left vnto him the Lordship of Harlebec. After this for about one hundred yeares space we reade not of any Foresters, or Lords hereof, the country in the meane time being miserably spoiled by the Nor∣man, and Danish pyrats. Estored, Lord of Harlebec, afterwards Fore∣ster, by whom the Normans were expulsed. He liued in the time of Charles Martel, Regent of France. Lideric the second, son to Estored. Inguelran, son to Lideric the second. Odoacer, son to Inguelran. Bauld∣win the first, son to Odoacer. Hauing married Iudith, sister to the Em∣perour Charles the Bauld, he was created by him first Earle of Flan∣ders, in whom ended the title of Foresters. Bauldwin the second, son to Bauldwin the first. Arnold the first, son to Bauldwin the second. Bauld∣win the third, son to Arnold. Arnold the second, sonne to Bauldwin the third. Bauldwin the fourth, sonne to Arnold the second. Hee had giuen vnto him the Iland of Walcheren in Zealand by the Empe∣rour Henry the second (the cause of long contention betwixt the houses of Flanders, & Holland; quitted afterwards by Earle Guye of Flanders vnto Florentius the fift, Earle of Holland. Bauldwin the fift, son to Bauldwin the fourth. Bauldwin the sixt, son to Bauldwin the fift. He marryed Richilde, Countesse of Hainault, daughter to Regnier the third, vniting for a time those two Earledomes in his succession, and family. He deceased in the yeare 1070. Arnold the third, son to Bauld∣win the sixt, Earle of Flanders, and Hainault; slaine in battaile sans issue by his Vncle Robert. Robert the first, son to Bauldwin the fift, and Vncle to Arnold the third. His nephew Bauldwin, brother to Arnold the third, succeeded in the Earledome of Hainault; by which meanes those two estates were againe divided. Robert the second, Earle of Flan∣ders, son to Robert the first. Bauldwin the seauenth, son to Robert the second. Wanting heires, he bequeathed Flanders vnto Charles surna∣med the Good, son to Canutus, king of Denmarke, and Adela. Charles surnamed the Good, son to Canutus, king of Denmarke, and Adela, daughter to Robert the first. He dyed sans issue. William the first, son to Robert Duke of Normandy, eldest son to William, surnamed the con∣querour, Duke of Normandy, and king of England, and Maude, wife vnto the Conquerour, daughter to Bauldwin the fift, and sister to Bauldwin the sixt. He enioyed not long the Earledome, expulsed in regard of his tyranny, and cruelty. Theodoric, son to Theodoric, Earle of Elsatz, and of Gertrud, daughter to Robert the first; William the Norman being driuen out, & slaine. Hee deceased in the yeare 1168. Philip, son to Theodoric. Margaret, eldest sister to Philip. She

marryed vnto Bauldwin the sixt, Earle of Hainault, & Namur; vniting againe these two Earledomes in one family. Bauldwin the ninth, Earle of Flanders, & Hainault, son to Bauldwin, & Margaret. Ioane, Countesse of Flanders, & Hainault, daughter to Bauldwin the ninth. She dyed sans issue. Margaret the second, Countesse of Flanders, & Hainault, daughter to Bauldwin the ninth, & yonger sister to Ioane. She marry∣ed vnto William of Bourbon, Lord of Dampierre. She had before this marriage by Buscart (Prior of S. Peter in L'isle, her gurdian) a base son, named Iohn d'Avesnes, succeeding afterwards in Hainault. Willi∣am the second, son to William of Bourbon, Lord of Dampier, & Marga∣ret, Earle onely of Flanders; Iohn d'Avesnes, son to Margaret, & Bus∣cart, by composition amongst the brethren succeeding in Hainault. He dyed without issue. Guy, Earle of Flanders, son to Margaret, & William Lord of Dampier, yonger brother to William the second. Robert the third, son to Guy, Earle of Flanders. Lewis the first, son to Lewis, son to Robert the third, & Mary, daughter to Iames, Earle of Nevers, & Re∣tel. He marryed vnto Margaret, heire of the Earledomes of Burgundy, and Artois. He was slaine, fighting against the English in the battaile of Crecy. Lewis the second, surnamed Malan from a castle, thus called, the place of his birth; Earle of Flanders, Artois, and Burgundy; son to Lewis the first, & Margaret, daughter to Philip the Long, second king, and Ioane, Countesse of Artois, and Burgundy. Margaret, Countesse of Flanders, Burgundy, & Artois, daughter to Lewis the second. She married vnto Philip de Valois, surnamed the Hardy, Duke of Bur∣gundy, son to Iohn, French king; by meanes whereof these three E∣states descended vpon the house of Burgundy, afterwards of Austria.

