The thre bokes of cronicles, whyche Iohn Carion (a man syngularly well sene in the mathematycall sciences) gathered wyth great diligence of the beste authours that haue written in Hebrue, Greke or Latine Whervnto is added an appendix, conteynyng all such notable thynges as be mentyoned in cronicles to haue chaunced in sundry partes of the worlde from the yeare of Christ. 1532. to thys present yeare of. 1550. Gathered by Iohn Funcke of Nurenborough. Whyche was neuer afore prynted in Englysh. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

Of the Gotthies.

• The yeare of Christe CCCC. v.
• The yeare of Rome M. C. lvii.
• The yeare of the worlde MMMM. CCC. xlix.

ABout thys tyme came the Gotthy fyrste into* 1.1 Italy, wyth a greate and dredeful army. But for asmuche as euerye where is made muche mencyon of the Gotthyes▪ we shall here summare¦ly draw the histories of theyr of spryng and actes.

The Gotthi, Vandali, Rugiani and Hunni be not estimed to be one people: but the Gotthi are Dutchmen out of the Ile Godtlande, which dwelt in a parte of Lislande and Littowe: For ether of these contryes lyeth ouer against Godtland by the seasyde. And therefore doth Procopius call them aryght Cimme••ij and Gethe. These than in the time of the Romanes were gone into Thracia and Hungary, and the Romysh Emperours assayed to dryue them out agayne, but all was in vayne. In the rehearsall of Decius, haue we touched the be∣gynnyng of their history: For the fyrst great battail of the Romanes agaynst them was vnder Decius, wherein also Decius was slayne. But afterwarde though the Romane Emperours made the Got∣thies haue much ado: yet remayned they in Thra∣cia and Hungary, and in, Asia about Constantyno∣ple they toke in certayn contryes. It is sayde, that* 1.2 yet now adayes dwell Gotthy in the half Ile Tau¦rica, which speake Dutche, and call themselus Got¦thi. Howbeit they lefte Hungarye and also Thracia so at the laste, that of theyr free wyll they

went fyrst into Italy, and afterward into Spayn: Afterwarde were the rest of the Gotthies destro∣yed by the Vandalyes and Hunmes commyng out of Scythya. The Hunny made theyr dwellinge place in Hungary. But the contryes that lye part∣ly vnder, partly aboute Hungary, haue the Van∣daly taken in.

But in the tyme of Arcadius and Honorius are the Gotthy come into Italy. The mooste noble Emperoure Theodosius ordeined to his sonnes* 1.3 two capitaines Rufinus and Stillico, and wylled them to care for the Emperours yong sonnes: but the one was disloyal to hys lorde. Rufinus was of Gallia: the same enticed the Gotthies against Arca¦dius, and hoped to optayne the kyngdome by that meane: but he was frustrated of his purpose, for he was slaine by Stillico. As for Stillico was a Van¦dale:* 1.4 and whan some of the Gotthi were come a∣gaynst Arcadius, Stillico broughte to passe, that the Gotthi which Theodosius hadde taken in wa∣ges, were letten go. Beside that did Stillico sett the Vandalies against the Gotthies: and so whan the Gotthies were fyrste angered thorough Rufinus, and than chafed by Stillico, their kinge Radagasus brought two hundreth thousand Got∣thies* 1.5 into Italy the same yeare that we haue speci∣fied a fore. And as histories do make mencion here, that at Rome wer great cōplaintes against Christ. because that so lamentable decaye of the empyre they supposed to come of the despisynge of the god∣des, and small regarde of the worshyppe and ho∣nour of the former religion. As for Stillico van∣quished

and ouercame Radagasus and hys hoost in the straytes comminge from the citye Florence, goynge to Apenninum. This is the fyrst history of the Gotthies in Italy.* 1.6

After Radagasus came another hooste of Got∣thies into Italy, whose captayne was Alaricus. With the same dyd Honorius agree, that he should depart out of Italy, & go into Gallia, the whyche at that tyme was awaystynge of y^• Frankes, Burgun¦dions & Vandales: insomuche that Honorius mis∣trusted he could kepe Gallia no lenger: & therefore thought he to bringe to passe, that the Barbarians shuld stryue among thēselues for it. But what hap¦pened? Whan Alaricus taketh his yourney vpon him, Stillico doth fall vpon him vnwarres, vpon Easter daye, whyle the truce did yet last. The next day after, doth he lykewise wyth an appointed ar∣my ouerthrowe and vanquyshe Stillico, and being angry vpō him, he besyeged Rome. Honorius was at Rauenna, & caused Stillico to be putt to death, as one y^• had not done faithfully, & willed y^e empyre to be taken frō Honorius & to be geuen ouer to him. Wherfore there was now no captayne mete to de∣lyuer the citye of Rome from the syege. Therfore* 1.7 dyd Alaricus take in Rome after two yeres syege: and that was about the xv. yeare of Honorius, the foure hundreth and twelft yeare of Christ, and the thousand, hundreth and thre score and fourth yere after the building of Rome.* 1.8

That Var ro writeth of the xij. rauens, whiche Romulus sawe, to signify, that Rome should last a thousand and two hundreth yeares, though thys

nombre of the yeares be not farre from this reke∣ning: yet I suppose their interpretation rather to* 1.9 pertayne to Totilas, who afterwarde in the tyme of Iustinianus dyd set Rome in fyre, & wholy spoy∣led it, and that was an hundreth and syxe and thyr∣ty yeares after Alaricus. For Alaricus dyd not spoyle the citie, but rather gaue a commaundement that they should be spared, whyche fled to the tem∣ples of the Christians, Alaricus drue back agayne out of the citie and not longe after dyed. Whan he* 1.10 was deade, Ataulphus was made kyng of the Got¦thies: the same came agayne to Rome, and takynge to wyfe Placidia Honorius syster, beynge pacified by her, he spared Rome, and wente into Fraunce, and afterwarde into Spayne: and of this wyse did finally the Gotthies leaue Italye, and went into Spayne. For Alaricus had before inuaded y^• Spa¦niardes, & the Gotthies remaining in Spayne af∣terward, had y^e dominion ther. The Vandali came into Spayne, & after that the Suein: but the Got∣thies remaining ther, the Vandali came into Aphri¦ca. Of these Gotthies are borne the Christē kinges* 1.11 in Spayne, of whom hath his of springe the most fa¦mous Emperoure that now is, Charles the fyft of y^• name. For though y^• Sarraceni inuaded Spaine afterward, & became mighty in it, yet could thei not destroy the residue of the other kinges of y^• linage.

The yeare of Christe .CCCC. lvi.

The yeare of Rome. M. CC. vij. came out of Aphrica to Rome Genserichus the Vandall, and spoiled the citye haynously. But what was y^• cause* 1.12 of Genserichus comminge, shall we shew, whan we

shall haue occasyon to treate of the Vandalies.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Got∣thies▪ came fyrst into Italy.
• * 1.2

  Gotthies in the halfe Ile Taurica.
• * 1.3

  Theodosius
• * 1.4

  Stillico.
• * 1.5

  Radagasus.
• * 1.6

  Alaricus.
• * 1.7

  Alaricus wynneth Rome.
• * 1.8

  the .xij. ra∣uens or raue∣nous beastes whiche Ro∣mulus sawe.
• * 1.9

  Totilas.
• * 1.10

  Ataulphus.
• * 1.11

  The kynges of Spayne are sprong of y^• Gotthies.
• * 1.12

  Genserichus