The Earledome of ARTOIS.

THis tooke the name from* 1.134 the Atrebates, the auncient inhabitants, or otherwise from Arras, the chiefe towne. It was sometimes a part of Flanders, giuen with other peeces anciently belonging to that Earle∣dome, & now incorporated with France, by Earle Philip vnto Philip Au∣gustus, French king, with Isabel of Hainault, daughter vnto his sister Margaret, and Bauldwin the sixt, Earle of Hainault, wife to Philip Augu∣stus. Lewis the eight, French king; son to Philip Augustus, & Isabel, decea∣sing, bequeathed this country vnto his yongest son Robert, to be held with this stile vnder the fief, & soveraignty of the kings of France; cre∣ated first Earle of Artois by his brother Lewis the ninth, French king. By the marriage of Margaret, heire of the Counties of Burgundy, & Au∣stria vnto Lewis the first, Earle of Flanders, it descended vpon the house of Flanders, carried afterwards to those of the Dukes of Burgundy, & Austria, wherein now it continueth. The princes follow. Robert the first, fourth son to Lewis the Eight, French king. He deceased in the Holy Land in the yeare 1249. Robert the second, sonne to Robert the first. Maude, daughter to Robert the second, Countesse of Artois; the Parliament of Paris thus adiudging for her against Robert, sonne to her brother Philip of Artois. Shee married vnto O∣thelin, or Otho the fourth, Earle of Burgundy. Ioane, eldest daugh∣ter

to Otho the fourth, & Maude. Shee marryed vnto Philip, surna∣med the Long▪ French King. Margaret eldest daughter to Philip, French King, & Ioane, Countesse of Artois, and Burgundy. She mar∣ryed vnto Lewis the first, Earle of Flanders. Lewis the second, surnamed Malan, son to Lewis the first, & Margaret; Earle of Artois, Flanders, & Burgundy, from whom these descended vpon the house of the Dukes of Burgundy, & Austria.

In this maner the rich countrey of Gaule, or France is become at this day devided into, and contayneth the whole, or parts of 6 diffe∣rent Free Common-wealths, & governments, not any wise now subject one to another. 1 the provinces, or countries subject to the confederate States of the Netherlands. 2 to the princes of the house of Burgundy, and Austria. 3 to the empire, or kingdome of the Germans. 4 to the Popes. 5 to the vnion, and confederacy of the Switzers. 6 and the kingdome of France. To the confederate states of the Low-countries belong all Hol∣land, Zealandt, Vtreicht, the greatest part of Gelderlandt, the townes of Sluis, Bergen vpon Zome, Steenbergen, and Graue, together with the Countries of Zutphen, Over-Ysel, West-Freislandt, and Groningen, lying without the circuit of the auncient Gaule, and beyond the Rhijn in Germany. To the princes of Austria, and Burgundy appertayne all Artois, Hainault, Namur, Limburg, and Luxemburg, the greatest parts of Flanders, and Brabant, and part of Gelderlandt. Vnto the Empire (held by their princes vnder the right, and soveraignety hereof, and for the most part yet comming vnto, and acknowledging the Imperiall Diets) the Free Countye of Burgundy, immediately nowe possessed by the princes of the house of Burgundy, and Austria, the Dukedomes of Lorraine, Zweibruck, Cleve, Gulick, & Savoy, the Palatinate of the Rhijn, Elsass, Sungow, and the townes, and Bishopricks of Mentz, Colen, Trier, Luick, Spire, Worms, & Strasburg. To the confederacy of the Switzers the Cantons, confederate states, and Prefectureships before mentioned. To the Popes the city, and country of Avignon. And to the kingdome of France the rest of Gaule, or auncient France; devided now from Italy, the German Empire, and the Netherlands with the Alpes, and with the rivers of the Soasne, Meuse, and the Some: our present subject.

The Country containeth (as hath been before related) 24 greater de∣visions, or provinces of Bretaigne, Normandy, Picardy, Champaigne, Brie, France Special, Beausse, Poictou, Engoulmois, Berry, Bourbonois, Fo∣rest, and Beauiolois, Lionois, Auvergne, Limousin, Perigord, Guienne, Gas∣coigne, Quercy, Rovergne, Languedoc, Provençe, Daulphinie, & Bourgongne. Of these Poictou, Berry, Auvergne, Limousin, Perigord, Guienne, Quercy, and Revergne haue beene thus named from their first, and more aun∣cient inhabitants, the Pictones, Bituriges Cubi, Auverni, Lemovices, Petrocorij, Aquitani, Cadurci, & Rhuteni: Bretaigne, Normandy, Gascoigne, Languedoc, Bourgongne, and France Speciall from the Northern, & barba∣rous Nations, planted in them, the Bretons Insulaires, Normans, Vascones, Gothes, Burgundians, and Frenchmen: Engoulmois, Bourbonois, Forest, and Lionois, from their chiefe townes, Engoulesme, Bourbon, Furs, and Lions: Champaigne from its more plaine, and even situation: Brie from

the shadines thereof, covered with trees, & woods: Beausse from its plea∣sure, & fertility: Daulphinie from the princes thereof, stiled Daulphins of Vienne: Provençe from the auncient name of the Countrey in the time of Caesara 1.135, being part of the further Roman Province of the Gaules. The occasion of the name of Picardy we cannot of any certainety determine. Their descriptions fol∣low according to their Resorts, or Parliaments. L. D.

Notes

• * 1.1

  v. C. lul. Caes. Comment. bel∣li Gallici. lib. 1. c. 3. & lib. 7. cap. 4. Ptol. Geog. l. 2. cap. 7. 8. & 9. Histoire de Ly∣on par Claude de Rubys. Pauli Merulae Cosm. p. 2. l. 3. c. 4.
• a 1.2

  Iurassus Clau. Ptolomaei.
• b 1.3

  Rhodanus Caesar Comm. belli Gallic. lib. 1. c. 3. &c.
• * 1.4

  Araris Caesar. Com. bel. Gall. ••••b. 1. c. 4. &c.
• * 1.5

  Isara Ptol. lib. c. 10.
• * 1.6

  Druentia Pt. ••••b. 2. c. 10.
• f 1.7

  Gatumna Cae. ••om bel. Gall. ••••b. 1. c. 1. &c.
• g 1.8

  Ligeris Caes. Com. bel. Gal. ••••b. 7. cap. 5. &c.
• * 1.9

  Sequana Caes. Com. bel. Gal. ••••b. 1. c. 1. &c.
• * 1.10

  Matrona, Caes. Com. bel. Gal. ••••b. 1. c. 1.
• * 1.11

  Tabuda Ptol. ••. 2. cap. 9. Scal∣••is Caesar. Com. ••el. Gal. l. 6. cap. 2. & Plin. ••at. Hist. li. 4. c. 7.
• * 1.12

  Sabis Caes. Co. ••el. Gal. l. 5. c. 8.
• m 1.13

  Mosa. Caesar. Com. bel. Gal. ••••b. 5. c. 8.
• a 1.14

  Gallia Cae∣sar: Com: &c. Celtogalatia Ptol. Geog. l. 2 c. 7.
• * 1.15

  v. Livii Hist. l. ••. Plutarch. in vit. Furii Ca∣milli, & Claud. Marcelli. C. Plin: Nat. hist. lib. 3. c. 15. & l. 4. c. 17. Eutrop. lib. 3. hist. Rom. Carolum Si∣gonium in Fa∣stos & Trium∣phos Consula∣res. Iacobi Da∣lechampii An∣notationes in lib. 3. c. 15. & in lib. 4. c. 17. C. Plinii Nat. hist.
• b 1.16

  Quod placi∣diot esset, & Romano vesti∣tu vteretur. Ia∣cobi Dale∣champij An∣not. in l. 4. c. 17▪ Plin. Nat. Hist. & Dionis l. 46.
• c 1.17

  Gallos traditur famâ dulcedine frugū, maximeque vini novâ cum voluptate captos. Alpes trans••jsse, agrosque ab Hetruscis antea cultos possedisse. T. Liv. hist. l. 5.
• d 1.18

  Rubicon híc fluvius, quondam Ita∣l••ae finis. C. Plin. Nat hist. l. 3. c. 15. Rubicon fluvius labitur inter Ariminum, & Casennam, fluitque in Adriaticum ma∣re▪ Circa originem Rucon, vel Rugon vocant, cum longius provectus est mare versus▪ Pisciatello. Iacobi Dalechampii in Pli. Nat. hist. lib. 3. c. 15. Annotationes.
• * 1.19

  Strab. Geog. l. 4. Claud. Pto∣lem. l. 2. c. 7. et••.
• * 1.20

  v. T. Livii Hist Rom. l. 5. Caij Iul. Caes. comment. bel. Gallici. Strab. Geog. l. 4. Luc. Flori hist. Rom l. 3. c. 2. Hero∣doti Clio.
• * 1.21

  v. T. Li••. Epitom. l. 61▪ Lu. Flor. Hist Rom. lib. 3. c. 2. Strab Geog. li. 4. Caij Iu. Caes. Com. Bel. Gal. Pomp. Mel▪ l. 3. Plut. in vuâ Iu. Caesaris. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 4. c. 17 Am. Mar∣cellini•• lib. 15. Cassiod Chro. Imperato••bus Honor. et The∣odosio. Sigoni∣um in Fastos, & Triumphos Romanorum. Iacobi Dale∣champij Anno∣tat. in li. 4. c. 17. N. Hist. Plinij.
• a 1.22

  Comata Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 17. Comata, quorum po∣puli Belgae, Aquitani et Celtae. Pomp. Mel. li. 3. Coma∣ta sic appellata, quòd incolae studiosius co∣mam alerent. Iacob. Dale∣champij in l. 4. c. 17. Plin. An∣notationes.
• * 1.23

  v. C. Iul. Caesar. Com. Bel. Gall. lib. 1. c. 1. Strab. Geog. l. 4. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 3. c. 5. & l. 4. c. 17.
• a 1.24

  Ante Augu∣stum Aquita∣nia inter Ga∣rumnam fluvi∣um contenta, item in tres partes devisa Gallia, Belgicam, Celticam, & Aquitaniam. Augustus Caesar in 4. partes Galliam devisit, ita vt Celtas Narbonen∣si Provinciae tribueret, Aquitanos eosdem cum lulio faceret, ijs{que} auctis, decem alias gentes intra Garumnam, & Ligerim inhabitantes, reliquum in duas partes tribueret, vnamque Lugduno ad••ungeret vsque ad superiora Rhe∣ni, alteram Belgis. Strab. Geog. lib. 4.
• * 1.25

  v. Clau. Pt. Geog. l. 2. c. 7. Strab. l. 4. Pl. Nat. Hist. lib. 4. c. 19. Pomp. M••l. l. 3. Caes. Comm. Bel. Gall. l. 7. c. 2. 3. 4. 28. & 32. Interpretatio∣nes Montani, & Petri Birtij in Ptol. Geog. lib. 2. c. 7.
• b 1.26

  Aquitani, vn∣de nomen Pro∣vinciae. Plin. N. Hist. lib. 4. c. 19.
• a 1.27

  Beginning af∣ter Caesar and Mela at the Ga∣rumna; but accor∣ding vnto Stra∣bo, Pliny, and Ptolomy at the Loire.
• * 1.28

  v. Claud. Ptol. Geog. l. 2. c. 8. Strab. l. 4. Plin. N. His. l. 4. c. 1 8. Pomp. Mel. l. 3. Iul. Caes. Comm. Bel. Gal. l. 1. c. 12. l. 3. c. 3. & 5. lib. 5. c. 21. l. 6. c. 2. 3. 7. & 8▪ & lib. 7. c. 3. 5. 18. 19. 20. 22. 26. 27. 28. 29. 36. &c. Interpret. Montani, & P. Birtij in Claud. Ptol. lib. 2, c. 8.
• b 1.29

  Most probably extended fur∣ther in regard of the strength, and power of the peo∣ple. v. Caesar Co-Bel. Gal.
• * 1.30

  v. Claud, Ptol. Geog. l. 2. c. 9. Strab. l. 4. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 3. c: 5. & l. 4. c. 17. Pomp. Mel. l. 3. Caes. Comment Belli Gallici lib: 1: c: 1: 2: 3: 4: 5. 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14. 15: 19. lib: 2: c: 2: 7: 8. 10: 11: lib: 5: c: 1: lib: 6: c: 2. & 12: & lib: 7: c: 32. Corn. Taciti Annal: lib: 1: & Hist: lib: 1: 4: & 5. Interpretat▪ Montani, et P: Birtii in Claudu Ptol. Geog: l: 2: c: 9.
• a 1.31

  Nemeti Rhe∣num accolens, Germaniae. gens. Plin.
• a 1.32

  Fossae Dru∣sinae C. Sueto∣nij Tranquilli in Claudio. Fossa DrusianaTac. Annal. l. 2.
• b 1.33

  Narbonensis Provincia, Bra∣cata ante dicta, à reliquâ Galliâ latere Septen∣trionali, Monti∣bus Gebennâ, et Iura cincta, ag••orum cultu, virorum, mo∣rum{que} dignati∣one, amplitudi∣ne opum nulli Provinciarum postferenda, breviter Italia verius, quam Provincia. Pli. N. Hist. l. 3. c. 5. Bracata •• Bra∣chis nominata, nempe tunicâ, quae sago impo∣nebatur, quâ in Curiâ deposi∣tâ, latum Cia∣vum Gallos sumpsisse Sue∣tonius in Caio Caesare tradit. Provincia Ro∣mana privatim quoque haec dicta est, quòd prius à Roma∣nis superata, et in Provinciam reducta leges Romanas▪ moresque accepissit. Iacob. Delechampij Annot: in Plin. Nat. Hist: lib: 4: c: 17. Vlterior Provincia. C. lul. Caes. Com. Bel. Gal. l. 1. c. 4.
• * 1.34

  v. Clau. Pt. G. l. 2. c. 10. Strab. l. 4. Pl N Hist. l. 3. c. 5. Po. Me. l. 2. Iul: Caes. Co: l. 1. c. 3. 4▪ 5. & 15. l. 3. c. 3. & 9. & l. 7. c. 4. & Com: Bel. Civ. l. 2. c. 1. etl▪ 3. c. 13. In∣terp: Montani, et P: Bertij in Ptol. l. 2, c. 10.
• a 1.35

  Deceates Flo∣ri l. 2. c. 3. Hist. Rom.
• * 1.36

  v. Pli. N Hist. l. 4. c. 19. &c. Strab. Geog. li. 4. Pomp. Mel. lib. 2. Iul. Caes. Com. Bel. Gal. l. 3. c. 9. l. 4. c. 7. & lib. 7. c. 5. 6. & 32.
• b 1.37

  Littus Lapi∣deum, in quo Herculem con∣tra Albionem, & Bergiona, Neptuni filios dimicantem, cum tela defe∣cissent, ab invo∣cato Iove adiu∣tum imbre la∣pidum ferunt. Credas pluisse adeo multi passim, & latè iacent. Pomp. Mel. lib. 2.
• * 1.38

  v. Strab. Ge∣og. l. 4. lulii Caesaris Com∣ment. Belli Gallici lib. 1. c. 6. l. 3. c. 1. l. 4. c. 7. l. 5. c. 8. l. 6. c. 14. & l. 7. c. 22. & 26.
• * 1.39

  v. Pomp. Mel. l. 2.
• * 1.40

  v. C. Iul. Cae∣saris comment. Bel. Ga. l. 3. c. 1. l. 2. c. 2. & l. 7. c. 5. 29. 32. & 36.
• * 1.41

  v. Antonini Aug. Itiner. & Catal. Provin∣ciarum, & civit. Galliae. Rufi Festi Breviari∣um. Notitiam Provinciarum. Comment. Guidonis Pan∣cirolli in No∣••t. Provincia∣rum Imperii Occi dentis. Ammiani Mar∣cellini hist. l. 15. P. Merulae Cos. p. 2. c. 3. & P. Birtijcom. l. 1.
• a 1.42

  Lugdunensis prima Ammi∣an. Marcelli•••• hist. l. 15. et Notit. Provin∣ciarum.
• b 1.43

  Augustodu∣num. Antonini Aug. Itin.
• c 1.44

  Cavellio. An∣ton. Aug. Itin.
• d 1.45

  Lugdunen∣sis Secunda Notit Prov. et Am. Marcel. hist. l. 15. Pro∣vinciae Lugdu∣nenses duae. Rufi Festi Bre∣viarium.
• e 1.46

  Lugdunen∣sis Tert••a. No∣tit. Provinc.
• f 1.47

  Provincia Lugdunensis Senonia. Not. Provinc.
• g 1.48

  Pro (Carnu∣tum.
• h 1.49

  Belgica Pri∣ma. Notit. Pro∣vinc. et Am. Marcel. hist. l. 15.
• i 1.50

  Belgica se∣cunda. Am. Marcel. hist. l. 15. et Notit: Provinc. Bel∣gicae duae. Bufi Festi Breviar.
• k 1.51

  Pro (S••es∣sonum▪
• l 1.52

  Pro (Vero∣manduorum.
• m 1.53

  Pro (Atre∣batum.
• e 1.54

  Germania prima Am: Mar••cel. Hist: l: 15: et Notit. Provinc.
• f 1.55

  Magontiacus. Am: Marc: l: 15: Histor.
• g 1.56

  Argentoratus Am: Mar••: ibid.
• h 1.57

  Germania se∣cunda. Notit: Provin: et Am: Marc: ib: Ger∣maniae duae Ru∣fi Festi Breviar.
• i 1.58

  Agrippina Am. Marc. ib.
• k 1.59

  Tungri Am: Marc: ib:
• l 1.60

  Maxima Se∣quanorum Ru∣fi Festi, & Not. Provinciarum.
• m 1.61

  Bisontij Am. Marc. ibidem.
• n 1.62

  Equestris An∣ton. Augusti I∣tinerar.
• o 1.63

  Argentua••ia Antonini Au∣gusti Itinerar.
• p 1.64

  Alpes Graiae, et Paeminae Am: Marc. lib. 15, et Notit. Provin. Alpes Graiae Ruf. Festi.
• q 1.65

  Viennensis Am: Mar. li. 15. Rufi Festi, et Notit. Provinc.
• r 1.66

  Vienna. Am. Marc▪ lib. 15.
• s 1.67

  Geneva Cae∣saris Com. Bel. Gall.
• t 1.68

  Gratianopo∣lis.
• u 1.69

  Valentia Am. Marcel. lib. 15.
• x 1.70

  Arelate Am. Marcel. l. 15.
• y 1.71

  Tricastini Am. Marc. l. 15.
• z 1.72

  Alpes Mariti∣••ae Am. Marc. lib. 15. et Notit. Provinc.
• a 1.73

  Narbonensis Prima. Notit. Provinciarum.
• b 1.74

  Narbona Am: Marcellini. l. 5.
• c 1.75

  Tolosa Am. Mar. ib.
• d 1.76

  Narbonensis Se cunda. No∣tit. Provinc.
• e 1.77

  Antipolis Am. Marcellini: l. 15.
• f 1.78

  Aquitania pri∣ma Notit. Pro∣vinciarum.
• g 1.79

  Rutheni Cae∣saris. v. supra.
• h 1.80

  Gadurci Cae∣saris.
• i 1.81

  Aquitania se∣cunda Notit. Provinciarum. Aquitaniae duae Rufi Festi.
• k 1.82

  Burdegala Am. Marcelli∣lib. 15.
• l 1.83

  Aginum Ptol.
• m 1.84

  Pictavi Am. Marcellini lib: 15. Pictones Caesaris.
• n 1.85

  Novem-po∣pulana Rufi Fe∣sti. Nouem po∣puli Am. Marc: et Notit: Pro∣vinciarum.
• o 1.86

  Ausci Amm: Marcellini l: 15.
• p 1.87

  Aquae Augustae Ptolomaei.
• q 1.88

  Latusates Pli∣nij.
• r 1.89

  Conserrani Plinij.
• s 1.90

  Vasatae. Amm: Marcellini l. 15.
• * 1.91

  Britanni, & Britones.
• * 1.92

  Galfr. Mon. Hist. Brit. l. 5. c. 12 &c. Hent. H••n∣tingdon. Hist. lib. 1. & l' Hi∣stoire de Bre∣taigne par Bartrand. d' Argentre, Sieur de Gosnes.
• t 1.93

  Britanni Pli. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 17.
• u 1.94

  vid. supra.
• a 1.95

  Purgundiones Plin. Oros. Cas∣siodor. &c.
• * 1.96

  v. Pli. N. Hist. l. 4. c. 12. Zosi∣mi Hist. l. 1. Im∣peratore Prob. Iornand. de Regn. & Temp. successione lib. Am: Marc. l. 18. Imperat. Con∣stantio, & Iul. & lib. 27. Imp: Valentiniano, & Valente. Cas∣siodori Chron. Imper. Valen∣tiniano primo. & Honorio, & Theod. Pauli Orosij Hist. l 7▪ c. ••7. Histoire de Lyon par Claude de Ru∣bys livre, 2. c. 2. 3. 5. 7. 8.
• b 1.97

  Nullos Ger∣manorum po∣pulos vtbes ha∣bitari satis no∣tum est, nè pa∣ti quidem inter seiunctas sedes. &c. Corn. Tac. lib. d•• Moribus Germanorum.
• * 1.98

  See Spaine.
• * 1.99

  See Germany.
• a 1.100

  Franci Am. Marc. lib. 27. &c.
• * 1.101

  v. Sext. Aure∣lium Victorem de Caesaribus Imperat. Galli∣eno. Trebellii Pollionis Gal∣lienos, duos. Flavij Vopisci Divum Aureli∣anum, Zosimi Hist. l. 1. Probo Imper. & lib. 3. Imp. Const. Eu∣tropij Hist. Ro l. 9. Imp. Diocl. Am. Marc. l. 27. Valentiniano primo, & Va∣lente Imp. M. Aur. Cassiodori Chronicon Imperat. Theodosio secun••do, & Valentiniano tertio. Prosperi Aquitani Chronicon. Aymonium de Gestis Franc. Gregorij Turon. Hist. Francorum. Hotomanni Franc-Gall. lib. 5. Ioannis Isacij Pontani Oi∣genes Francicas. Gagwini Annales Rer. Gallicatum: Histo••••e de France par Bern▪ de Girard Seigneur du Haillan.
• a 1.102

  Franci Salij Am. Marc. Hist. l. 17. Constan∣tio, et Iuliano Imperat.
• b 1.103

  Franci Atthu∣arij Am. Marc. Hist. l. 20. Con∣stantio & Iuli∣ano Imperat.
• * 1.104

  The Earledom•• of Ard••nne.
• * 1.105

  v. Caroli Si∣gonij Histor. de Regno Italiae l. 1. 2. 3. 4. & 5.
• * 1.106

  See Germany.
• * 1.107

  Les Antiqui∣tez de la Gaule Belgique par Richard de Wassenburg. l••ure 3. & la Ta∣ble des Roy•• de L••••r••ne p••••mesme au∣the••ur.
• a 1.108

  Aymonius ••∣therwi ••••ttribu∣tet•• the originall of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 name to the Emperour Lothatius. vid. Aymonij▪ de Gestis Franco∣rum. l. 5. c. 19.
• * 1.109

  v. Les Anti∣quitez de Gaule Belgique par Richard de Wassenburg. li. 3, 4. &c. & la Table des Ducs de Loraine par mesme authe∣ur.
• * 1.110

  v. la Prologue aux Antiqui∣tez de la Gaule Belgique par Richard de Wassenburg.
• * 1.111

  v. P••tri Birtij comment. Re∣rum German. lib. 2. c. 19.
• * 1.112

  v. lo. Trit he∣m•••• de origin. Francorum. Franc. Irenici Exeg. Germa∣maniae. lib. 3. c. 54. & 55. Petri Bertij Comm. Rerum Germa∣nicorum. l. 2. c▪ 10.
• a 1.113

  Fridericus Bavariae Du••, Comes Palati∣nus, Elector &c. The inscription vpon the mo••••∣ment at He••del∣berg of Fr••de∣rique the victo∣rious, sonne to the Electour Lewes the third.
• * 1.114

  v. Franc. Ire∣nici Exeg. Ger. maniae lib. 2. c. 109▪ & Gerardi de Roo. Hist. Austriacae l. 1. (de Comitibus Habspurgicis.)
• * 1.115

  v. C. Iulij Cae. Com. Bel. Gal. l. 2. c. 8. Ponti Heuteri Ducum Brabantiae Ge∣nealogiam, & Comm. Chro∣nique des Ducs de Brabant pat Adrian Barlan∣de. Les Anti∣quitez de la Gaule Belgi∣que par Ri∣chard de Was∣senburg. livre 3. 4. &c.
• * 1.116

  v. Les Anti∣quitez de Gaule Belgique par Richard de Wassenburg. li. 3. & Ponti Heuteri▪ Lut∣zenburg. Ge∣neal. & Com∣ment.
• * 1.117

  v. Antiquitez de Gaule Bel∣gique par Ri∣chard de Was∣senburg. liv. 2. La second Ta∣ble des succes∣sours de Pha∣ramond, & Clodion le Chevelu par Richard de Wassenburg. Ponti. Heuteri Genealog Co∣mit. Flandriae. Hadriani Bar∣landi Comit. Hollandiae hi∣stor.
• * 1.118

  v. Hadriani Barlandi Co∣mitum Hollan∣diae Hist. & Pe∣tri Bittij Com∣mentar. Re∣rum Germani∣carum. l. 2. 23.
• * 1.119

  vid. Hadriani Barland. Vltra∣iectensium E∣piscoporum Catalogum, & Res Gestas.
• * 1.120

  v. Ponti Heu∣teri Comitum, & Ducum Gel∣driae, & Zut∣phaniae Ge∣neal. & Com∣ment.
• * 1.121

  v. L' Hi∣stoire de Lyon par Claude de Rubys. liv. 3. c. ••0. & 21.
• * 1.122

  v. L' Histoire de Lyon par Claude de Ru∣bys. lib 3. c. 24. & 26. Les An∣nales de Bour∣gogne par Guillaume Pa∣radin. & Histor. Belgicam E∣manuelis Me∣terani.
• * 1.123

  v. L' Histoire de Lion par Claude de Ru∣bys livre 3. cap. 21. 23. & 31.
• * 1.124

  vid. L'Hi∣stoire de Lyon par Claude de Rubys liure 3. cap. 21. 24. 25. 26. & 27.
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  vid. L'Hi∣stoire de Lyon par Claude de Rubys. liv. 3. c. 21. 23. 26. 28. & 31.
• * 1.126

  v. C. Iulij Cae∣saris Com. Bel∣li Gallici l. 1. c. 8. & l'Hi∣stoire de Lyon par Claude de Rubys. l. 3. c. 26 & 31.
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  v. supra.
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  v. L'Histoire de Lyon par Claude de Ru∣bys livre. 3. cap. 31. & Histoire de France par Bernard de Gi∣rard, Seigneur du Haillan (en le roy Iehan.)
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  v. Les Anna∣les de Bour∣gogne par Guil∣laume Paradin.
• * 1.130

  Chronique de Savoye par Paradin.
• * 1.131

  Ex Iosiâ Sim∣lero de Repub∣licâ Helvetio∣rum.
• * 1.132

  v. l' Histoire de France par Bernard de Gi∣rard, Seigneu▪ du Haillan Annales de France par Fr. de Belle-forest, avec la conti∣nuation par Gabr. Chap∣puy. Roberti Gagwini An∣nales Rerum Gailicarum.
• * 1.133

  v. Les Anti∣quitez de Gaule Bel∣gique per Ri∣chard de Wal∣senburg. livre. 3. l' Histoire. de France par Bernard de Gi∣rard, Seigneur du Haillan. livre 5. Chronique de Flandres par Denys Sau∣vage. Ponti Heuteri Co∣mitum Flan∣driae Genealo∣giam, & Com∣mentarium.
• * 1.134

  v. Ponti Heu∣teri Comitum Atrebatensium Genealog. & Comment.
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  Vlterior Pro∣vincia Iul. Caes. Comm. Belli Gal. l. 1. c. 8.